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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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. Positive developments in this regard may emerge as early as this year.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 23, 2020

3 takeaways from Colgate-Palmolive's 2025 strategy. Most of the time, plastic. The company was the eighth biggest plastic polluter in 2019, according to the Changing Markets Foundation. But it recently made a commitment to eliminate a substantial chunk of its plastic waste by 2025. . Plastic Waste.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 1, 2021

Walgreens Boots Alliance exec talks plastic, packaging and COVID-19. One of those is reducing plastics in Boots-owned brand packaging, in line with the UK Plastics Pact 2025. So, when the Plastics Pact came out it was not something that was completely new to us. Deonna Anderson. Mon, 03/01/2021 - 01:45.

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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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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

MAY 14, 2024

Switchover will cost bottlers and the Coca-Cola distribution network about $52 million across the U.S. and Canada.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 21, 2020

In 2021, I’ll be watching CPG and food and beverage companies, which have been scrutinized for one-off pilots and an overall failure to move quickly enough towards commitments to make all packaging recyclable, compostable or reusable by 2025. It’s (still) all about plastic. Metrics begin to materialize. Subscribe here.

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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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Charged

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

To that end, all 2025 Ioniq 5s sold in North America except the 5 N are now built at its new Metaplant in Ellabell, Georgia, about 25 miles outside Savannah. Meanwhile, we spent Valentines Day driving both the updated 2025 Ioniq 5 and new Ioniq 5 XRT in and around Palm Springs, California. 2025 Ioniq 5. 2025 Ioniq 5.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 2, 2021

Current rates of plastic emissions globally may trigger effects that we will not be able to reverse, argues a new study by researchers from Sweden, Norway and Germany published on 2 July in Science. These estimates are expected to almost double by 2025 if business-as-usual scenarios apply.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 20, 2025

A 2025 YouGov survey conducted by the British Plastics Federation (BPF) appears to indicate a strong public demand for expanded polystyrene (EPS) recycling solutions. The BPF is the UKs leading trade association for the plastics industry. Fieldwork was undertaken between 28-29 January 2025.

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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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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

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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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The government needs to make an immediate decision on banning plastic in wet wipes in order to help tackle this sewage-based pollution ending up in the River Thames, environmental charity Thames21 has urged. Most contain plastic in them and because of this they can cause blockages which back up sewage that spills into the River Thames.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 4, 2021

For companies with sustainable packaging goals, 2025 is fast approaching. But COVID-19 has thrown a wrench in those plans, with single-use packaging skyrocketing, low fossil fuel prices and disrupted recycling systems, already weakened by China’s 2018 plastics waste ban. . A year for reckoning — and opportunity.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 29, 2021

The acquisition will support the company's own sustainability goals — it is a signatory of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s New Plastics Economy Global Commitment and has pledged to engage its customers “to eliminate problematic and unnecessary plastic packaging from their current solutions,” according to its 2019 sustainability report.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 15, 2020

As one of the first environmental concerns companies began to tackle proactively, interest and efforts had notable resurgence in the last few years, partly spurred by the attention on ocean plastic. . From paper vs. plastic to reusable vs. single use. Paper cups usually have unrecyclable plastic coatings.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

A mortar made from recycled plastic and silica aerogel improves insulation and finds a use for plastic waste. They developed the cement mortar mix by replacing sand with silica aerogel and recycled PET plastic which they then showed improved thermal insulation and weighs less. Image credit: Kaniaw Marof. 2025.140320

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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

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Fossil-based plastic production is still growing exponentially. Only 9% of all plastic is recycled and it can take hundreds of years to degrade. Supporting Business in the Race to Create the World’s Most Sustainable Package. Recycling is critical, but the world cannot rely on that alone.

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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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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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Inhabitat - Innovation

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Young activists know that today's plastic toys are tomorrow's non-recyclable waste. In response, McDonald’s is making its Happy Meal toys more sustainable.

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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

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

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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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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TechXplore

OCTOBER 5, 2023

billion to reduce carbon emissions by 2025, despite netting annual profits of just over $2 billion in 2022. Lego, the world's largest toy manufacturer, has built a reputation not only for the durability of its bricks, designed to last for decades, but also for its substantial investment in sustainability. The company has pledged US$1.4

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Grist

APRIL 24, 2024

The more plastic a company makes, the more pollution it creates. Researchers from a dozen universities around the world found that, for every 1 percent increase in the amount of plastic a company uses, there is an associated 1 percent increase in its contribution to global plastic litter.

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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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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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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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Grist

MARCH 22, 2024

If you were to create a recipe for plastics, you’d need a very big cookbook. Scientists know, for example, that at least 3,200 plastic chemicals pose risks to human health or the environment. These chemicals, released at every stage of the plastic life cycle , mimic hormones and interfere with the metabolic and reproductive systems.

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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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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. ”

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