Financing the end of plastic pollution
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
Sponsored: The Global Plastics Treaty must include a financing plan that supports the countries most impacted by plastic pollution and least equipped to deal with it.
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GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
Sponsored: The Global Plastics Treaty must include a financing plan that supports the countries most impacted by plastic pollution and least equipped to deal with it.
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 22, 2023
A new report highlights 15 policies that could drive a major decrease in plastic use around the world — but will governments adopt them as part of a new global plastics treaty?
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GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
disregards China’s plans to increase plastics production. A new climate agreement with the U.S.
Speaker: Ayesha Choudhury - Senior Vice President, Head of Capital Markets at Infinium
Not only that, but eFuels can also replace petroleum as a key component in the creation of chemicals and plastic solvents. Electrofuels (aka eFuels) are the next generation of solutions to help the hardest-to-abate sectors pivot from their reliance on fossil fuels.
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
NGOs are cautiously optimistic about the draft document for a global plastics treaty, which will be used during the third set of negotiations scheduled for mid-November.
GreenBiz
DECEMBER 8, 2023
The state alleges PepsiCo misled the public about the damage caused by single-use plastics.
GreenBiz
MAY 16, 2023
CDP expands disclosure platform to include plastic reporting, setting up the plastic credit market for more legitimacy.
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 27, 2023
Even in Amsterdam, a gathering of plastics industry leaders was mired in jargon and toothless goals. Here’s what will get us unstuck.
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
Cancer Alley, an 85-mile stretch along the Mississippi River in Louisiana, is home to over 200 plastic and petrochemical plants — and some of the most polluted air in the U.S.
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 3, 2023
Governments around the world are securing their travel visas, rallying their best nerds and sharpening their pencils for the next big United Nations meeting on plastic pollution.
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
disregards China’s plans to increase plastics production. A new climate agreement with the U.S.
GreenBiz
JUNE 30, 2023
Proponents of pyrolysis — including oil and gas companies — contend it will reduce plastic pollution. But critics say it will only perpetuate a dependence on fossil fuels.
Envirotec Magazine
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
The UK Plastic Packaging tax places a £200 per tonne levy on plastic packaging with less than 30% recycled content. The UK Plastic Packaging tax places a £200 per tonne levy on plastic packaging with less than 30% recycled content. million tonnes of plastic packaging waste.
GreenBiz
AUGUST 1, 2023
A fake press release trumpeting a pledge to ban plastic from Mattel's iconic doll is revealed as a stunt staged by Daryl Hannah and eco-activist agency Yes Men.
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 5, 2021
One of the world's biggest contributors to the plastic crisis has yet to pass meaningful federal regulation on plastic pollution, but a new bill may change that.
GreenBiz
MARCH 10, 2023
In 2025, there will be media and consumer outrage around all the failed commitments related to eliminating virgin plastic packaging and increasing the use of recycled material.
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
The Wild West of plastic credits and offsets. There’s a new kid on the block of sustainability claims being made by businesses: "plastic neutrality." Thanks to the rise in plastics pledges, an emerging and undefined market for plastic offsets is just beginning to take shape. Lauren Phipps. Mon, 02/08/2021 - 01:30.
GreenBiz
JANUARY 17, 2023
Plastics Pact and Walmart announced the winners of the first Sustainable Packaging Innovation Award, showing exciting innovations in the areas of recyclability, compostability, refill and reuse. At VERGE 2022, the U.S.
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 2, 2020
Plastics Pact launches new initiative to redesign the plastics value chain at Circularity 20. recycling system had been a mess for far longer — seeing as the country never fully developed the infrastructure to recycle anywhere near the amount of plastic waste it produces. Plastics Pact. Holly Secon. Of course, the U.S.
GreenBiz
MAY 22, 2023
Can plastics achieve par with climate and biodiversity as critical issues worthy of a global treaty? We’re about to find out.
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 14, 2020
US Plastics Pact 101. Plastics Pact and how are its signatories advancing a circular economy for plastics? Plastics Pact brings together businesses, government entities, NGOs, researchers, and other collaborators as part of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s network of Plastics Pacts around the world.
GreenBiz
JULY 25, 2023
PepsiCo, McDonald's, Nestlé and others were also featured among the "Dirty Dozen" report on plastic litter by Surfers Against Sewage.
Envirotec Magazine
DECEMBER 8, 2022
Plastics are complex materials. A recent study has identified more than 10,000 chemical substances that may have been used in plastic production, resulting in plastics that may contain a wide range of chemical substances. Chemical diversity as a problem to solve plastic pollution.
Envirotec Magazine
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
A pilot plant on the University of Bath campus is said to be able to recycle up to 60% of plastic lab waste, to make back into new lab consumables. After decontamination, the plastic is turned into high grade pellets the size of rice grains, which are sent to LabCycle’s manufacturing partner to turn into new lab equipment.
Envirotec Magazine
JULY 25, 2023
A University of Leicester academic has led a study which appears to find that plastic pollution is changing the way riverbeds behave. The research led the team to establish a novel branch of sedimentology which looks at the interactions between plastic particles and sediment. “We
GreenBiz
MAY 11, 2020
Inside Eastman’s moonshot goal for endlessly circular plastics. But something extraordinary is going on at this Eastman chemical plant: two breakthrough processes to turn waste plastics of all kinds back into new plastics, continuously, with no loss of quality. Joel Makower. Mon, 05/11/2020 - 00:44.
Inhabitat - Innovation
JUNE 23, 2020
In a bid to curb plastic waste pollution, India-based company Rhino Machines has invented a way of using plastic to make construction blocks. The silica plastic blocks (SPBs) are strong enough to build a house and can be useful in reducing world pollution problems.
GreenBiz
MAY 18, 2022
Here's how innovators at Circularity 22 are dealing with the scourge of plastic waste mismanagement.
Envirotec Magazine
MAY 16, 2023
Plastics resource efficiency and recycling charity, RECOUP, has released its 2023 Plastics Management and Recycling at Household Waste Recycling Centres (HWRCs) in the UK report, finding a significant quantity of plastics going unrecycled.
Envirotec Magazine
DECEMBER 9, 2022
Plastic resource efficiency and recycling charity RECOUP estimates that 750,000 tonnes of post-consumer plastic packaging is not currently collected for recycling, in its new UK Household Plastic Packaging Collection Survey report. Tom continues: “What is now important, is it is not allowed to stagnate.
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
An international group of scientists has cautioned against reliance on mechanical cleanup devices as a means of addressing the plastic pollution crisis. However, they caution that plastic removal technologies used so far have shown varied efficiency in the amount of waste material they are able to collect, many have not been tested at all.
Envirotec Magazine
JUNE 20, 2023
Researchers have demonstrated a novel system for transforming captured carbon and plastic waste into sustainable fuels and other valuable chemicals using solar energy. On the other plastics are converted into useful chemicals using only sunlight. But, if we add plastic waste to the system, the plastic donates electrons to the CO 2.
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
The food and beverage company is bringing all of its water, agriculture and new plastic commitments under an umbrella plan called pep+.
GreenBiz
JANUARY 10, 2022
The climate crisis represents a new front on the war on plastics. Are you ready?
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 5, 2021
Decarbonizing plastic hinges upon revamping infrastructure, investing in novels materials and rethinking lifecycles.
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
Bertie Stephens, group CEO of Clean Planet Energy , said: “Clean Planet Energy’s mission is to remove over one million tonnes of non-recyclable plastic waste from our environment, every year. Clean Planet Energy’s ecoPlant is intended to process non-recyclable and hard-to-recycle waste plastics that would otherwise be sent to landfill.
Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
Sunderland City Council has given the go-ahead for a new plant at the Port of Sunderland, creating over 100 permanent jobs and processing plastic waste that is largely not recycled in the UK, according to Norwegian technology firm Quantafuel ASA. Quantafuel says the process reduces C02 emissions by around 70% compared to incineration.
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
The United Nations is being urged to make a bold pledge and set a target of zero for new plastic pollution by 2040 in its upcoming Global Treaty to End Plastic Pollution. Plastic production and subsequent pollution are key drivers of climate change, the focus of discussion at COP27 in Egypt this week.
Envirotec Magazine
JULY 13, 2022
The Recycling Association’s chief executive Simon Ellin has warned that the people behind the Big Plastic Count (an event co-organised by Greenpeace) were “irresponsible” for recent comments saying plastic recycling doesn’t work and for sowing seeds of doubt in the public mind. This is irresponsible by them.
Envirotec Magazine
OCTOBER 4, 2023
By Samantha Osborne, Commercial lawyer at national law firm Freeths With the ban on single use plastics now here, businesses must ensure that they understand the regulations and take steps to mitigate the impact the ban might have on their day-to-day activities. Image credit: Marco Verch Professional Photographer , CC BY 2.0
Envirotec Magazine
JUNE 23, 2022
Winners of the Plastics Recycling Awards Europe 2022 were announced on 23 June at the Plastics Recycling Show Europe in Amsterdam. Launched in 2017, the awards have witnessed a dramatic and inspirational rise in the circular use of plastics through increased recycling and recyclability over the last the five years, said the organisers.
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 10, 2023
Researchers from University of California, Riverside, have detailed a method to convert plastic waste into a highly porous form of charcoal or char that has a whopping surface area of about 400 square meters per gram of mass. The plastic-to-char process was developed at UC Riverside’s Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering.
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