The Environmental Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2022

However, the most important one is waste management and recycling. Recycling Is Good for the Environment. As per OECD, 22% of plastic waste is mismanaged, and only 9% is recycled globally. Recycling is good for the environment because it reduces the amount of waste that ends up in landfills. billion metric tons by 2050.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

· Aluminium packaging recycling body urges caution to avoid unintended consequences of a DRS. · Two thirds of shoppers will switch from buying infinitely recyclable cans to plastic bottles. · One in five people will lose their deposit as they continue recycling at home.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 27, 2021

Manufacturers, retailers and recyclers urged to join the collaboration. Fund designed to drive progress towards household collection of flexible plastic for recycling. This will in turn increase the supply of recycled plastic enabling industry to become more ‘circular’ and meet the forthcoming UK plastic packaging tax obligations.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

UK biotech company Toraphene says it is preparing to unveil the world’s first truly biodegradable, compostable and commercially viable alternative to plastic packaging. We all know how pressing the climate crisis is, and plastic pollution is a huge problem, particularly in our ocean environments.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Visitors are promised the customary comprehensive package of training and development presentations on the latest methods and monitoring technologies relevant to the measurement of air quality and emissions to air. But not all air pollutants have a greenhouse gas effect, and GHGs are not usually toxic.

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Sustainability Consulting

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Many companies are committing to phasing out non-recyclable products from their packaging and distribution chains. Companies such as Coca-Cola, Danone, Dow Chemical, L’Oreal, Marks & Spencer, Mars, PepsiCo, Proctor & Gamble and Unilever have committed to ensuring 70% of plastic packaging is reused and recycled globally.

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Green Living Guy

MAY 3, 2022

Walmart is labeling private label throwaway plastic products and packaging as “recyclable” without any substantiation to support that claim. The lawsuit was originally filed […].

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 24, 2022

One of the biggest culprits when it comes to an industry’s impact is packaging materials and accessories. This has led to a wave of innovative new eco-friendly alternatives from environmentally damaging packaging materials. BIODEGRADABLE PACKAGING PEANUTS. AIR PILLOWS MADE OF RECYCLED MATERIALS. Similar U.S.

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Business Green

APRIL 13, 2022

Nestle, Danone, Unilever and PepsiCo among firms to set out united vision for how nascent chemical recycling industry can be delivered in a way that is sustainable and green. Just last month, 175 national governments agreed to draw up a legally-binding global treaty to combat plastic waste and pollution by 2024.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 17, 2022

One of the most significant consultations was on plans to introduce Extended Producer Responsibility on packaging. The concept of producer responsibility – placing the cost of recycling of products at end of life onto those that placed the products onto the market, has been applied across the EU and in many other countries for years.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2022

WRAP launched its first voluntary agreement in 2005 and has since expanded its programme to address food and drink, plastic pollution, and fashion and textiles. They address how the food and drink, plastics and textiles we use are produced and sold through to their reuse, remanufacture and recycling.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 20, 2020

In response to the announcement, Rick Hindley, executive director at aluminium packaging recycling group Alupro, offered his views: “For some considerable time, the Scottish Government has been considering plans for the introduction of a national DRS. There is much to consider if the Scottish DRS is to be a success.

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Green Living Guy

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Every year, people around the globe dispose millions’ tons of packaging materials. All of this disposed garbage influences pollution our environment. Plastic wrappings on water bottles play a major role in the process of polluting our earth.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 18, 2022

There are still major differences in the amount of waste generated across the world, and how it is disposed, a finding confirmed by a 2022 Global Waste Index compiled by waste management technology firm Sensoneo to mark Global Recycling Day (18 March). In fact, as recently as 2019, no waste at all was recycled in Turkey.

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2021

The idea of only using sustainable packaging – eliminating waste, low carbon footprint, recyclable or compostable - seems easy enough, yet the reality for many businesses is more complex and dependent on the industry they work in. Yet plastic packaging is ubiquitous because it is useful, not to say crucial in many applications.

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The Environmental Blog

MARCH 12, 2021

“Businesses have a big impact on how well recycling in the UK is shown so it is important for them to set the trend and reduce and improve their waste and recycling in the most efficient and eco-friendly way possible,” says recycling experts QCR Recycling Equipment. Optimise your recycling habits.

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Green Living Guy

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

As you have figured out how to create an e-commerce website, now it’s time to think about how to package your orders without destroying the environment. The post How to Source Eco-friendly Packaging for E-commerce appeared first on Green Living Guy. According to a 2018 survey, 81% […].

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2021

The new roadmap is published a year after the EU first unveiled its ambitious circular economy action plan to cut waste, emissions and pollution. It commits ACE members to reaching 90 per cent collection rate and 70 per cent recycling rates for beverage cartons by 2030, while working to decarbonise the industry's value chain in line with 1.5C-aligned

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Grist

OCTOBER 1, 2022

When dealing with the life cycle of plastic, hundreds of solutions await, from alternative bioplastics that might be able to degrade themselves through the magic of fungus, to complex chemical recycling that can break plastics down to become other petroleum products or to be rebuilt good as new.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2021

Retailer targets bread bags, crisp packets, cling film, and food pouches with aim to recycle 1,000 tonnes of soft plastics a year. Once collected, the old soft plastic waste will then be sent to be washed, sorted, and processed before being turned into new packaging for items such as food, household, and beauty products, Tesco said.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 10, 2023

packaging, and polyethylene terephthalate, or PET, the material commonly used to make water and soda bottles, among many other products. A recently published study followed an earlier successful effort to use corn stover alone to make activated charcoal used to filter pollutants from drinking water.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Iceland managing director Richard Walker calls on government to make plastic packaging tonnage disclosure mandatory in order to tackle plastic pollution crisis. Last year, Lidl's total plastic packaging footprint stood at just over 60,000 tonnes, the figures show. Our message is clear.

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2021

New recycling machines are being installed in Shanghai and Hangzhou, with an eye on rolling them out right across China in the future. Two of the globe's biggest consumer goods firms have come together to create recycling machines that use artificial intelligence (AI) to automatically identify and sort plastic packaging.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The Coca-Cola Company has today unveiled a new reusable packaging target, announcing that it is aiming for at last a quarter of all beverages sold across its portfolio of brands to be sold in refillable and returnable bottles or refillable containers by 2030.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 18, 2021

With new federal bills up for review and debate, and packaging being a bull’s eye, the status of packaging and recycling policy is in flux. ” Dylan de Thomas, vice president of external affairs for The Recycling Partnership, told a virtual crowd Tuesday at Greenbiz Group’s Circularity 21. Missed Circularity 21?

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Business Green

AUGUST 26, 2020

The move makes it the only UK juice or smoothie brand using 100 per cent recycled plastic packaging, manufacturer PepsiCo claims. The new bottle was rolled out across UK stores through August, the firm said, claiming it makes Naked the only juice or smoothie brand currently using 100 per cent recycled plastic.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Firm plans to begin rolling out 100 per cent recycled plastic bottles for select Coca-Cola, Sprite, Fanta and Dasani water brands in coming months. The move forms part of the company's goal to triple the amount of post-consumer recycled plastic content in packaging across its product lines by 2025.

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Business Green

MAY 26, 2021

Some of the UK's largest consumer goods companies and supermarkets have jointly launched a £1m fund that aims to invest in efforts to make plastic bags, wrappers, firms, pouches, packets and sachets easier for consumers to recycle while also driving down costs for waste management firms.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Toxic chemicals are used in food packaging and many are linked to health effects , like cancer or infertility. They can also pollute our soil, air and waterways, hurting more than just the person eating from the packaging. . This is where the Understanding Packaging Scorecard ( UP Scorecard for short) comes in.

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Business Green

MAY 17, 2021

Maker of Signal, Pepsodent, and Closeup announces plan to switch to recyclable packaging by 2025. Unilever's oral care brands, including Signal, Pepsodent and Closeup, have today announced plans to convert their entire global toothpaste portfolio to recyclable tubes by 2025.

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2022

Project to create recyclable Heinz Beanz Snap Pots will help put 22 tonnes of plastic back into the circular economy. Fully recyclable Heinz Beanz Snap Pots will soon hit shelves as part of a pioneering trial by the food giant and supermarket Tesco designed to make it easier to process previously hard to recycling plastics.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The ban applies to the following single-use categories: Plates, bowls and trays unless you are supplying them to another business or the items are packaging (pre-filled or filled at the point of sale). All of these have the ‘polluter pays’ concept at their core but is it enough?

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GreenBiz

JULY 26, 2021

LanzaTech, a carbon recycling tech company, views addressing those industrial emissions as an opportunity. And in its latest announced partnership with athletic apparel company Lululemon, it’s creating yarn and fabric using recycled carbon emissions. It uses CO2 as a feedstock to create products.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Lanzatech CEO Jennifer Holmgren tells the Net Zero Festival how a combination of advanced technology and biology can turn captured pollution into green jet fuel. Carbon from captured from industrial plants could power the world's aviation industry, according to Dr Jennifer Holmgren, chief executive of carbon recycling firm LanzaTech.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2022

UK-based Mura Technology announces major backing from global chemicals giant to help it develop host of innovative US and European plastic recycling facilities. A spokesperson for Mura Technology said Dow's latest backing announced today amounted to a "multi-million-dollar" investment, but would not disclose the precise sum.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

That’s because the beauty industry generates up to 120 billion units of plastics packaging per year contributing to the loss of 18 million acres of forest annually. MINIMIZING PACKAGING WASTE. Assessing packaging may be the most obvious place to start. Beauty is an industry that gets a bad rap when it comes to sustainability.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 6, 2024

The Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act would dramatically cut the amount and toxicity of plastic garbage New Yorkers throw away by targeting the source. It would reduce plastic packaging in New York by half over the next 12 years, and it would prevent a slew of toxic chemicals from being used in those materials.

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