GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Wed, 09/02/2020 - 00:45. recycling market has been in free fall since 2018, when China, Malaysia, Thailand and other Southeast Asian countries announced that they would no longer import many types of recyclable material scraps. Take action to ensure that 50 percent of plastic packaging is recycled or composted.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Wed, 11/25/2020 - 08:00. As part of the program, the home furnishings company, widely known for its flat-pack packaging and ready-to-assemble furniture, will be taking back a range of IKEA products: bookcases and shelf units; small tables; chairs and stools without upholstery; and chests of drawers. "I Deonna Anderson.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. Many celebrated with their CSOs on meeting ambitious corporate targets for 2020, while setting audacious new goals for 2025, 2030 and 2050. Elsa Wenzel.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 23, 2022

. • Building & Construction Product: SOLAR HEAT panels from recycled plastic by Montello spa & WET/Ecopixel srl. Plastic Packaging Product: Recyclable collation shrink film with outstanding PCR content by Freiberger Lebensmittel GmbH, alesco Folien GmbH & Co.KG, Ecoplast Kunststoffrecycling GmbH, Borealis AG.

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Business Green

JANUARY 4, 2021

Supermarket claims to have met its pledge to remove one billion pieces of plastic, working with suppliers to remove unnecessary and excessive packaging of products. Our work to remove, reduce, reuse and recycle will continue into 2021. There is no place for unnecessary or non-recyclable packaging in our business.".

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Mon, 11/16/2020 - 01:00. With Our Responsible Journey, Samsonite strives to lead the lifestyle bag and travel luggage industry across key sustainability indicators, including the use of recycled materials in its products and packaging and achieving carbon neutrality across its owned and operated facilities.

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GreenBiz

MAY 27, 2020

Wed, 05/27/2020 - 02:00. A jolt in this direction came overnight as COVID-19 drove people indoors, forcing many to rethink how they reduce, reuse or recycle items they took for granted only weeks earlier. Dell already has plucked some of the low-hanging fruit of closed-loop materials, such as by using reclaimed ocean plastics.

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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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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Tue, 10/27/2020 - 02:00. Jackson (@lisapjackson) June 11, 2020. Apple is still aiming to make all of its products and packaging from recycled and renewable materials. So far all paper materials are recycled, and plastics have been reduced by 58 percent in four years. Elsa Wenzel. Pull Quote.

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Charged

AUGUST 24, 2021

One of these is Tesla co-founder JB Straubel’s company, Redwood Materials , which is recycling scrap from Panasonic’s battery cell production at Gigafactory Nevada. In typical Tesla fashion, the company has also been working on its own in-house battery recycling system. Source: Tesla via Electrek.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 24, 2022

Coming into force on April 1st 2022, the tax increases costs for packaging companies who fail to use recycled materials by 20 to 40 percent. Since launching in March 2020, cirplus says it has brought over 1200 companies from 100 countries onto its platform, and has built an inventory of more than 1.3

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Plastics Recycling Show Europe (PRSE) will now run as a virtual event from 9 to 11 December 2020. The PRSE Virtual conference will examine the latest developments in plastics recycling and practical solutions for the circular and sustainable use of plastics, dealing with plastic waste and better design for recycling.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 28, 2023

Separated recyclable materials at a facility in Ostrava, Czech Republic. This would mean savings of up to 21% on the total 2020 EU waste sector emissions. ​​ “This increases to saving 28 MtCO₂e/annum, equivalent to 25% of EU waste sector emissions, if more ambitious MWS with greater sorting efficiencies is rolled out.​”

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Having been crowned the most polluting brand in the world for two years running by the Break Free from Plastic campaign in its global audit of plastic waste, the firm also last year revealed it produces three million tonnes of plastic packaging a year, or the equivalent of 200,000 bottles a minute.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 21, 2020

“And those who are holding out should know that the clock is ticking,” Jackson wrote in the company’s 2020 Environmental Progress Report ( PDF ). Source: Apple's Environmental Progress Report 2020). gigawatt package of deals last year spanning the U.S., Europe and Latin America.

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Grist

OCTOBER 1, 2022

But as promising as chemical recycling and next-generation plastics may sound, experts also say some of the most realistic solutions to plastic pollution involve eliminating it from packaging as much as possible. Should packaging all be the same color of plastic to avoid dye-based contamination in recycling processes?

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Here’s how Tetra Pak plans to improve circularity of its packaging If you’ve ever drank juice from a carton package, it may have been supplied by Tetra Pak, a multinational food processing and packaging company. Our packages offer a lower carbon footprint when compared to other alternatives.”

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2020

For example, a collaboration between industry and government on reducing food and packaging waste through the Courtauld 2025 Agreement had prevented 2.7 per cent, against a 2020 target of 3.5 It all adds up to a waste and recycling sector facing a significant opportunity following years of decidedly mixed progress.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Supporting Business in the Race to Create the World’s Most Sustainable Package Fossil-based plastic production is still growing exponentially. Only 9% of all plastic is recycled and it can take hundreds of years to degrade. Recycling is critical, but the world cannot rely on that alone.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

How Tetra Pak plans to reach net zero by 2030 If you’ve ever drank juice from a carton package, it may have been supplied by Tetra Pak, a multinational food processing and packaging company. Our packages offer a lower carbon footprint when compared to other alternatives.” And it seems to be moving toward that goal. “If

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Grist

APRIL 24, 2024

Read Next Petrochemical companies have known for 40 years that plastics recycling wouldn’t work Joseph Winters That plastic production should be correlated with plastic pollution is intuitive, but until now there has been little quantitative research to prove it — especially on a company-by-company basis.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 15, 2020

A 20/20 view of sustainable packaging Cheryl Baldwin Mon, 06/15/2020 – 00:00 This article is sponsored by Pure Strategies. Sustainable packaging is a keystone issue for corporate sustainability. When we look ahead, are we on the path to a circular and sustainable system for packaging?

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2022

2020 winners included Hit Promotional Products , Smog Armor , Martinrea International , Spectraforce and Impetus Digital. A Preferred Materials and Fibers List is continually updated with new research to help Fjällräven choose the highest quality and most sustainable materials. Watson Gloves.

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Business Green

AUGUST 31, 2022

per cent in 2020, having remained virtually unchanged for the previous five years. In the food industry, there are increasingly close ties being built between food manufacturers, packaging companies, start-ups and academia. Sustainable materials. Innovation in food production.

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Business Green

MARCH 16, 2020

Black plastic ends up in landfill or incinerated because near infra-red recycling assortment technology is unable to detect the carbon black pigments found in the majority of conventional black plastic packaging. This is hardly a justification for using non-recyclable material, especially when alternatives exist.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 17, 2020

” But meat companies that raise animals such as poultry, pigs, cattle and other livestock for protein also must take into account something else few widget, gadget or electronics makers need to worry about — how to manage water and materials contaminated by organic, biological waste. For this particular facility, that translated into 8.3

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2021

The vice-president of sustainability at CCEP, the largest Coca-Cola bottler in the world, spills the details on how the firm intends to achieve net zero packaging, manufacturing, shipping, and ingredients within 20 years. The policy is based on evidence of what works to drive up recycling rates. "It

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2020

For example, a collaboration between industry and government on reducing food and packaging waste through the Courtauld 2025 Agreement had prevented 2.7 per cent, against a 2020 target of 3.5 It all adds up to a waste and recycling sector facing a significant opportunity following years of decidedly mixed progress.

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Business Green

MARCH 1, 2022

Products in the range include bedding made from organic cotton, clothing made from recycled materials, and skincare products free of 'chemicals of concern' and packaged in plastic-free bottles.

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Sustainability Consulting

JANUARY 5, 2022

Sustainability is the “new normal” From food production, to packaging, to fashion to lifestyle products, there is a clear effort to replace traditional demands with sustainable alternatives. Their efforts so far mean 100% of their US electricity needs are met with renewable energy and 87% of their production line uses recycled materials.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Most notably, the Environment Bill gets its second reading today, complete with plans to extend producer responsibilities to an array of plastic packaging and introduce new charges on single use plastics, building on the success of the plastic bag lev and the outright bans on microbeads and plastic straws.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Enzymatic recycling’s promise isn’t limited to PET; the approach can potentially be applied to other plastics, including polyurethane, used in in foam, insulation, and paint. But PET offers perhaps the most expansive commercial opportunity: It is one of the largest categories of plastics produced, widely used in food packaging and fabrics.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 18, 2020

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. The Recycling Partnership’s 2020 State of U.S.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 28, 2021

Use eco-friendly packaging. Patagonia was one of the early adopters of sustainable fashion with organic cotton, recycled materials, fair trade, product repair, and secondhand Worn Wear collection. Hold trainings on ways to reduce mistakes and fabric waste. Discover ways to repurpose fabric waste. Social Considerations.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 26, 2020

They’re perfect in all weather situations, and they complement every fall 2020 trend from velvet blouses to platform boots. It uses eco-friendly materials like recycled cotton and non-toxic dyes. Using recycled jewelry and recycled packaging, Bario Neal traces its entire supply chain and sources fair-trade materials.

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Unsustainable

JANUARY 27, 2020

The Directive sets recycling and recovery targets to be achieved by 2020: 50% of certain household waste should be prepared for re-use and recycling and 70% of construction and demolition waste should be re-used, recycled or recovered. They aim to have carried out mandatory garbage sorting by the end of 2020 in 46 cities.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 15, 2021

A relatively new brand, Lunar Method began researching animal leather alternatives in December 2020 and launched a Kickstarter in July 2021. The brand does not use any single-use plastic in its supply chain, favoring instead for recycled and recyclable paper packaging.

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