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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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.

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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

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. Indonesia took a further 3.4%, and Taiwan 2.5%.

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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

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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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Also about one year ago, Nestlé launched its $2 billion sustainability fund , to support companies developing innovative packaging and recycling technologies through 2025. Nestlé’s circular plans include, by 2025, reducing virgin plastics in packaging by one-third and making all of its packaging reusable and recyclable.

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Business Green

MAY 22, 2020

Single-use plastics are helping keep people safe during the Covid-19 pandemic, but creating new challenges for governments in dealing with the waste problem. Some of the world's largest corporations promised to quickly slash their use of virgin plastic packaging. Where does this leave the businesses embracing circularity in plastics?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Firm plans to begin rolling out 100 per cent recycled plastic bottles for select Coca-Cola, Sprite, Fanta and Dasani water brands in coming months. The world has a plastic waste problem," the company admitted in a statement. "In In fact, plastic waste is among the top environmental concerns globally.

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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 17, 2021

Petrochemical firms such as ExxonMobil and Dow responsible for half of global single-use plastic waste, research finds. Of those 20 companies, which together contribute 5.9 Of those 20 companies, which together contribute 5.9

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The goal is a marked acceleration of targets previously announced by the firm, reflecting technological innovations and market development in the use of recycled plastics. We are committed to immediate action to address the plastic waste challenge.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 17, 2020

"The one thing that is difficult — and it’s difficult for all companies but especially, I think, in the protein industry — there’s just certain materials you can’t recycle or reuse," said Steve Levitsky, vice president of sustainability for well-known chicken purveyor Perdue Farms. In the U.S., It has 35 of them.) .

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Under the terms of the plan, all local authorities will be required – by 31 March 2026 – to collect a defined set of recyclable waste streams: glass; metal; plastic; paper and card; food waste; and garden waste. An additional stream – plastic film – will also become mandatory from 31 March 2027.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

With countries set to discuss potential blueprint for a Paris Agreement-style treaty for tackling plastic waste this week, leading experts give their views on what it should look like. So could such a treaty ever work in the same way for another, interconnected, cross-border environmental crisis facing the planet: plastic pollution?

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2021

Consumer goods giant Henkel announces number of changes to formula and packaging for popular Pritt glue sticks in bid to appeal to customers concerned about plastic waste. All the materials will be fully recyclable once the stick is empty, it added.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The goal is a marked acceleration of targets previously announced by the firm, reflecting technological innovations and market development in the use of recycled plastics. We are committed to immediate action to address the plastic waste challenge.

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Business Green

MAY 10, 2021

Plastic will be extracted from tens of thousands of used fridges every year for use in ventilation fans, company said. Online electricals retailer AO has announced it will recycle plastic from old fridges for use in energy saving ventilation products, as part of a new effort to cut down on waste and establish a more circular business model.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

By 2025 Greggs said it would be "on its way to achieving carbon neutrality" by powering all its operations with 100 per cent renewable energy - up from 96 per cent today - and ensuring at least a quarter of its 2,000 outlets nationwide feature elements of its "Eco-Shop store of the future design".

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The world's largest plastic packaging producer said the goal was "industry leading" and in line with its wider commitments to tackling its plastic footprint, including pledges to make all its primary consumer packaging recyclable by 2025 and ensure half its packaging is made from recycled materials by 2030.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The goal is a marked acceleration of targets previously announced by the firm, reflecting technological innovations and market development in the use of recycled plastics. We are committed to immediate action to address the plastic waste challenge.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Crisps packaging performed the worst, with just three per cent found to be recyclable. And although Pringles' notoriously hard-to-recycle tubes have come in for criticism , their plastic lids were the only item of packaging in the category which is recycable via home waste collections, the investigation found.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

billion tons of plastic. Of the waste generated from that plastic, less than a tenth of that has been recycled, researchers estimate. Plastic inhabits the oceans, building up in the guts of seagulls and great white sharks. At the end,” he added, “you have exactly the same quantity of plastic waste.”.

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2020

The programme, launched in 2013, was designed to drive a more circular economy and encourage reuse and repair across a number of priority areas, including food, textiles, plastics, electricals, chemicals, healthcare, and the built environment.

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2022

Leading bottled water brand rolls out new product in recycable cans and recycled plastic bottles. Bottled water brand Evian is to launch its first-ever sparkling water product, which will be available in both recyclable aluminium cans and 100 per cent recycled plastic bottles.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Investment will allow supermarket chain to meet its aim of recycling as much plastic as it puts out to market by 2025, according to update. It said it was also exploring ways to use the recycled material from the site for store fixtures and fittings.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 8, 2019

To better align with green initiatives worldwide, the British-Dutch conglomerate Unilever recently pledged to invest in a more circular economy for plastics via a two-part plan. First, by the year 2025, Unilever will halve the bulk of its non-recycled plastic packaging waste.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 30, 2021

England has announced a planned ban on polystyrene cups and single-use plastic cutlery and plates. This autumn, the English government will start coming up with a plan to curtail single-use plastic and polystyrene perhaps within a couple of years. This measure seeks to encourage the use of recycled material.

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Business Green

MARCH 13, 2020

Leading luggage brand Samsonite has set its sights on becoming 'carbon neutral' and using 100 per cent renewable energy in the manufacture of its products by 2025, as it unveiled its new global sustainability strategy this week.

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Business Green

JUNE 1, 2021

The UK has already set out measures to implement mandatory rules requiring climate risk disclosures across all major segments of the economy by 2025, with a significant proportion of UK major companies set to start reporting on climate risk 2023.

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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. Angela Nagle, a civil engineering Ph.D.

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Charged

JANUARY 5, 2024

New entries are announced virtually every month, and picking the 2025 models that will be most important throughout 2024 is risky for early January. Still, the 2025 Kia EV9 and 2025 Volvo EX30 stand out as particularly important EVs for 2024. The starkness of the plastics is emphasized by a single 12.3-inch

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Business Green

JUNE 9, 2020

Evian's vice-president of brand Shweta Harit talks to BusinessGreen about the French water company's sustainability ambitions, in particular a pledge to use 100 per cent recycled bottles by 2025. Harit says Evian is working with governments to improve recycling strategies in order to plug the "leak" in the circularity cycle.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Plastics Pact launches new initiative to redesign the plastics value chain at Circularity 20 Holly Secon Wed, 09/02/2020 – 00:45 The U.S. recycling system had been a mess for far longer — seeing as the country never fully developed the infrastructure to recycle anywhere near the amount of plastic waste it produces.

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Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2022

The brands "can use plastics to make fibers, but they don't have a solution for fiber-to-fiber recycling at scale," Emmanuel Ladent, Carbios CEO, said in an interview. The company expects the facility, which will recycle local plastic waste, to begin operations in 2025. Hungry, hungry enzymes.

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2020

The programme, launched in 2013, was designed to drive a more circular economy and encourage reuse and repair across a number of priority areas, including food, textiles, plastics, electricals, chemicals, healthcare, and the built environment.

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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.

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