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Assessment tool intended to accelerate sustainable packaging design

Envirotec Magazine

The tool “can be used either to assess an existing package, facilitate the R&D and design process, engage with other parts of the value chain, or prepare for recyclability testing.” ” Now CEFLEX has teamed up with recyclability experts Recyda to deliver design-check.ceflex.eu

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Rebuilding recycling to go circular

GreenBiz

See the full collection of stories and upcoming webinars with the authors here. Citizens can feel disheartened by the realization that our efforts to recycle are often in vain. Consider the following statistics: More than 20 million tons of curbside recyclable materials are sent to landfills annually.

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Rebuilding recycling to go circular

AGreenLiving

Rebuilding recycling to go circular Keefe Harrison Mon, 05/18/2020 – 18:18 This article is part of our Paradigm Shift series, produced by nonprofit PYXERA Global, on the diverse solutions driving the transition to a circular economy. See the full collection of stories and upcoming webinars with the authors here.

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Can a global plastics treaty help tackle the pollution crisis?

Business Green

There is a need to focus on the upstream side too, which means better product and packaging design and tackling behaviours and systems which create waste in the first place. Businesses, and especially the leading companies, are now committing to design all of the packaging so that it will fit into a circular economy," he said.