GreenBiz

MARCH 11, 2024

Amazon has cut more than 37,150 metric tons of plastic packaging since 2015, but still uses twice that amount annually.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Over 900 Tesco stores now have collection points for plastic recycling. A new partnership between Tesco and packaging manufacturer Berry Global is now recycling soft plastic collected from customers at Tesco stores. There it is washed, scrubbed and dried, during which processes any unwanted items are removed.

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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. Above the critical point of 374.5

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JANUARY 28, 2022

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

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 4, 2021

5 sustainable packaging developments to watch in 2021. For companies with sustainable packaging goals, 2025 is fast approaching. That’s the year when many have pledged to become zero waste, or to use 100 percent reusable, recyclable or compostable packaging. Loop isn’t the only reusable packaging platform seeing strong growth.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 15, 2020

A 20/20 view of sustainable packaging. Sustainable packaging is a keystone issue for corporate sustainability. 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. . Cheryl Baldwin.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 29, 2021

This acquisition could help make sustainable packaging the norm . Petersburg, Florida, a manufacturing giant is strategizing on design, development and packaging services for the likes of Apple, Cisco Systems and HP Inc. Deonna Anderson. Fri, 01/29/2021 - 00:30. Across the U.S. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2024

Domestic recycling of aluminium packaging has remained static over the 2015-2022 period, while waste exports grew rapidly. Product manufacturers’ use of packaging materials has decreased since 2019, says a new report from environmental compliance scheme Valpak. Paper and card packaging recycling targets have flat-lined.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2024

Sona Dadhania, Senior Technology Analyst at market intelligence firm IDTechEx looks at where PFAS has been used in food packaging, recent legislation mandating its removal, and alternative materials being explored.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2023

A major international collaboration to provide independent, scientific data linked to design, sortability and mechanical recyclability of flexible packaging has published its first report – with a focus on Near Infrared (NIR) technology.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 27, 2024

The US Plastics Pact has released its Design for Circularity Playbooks , described as essential reports designed to guide the lifecycle of plastics in the US. By bringing together diverse stakeholders, the group aims to drive systemic change across the plastics value chain.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 13, 2020

Reusable packaging provides untapped payoffs for business. If not, you were probably born during the plastics-era, which began about 50 years ago. Until the 1980s, glass or cotton bags were the go-to packaging materials for many products, such as milk and flour. Today, plastic has taken over. Joana Kleine Jäger.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 17, 2023

Plastics Pact and Walmart announced the winners of the first Sustainable Packaging Innovation Award, showing exciting innovations in the areas of recyclability, compostability, refill and reuse. At VERGE 2022, the U.S.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 27, 2022

A three-year £10 million large-scale demonstrator project focused on the capture, recovery and recycling of plastic packaging currently lost to landfill and incineration is being led by resource recovery expert Fiberight. Flexible plastics waste sorted by the process.

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GreenBiz

MAY 28, 2024

The company will publish a 70-page guide in June detailing how it redesigned its boxes, coatings, enclosures and labels.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

UK biotech company Toraphene says it is preparing to unveil the world’s first truly biodegradable, compostable and commercially viable alternative to plastic packaging. And so it is being presented as the first commercially viable alternative to plastics. Such plastics make up 23 percent of marine waste.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 6, 2023

Technology and recycling equipment firm TOMRA has signed a majority ownership agreement with Plastretur, the Norwegian Producer Responsibility Organisation for recycling plastic packaging. The companies will pair up to create a plastic packaging sorting plant located in Norway. Amland, SVP TOMRA Feedstock.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Plastics Pact launches new initiative to redesign the plastics value chain at Circularity 20. 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. Plastics Pact. Holly Secon. Of course, the U.S.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 8, 2024

Sustainable packaging provider DS Smith has introduced a service for businesses to evaluate the recyclability levels of their packaging (“the first integrated paper, packaging, and recycling company to do so.”). Notes [1] DS Smith ‘Now & Next’ target of replacing one billion pieces of plastic by 2025.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2022

Baled plastic bottles (image credit: Burke Museum , CC BY-NC 2.0 The Recycling Association has produced guidance on the issuance of Packaging Export Recovery Notes (PERNs) for plastics. This document helps members interpret the regulations for the 2022 accreditation year. Significant numbers of PERNs were cancelled as a result.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2021

With less than a year to go until the Plastic Packaging Tax is introduced in the UK, a study by Veolia appears to show that 83% of businesses asked were NOT aware of the tax. The Plastic Packaging Tax is Government policy aiming to directly increase plastic recycling in the UK and cut carbon emissions.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Although the global economy is increasingly wrapped in plastic, companies of all sizes are dramatically reducing their use of it.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

The plastics recycling member-based charity RECOUP has published its 2021 UK Household Plastics Collection Survey , which analyses the collection of plastics for recycling from Local Authorities. The 2021 Survey estimated that 584,000 tonnes of household plastic packaging was collected for recycling in 2020.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 26, 2022

It will impose new sustainability requirements on all businesses manufacturing single-use packaging or plastic single-use service ware.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A class of chemicals commonly used in plastic food containers and cosmetic products may have caused about 10 percent of the United States’ preterm births in 2018, according to a study from environmental health experts at New York University. Phthalate exposure is just one way the plastics industry externalizes harms.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

US Plastics Pact 101. Plastics Pact and how are its signatories advancing a circular economy for plastics? Plastics Pact brings together businesses, government entities, NGOs, researchers, and other collaborators as part of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s network of Plastics Pacts around the world.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 12, 2024

The survey was conducted by Sapio Research, on behalf of Celebration Packaging. Our survey has found that the vast majority of consumers (80%) are not familiar with forever chemicals and the term PFAS,” says Celebration Packaging Managing Director Nick Burton.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 13, 2022

The Recycling Association’s chief executive Simon Ellin has warned that the people behind the Big Plastic Count (an event co-organised by Greenpeace) were “irresponsible” for recent comments saying plastic recycling doesn’t work and for sowing seeds of doubt in the public mind.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 23, 2022

Plastics recycling charity RECOUP has called on packaging designers and specifiers not to forget the basics when it comes to plastic packaging recyclability. Although current trends may seek to explore new innovations in packaging, often the fundamentals for designing for recyclability are forgotten.

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GreenBiz

JULY 25, 2022

Corporations want to increase recycled plastic content in packaging and products but can't get enough of it. These three companies are making moves to help address this need.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

Greenback Recycling Technologies , a company striving to develop circular solutions for packaging waste, has closed an approximately £8m series A financing round. The firm says it is building a globally distributed, decentralised network of advanced recycling plants near the sources of plastic waste.

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GreenBiz

MAY 18, 2020

Reusable packaging in the time of COVID-19. Reusable packaging is faced with proving its trustworthiness alongside disposables in a world that is standing six feet apart in the grocery aisle. Disposable packages are painted as sterile, while durables are tainted with suspicion. Mon, 05/18/2020 - 01:00. Take the dentist.

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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

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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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 31, 2022

Nine brand-owners, an independent test & research centre and two universities will bring expertise over 2 years to develop and test an artificial intelligence (AI) decision model 1 that could help with the separating of packages that are currently not properly sorted such as food and non-food packaging.

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