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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GreenBiz

APRIL 29, 2021

How e-commerce retailer Grove Collaborative will go 'plastic-free' by 2025. Plastic-free by 2025. And it has a Plastic Working Group, made up of 63 third-party brands such as Method and Seventh Generation, with the aim to develop solutions to plastic waste. . Deonna Anderson. Thu, 04/29/2021 - 01:30. Grove is plastic neutral.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 26, 2021

. · Plans for one million tonnes of capacity in development worldwide by 2025. The first plant to use the technology has begun construction in Teesside, UK, to be operational in 2022 and able to process 80,000 tonnes of plastic waste per year. tonnes of plastic packaging – the second highest per capita in the world.[iv]

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

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. The eyes of traditional investors are widening to the landscape as well.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

companies, governments and NGOs to collectively meet impactful goals by 2025 that they could not meet on their own. Erin Simon, Head, Plastic Waste and Business, World Wildlife Fund. Ashley C Hall, Director of Sustainable Packaging, Walmart. By bringing together diverse stakeholders and driving collaborative action, the U.S.

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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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Hydrogen Fuel News

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

In the search for sustainable energy and waste solutions, compost-based hydrogen fuel and sustainable packaging are quickly emerging as game changers. Compost-based hydrogen production, known as biohydrogen production, is an innovative approach that uses organic waste to generate hydrogen.

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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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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.”). We don’t just point out the problems, we can solve for them as well.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2024

Year-on-year, despite increases in material being recycled in the UK, quantities of plastic waste exported for recycling from England have increased by more than 10% to just over 600,000 tonnes. Malaysia and Vietnam, two non-OECD countries that had received decreasing volumes of UK waste in recent years, took around 8% each.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The Simpler Recycling initiative brings clarity on what kinds of waste will be collected and how often (image credit: Peter_Fleming / Shutterstock.com). The Simpler Recycling initiative – previously known as Consistent Collection – was generally welcomed by waste and environmental observers.

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Business Green

JULY 12, 2020

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. All remaining plastic packaging will be recyclable and made of recycled material "wherever possible", the company said.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The group says it “has demonstrated how the voluntary approach can deliver measurable outcomes, with the Courtauld Commitment reducing the UK’s food waste by 27% since its launch 17 years ago.” In practice, not all plastic packaging will be recycled through local authority collections by 2025.

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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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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. Unilever, joining an already well-established collaboration between Recycling Technologies and Neste, will bring insight on design for recycling for packaging.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

The 2021 Survey estimated that 584,000 tonnes of household plastic packaging was collected for recycling in 2020. With a UK target of 70% of plastic packaging being recycled or composted by 2025, the challenges and opportunities are evident. This is an overall collection rate for household plastic packaging of 41%.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 26, 2020

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. Its 60 signatories across public and private sectors agree to advance circularity goals for plastic by 2025. Chief legal officers .

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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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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. “We

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Kraft Heinz also updated its commitments with new targets pegged to 2025. Here are some of the latest commitments, along with perspective on progress so far: Procure most electricity from renewable sources by 2025 and decrease energy usage by 15 percent. Make 100 percent recyclable, reusable or compostable packaging 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? Natalie Hitchins, head of home products and services at Which?

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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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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 12, 2022

Joseph Doherty is managing director of waste management services firm Re-Gen Waste. 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).

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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

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

The carbon emissions associated with Scotland’s waste in 2018 dropped 11% on the previous year to reach the lowest level since official recording began, according to the Scottish Government-funded circular economy expert Zero Waste Scotland. Areas where significant reductions were achieved include construction waste and food waste.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

“Having just launched the new Circular Economy Division, it is clear what a large role waste management and pivotal projects like this have on moving towards a sustainable future. We are proud to have initiated one of the most advanced mechanical recycling plants when it comes to post-consumer polymer waste. Sorting for recycling. “At

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 2, 2024

Finalists included Greyparrot Insights, which tracks waste in recycling plants to build a digital map of the packaging value chain. It aims to create a complete digital map of the world’s waste flows to track what happens when waste is discarded and support the value chain to improve packaging design, policymaking and recycling rates.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 13, 2020

The latest figures published in WRAP’s Courtauld Commitment 2025 Milestone Progress Report indicate that food waste rates in the UK have decreased. According to the report, food waste rates across the UK dropped by 480,000 tonnes between 2015 and 2018. A staggering 10 million tonnes of food is still wasted in the UK every year.

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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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GreenBiz

JANUARY 19, 2021

At universities and corporations alike, addressing emissions and waste in labs can significantly drive down costs and further sustainability commitments. The organization is working directly with manufacturers, including scientific instruments maker Thermo Fisher, to set benchmarks on products and packaging design. AstraZeneca.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2020

The study from development charity Tearfund calculated that the four brands produce enough plastic waste in developing markets to smother roughly 93 football pitches every day. million tonnes, emissions from burning Coca-Cola packaging eclipses the combined output of its three competitors.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Latest packaging innovations aimed at cutting back on plastic and carbon emissions, according to firms. Supermarket giant Aldi is taking steps to green its red meat, by rolling out cardboard packaging across its entire steak range in 890 UK stores. A successful trial has shown us that this new packaging enables us to do both.".

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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. Yet plastic packaging is ubiquitous because it is useful, not to say crucial in many applications.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The first Drinks Industry Sustainability Index – Trends Report 2020 analyses the extent to which the drinks industry is adopting sustainable strategies and practices for packaging, waste, water, emissions, energy, social impact and raw materials. Openly engaging with consumer concerns about plastic and packaging.

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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

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Bakery chain's first ever sustainability plan sets broad aim to become a 'carbon neutral, zero waste business'. Greggs has today served up its first ever sustainability plan, setting out a menu of pledges to drive down food waste, boost its use of renewable energy, and improve the environmental credentials of its high street outlets.

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