Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2025

A new administrator for the UKs four-nation Extended Producer Responsibility for Packaging (pEPR) scheme was announced on 21 January, and it will be called “PackUK” The announcement marks another milestone in the rollout of the initiative, which aims to help businesses reduce packaging usage and promote more sustainable alternatives.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 8, 2024

Sustainable packaging provider DS Smith has introduced a service for businesses to evaluate the recyclability levels of their packaging (“the first integrated paper, packaging, and recycling company to do so.”). Notes [1] DS Smith ‘Now & Next’ target of replacing one billion pieces of plastic by 2025.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 18, 2020

which recently announced its 10-year Vision 2030 sustainability plan, is prioritizing initiatives including habitat protection and reimagining its packaging. million , having fully circular packaging by investing $100 million in developing regenerative solutions, and decreasing its greenhouse gas emissions. Natura & Co.,

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GreenBiz

MARCH 3, 2021

The plan includes a $2 billion investment across electric vehicles, clean energy for operations and a new academic center with Yale focused on capturing carbon. But FedEx has a goal to move its entire package pickup and delivery fleet to zero emission by 2040. Courtesy of FedEx. Supply Chain. Transportation & Mobility. Carbon Capture.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Many celebrated with their CSOs on meeting ambitious corporate targets for 2020, while setting audacious new goals for 2025, 2030 and 2050. Now, in its eventual internal-combustion phaseout, GM can’t seem to make EVs fast enough, and 30 new models are lined up for the market for 2025. million in Neighborhood Grants.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

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. trillion in 2022 from $3.53 trillion in 2022 from $3.53

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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.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Fleets are often the workhorses that toil behind the scenes: the garbage trucks that pick up your trash before dawn; the long-haul semi-trucks that move goods from the port; the bucket trucks that utilities use to fix power lines and keep your lights on; the delivery vans that drop off your packages and help you stay safe inside your homes.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 29, 2025

On the packaging front, businesses must phase out single-use plastics. Data centers should invest in closed-loop cooling systems to recycle water and minimize waste. In a nutshell, 2025 is the year for these industries to level up their sustainability initiatives. It accounts for about 31.14% of plastic pollution.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 4, 2025

The company expects these new tires to be used in approximately 120 different sets by the end of 2025 and plans to explore ways to expand recycled content across more tire styles in the near future. LEGO SEBS materials are blends of SEBS (which is an abbreviation for styrene-ethylene-butylene-styrene) and other components.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 26, 2021

Plans for one million tonnes of capacity in development worldwide by 2025. Mura says it will form the blueprint for a rapid global rollout that will see one million tonnes of capacity in development worldwide by 2025 – equivalent to nearly half the plastic packaging waste produced in the UK each year.[i]

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GreenBiz

JUNE 1, 2020

Microsoft committed to protect more land than it operates on globally by 2025. Campbell Soup to transition to 100% recyclable or compostable packaging by 2030. As several of the above headlines suggest, companies are making commitments into 2025, 2030 and beyond. Citigroup to halt all financing for thermal coal mining by 2030.

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Business Green

JULY 2, 2021

A raft of corporate green packaging goals are looming - how can they be met? Despite that sobering statistic, momentum is building towards 2025 sustainable packaging goals. Here are some key takeaways from three breakout sessions about sustainable packaging goals at Circularity 2021. Most come from brands and retailers.

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Business Green

APRIL 30, 2020

Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire tells French Parliament €7bn support package would require ailing airline to set goal of becoming world's most environmentally-friendly carrier. The government announced late last week that it would offer a €7bn package of state loans and bank loans guaranteed by the state to the ailing airline.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2022

” “In the last three years of reporting, the UK Plastics Pact has doubled the recycled content in packaging, and driven the significant elimination of unnecessary (84%) and hard to recycle (90%) components in packaging. In practice, not all plastic packaging will be recycled through local authority collections by 2025.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

finds swathes of major snack brands come in hard to recycle packaging with unclear labeling for consumers. Pringles crisps, Cadbury's chocolate and Babybel cheese are among the snack brands named and shamed for wasteful packaging in a new Which? Crisps packaging performed the worst, with just three per cent found to be recyclable.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Construction is expected to get underway later this year, with the plant opening in 2025. It will be designed to process around 100,000 tonnes of low value plastic waste, such as soft food packaging and a variety of domestic and industrial plastics. Port Director Matthew Hunt said Quantafuel was a welcome addition to the site. “In

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2021

UK-based cereals company is set to reach 100 per cent recyclable packaging well ahead of 2025 deadline. Ultimately, all our packaging decisions are based on whether they reduce our overall carbon footprint," said John Petre, head of Supply Chain and Technical at Weetabix Food Company.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 9, 2021

Chipotle is the latest company to spice up its executive pay packages to include social and environmental goals. The trend to link ESG metrics to executive pay is a departure from traditional compensation packages, which have relied almost entirely on financial measures — earnings per share, revenue growth and other factors.

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GreenBiz

MAY 19, 2020

The beermaker’s 2025 goals pledge bold advances in water strategy, returnable or recyclable packaging, renewable energy procurement (its U.S. And our commitment in sustainability, our 2025 goals, they remain the same. . Our commitment in sustainability, our 2025 goals, they remain the same.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 4, 2021

The plan was developed in response to a 2018 SMR roadmap and followed a CAD$20 million (USD $16 million) investment in the Canadian molten salt reactor developer Terrestrial Energy in October. Seaborg is planning to launch its floating SMRs by 2025, a seemingly ambitious target given the sluggish pace of SMR development elsewhere.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

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. Goals that are specific, yet ambitious.

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Business Green

JANUARY 7, 2025

The UK's most prestigious green business awards is back, as BusinessGreen once again looks to celebrate the very best of the green economy The UK Green Business Awards 2025 has officially launched today, offering green businesses, investors, and executives the chance to showcase Britain's burgeoning green economy.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2021

Given the ever more exacting compliance and efficiency pressures being felt by water firms, the 2020-2025 investment cycle could be a time for offsite manufacturing to demonstrate all the benefits it can bring. This will deliver a more responsive investment program without compromising compliance. Risk reduction.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Jeremy Hunt also unveiled a £6 billion extra package of support for initiatives like retrofitting to insulate homes and upgrade heating systems, from 2025 – although it wasn’t clear if this was new money or not. We can’t wait until 2025,” said the local authority network. This is supposedly on top of £6.6

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 12, 2022

He was also a Committee Member on Defra’s Advisory Committee on Packaging. Joseph Doherty of Re-Gen Waste welcomes the consultation on the Packaging Recovery Note (PRN). The primary purpose of the Packaging Recovery Note (PRN) should be to provide evidence of recycling and monitor progress towards meeting targets.

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altenergymag

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Congress has reached a bipartisan deal that contains important emergency relief measures for the renewable energy industry, including a two-year extension of the investment tax credit (important for solar power), a one-year extension of the production tax credit (important for wind power), and a new 30% investment tax credit for offshore wind projects (..)

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

billion in financing and is targeting 25 gigawatts of solar by 2025 , the company announced. The funding will be used to boost Lightsource bp's current 20 GW pipeline to 25 GW by 2025. Our industry-leading 25GW by 2025 target and the finance package are further proof that Lightsource bp has left business as usual far behind.".

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ThinkGeoEnergy

APRIL 4, 2025

A new funding package in the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) in Germany has been announced to support geothermal projects. The new funding package was announced by Mona Nuebaur, Minister of Economic Affairs and Climate Protection, during a visit to the drilling site of a geothermal research well in Krefeld.

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Charged

JULY 15, 2021

The good news is that New South Wales, Australia’s most populous state, just announced an extensive new EV policy package that includes $500 million worth of tax exemptions, rebates and infrastructure investment, along with perks for EV drivers. That’s the bad news.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Agreement will see recycling firm Viridor supply consumer goods giant with recycled plastic for use in its packaging. Proctor & Gamble has signed a five-year plastic supply contract with UK recycling firm Viridor as part of the consumer goods giant's drive to increase the proportion of recycled plastic in its packaging.

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Business Green

MAY 4, 2021

The Co-op has announced its own-brand food and drink will be 'carbon neutral' by 2025, as it unveiled a new 10-point climate plan designed to help it achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2040. It also confirmed Whitfield's remuneration package would now be linked to the company's performance against its carbon reduction programme.

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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2022

Research agency unveils winners of sustainable packaging competition, which it says aim to 'alter the UK's relationship with plastic'. A flurry of green packaging innovations and plastic waste management projects have won a share of £30m from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 16, 2025

Plug Power will begin delivering a Basic Engineering and Design Package (BEDP), offering technical specifications to support project financing. A final investment decision (FID) is anticipated by Q2 2025, with manufacturing and delivery of electrolyzers set for Q1 2027.

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2021

Air cargo operator pledges to invest in sustainable fuels, carbon capture research, and fleet electrification in bid to meet new climate goals. By 2025, half of all FedEx Express global PUD vehicle purchases would be electric, rising to 100 per cent by 2030, it said.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 28, 2023

The move towards easier-to-recycle packaging formats seems well underway, but the issue of funding for waste and recycling is still up in the air, without the investment the EPR policy was intended to provide. Charges under the existing PRN regulations will carry on into 2024. The good news?

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GreenBiz

MAY 29, 2020

Should stimulus packages focus on finding the way back to growth by kicking business as usual into overdrive, or could they accelerate the shift that has already started towards a more resilient, low-carbon circular economy? The importance of these strategies notably have been highlighted in the U.S.,

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