GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

US Plastics Pact 101. Plastics Pact and how are its signatories advancing a circular economy for plastics? Plastics Pact brings together businesses, government entities, NGOs, researchers, and other collaborators as part of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s network of Plastics Pacts around the world.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 29, 2021

How e-commerce retailer Grove Collaborative will go 'plastic-free' by 2025. Plastic-free by 2025. It is our intention to hold everyone to the zero-plastic commitment," Stuart Landesberg, Grove founder and CEO, told GreenBiz during a recent conversation. "If Grove is plastic neutral. Deonna Anderson.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Plastic packaging use and plastic packaging collection quantities have dropped for the first time in RECOUP’s annual UK Household Plastic Packaging Collection Survey. The UK’s overall recycling rate for plastic packaging from household and commercial sources is 52%.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2025

Deep learning Deep learning will continue to shape the recycling industry in 2025. This subset of artificial intelligence (AI) achieved significant milestones in sorting last year, such as separating food-grade and non-food-grade plastics. The benefits include enhanced efficiency and compliance with regulatory standards.

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GreenBiz

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. The safety and performance of plant-based packaging materials. Topics include: .

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 23, 2020

3 takeaways from Colgate-Palmolive's 2025 strategy. But the company also owns a lot of other brands that offer other consumer packaged goods such as deodorant (Speed Stick), body soap (Irish Spring) and other household cleaning products (Fabuloso). And what are those items packaged in? Most of the time, plastic.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

OCTOBER 8, 2019

By the year 2025, Unilever will halve the bulk of its non-recycled plastic packaging waste.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Despite some setbacks posed by the pandemic (including misinformation about the safety of reusables peddled by industry lobbying groups), the transition from single-use to reusable packaging is building real momentum. It’s (still) all about plastic. While source reduction continues to be the No. Subscribe here. Circular Economy.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 26, 2020

Where there's hope for speeding up business action on plastics. Its landmark report, "The New Plastics Economy," sounded the alarm in 2016 that if "business as usual" continues, by 2025 the ocean may hold more plastic than fish by weight. Plastics Pact by EMF, The Recycling Partnership and WWF. Elsa Wenzel.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Climate action NGO WRAP published annual updates of its voluntary agreements for the food, plastics and textiles sectors on 1 December. WRAP launched its first voluntary agreement in 2005 and has since expanded its programme to address food and drink, plastic pollution, and fashion and textiles.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 26, 2021

. · Plans for one million tonnes of capacity in development worldwide by 2025. HydroPRS (Hydrothermal Plastic Recycling Solution) is described as a revolutionary advanced recycling process designed to tackle plastic that cannot currently be recycled. tonnes of plastic packaging – the second highest per capita in the world.[iv]

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Business Green

JULY 12, 2020

billion single items of plastic of its shelves within the next five years. Aldi has committed to halve the volume of plastic packaging it uses in the UK by 2025, a move it estimates will prevent 74,000 tonnes of plastic packaging from reaching supermarket shelves.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 17, 2020

How Perdue, Smithfield and Silver Fern Farms are reducing packaging waste. Food companies have a dual responsibility when it comes to waste reduction aspirations: optimizing their operations to minimize food waste while reducing the amount of other materials — especially the waste associated with packaging — sent to landfill.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Sunderland City Council has given the go-ahead for a new plant at the Port of Sunderland, creating over 100 permanent jobs and processing plastic waste that is largely not recycled in the UK, according to Norwegian technology firm Quantafuel ASA. Construction is expected to get underway later this year, with the plant opening in 2025.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 18, 2020

The beauty industry has a plastic waste problem. which recently announced its 10-year Vision 2030 sustainability plan, is prioritizing initiatives including habitat protection and reimagining its packaging. But Ulta’s marquee pledge is getting to 50 percent recycled, bio-sourced materials or refillable containers by 2025. .

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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. Of this, more than 25% was sent to Turkey, 25,000 tonnes more than in 2022.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

The plastics recycling member-based charity RECOUP has published its 2021 UK Household Plastics Collection Survey , which analyses the collection of plastics for recycling from Local Authorities. The 2021 Survey estimated that 584,000 tonnes of household plastic packaging was collected for recycling in 2020.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 5, 2020

Packaging firm DS Smithand and Aquapak, a developer of biodegradable polymer, are teaming up to develop sustainable fibre based packaging solutions that they say will replace hard to recycle packaging made from combined materials such as cardboard and plastic. Hydropol resin pellets. ”

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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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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

OCTOBER 22, 2019

It will take $500 million by 2025 to create the recycling system of the future and dramatically increase the collection of post-consumer plastics, according to the Recycling Partnership.

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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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Business Green

AUGUST 15, 2021

All Samsung phones are to feature recycled materials from 2025, the company has pledged as part of a new set of wide-ranging sustainability targets. Firm launches new Galaxy for the Planet sustainability platform in bid to help deliver on tech giant's environmental goals.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 23, 2019

The beer giant is promising to cut emissions by 50 percent and ensure all packaging is reusable, recyclable, compostable or biodegradeable by 2025.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2020

grant from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has been awarded to three firms for an ambitious chemical recycling project that aims to make hard-to-recycle plastic packaging recyclable. Its collaboration with Recycling Technologies enables Neste to accelerate the development of one of the very promising chemical recycling technologies.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

If you're going to use more recycled content, you're going to use alternative materials for packaging, you have to be ready to make the capital investment needed in your infrastructure in your factories. One pocket-size result is new recyclable paper packaging for Smarties candies, popular in the U.K. So we see it working already.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Iceland managing director Richard Walker calls on government to make plastic packaging tonnage disclosure mandatory in order to tackle plastic pollution crisis. Last year, Lidl's total plastic packaging footprint stood at just over 60,000 tonnes, the figures show. Our message is clear.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 29, 2025

Single-use plastics worsen the problem. These plastics, often used for convenience, take hundreds of years to degrade and leach harmful chemicals into ecosystems. Quite shockingly, the food and beverage industry is a major contributor to plastic pollution. It accounts for about 31.14% of plastic pollution.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Under the current system, costs are shared between the raw material manufacturers, the convertors, the pack fillers and those that sell packaged product to consumers. The pack fillers, for instance, take 37% responsibility for the weight of the packaging they fill. These costs are estimated at around £1.2 EPR FNCR prices.

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2021

The idea of only using sustainable packaging – eliminating waste, low carbon footprint, recyclable or compostable - seems easy enough, yet the reality for many businesses is more complex and dependent on the industry they work in. A lot of plastic is produced from fossil fuels. The plastic choice. Reducing waste.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 27, 2021

z International, Nestlé, PepsiCo and Unilever announce plans to finance and launch £1m Flexible Plastic Fund. Fund designed to drive progress towards household collection of flexible plastic for recycling. The Fund will guarantee a minimum value of £100 per tonne of recycled product to incentivise recyclers to process flexible plastic.

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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. Dunkin' switches to plastic-free cups and plans to double number of green restaurants. Pernod Ricard moves up ban on single-use plastics to 2021. Five reasons: 1.

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Business Green

APRIL 14, 2021

Supermarket becomes latest retailer to explore the potential for packaging-free groceries. Aldi has today launched a new trial that will see it sell its first packaging-free products at a store in Ulverston, Cumbria.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Materials innovation, tests of refillable and reusable products and a 'significant increase' in the proportion of recycled plastic have steered firm closer to 2025 plastic goals, it said. It also hailed "solid progress" towards an aim of achieving "at least" 25 per cent PCR by 2025.

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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. The new tires have already started appearing in LEGO sets indistinguishable from existing tires fans know and love.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

This plant embodies the principles of the EverMinds platform founded by Borealis, which seeks to innovate plastics circularity through collaboration,” said Lucrèce Foufopoulos, Borealis Executive Vice President Polyolefins, Innovation & Technology and Circular Economy Solutions. Early tests of the material look very promising!”.

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Business Green

JANUARY 25, 2021

Supermarket ranked top in a Greenpeace report evaluating progress made by UK supermarkets in slashing plastic use. Waitrose first launched a refillable range in some of its shops in 2019 under the 'Waitrose Unpacked' banner, an initiative intended to test demand from consumers for packaging-free shopping.

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