Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 21, 2023

Microplastics are tiny pieces of plastic debris resulting from the breakdown of consumer products and industrial waste. per cent of plastic particles in a column of water, depending on plastic type. per cent of plastic particles in a column of water, depending on plastic type. per cent to 99.9 per cent to 99.9

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Microplastics Pollution Plastics Biodegradable 130

Business Green

MAY 12, 2021

GSK Consumer Healthcare has set a goal of producing one billion fully-recyclable toothpaste tubes by 2025, today announcing plans to launch the innovative packaging across a number of its leading dental brands including Sensodyne and Aquafresh. For Sensodyne and Aquafresh, GSKCH has also launched plastic-free packaging.

Recycling 63

Recycling Recycling Biodegradable Plastics 63

Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2020

Guy Fennell, cofounder of environmentally friendly baby wipe company Pura, talks to BusinessGreen about his plans to disrupt the wasteful baby care industry with kerbside nappy recycling and plastic-free baby wipes. With 90 per cent of wet wipes in the UK made from plastic, the products boast carbon intensive production processes.

Plastics 82

Plastics Sustainability Biodegradable Recycling 82

Business Green

APRIL 14, 2022

Last year the supermarket moved to eliminate single-use plastic from its own-brand tea bags. Switching the oil-based plastic sealing on tea bags to biodegradable alternatives, would remove approximately 1.4

Electricity 96

Electricity Plastics Carbon-neutral Biodegradable 96

Green Business Bureau

JULY 4, 2022

Synthetic fabrics such as polyester – which accounted for 52% of global fiber production in 2018 – take hundreds of years to biodegrade. Natural fibers take very little time to biodegrade relative to their synthetic counterparts, making them the more environmentally friendly textile choice. million in 2025.

Fashion 148

Fashion Sustainability Biodegradable Packaging 148

Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

If the trial proves successful, Starbucks is planning to replicate the approach in all 4,000 of its EMEA stores by 2025. "As The lids, which are made by Stora Enso, are plastic-free, recyclable, and biodegradable, and are expected to reduce approximately 120 tonnes of plastic waste annually. "A

Plastics 97

Plastics Carbon-neutral Packaging Recycling 97

Business Green

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Perfume and flavour giant Firmenich has unveiled a flurry of new sustainability goals, yesterday committing to become a "carbon positive" company, recycle 100 per cent of its plastics, and produce 100 per cent renewable fragrances all by the end of the decade.

Carbon-neutral 81

Carbon-neutral Carbon Biodegradable Plastics 81

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Unilever said the €1bn of funding will specifically finance biotechnology research, CO2 utilisation technologies, low carbon chemistry research, and biodegradable and water-efficient product formulations, while also helping the firm halve its use of virgin plastic by 2025.

Fossil fuels 101

Fossil fuels Investment Biotechnology Biodegradable 101

Business Green

JULY 16, 2021

But Camilla Zerr, plastic campaigner at Friends of the Earth, said today's statistics showed the government was "failing to get to grips with the waste crisis". More positively, the amount of biodegradable household waste sent to landfill fell in 2019 fell to 6.6 Plastic packaging remains a big problem," added Zerr.

Recycling 87

Recycling Recycling Waste Waste 87

Grist

APRIL 19, 2023

It was only a decade or so ago that scientists first suspected our clothing, increasingly made of synthetic materials like polyester and nylon, might be major contributors to the global plastic problem. France already approved such a requirement, effective 2025. The European Commission says it’ll do the same in 2025.

Microplastics 108

Microplastics Plastics Pollution Policy 108

Grist

JANUARY 8, 2021

With 11,000 tons of blades expected to be decommissioned across Ireland by 2025, there should be no shortage of material to work with. And the tough, fiber-reinforced plastics blades are made of don’t break down easily once they’re in the ground. They are very difficult to move around, and they are not biodegradable,” Bank said.

Recycling 145

Recycling Recycling Waste Waste 145

Clean Energy Trust

JULY 1, 2019

Link As the plastic recycling trade has ground to a halt following China’s implementation of higher standards, there has been a spike in interest in bioplastics and new forms of recycling. In Commonwealth Fusion’s case, they are aiming to have a functioning reactor in about 6 years, in 2025.

Plastics 40

Plastics Carbon Blockchain Recycling 40

Business Green

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Paboco evolved out of a joint venture created in April between Swedish paper packaging company BillerudKorsnäs and Austrian plastic packaging producer Alpla, under which they acquired Danish fiber and paper bottle design startup ecoXpac. The Carlsberg designs, for example, use a thin plastic film for the inner barrier.

Recycling 70

Recycling Recycling Packaging Biodegradable 70

Sustainability Consulting

MARCH 11, 2021

Major global companies face $284 billion carbon pricing costs in 2025, representing 13% of earnings. The platforms will be kept afloat by buoys designed to biodegrade once they reach the deep ocean, at which point the kelp will fall to the ocean floor, taking its carbon with it. Nearly 95% of major U.S.

Aviation 59

Aviation Carbon-neutral Climate change Sustainability 59

DeSmogBlog

JULY 9, 2024

In the time it takes you to read this sentence — say, four seconds — the world produces nearly 60 metric tons of plastic, almost entirely out of fossil fuels. Those numbers are fueling widespread and growing contamination of Earth’s oceans, rivers, and the terrestrial environment with plastic trash.

Plastics 106

Plastics Waste Waste Recycling 106

Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

Degradable / Biodegradable. If not, or if the item will ultimately pile up in a landfill, burn in an incinerator or be recycled, then avoid the term and its siblings, such as 'oxo-biodegradable'. Are you telling the customer they're getting something recycled or biodegradable? Plastic neutral. What does that even mean?

Recycling 36

Recycling Recycling Ozone Building Energy Monitoring 36

Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

This year, the group implemented a reverse osmosis system in a Thai community; it cleans drinking water and eliminates locals’ need for plastic bottles. Thirteen years ago, this ahead-of-its-time cool school eliminated plastic water bottles (though it's had to temporarily suspend the policy due to COVID-19).

Cooling 52

Cooling Carbon-neutral Carbon-negative Sustainability 52

GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

Camargo and her partner developed absorbent underwear with natural, biodegradable fabric that maintains functionality for an average of 50 washes, or about two years. Pantys’ products cut down on plastic waste — one person uses up to 15,000 pads and tampons over a lifetime, most of which wind up in landfills, estimates show.

Building Energy Monitoring 517

Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring 517

AGreenLiving

MAY 17, 2021

Camargo and her partner developed absorbent underwear with natural, biodegradable fabric that maintains functionality for an average of 50 washes, or about two years. Pantys’ products cut down on plastic waste — one person uses up to 15,000 pads and tampons over a lifetime, most of which wind up in landfills, estimates show.

Business Energy Monitoring 36

Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring 36

Hydrogen Fuel News

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

This growth reflects an increased demand for biodegradable materials and eco-friendly solutions across all sectors, including the edibles industry. Packaging Waste : A report by the United Nations Environment Programme ( UNEP ) found that plastic waste has increased by 40% in the last decade. annually , reaching a value of $413.8

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Packaging Waste Waste Hydrogen 75

Grist

MARCH 25, 2025

Activists protest against President Donald Trumps plan to stop most federal grants and loans during a rally near the White House on January 28, 2025 in Washington, DC. This story was originally published by Grist with the headline Farmers are reeling from Trump’s attacks on agricultural research on Mar 25, 2025.

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Agriculture Soil Climate change Politics 108

Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 11, 2025

Possibly a surprising enlistment in the ongoing culture wars, plastic is nonetheless another issue where melodrama often trumps detail. Technology seems likely to play a decisive role in eliminating the environmental harms of plastic, and legislation is being shaped to encompass new findings. Or perhaps that should be: Trumps.

Plastics 205

Plastics Pollution Technology Biodegradable 205

Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 24, 2019

Single-use plastics are being phased out more rapidly building on the 51 plastic-pollution-related legislative victories worldwide. The EU's comprehensive plastics-ban agreement will outlaw ten separate products from straws to plastic cutlery to plastic Q-tip sticks. Scientists discovered a plastic eating mushroom.

Plastics 52

Plastics Fossil fuels Biodegradable Climate change 52