GreenBiz

DECEMBER 21, 2020

It’s (still) all about plastic. Plastic continues to be the star of the show when it comes to the global conversation about materials management and circular economy solutions. 2021 is sure to bring continued tension between the problem of plastic waste and the problem of plastic production and use. Sponsored Article.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 27, 2020

Despite record oil price fluctuations, circular plastic strategies prevail. And when crude oil prices fell into negative territory in April, the recycled plastic industry experienced a reckoning. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere). Sponsored Article. Jesse Klein.

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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. Only five years ago, few corporate leaders had plastic pollution on their official radar.

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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. That is just true.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The United Nations is being urged to make a bold pledge and set a target of zero for new plastic pollution by 2040 in its upcoming Global Treaty to End Plastic Pollution. Plastic production and subsequent pollution are key drivers of climate change, the focus of discussion at COP27 in Egypt this week.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

A new report – “Improving the loops of plastics in electronics” – shares the conclusions from a recent workshop on Waste of Electrical and Electronic equipment (WEEE) plastics, organized by BSEF, the International Bromine Council, during the International Electronics recycling conference (IERC 2022).

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GreenBiz

JUNE 15, 2020

This article is sponsored by Pure Strategies. 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. Mon, 06/15/2020 - 00:00.

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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

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

When I cover solutions to the plastic waste crisis, I typically focus on infrastructure development and bringing recycling systems to scale, standardizing materials, inventing new ones and designing out unnecessary single-use items, and rethinking business models and supply chains. Sponsored Article. Lauren Phipps. Circular Economy.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 29, 2021

This article originally appeared in the State of Green Business 2021. And as a growing number of companies commit to recycled plastics targets and circular plastics aspirations, the opportunity and necessity of partnering with these communities is becoming increasingly clear. The circular economy shows its human side.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

GreenBiz readers got excited about climate change solutions that ranged from the new, from the emerging potential of hydrogen as an energy source to changes in plastics manufacturing, to the ancient, such as planting trees. Some of the biggest contributors to the plastic crisis are the cosmetics and fashion industries. . Courtesy of.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 26, 2021

Mura Technology, a UK-based technology firm, has announced that construction has started on the world’s first commercial-scale plant to use its ground-breaking “hydrothermal” process, which is said to be able to recycle all forms of plastic waste and could provide the raw ingredients for a sustainable circular plastic economy.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 28, 2021

While the whopping 82% of plastic going to landfill is jarring, it is important to look at the end-products that this MFA identifies and what percent actually gets recycled once entering the recycling system. Closed Loop Partners (CLP) also has conducted a detailed MFA for a variety of plastic resins.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 29, 2020

At Circularity, Plastics gets Serious. aiming to contain plastics’. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere). Sponsored Article. Not mere Facebook friends, these two spawn recovery, lift communities. Corporates Gain via E, S and G. Weave people, purpose. value forever.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 4, 2021

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

AUGUST 13, 2020

If not, you were probably born during the plastics-era, which began about 50 years ago. Today, plastic has taken over. In 2018, 40 percent of the 360 million tonnes of plastics produced globally were converted to packaging. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere).

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 7, 2020

There are no 'silver bullet' solutions to plastics. Bacardi is calling its initiative "a silver bullet in the fight against plastic pollution.". It’s also worth noting that plastic makes up less than 1 percent of Bacardi’s packaging.) Plastic Waste. Sponsored Article. Lauren Phipps. Mon, 12/07/2020 - 01:30.

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GreenBiz

MAY 8, 2020

This article was adapted from the GreenBiz Food Weekly newsletter. Do the parmesan shavings really need their own plastic container?) The packaging is indeed an issue, but meal kits lead to less waste and this more than cancels out the greenhouse gases associated with the extra plastic. Sponsored Article. Food Systems.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

In the past few years, as consumers looked to cut down on plastic waste at the grocery store, more mainstream supermarkets turned to bulk shopping bins as a solution. Back in 2005, MOM’s banned single-use plastic bags in its stores to encourage shoppers to bring their own reusable bags. Sponsored Article. Deonna Anderson.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 31, 2020

The company serves as a delivery service where groceries come in reusable containers, then get retrieved, cleaned and reused in future deliveries, cutting out the plastic packaging waste and relieving the customer of doing any work themselves. Salubata is a Nigerian startup that creates modular shoes from recycled plastic waste.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 22, 2021

Through a partnership with Plastic Bank , the company's Green Chef brand collects and recycles ocean-bound plastic commensurate with every ounce of plastic in a customer’s box. our teams have continued to minimize overall packaging and plastic. Sponsored Article. In the U.S., Food Systems. Circular Economy.

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GreenBiz

MAY 12, 2020

This article is part of our Paradigm Shift series, produced by nonprofit PYXERA Global, on the diverse solutions driving the transition to a circular economy. There’s no doubt about it — we are in the midst of a plastic pollution crisis. million plastic bottles from being produced. Sponsored Article. Katrina Shum.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere). Sponsored Article. Have you noticed any new recycling labeling on the packaging of things you buy? Marketing & Communication. Consumer Trends. Collective Insight. Speaking Sustainably.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 18, 2021

You also know the solution: In addition to recyclable and compostable alternatives, reuse models are quickly emerging as a fundamentally better alternative to single-use ones, not to mention that converting 20 percent of the world’s disposable plastic packaging into reusables is a $10 billion opportunity. . Sponsored Article.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 6, 2023

The last decade has seen some progress with studying plastic pollution, but there are still significant challenges, such as a lack of comparability of reported results, especially when it comes to microplastic particles. Comparisons According to the recent article, the researchers analyzed seven samples with 100 MPs each.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 16, 2020

Jope concluded that the suite of new initiatives would complement the company's ongoing mission to curb its reliance on virgin plastic. Last year, the company pledged to halve its use of virgin plastic and ensure it collects and recycles more plastic packaging than it sells. Sponsored Article. Corporate Strategy.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Although the pandemic has disrupted hospitality and demand, Loliware has used the lull to advance its technology and scale manufacturing with a mission to overturn legacy plastics. The flexibility of plastic straws is a bit more challenging to replicate, but R&D is under way to do just that. . Sponsored Article. Biomaterials.

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GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2021

One key area where this can have an impact is plastic recycling. Around 90 percent of plastic used is not recycled — and reducing this number is crucial to achieving SDG 12: Responsible consumption and production. . Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere). Sponsored Article.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 5, 2021

For example, shifting towards recycled materials would alleviate the need to produce virgin plastics and synthetic fibers, which would significantly reduce fossil fuel use and associated emissions. The world produces around 300 million tons of plastic waste every year, nearly equivalent to the weight of the entire human population.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 18, 2020

The beauty industry has a plastic waste problem. A quick Google search brings up articles from Allure , National Geographic , Forbes , Teen Vogue and 31,800,000 other results about the issue. . Since the 1960s, the amount of plastic packaging on everything, not just cosmetics, has increased 120 times. Sponsored Article.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 26, 2020

We were just as worried about plastics in the ocean and climate change in early March as we were last summer, but that concern plummeted in May. . For instance, last summer the one environmental issue 27 percent of us felt we actually could do something about was plastic waste. This was not the case pre-pandemic.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 23, 2020

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. . Its plastic strategy focuses on three areas. Plastic Waste. Sponsored Article.

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GreenBiz

JULY 12, 2021

The plastic waste problem gets plenty of attention, and for good reason: If we continue mismanaging this material as usual, there could be 7.7 Just as stunning: Plastic isn't the fastest growing waste stream the world needs to deal with. . Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere).

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GreenBiz

MAY 24, 2021

The startup’s process works at room temperature, is 1,000 times more energy-efficient than the production of synthetic plastic fibers, has only water as a byproduct and uses no hazardous chemicals. . Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere). Sponsored Article. Circular Economy.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 16, 2021

This article exposes the flawed system of waste management within hotels and provides practical solutions for reducing three prominent hotel wastes: food, water and plastic waste. Implement the 4-R’s for Plastic Waste Reduction. Replace plastic straws with reusable alternatives like steel and glass. Minimize Food Waste.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 28, 2020

A view inside a ChemFORWARD display of dimethyl phthalate, used in plastics. These include ortho-phthalate plasticizers found in flexible toys, UV-blocking oxybenzone in sunscreens and halogenated flame retardants in electronics. That could bring more of the plastic industry onboard, he added. "If Sponsored Article.

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GreenBiz

MAY 5, 2020

Procter & Gamble's Tide laundry detergent brand first introduced in January 2019 its "Eco-Box," which has been compared to a wine box because of its design made from paperboard with a tap for dispensing, in an effort to reduce the plastic in its packaging. All paper, no plastic. For us, that's a technical trade-off at the start.

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