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New Report Calls Out Chemical Recycling as a ‘False Solution’ to the Plastics Crisis

DeSmogBlog

The plastics and petrochemical industries’ latest purported solution to the plastic pollution crisis – chemical or “advanced” recycling – is essentially a public relations and marketing strategy designed to distract from the urgent need to curb plastic production, a new report contends. There is no legal definition of chemical recycling.

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PAS 402 certification is Scottish standout for Perthshire waste management firm

Envirotec Magazine

As Binn Group explains, the scheme follows a rigorous process set by the UK standards body BSI aimed at providing efficient, effective and measured solutions across recycling and energy recovery operations. To maintain the PAS 402 standard, the company has committed to ongoing adherence to various high-performance specifications.

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Racing ahead: Formula E team Envision Virgin Racing certified as carbon neutral

Business Green

The certification joins other sustainability initiatives pursued by the all-electric racing team, which claims to use 100 per cent renewable energy and recycle 60 per cent of its total waste. It has also banned single-use plastic and red meat from its events.

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The Seven Sins of Greenwashing

Green Business Bureau

However, these new straws weren’t recyclable, whereas the plastic straws were. “For too long the debate has been stuck on recycling and how to deal with waste once it is created. In 2001, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) detected 12,635 cases of certification forgery.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

The automaker’s sustainability goals include sourcing energy only from renewable sources and getting at least half the materials in its vehicles from recycled, bio-based or renewable origins — by 2030 in the U.S. The H&M Foundation and CO:LAB venture capital arm share a focus on advancing textile recycling. and globally by 2040.

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Inaugural Frontline Community Fellows Imagine a New Economy, Build Community Learning Cohort

Front And Centered

Coming to Seattle as an immigrant from South America in 2001, she got involved as a parent of two teenagers in Seattle Public Schools and became a community organizer advocating for closing the academic gap for children of color. Chiarpah “Sonny” Matheson is a member of the Coeur d’Alene Tribe, where he served a term in Tribal Council.

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Continuing to fight the fashion revolution

Business Green

But since launching the Sustainable Future (SF) funds in 2001, our view has always been that unsafe and degrading working practices make no business, common or investment sense. Headline results confirmed our current thinking on this sector: while improvements are evident, there is much to be done.

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