Inhabitat - Innovation

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

We know you’re conscientious about water consumption by turning off the faucet while you brush, but there’s that seldom discussed issue of toothbrush waste, mostly plastic, that equates to around 1,000,000,000 toothbrushes heading to the landfill annually, and that’s just in the United States.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2019

PragmatIC says its technology could allow a low-cost inlay (tag) to be incorporated in packaging, allowing consumers to access information about product usage, food storage, cooking instructions and local recycling. A 2015 study by the UK waste and recycling advisory body Wrap estimated that of the 7.3 tonnes was actually edible.

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Recycling Recycling Waste Waste 228

Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

One of the biggest culprits of plastic and styrofoam pollution in the world is the packaging materials that companies use in shipping their products. From post-consumer recycled paper products to unique biodegradable materials, here’s a great overview of the latest options for your business shipping needs.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 7, 2020

There are no 'silver bullet' solutions to plastics. The latest culprit: Bacardi unveiled a bioplastic bottle that can biodegrade in compost systems, freshwater and oceans in 18 months. The latest culprit: Bacardi unveiled a bioplastic bottle that can biodegrade in compost systems, freshwater and oceans in 18 months. In the Loop.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Plastic and glass recycling increase, paper and cardboard continues downward trend. Total household recycling rate 44.9%. tonnes recycled, 0.14 This is the eighth consecutive decrease in household waste landfilled since 2011 – and for the third consecutive year there was more Scottish waste recycled (1.1

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 17, 2023

Biodegradable vs compostable: Addressing the confusion. Biodegradable vs compostable: Which material would you choose ? As the bio-based industry grows, we’re witnessing an increasing number of biodegradable and compostable claims. As such, this Green Business Bureau article defines biodegradable and compostable.

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GreenBiz

MAY 24, 2021

A circular economy is so much more than recycling or reusing waste streams, which is a reductionist understanding of what nature does. The London-based startup also manufactures a biodegradable alternative to wood-based sheet materials using byproducts from food production. . New Iridium. Interested in more on the Circular Economy?

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 28, 2021

Bioplastics As An Alternative to Petroleum-Based Plastics. The development of bioplastics – plastics that are biodegradable and made of natural materials – provides businesses with eco-friendly alternatives for packaging and products, especially single-use items that contribute a lot of waste.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

An explosive new report finds that the plastics industry has misled the public for decades about the viability of recycling plastic, promoting reuse despite the fact that mechanical recycling was not feasible – perpetuating the plastic waste crisis the world faces today.

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GreenTech Gazette

APRIL 1, 2025

Enter biodegradable luminescent polymersa dazzling innovation that promises to light up our lives while leaving a lighter footprint on the planet. Recycling is energy-intensive and often inefficient, with only about 20% of e-waste being properly processed. But what if we could turn this problem into an opportunity? How Do They Work?

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Inhabitat - Innovation

AUGUST 31, 2021

We’ve written about the problems with single-use coffee pods before — a majority of these little capsules end up in landfills and contribute to the world’s growing plastic pollution issues.

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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

MARCH 27, 2025

These PLFs are worth $125 billion each year and are essential to making millions of products work but almost none of the 36 million tonnes of these near ubiquitous chemicals are recovered or recycled after use. The launch of the Sustainable PLFs 2040 initiative is the latest step in ongoing work first started in 2017.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 1, 2023

Whether you’re a happy-go-lucky ‘wish-cycler’ – tossing waste in the hope it can be recycled – or one who routinely agonizes over different diameters of plastic wrapping, there’s no harm in picking up a clearer understanding of the whole process. If it’s going to be sorted anyway, it doesn’t hurt.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2022

WRAP’s first International Grants competition, The International Circular Plastics Flagship Competition – developed and delivered in partnership with UKRI – has awarded funding of £1.2 million to six UK based innovators to work with international partners to tackle plastic related issues in India, Chile, South Africa and Kenya.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 19, 2024

Experts have collaborated on a series of recommendations which calls on Government to take the initiative on finding solutions to the plastics problem. Speaking at the launch, Baroness Meacher said: “Plastics are an important resource that we cannot simply dispense with, but we must address the effects of plastic pollution.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 10, 2024

It’s described as the first fully recyclable paper crisp packet by The British Crisp Co., Consumers can dispose of the new crisp packet in their normal kerbside recycling collection along with their other paper recyclable items. It uses an innovative polymer, Hydropol, instead of conventional plastic.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 27, 2023

The group believes that it will be possible to develop and scale the first biodegradable PLFs and advance circular economy infrastructure for these chemicals by 2030. Despite their ubiquity and usefulness, most PLFs are not currently recyclable and are made using fossil-based petrochemical sources.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 16, 2020

Unilever also has committed to step up its efforts to preserve water, with plans to make all its "product formulations" biodegradable in order to minimize their impact on aquatic ecosystems. Jope concluded that the suite of new initiatives would complement the company's ongoing mission to curb its reliance on virgin plastic.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Delivering on their corporate mission and promise to create a deliver environmentally friendly bottles and packaging, Chlorophyll Water has announced that they have achieved a major step in their commitment to limit and ultimately cease their contribution to the world’s plastic epidemic.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

A Brooklyn-based startup is building electric motorcycles that are made from recyclable and natural biodegradable materials. The side panels are made from flax seed rather than plastic, and the pigments that color the bodywork are derived from natural algae. Electric, but also with the least harm to our environment.”.

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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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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 7, 2022

is aiding the world in the fight against single-use plastic waste by offering a variety of biodegradable organic bamboo products for personal use, homes and businesses. From disposable utensils to dental and hair care, EcoLuxe has an array of eco-friendly alternatives to help you reduce your plastic footprint.

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Plastics Sustainability Waste Waste 148

Envirotec Magazine

MAY 11, 2023

New “bio” ropes made from biomaterials have the potential to replace conventional plastics of fossil origin in mussel and algae cultivation, say the groups behind their development, who claim sustainability advantages including up to 34% carbon footprint reduction compared to ropes made from conventional plastics.

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Business Green

AUGUST 24, 2020

Environmental arguments are continuing to be made both for and against the inclusion of compostable plastics in the government's planned plastics tax.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2020

Company inks memorandum of understanding with Plastic Energy to explore feasibility of new facility capable of processing previously unrecyclable plastic film. The plan would see a new Plastic Energy chemical recycling plant co-located with one of Viridor's waste-to-energy plants.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 27, 2020

New research combining Planet’s high cadence satellite imagery and other innovative technologies has successfully found the sources and pathways of plastic pollution in the Caribbean Sea. A boom is filled with plastic, and yet was only able to collect small amounts of it due to much of the debris passing it by. km2 to 0.77km2.

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Low Impact

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Are you struggling to reduce plastic use in your home? In this first instalment from Ethical.net, we learn why we should be aiming to reduce our plastic use, why recycling isn’t enough and how to get stated reducing food-related plastic waste. Plastic is absolutely everywhere.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 16, 2021

Use less plastic, in all forms. Petroleum-based plastic packaging is derived from our finite supply of fossil fuels and much of it does not break down completely for hundreds to thousands of years. Use 100% biodegradable, compostable and recyclable materials. Biodegradable vs Compostable Packaging. Keep it simple.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The fully biodegradable and compostable packaging innovation has been developed in Edinburgh with support from Innovate UK and Sky Ocean Ventures. As a result, it claims the container is fully biodegradeable and compostable, and can break down in the natural environmental without causing any harmful impact within 12 months.

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2020

Initiative aims to encourage banks to adopt credit and debit cards made from recycled, chlorine-free, biodegradable and ocean plastics. MAstercard launches drive to replace plastic credit cars with sustainable alternatives. MAstercard launches drive to replace plastic credit cars with sustainable alternatives.

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Grist

OCTOBER 1, 2022

When dealing with the life cycle of plastic, hundreds of solutions await, from alternative bioplastics that might be able to degrade themselves through the magic of fungus, to complex chemical recycling that can break plastics down to become other petroleum products or to be rebuilt good as new.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2023

percentage point increase in recycling levels on the previous year. tonnes recycled, 0.11 was recycled, a 0.3 The recycling figure includes recycling and reuse (657,000 tonnes) and composting (355,000 tonnes).  Waste recycled and diverted from landfill The 2022 recycling rate was 43.3%, up 0.3

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2021

percentage point reduction in household recycling rates from 2019 to 42%. Household waste recycled and landfilled decreases. Scotland’s overall household waste recycling rate reduced from 44.9% The total amount of Scottish household waste recycled was 1.02 Household waste generated increased 0.3% million tonnes.

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Business Green

JUNE 21, 2021

Traditional pint-sized glass milk bottles set to be sold for 90p at 11 trial stores in bid to curb plastic waste, Morrisons confirms. We want to help our customers live their lives with less plastic," said Natasha Cook, packaging manager at Morrisons. The supermarket estimates the move would remove approximately 1.4

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 16, 2021

Use less plastic, in all forms. Petroleum-based plastic packaging is derived from our finite supply of fossil fuels and much of it does not break down completely for hundreds to thousands of years. Use 100% biodegradable, compostable and recyclable materials. Biodegradable vs Compostable Packaging. Keep it simple.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 16, 2021

In 2019 Watson Gloves introduced Green Monkey biodegradable gloves made with a Reclaim additive that accelerates biodegradation in modern landfill conditions and enables these gloves to effectively degrade into organic matter and renewable biogas. biodegradation in 233 days). biodegradation in 233 days). in 390 days.

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