GreenBiz

MARCH 11, 2022

Over 90% of ocean plastic waste comes from just 10 rivers. But innovative businesses are deploying low-cost, low-tech solutions to stop them.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JUNE 23, 2020

In a bid to curb plastic waste pollution, India-based company Rhino Machines has invented a way of using plastic to make construction blocks. The silica plastic blocks (SPBs) are strong enough to build a house and can be useful in reducing world pollution problems.

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GreenBiz

MAY 18, 2022

Here's how innovators at Circularity 22 are dealing with the scourge of plastic waste mismanagement.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The theme of adaptation and resilience calls on the world to find new ways to adapt to climate issues and be innovative enough to get past ecological contaminants. In the past century, contaminants such as plastic turned the world upside down. Plastic litters the Earth and contributes to carbon emissions.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Advanced recycling methods have the potential to vastly increase the amount of plastic that gets recycled into feedstock and new products.

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TechXplore

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

A mortar made from recycled plastic and silica aerogel that improves insulation and reduces plastic waste has been developed by Newcastle University researchers. The team hopes this new building material could reduce heating and cooling bills while being environmentally friendly.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 26, 2020

Ensuring Performance and Safety in Recycled Plastics. As companies and consumer brands incorporate recycled plastic content into their products and as part of their circularity goals, product integrity becomes an important consideration. How regulations and brands are driving the use of recycled plastics. Topic include: .

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Sustainable and fibre-based packaging solutions firm DS Smith is replacing plastic pallets for canned products with corrugated cardboard in collaboration with Denmark’s largest industrial producer of shellfish and seafood, Vilsund Blue A/S. Bent Svenningsen, Production Manager, Vilsund Blue A./S

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2020

The two groups have combined already-established and community-led marine debris and plastic waste interception programmes from the Dominican Republic with a UK volunteer network producing sustainable eye protection. Through this collaboration, plastic trash will protect lives instead of destroying it.”

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GreenBiz

JULY 24, 2020

Closed Loop Partners teams with Walmart, CVS, Target to take on the plastic bag. Single-use plastic shopping bags are a real problem. We hope the Beyond the Bag Initiative will surface affordable, practical solutions that meet the needs of customers and reduce plastic waste.". Deonna Anderson. Fri, 07/24/2020 - 01:15.

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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. Ellis: When the Plastics Pact came along, it was formulating and putting in place a series of targets to capitalize upon work that we were already doing.

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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

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The world's two biggest producers and consumers of stuff stand to play a pivotal role in creating a circular economy, but they'll both have to get out of their own way.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

MAY 11, 2020

The recycled plastic masks feature fun ocean-inspired prints, too, like sharks and waves.

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CleanTech Group

MARCH 21, 2024

Plastic production is expected to double by 2050. Similarly, plastic emissions from production and disposal are expected to double by 2060. Plastic recycling. The post Where Plastic Recycling Innovation is Today appeared first on Cleantech Group.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Nestlé and Microsoft on financing circular innovations. Also about one year ago, Nestlé launched its $2 billion sustainability fund , to support companies developing innovative packaging and recycling technologies through 2025. Microsoft is one year into its $1 billion, four-year Climate Innovation Fund. Elsa Wenzel.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

MAY 15, 2020

American households use more single-use and plastic items in the kitchen than any other part of the home. These 10 tips can help you make sustainable swaps.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 15, 2021

A Circular Economy for Plastics: How Companies are Moving from Strategy to Action. As plastic waste continues to threaten the globe, companies are making ambitious commitments and joining with partners to do their part. Common challenges companies face in combating plastic waste, and how to overcome them. taylor flores.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

A new investigation by NPR and PBS Frontline reveals that for decades, executives in the oil and plastic industries invested millions of U.S. dollars into misleading the public about the recycling of plastics. As a good citizen, you sort your trash, thinking that the plastic will be recycled to reduce pollution.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 23, 2022

Winners of the Plastics Recycling Awards Europe 2022 were announced on 23 June at the Plastics Recycling Show Europe in Amsterdam. Launched in 2017, the awards have witnessed a dramatic and inspirational rise in the circular use of plastics through increased recycling and recyclability over the last the five years, said the organisers.

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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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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Sponsored: Berry Global prioritizes innovations for circularity to build an attractive portfolio for its customers, while driving growth, jobs and stability.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Viridor says its soon-to-be-opened Avonmouth plastics recycling plant will reprocess over 80,0000 tonnes of plastic, creating recycled raw material ready to be returned to the economy. The circular economy for plastics report highlights the significant role that recycling plastics can play in ensuring the UK achieves net zero.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2023

A new study highlights potential pathways to significantly increase waste collection and plastic recycling rates globally. These countries have plastic recycling rates of up to 10 per cent. Examples of countries include Indonesia, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Examples of countries include the UK, India and Turkey.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2022

They could play an important role during the transition to packaging innovations that don’t lead to plastic pollution.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Now word from the Plastic Health Summit 2021 is that we have nine years to save the world from irreparable plastic-wrought damage. While most of us have been focusing on goals related to decreasing CO2 levels in the atmosphere, a subset of scientists have been eying another villain.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Supercritical water can be a solvent for all organic materials including plastics. Its gas-like penetration power makes it a superior medium to decompose mixtures of complex waste plastics into value-added materials, which are feedstock for manufacturing new plastics.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JANUARY 22, 2020

One green-thinking firm, Parisauli Arsitek Studio, has managed to find a way of giving new life to hundreds of discarded plastic crates.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

APRIL 30, 2021

A new study has proven once more that plastic recycling is a lie. According to American Chemistry Council data, only 14% of all plastic is recycled. The data further shows that 16% is incinerated and 70% ends up dumped into landfills.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JANUARY 28, 2022

They're not just using recycled cardboard or eliminating plastic foam. As a result, the innovative products rolling off the line at the company are plant based and waste free. Notpla is a packaging solutions company. They're redesigning the very idea of what packaging is and how it functions. That’s a solution like no other.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Microbes across the world and in deep oceans are evolving to eat plastic, according to a new study. The report, published in the journal Microbial Ecology, found over 30,000 enzymes that can degrade over 10 different types of plastics.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Single-use plastic is one of the most pressing environmental problems the world is facing, yet plastic continues to be sold to millions of consumers every single year. It ends up in landfills, on beaches and in oceans, creating a huge plastic pollution problem.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

MARCH 15, 2021

With the National Plastic Plan, Australia aims to address challenges with biodegradable, recyclable and compostable plastics.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Organisers have confirmed the full conference programme for the Plastics Recycling Show Europe Virtual Event taking place 9-11 December 2020. Fellow panellists include Ton Emans, President of Plastics Recyclers Europe (PRE) and Maria Ciliberti, Vice President at Borealis. Virginijus Sinkevi?ius, CET on 10 December.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JULY 1, 2020

The global movement is asking people around the world to be part of the plastic pollution solution.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Water bottles, lunch bags and clothing laced with microfibers: welcome to what some are calling the "plastic age." A recent study reports plastic pollution caused by people is so all encompassing it’s deposited itself into our fossil record. Related: But this didn’t occur overnight as contamination has been building since 1945.

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