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

APRIL 7, 2025

A new project in Germany demonstrates an innovative method for turning plastic packaging waste into high-quality 3D-printed products Of the 5.6 million metric tons of plastic packaging that ends up in household waste in Germany every year, after being used just once, less than a third of it can be recycled. percent.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

RECOUP has updated its Recyclability by Design (RBD) publication, bringing things up to date with emerging requirements, and at a critical time for packaging recyclability with the impending increase of compliance costs associated with Extended Producer Responsibility.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 2, 2025

The winners of the Plastics Recycling Awards Europe – this year in their 8th run -were announced on 2 April at the Plastics Recycling Show Europe in Amsterdam. Speaking at the awards ceremony, Karen Laird,Editor in Chief of Sustainable Plastics and jury chair of the Awards said, We congratulate all finalists.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The Wild West of plastic credits and offsets. There’s a new kid on the block of sustainability claims being made by businesses: "plastic neutrality." Thanks to the rise in plastics pledges, an emerging and undefined market for plastic offsets is just beginning to take shape. Lauren Phipps. Mon, 02/08/2021 - 01:30.

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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

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The UK Plastic Packaging tax places a £200 per tonne levy on plastic packaging with less than 30% recycled content. The UK Plastic Packaging tax places a £200 per tonne levy on plastic packaging with less than 30% recycled content. million tonnes of plastic packaging waste.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Plastic resource efficiency and recycling charity RECOUP estimates that 750,000 tonnes of post-consumer plastic packaging is not currently collected for recycling, in its new UK Household Plastic Packaging Collection Survey report. Tom continues: “What is now important, is it is not allowed to stagnate.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Plastic packaging use and plastic packaging collection quantities have dropped for the first time in RECOUP’s annual UK Household Plastic Packaging Collection Survey. The UK’s overall recycling rate for plastic packaging from household and commercial sources is 52%.

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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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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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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Single-use plastic bans are showing up across the nation. But compostable plates and forks may not solve the plastic crisis.

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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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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 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

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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GreenBiz

MAY 1, 2020

Companies and governments are working to minimize environmental harm of plastic packaging and products, but they face a nuanced reality.

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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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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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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

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

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Supporting Business in the Race to Create the World’s Most Sustainable Package. Fossil-based plastic production is still growing exponentially. Only 9% of all plastic is recycled and it can take hundreds of years to degrade. The safety and performance of plant-based packaging materials. Topics include: .

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Gillette plans to shave use of virgin plastics by 50% by 2030. Reduce absolute virgin plastic by 50 percent. Use 100 percent recyclable packaging. Canada, UK, Australia and New Zealand, which allowed its customers to recycle any brand of used razor handle or blade along with its packaging. . Deonna Anderson.

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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. What we’ve seen as a packaging company is it’s not really an either/or," she said. Jesse Klein. Thu, 08/27/2020 - 01:45.

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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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TechXplore

DECEMBER 14, 2023

But all that packaging generates lots of waste, including cardboard boxes and plastic-based foam cushioning, such as Styrofoam. Their upcycled material was stronger and more insulating than traditional, plastic foam-based cushioning.

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GreenBiz

MAY 5, 2020

Two ways P&G is working toward its packaging goals. 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. Deonna Anderson.

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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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GreenBiz

JANUARY 28, 2021

Numerous companies have set 100 percent recyclable, reusable or compostable packaging goals such as Colgate-Palmolive and Kellogg. Virtually all these companies, though, are not tracking whether their packaging is actually recycled and what new products their packaging becomes. These questions are harder to answer.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 6, 2020

The initial headline-grabbing pledges to phase out single use plastic may have become old news, but the new normal is seeing hundreds of companies quietly advance their plastic reduction strategies.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

A new report from advocacy group The Changing Markets Foundation appears to reveal how, behind a veil of nice-sounding initiatives and commitments to address the plastics crisis – the plastics industry, consumer brands and retailers have obstructed and undermined proven legislative solutions to the crisis for decades.

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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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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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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Despite some setbacks posed by the pandemic (including misinformation about the safety of reusables peddled by industry lobbying groups), the transition from single-use to reusable packaging is building real momentum. It’s (still) all about plastic. While source reduction continues to be the No. Subscribe here. Circular Economy.

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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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