Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2024

Sona Dadhania, Senior Technology Analyst at market intelligence firm IDTechEx looks at where PFAS has been used in food packaging, recent legislation mandating its removal, and alternative materials being explored. Such coatings could be found in: Take out boxes (i.e.,

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 21, 2020

3 circular economy trends that defined 2020. Mon, 12/21/2020 - 00:15. Here are three trends that defined the circular economy in 2020, and what they might mean for the year to come. . Lauren Phipps. While source reduction continues to be the No.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Scaling the Market for Post-Consumer Recycled Content. What will it take to scale the domestic market for post-consumer recycled content? The demand for recycled plastics has skyrocketed — so much so that brands and packaging producers are experiencing limited supply. Mon, 09/14/2020 - 10:39. Holly Secon.

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GreenBiz

MAY 19, 2020

Rebuilding recycling to go circular. Mon, 05/18/2020 - 18:18. The circular economy is a solution for our future health and wellness and recycling has a vital role to play. A circular economy is not possible without recycling, yet it can’t happen through recycling alone. Keefe Harrison.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

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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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2021

An apparent industry-first initiative aims to help beauty influencers and media recycle empty packaging and containers produced every month from beauty samples and cosmetic tester pots. SEEN AGAIN is the work of returns management platform ReBOUND Returns , working with beauty specalist agency SEEN Group and HANDLE Recycling.

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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.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Equal Recycling Access. communities and industry partners collaborate to ensure access to recycling? While most Americans would agree that recycling is important, access to recycling bins, store drop-off options and other facilities can vary greatly depending on your location. Thu, 09/10/2020 - 19:36. How can U.S.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 13, 2020

Reusable packaging provides untapped payoffs for business. Thu, 08/13/2020 - 01:45. Until the 1980s, glass or cotton bags were the go-to packaging materials for many products, such as milk and flour. Until the 1980s, glass or cotton bags were the go-to packaging materials for many products, such as milk and flour.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Reusable Packaging: Scaling Past a Pandemic. How can companies shift to reusable packaging models while dissuading concerns for safety and contamination? Since the day of the milkman, companies have launched untold schemes to skip recycling for its less energy- and material-intensive cousin: reuse. Wed, 09/16/2020 - 00:22.

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GreenBiz

MAY 5, 2020

Two ways P&G is working toward its packaging goals. Tue, 05/05/2020 - 11:33. Procter & Gamble's Tide laundry detergent brand first introduced in January 2019 its "Eco-Box," which has been compared to a wine box because of its design made from paperboard with a tap for dispensing, in an effort to reduce the plastic in its packaging.

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GreenBiz

MAY 18, 2020

Reusable packaging in the time of COVID-19. Mon, 05/18/2020 - 01:00. Reusable packaging is faced with proving its trustworthiness alongside disposables in a world that is standing six feet apart in the grocery aisle. Disposable packages are painted as sterile, while durables are tainted with suspicion. Media Authorship.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

How BASF’s reciChain aims to improve traceability of recycled plastics. The vision for BASF’s reciChain project is to take circularity into the real world by increasing traceability of recycled plastics. Toomey added that once a product is recycled, the tracker can be maintained through multiple uses. “We Deonna Anderson.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 26, 2020

Engaging Middle America in recycling solutions. Wed, 08/26/2020 - 01:00. At Circularity 2020, I’m talking about how to engage people in recycling, and the two ideas are linked together. So what does this mean for engaging Americans in recycling? . Suzanne Shelton. Well, it’s a good news/bad news scenario.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 6, 2023

Technology and recycling equipment firm TOMRA has signed a majority ownership agreement with Plastretur, the Norwegian Producer Responsibility Organisation for recycling plastic packaging. The companies will pair up to create a plastic packaging sorting plant located in Norway. Amland, SVP TOMRA Feedstock.

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GreenBiz

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.”. Thu, 09/17/2020 - 18:59.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Organisers have confirmed the full conference programme for the Plastics Recycling Show Europe Virtual Event taking place 9-11 December 2020. Fellow panellists include Ton Emans, President of Plastics Recyclers Europe (PRE) and Maria Ciliberti, Vice President at Borealis. Virginijus Sinkevi?ius, CET on 10 December.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 31, 2020

Circular economy startups compete at Circularity 2020, taking on shoes to shelf-life. Mon, 08/31/2020 - 01:00. Also, we helped design clothes with natural and monofibers that are recyclable. Our recycling partnerships are local here in the U.S. Holly Secon. and help to keep our clothes out of landfills.". Infinity Goods.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The Recycling Association has warned that waste crime will continue to happen, even if exports of plastics for recycling are banned. MPs on the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee have called for the Government to ban exports of recyclable plastics by 2027 and introduce measures to reduce them before then.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 1, 2021

Walgreens Boots Alliance exec talks plastic, packaging and COVID-19. At the time of our conversation in early February, one of the most pressing items on Ellis’ priority list was releasing WBA’s 2020 CSR report and tooting the company’s horn. . Deonna Anderson. Mon, 03/01/2021 - 01:45. Walgreens is a fixture in the United States.

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Packaging Plastics Climate change Waste 438

Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Aluminium packaging recycling organisation Alupro has thrown its full support behind Recycle Week (21-27 September). Organised by Recycle Now, this year’s campaign will run under the banner ‘Together We Recycle’ and aims to celebrate household recycling through the COVID-19 pandemic.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 17, 2020

How Perdue, Smithfield and Silver Fern Farms are reducing packaging waste. Wed, 06/17/2020 - 02:00. More precautions have meant more PPE, which usually has come in contact with biological matter that causes management challenges for recycling facilities. The packaging conundrum. Heather Clancy. In the U.S.,

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Firm behind Barbie, Hot Wheels and Fisher-Price plans to launch first toy made from and packaged in green materials in early 2020.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 24, 2022

Hamburg-based start-up cirplus has entered into the UK market in a bid to digitalise the plastic and recycling industry. 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. million tons of recycled plastics listed for sale.

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Grist

JUNE 12, 2024

I recycle these.” As Streep prepares to launch her beer can into the recycling bin, Costner cautions her, “This could change your life.” Recycling, once considered the domain of people with “long hair, granny glasses, and tie-dyed Ts,” as the Chicago Tribune described it at the time, was about to go mainstream.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Tesco has launched a new system that allows its customers to buy a wide range of food, drink, household and beauty products in reusable and durable packaging. Customers wishing to opt for reusable packaging simply visit the Loop fixture in the store and add the products they want into their trolley as a part of their shop.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The top 2020 trends in sustainability, according to GreenBiz readers. Mon, 12/28/2020 - 01:30. From an unprecedented pandemic to a global economic downturn to the intensifying impacts of climate change, we can’t say we’ll miss 2020. READ THE FULL STORY: 8 electric truck and van companies to watch in 2020. . Holly Secon.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The world is producing twice as much plastic waste as two decades ago, with the bulk of it ending up in landfill, incinerated or leaking into the environment, and only 9% successfully recycled, according to a new OECD report. Landfill and incineration taxes that incentivise recycling only exist in a minority of countries.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 26, 2021

· New HydroPRS process creates raw ingredients for “infinitely recyclable new products” · World-first commercial-scale plant starts construction in Teesside, UK, backed by global partners and UK Government. tonnes of plastic packaging – the second highest per capita in the world. iii] The UK alone produces 2.4m

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Tue, 09/22/2020 - 01:00. I hope you’ve downloaded our latest free report, "Engaging Middle America in Recycling Solutions.". We also wanted to understand what could keep them engaged once they understood that they need to do things better or differently to ensure everything they chuck in the bin actually gets recycled.

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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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Plastics Recycling Recycling Europe 130

GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

How should diverse corporate stakeholders — such as brands and packaging producers — help shape the U.S. policy landscape around plastics, recycling and solid waste management? The steady growth of public attention around plastics and packaging has led to a revitalized policy focus in the U.S. packaging policy landscape.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

How should diverse corporate stakeholders —such as brands and packaging producers — help shape the U.S. policy landscape around plastics, recycling and solid waste management? The steady growth of public attention around plastics and packaging has led to a revitalized policy focus in the U.S. packaging policy landscape.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Episode 235: The value of informal waste collectors, reusable packaging prevails. Fri, 09/04/2020 - 02:00. 7 tips for companies developing reusable packaging. Safety and performance in recycled plastics. The State of Green Business 2020. Heather Clancy. Week in Review. Stories discussed this week (4:08).

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Charged

AUGUST 24, 2021

Battery recycling will be a critical part of the future e-mobility ecosystem, as Tesla has understood from the beginning. The California carmaker has been working with various firms to recycle its end-of-life battery packs for several years.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

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. One of its ambitions is to deliver “packages made entirely from renewable and/or recycled materials that are fully recyclable,” according to the company site.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The forthcoming Plastics Recycling Show Europe includes a free-to-attend conference taking place at the RAI Amsterdam on 25 and 26 March 2020. Immo Sander, Head of Packaging Development, Werner & Mertz. Over 160 companies have already booked to exhibit at PRSE 2020.

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