GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Only 9% of all plastic is recycled and it can take hundreds of years to degrade. Recycling is critical, but the world cannot rely on that alone. In recent years, we’ve seen over 450 companies pledge to dramatically slash their use or production of plastic by 2025 as part of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation circular economy commitments.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

If IKEA can't resell an item, the company plans to recycle it or donate it to community organizations. . I think in a dream world, it is that every product that you would buy is coming from recycled materials that are closed-loop in our own supply chain. 24 through Dec. But getting there is a long journey.".

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Charged

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Deliveries are set to begin in 2025, supporting Nidec’s operations across industries including automation, industrial, and defense applications.

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Recycled materials Automotive Electric vehicle Recycling 118

Charged

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

As demand for lithium-ion batteries accelerates, recycling of raw materials will be an essential part of the circular EV ecosystem. However, in the near term, the primary source of recyclable battery material will be scrap material from battery production, according to Benchmark Mineral Intelligence ’s latest Recycling Report.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

"If we're going to make sure that we're using more recycled content, if we're going to ensure that we're going to reduce carbon emissions, then we need to be tracking that. Also about one year ago, Nestlé launched its $2 billion sustainability fund , to support companies developing innovative packaging and recycling technologies through 2025.

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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. and globally by 2040. million acres the 4.4

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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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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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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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Charged

JANUARY 2, 2024

Toyota Motor North America is expanding its battery recycling network with Cirba Solutions, a battery recycling materials and management company. New automotive battery plant Toyota Battery Manufacturing North Carolina (TBMNC) is also under construction and expected to open in 2025 with a $14-billion investment.

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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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Charged

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

JB Straubel’s Redwood Materials will supply remanufactured battery cathode material to Panasonic, beginning in 2025, for a new factory the Japanese battery-maker is currently building in Kansas. Part of the demand is expected to be met by recycling, which could reduce the need for new mines.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

We are proud to have initiated one of the most advanced mechanical recycling plants when it comes to post-consumer polymer waste. Offering brand owners and converters top quality recycled material, suitable for use in highly demanding applications is Borealis’ latest contribution to a more circular economy of plastics.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 12, 2022

The primary purpose of the Packaging Recovery Note (PRN) should be to provide evidence of recycling and monitor progress towards meeting targets. But the PRN is also designed as a funding mechanism to encourage higher recycling levels when there is a risk of the targets not being met. An integrated system.

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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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Packaging Plastics Recycling Recycling 101

GreenBiz

MAY 26, 2021

We are committed to only be using recycled polyester from 2024. By 2025, nine out of 10 adidas articles will be sustainable: Made with recycled materials, made to be remade or made with nature.". "As part of our new strategy, 'Own the Game,' sustainability will play a key role. percent to 0.07 percent to 0.07

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Business Green

MAY 22, 2020

Yet the recycled material available to make bottles, bags and boxes has become harder to find and more expensive. Post-consumer recycled plastics look about as budget-friendly as diamonds next to cubic zirconia. Progress was being made toward adopting post-consumer recycled feedstocks. It seems an impossible situation.

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Plastics Recycling Recycling Recycled materials 99

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 move forms part of the company's goal to triple the amount of post-consumer recycled plastic content in packaging across its product lines by 2025.

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Plastics Recycling Recycling Recycled materials 85

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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GreenBiz

JUNE 17, 2020

More precautions have meant more PPE, which usually has come in contact with biological matter that causes management challenges for recycling facilities. The designation indicates that 100 percent of the waste stream at the facility is reused, recycled or incinerated for energy. In the U.S., It has 35 of them.) .

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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 need to design packaging to be recyclable, reduce the amount of packaging we use, and make it easy for consumers to recycle.

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Plastics Recycling Recycling Recycled materials 79

Business Green

MAY 10, 2021

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. AO opened its first recycling facility in 2017 and now recycles more than 1.2

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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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Waste Waste Recycling Recycling 162

Charged

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Redwood Materials , the battery recycling venture founded by former Tesla CTO JB Straubel, came out of stealth mode last year, and announced that it is recycling scrap from Panasonic’s battery cell production at Tesla’s Gigafactory Nevada. Today, EVs account for less than 10% of Redwood’s recycling stock.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Of the waste generated from that plastic, less than a tenth of that has been recycled, researchers estimate. This pollution problem is made worse, experts say, by the fact that even the small share of plastic that does get recycled is destined to end up, sooner or later, in the trash heap. billion tons of plastic.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

H&M has issued a €500m bond linked to the high street fashion retailer achieving several of its 2025 sustainability targets to ramp up the use of recycled materials and drive down greenhouse gas emissions across its business and supply chain. High street fashion retailer's sustainability-linked bond was 7.6

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Business Green

JULY 3, 2020

By 2025, Pandora, the world's largest jewelry brand by volume, will use 100 per cent recycled silver and gold in its products. As it stands, 71 percent of the silver and gold in Pandora jewelry comes from recycled sources. Recycling metals uses fewer resources than mining new metals.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 3, 2022

BusinessGreen reports on the fast-evolving plans to establish a thriving EV battery recycling industry in the UK. Ramping up battery reuse and recycling is increasingly regarded as critical to ensuring climate goals are met in as sustainable and efficient way as possible.

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2021

A new generation of Pritt Sticks unveiled yesterday boast a potato starch-based glue formula with a higher content of natural ingredients as well as tubes made with a higher ratio of recycled plastic, the consumer goods giant confirmed. All the materials will be fully recyclable once the stick is empty, it added.

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Sustainability Plastics Recycling Recycling 87

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

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 need to design packaging to be recyclable, reduce the amount of packaging we use, and make it easy for consumers to recycle.

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Plastics Recycling Recycling Recycled materials 53

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

finds swathes of major snack brands come in hard to recycle packaging with unclear labeling for consumers. investigation today, underscoring the need for the food industry to redouble efforts to make its packaging more easily recyclable for consumers. Natalie Hitchins, head of home products and services at Which?

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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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Grist

APRIL 24, 2024

“What the data is saying is that if the status quo doesn’t change in a huge way — if social norms around the rapid consumption and production of new materials don’t change — we won’t see what we want,” Cowger told Grist. By that date the company also aims to collect and recycle a bottle or can for each one it sells.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 10, 2024

The company has not stated where the meters have been deployed but the aim is to test the technology in the field during 2024, prior to a widescale rollout across Italy starting in 2025. Another notable feature is the use of recycled materials in the meter, up to 85%, which is being produced by the two Italian companies Bitron and MeteRSit.

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Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Recycled materials IoT 107

Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2022

French biotech start-up Carbios is making rapid progress working with some of the world's biggest fashion brands to deliver a new approach to polyester recycling. The consortium aims to develop the industry's first large-scale fiber-to-fiber polyester recycling system, a process that could play a meaningful role in circularity in fashion.

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Recycling Recycling Fashion Plastics 69

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. If you are talking about a sustainable, renewable fuel source, it’s not appropriate to then pollute the environment with materials that are decommissioned,” Bank said.

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