Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2024

By Tom McBeth, Policy & Infrastructure Manager with plastics resource efficiency group RECOUP New data reveals an increase in the amount of plastic exported for recycling in 2023, and significant quantities are now going to developing, non-OECD* countries. Indonesia took a further 3.4%, and Taiwan 2.5%.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

. · Two thirds of shoppers will switch from buying infinitely recyclable cans to plastic bottles. · One in five people will lose their deposit as they continue recycling at home. When faced with this choice, two thirds of those currently buying cans in multipacks would be likely to switch to the plastic bottles.

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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. PRSE will return as an in-person event in 2021. Materials focus sessions will explore in depth the challenges, issues and opportunities within the sector for plastics recycling. Virginijus Sinkevi?ius,

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Committee on Climate Change (IPCC), published in August 2021, painted a stark picture of our world. This is particularly pertinent for companies that use plastics or steel in their processes. The environmental impact of plastics is widely documented.

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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

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Mon, 02/22/2021 - 01:30. A small number of influential large companies are creating internal funds to support sustainability goals specific to circular economy initiatives, such as designing out waste and recovering materials from products used internally or sold in the market. Nestlé and Microsoft on financing circular innovations.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The goal is a marked acceleration of targets previously announced by the firm, reflecting technological innovations and market development in the use of recycled plastics. We are committed to immediate action to address the plastic waste challenge.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The reforms will ensure that from 31 March 2026, all English households will be able to recycle food, drink and other liquid cartons with confidence, mandating their collection alongside plastic and other dry-recyclable materials and bringing an end to the current fragmented system.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Loop Industries and SUEZ reveal plans to build giant plastic recycling facility, as pressure grows for sector to boost capacity across Europe. A giant recycling plant capable of producing infinitely-recyclable, virgin-quality plastic is being planned to cater for soaring European demand for recycled materials, it has been announced.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The goal is a marked acceleration of targets previously announced by the firm, reflecting technological innovations and market development in the use of recycled plastics. We are committed to immediate action to address the plastic waste challenge.

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Grist

OCTOBER 1, 2022

When dealing with the life cycle of plastic, hundreds of solutions await, from alternative bioplastics that might be able to degrade themselves through the magic of fungus, to complex chemical recycling that can break plastics down to become other petroleum products or to be rebuilt good as new.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

The initial headline-grabbing pledges to phase out single use plastic may have become old news, but the new normal is seeing hundreds of companies quietly advance their plastic reduction strategies. The flurry of plastic-related announcements this week is case in point. Delivering on those initial pledges can take decades.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The goal is a marked acceleration of targets previously announced by the firm, reflecting technological innovations and market development in the use of recycled plastics. We are committed to immediate action to address the plastic waste challenge.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 24, 2021

MINI and Paul Smith custom-made the vehicle, which premiered to the world in London in August 2021. The team chose to 3D-print sections of the car using recycled plastic. Recycled Perspex was used for the grille trim, roof and wheel covers for a lightweight and eco-friendly solution. Here is the original post:Â .

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2020

The programme, launched in 2013, was designed to drive a more circular economy and encourage reuse and repair across a number of priority areas, including food, textiles, plastics, electricals, chemicals, healthcare, and the built environment.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

As a signatory to the British Retail Consortium's Climate Action Roadmap, the company has already committed to achieving net zero emissions by 2040, and by 2021 it aims to complete the mapping of its entire carbon footprint, enabling it to then embark on setting science-based emissions reduction targets.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

RECYCLED PLASTIC. Recycled plastic used in construction offers a building material that has a lower carbon footprint and is stronger than brick, all while tackling our plastic waste problem ( 367 million metric tons produced globally in 2020). Recycled steel. Recycled plastic.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

billion tons of plastic. Of the waste generated from that plastic, less than a tenth of that has been recycled, researchers estimate. Plastic inhabits the oceans, building up in the guts of seagulls and great white sharks. At the end,” he added, “you have exactly the same quantity of plastic waste.”.

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

As a green-certified business, this brand is on a mission to reignite children’s imagination by creating toys that have meaning, hold a connection, and disrupt a market built from throwaway plastic items. In 2021, the direct economic impact of the toy industry in the U.S. Reimagining an industry with sustainable children’s toys.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 7, 2022

Each tile is made using upcycled post-consumer materials. The duo identifies their core values as sustainability, originality and accessibility and the newest Fall 2021 Capsule Collection seems to embrace all three. Terrazzo, the second type of tile, contains 65% to 66% post-consumer recycled material.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 7, 2021

The Barbie Loves the Ocean line includes three fashion dolls, a playset and accessories made from 90% recycled ocean-bound plastic parts sourced within 50 kilometers of waterways in areas that are lacking formal waste collection systems. View post: Mattel reveals new Barbie made from recycled ocean-bound plastic.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2020

A sweeping strategy to boost reuse, repair, and recycling across a multitude of consumer products has been unveiled by the European Commission this week, with stricter rules planned for food, plastics, textiles, construction, and electronics in a bid to cut down on waste and pollution.

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Business Green

JULY 28, 2020

"What's now commencing is a detailed analysis of these nine companies with an expert agency, which will consider issues including energy generation, water conservation, use of plastics, recycled materials and reducing travel," Aggarwal told BusinessGreen.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 15, 2021

In 2021, vegan fashion has moved beyond the simple aesthetics from its days as a niche market. Check out these five standout brands from Vegan Fashion Week 2021. A relatively new brand, Lunar Method began researching animal leather alternatives in December 2020 and launched a Kickstarter in July 2021. Read the original:Â .

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Grist

JANUARY 8, 2021

And the tough, fiber-reinforced plastics blades are made of don’t break down easily once they’re in the ground. However, today material recycling is difficult because most wind turbine blades are made using a “thermoset resin,” an ultra-sturdy plastic which is cured at high heat in a chemical process that can’t be reversed.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 5, 2021

The overuse of scarce virgin materials, i.e. natural resources like timber, petroleum-based plastic resin and mined/processed metals. Long-distance sourcing of materials that contribute to extensive transportation emissions. Carbon emissions from operations, vehicles and material engineering. In the U.S.,

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2020

The programme, launched in 2013, was designed to drive a more circular economy and encourage reuse and repair across a number of priority areas, including food, textiles, plastics, electricals, chemicals, healthcare, and the built environment.

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The Verge: Energy

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Illustration by Sisi Kim for The Verge Smarter tech and new recycling techniques might just mean our EVs get even greener. Here’s how Redwood Materials is putting recycling at the heart of the burgeoning battery belt. Even the plastics, Switzer says, are increasingly recycled. for the standard range or $388.86

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Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2022

The brands "can use plastics to make fibers, but they don't have a solution for fiber-to-fiber recycling at scale," Emmanuel Ladent, Carbios CEO, said in an interview. The company expects the facility, which will recycle local plastic waste, to begin operations in 2025. Hungry, hungry enzymes.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 14, 2023

Material and equipment manufacturer working to meet the demands of an environmentally conscious world Volm Companies and Yellowstone Plastics is a material and equipment manufacturer and supplier. Their portfolio now includes recyclable materials, paper, biobased, compostable, and lightweight products.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Wisdom Supply Company , a women-owned B-Corp based out of San Francisco, consists of two activists who found a way to take action against plastic waste by creating environmentally friendly supplies for the classroom. They hope to show the upcoming generation that there are alternatives to standardized and mass-produced plastic.

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Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 1, 2021

Creating a circular European battery industry Summary - Northvolt has partnered with Hydro to establish a first-of-its-kind battery recycling facility. The recycling plant will be established as a green field development, under a joint venture named Hydro Volt, and come online in 2021 in Fredrikstad, outside of Oslo.

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Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 1, 2021

Creating a circular European battery industry Summary - Northvolt has partnered with Hydro to establish a first-of-its-kind battery recycling facility. The recycling plant will be established as a green field development, under a joint venture named Hydro Volt, and come online in 2021 in Fredrikstad, outside of Oslo.

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 30, 2022

We’ve identified four main environmental challenges the legal industry faces, and we’ve listed these below: Habitual use of consumables such as paper and single-use plastics. This means reducing – if not eliminating – the use of consumables such as single-use plastic and paper.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Volvo released a statement in September 2021 vowing to take an ethical stance in the name of animals by committing to leather-free materials in its current and future electric cars. Phillip Lim weekend bag is made from the same bio-based and recycled materials found in Volvo’s leather-free car interiors, known as Nordico.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021 Elsa Wenzel Mon, 01/11/2021 – 02:15 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. Most of Mattel’s paper-based packaging is Forest Stewardship Council-certified.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 5, 2021

5 opportunities of a circular economy David McGinty Fri, 03/05/2021 – 00:12 More than 100 billion tons of resources enter the economy every year — everything from metals, minerals and fossil fuels to organic materials from plants and animals. percent gets recycled and used again. percent gets collected and recycled.

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