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The war on plastics, 2022: A change of climate

GreenBiz

JANUARY 10, 2022

The climate crisis represents a new front on the war on plastics. Are you ready?

Plastics

The U.S. Plastics Pact launches new initiative to redesign the plastics value chain at Circularity 20

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.

Plastics

Plastics Recycling Recycling Waste

Amazon eliminates 15 billion plastic ‘air pillows’ from delivery boxes

GreenBiz

JUNE 20, 2024

The retailer’s latest step to remove single-use plastic across its North American distribution network.

Plastics

Plastic to-go containers are bad, but the alternatives might not be much better

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.

Plastics

Plastics Packaging Waste Waste

Electrofuels Are the Future: The Driving Force to Decarbonizing Heavy Transport

Speaker: Ayesha Choudhury - Senior Vice President, Head of Capital Markets at Infinium

Not only that, but eFuels can also replace petroleum as a key component in the creation of chemicals and plastic solvents. Electrofuels (aka eFuels) are the next generation of solutions to help the hardest-to-abate sectors pivot from their reliance on fossil fuels.

Transportation

The US is a plastic mismanagement leader

GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

One of the world's biggest contributors to the plastic crisis has yet to pass meaningful federal regulation on plastic pollution, but a new bill may change that.

Plastics

Plastics Pollution

ExxonMobil’s $10 billion plan to boost plastics production in China

GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

disregards China’s plans to increase plastics production. A new climate agreement with the U.S.

Plastics

Study indicates marine plastic pollution as a breeding ground for disease-causing bacteria

Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2025

Microplastics (plastic particles under 5mm) are a widespread environmental pollutant, with more than 120trillion estimated to have accumulated in the global ocean. Upon entering the environment, microplastics are rapidly colonized by diverse microbial communities, forming what is known as the Plastisphere.

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Why plastics are also a climate issue

GreenBiz

MARCH 25, 2020

We can’t tackle one successfully without tackling the other, as many of the reasons for and solutions to the growing plastic and climate problems are the same.

Plastics

Plastics Waste Waste Recycling

Why CDP introduced plastic reporting

GreenBiz

MAY 16, 2023

CDP expands disclosure platform to include plastic reporting, setting up the plastic credit market for more legitimacy.

Plastics

Using sunlight to recycle black plastics

Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Now, a US group has shown that the use of an additive in black plastics can allow sunlight or white LEDs to break down black and colored polystyrene waste into reusable materials. An emerging strategy for plastic recycling involves using light to help break down plastic into chemically useful materials that can be recycled into new products.

Recycling

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Pact including Coca-Cola, Nestlé moves 2025 plastic reduction goals to 2030

GreenBiz

JUNE 13, 2024

Plastics Pact, according to the group. The absence of federal standards is hindering the progress of the U.S.

Plastics

Most companies are fumbling their 2025 plastic waste targets

GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The world is off track to tackle plastic pollution. Here's what business must do now, according to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.

Plastics

Plastics Waste Waste Pollution

‘Zero draft’ lends shape to global plastics treaty

GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

NGOs are cautiously optimistic about the draft document for a global plastics treaty, which will be used during the third set of negotiations scheduled for mid-November.

Plastics

Why it matters that New York state is suing PepsiCo over single-use plastic

GreenBiz

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The state alleges PepsiCo misled the public about the damage caused by single-use plastics.

Plastics

PepsiCo doubles down on reducing virgin plastic

GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The food and beverage company is bringing all of its water, agriculture and new plastic commitments under an umbrella plan called pep+.

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Plastics Agriculture

Paper, plastic or neither? Inside the collaboration to reinvent the shopping bag

GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Paper, plastic or neither? Amidst their hopeful tone, the panelists underscored that the road to plastic-free shopping will be long and complex. Inside the collaboration to reinvent the shopping bag. Tali Zuckerman. Wed, 09/02/2020 - 01:45. These issues aren’t one-time, short-term solutions," Boone put simply. How much time? "Now,

Plastics

Plastics Retail Innovation Education

How much will we sacrifice for plastics?

GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Cancer Alley, an 85-mile stretch along the Mississippi River in Louisiana, is home to over 200 plastic and petrochemical plants — and some of the most polluted air in the U.S.

Plastics

Plastics Pollution

Financing the end of plastic pollution

GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Sponsored: The Global Plastics Treaty must include a financing plan that supports the countries most impacted by plastic pollution and least equipped to deal with it.

Plastics

Plastics Pollution

How global plastic policies could slash virgin plastic production by 30 percent by 2040

GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

A new report highlights 15 policies that could drive a major decrease in plastic use around the world — but will governments adopt them as part of a new global plastics treaty?

Plastics

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Inside Amazon’s push to switch from plastic to paper mailers

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.

Plastics

Plastics Packaging

Walgreens Boots Alliance exec talks plastic, packaging and COVID-19

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.

Packaging

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Plastic supercapacitors could solve energy storage problems

TechXplore

JANUARY 21, 2025

Plastics have shaped our modern world and changed the way we live. But in the 1970s, scientists accidentally discovered that some plastics can also conduct electricity. For decades, they have been primarily used in electronics for their excellent insulating properties.

Plastics

Plastics Energy Energy Electricity

Business should take these 3 actions to bolster the global plastics treaty

GreenBiz

MAY 10, 2024

Fresh from the treaty talks in Ottawa, two new reports outline a path forward in the fight against plastic pollution.

Plastics

Plastics Pollution

Circularity: Innovative Solutions to Address the Plastic Challenge

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.

Plastics

Plastics Innovation Packaging Recycling

Plastic crystals could replace greenhouse gases used in refrigerators

TechXplore

JANUARY 3, 2025

A team of chemical engineers at Deakin University, working with colleagues from the University of Western Australia, the University of Sydney and Monash University, all in Australia, has found that a type of plastic crystal can be used as a refrigerant, possibly replacing the greenhouse gas currently used in most refrigerators.

Plastics

Plastics Energy Energy

How a global treaty could solve the plastic waste crisis

GreenBiz

MAY 22, 2023

Can plastics achieve par with climate and biodiversity as critical issues worthy of a global treaty? We’re about to find out.

Plastics

Plastics Waste Waste Biodiversity

Achieving Plastics Circularity: Technology and Partnerships to Close the Loop

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.

Plastics

Plastics Technology Recycling Recycling

6 ways to tackle the damage plastics are doing

GreenBiz

JUNE 14, 2024

Emissions from plastic are on the verge of exceeding those from cars — yet companies often don’t include plastic in their net-zero strategies. At Circularity 24, a panel of experts gave advice on how to reduce corporate dependency on plastic waste.

Plastics

Plastics Waste Waste

Seafood product replaces plastic pallets with fibre-based solution

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

Seafood

Seafood Plastics Packaging Sustainability

Views on single-use plastic waste vary based on concern about health impacts, survey finds

GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2024

Public opinion on single-use plastics has decreased in some countries while remaining high in others, according to a GlobeScan survey.

Plastics

Plastics Health Waste Waste

Walmart replaces plastic e-commerce envelopes with recyclable paper

GreenBiz

MARCH 20, 2024

The switch eliminated more than 2,000 tons of plastic during the retailer’s last fiscal year.

Plastics

Plastics Recycling Recycling

The Great Lakes are awash in plastic. Can robots and drones help?

GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

These remote-control devices raise the profile about the growing problem of plastics in the lakes that provide one-fifth of the world's freshwater.

Plastics

This California law changes things for plastics in the state

GreenBiz

AUGUST 26, 2022

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

Plastics

Plastics Law Packaging Sustainability

As plastics pile up, can 'advanced' recycling cut the waste?

GreenBiz

JUNE 30, 2023

Proponents of pyrolysis — including oil and gas companies — contend it will reduce plastic pollution. But critics say it will only perpetuate a dependence on fossil fuels.

Plastics

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Beating food waste needs plastic — the question is where and when

GreenBiz

MARCH 10, 2022

Plastic, while bad for the environment, is an important tool in the fight against food waste. How do we balance those pros and cons?

Plastics

Plastics Waste Waste

Closed Loop Partners teams with Walmart, CVS, Target to take on the plastic bag

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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Preserving the Value of Our Ocean by Preventing Plastic Waste

GreenBiz

MARCH 22, 2022

This panel will highlight the challenges and opportunities for the GreenBiz community to engage in the fight against plastic pollution and further the circular economy. What does it take to build global projects through partnerships with investors, businesses and nonprofits?

Plastics

Plastics Waste Waste Pollution

The case for exploring jute as an alternative to plastic

GreenBiz

APRIL 10, 2020

For starters, it's a material that is readily available, biodegradable and affordable.

Biodegradable

Biodegradable Plastics

Will 2025 plastic packaging commitments ring hollow?

GreenBiz

MARCH 10, 2023

In 2025, there will be media and consumer outrage around all the failed commitments related to eliminating virgin plastic packaging and increasing the use of recycled material.

Packaging

Packaging Plastics Recycled materials Recycling

Chemicals could undercut a global plastics treaty

Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Plastics are complex materials. A recent study has identified more than 10,000 chemical substances that may have been used in plastic production, resulting in plastics that may contain a wide range of chemical substances. Chemical diversity as a problem to solve plastic pollution.

Plastics

Plastics Pollution Waste Waste

Failure is an option: We already know the outcome of global plastic waste negotiations

GreenBiz

JUNE 3, 2024

meeting in November will likely fail to produce a binding international treaty that will reverse the growing trend of plastic pollution. Delegates at the final U.N.

Plastics

Plastics Waste Waste Pollution

New technologies enable a colorful future for circularity of PET plastic

GreenBiz

JULY 9, 2024

New technologies and end markets are expanding the supply of recycled PET, expanding circularity for one of the most widely recycled plastics. Sponsored: Colored and opaque PET is a valuable recyclable material with significant benefits for brands.

Plastics

Plastics Recycled materials Technology Recycling

The plastics conversation is stagnant. These 3 actions can change that

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Even in Amsterdam, a gathering of plastics industry leaders was mired in jargon and toothless goals. Here’s what will get us unstuck.

Plastics

The war on plastics, 2022: A change of climate

The U.S. Plastics Pact launches new initiative to redesign the plastics value chain at Circularity 20

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Amazon eliminates 15 billion plastic ‘air pillows’ from delivery boxes

Plastic to-go containers are bad, but the alternatives might not be much better

Electrofuels Are the Future: The Driving Force to Decarbonizing Heavy Transport

The US is a plastic mismanagement leader

ExxonMobil’s $10 billion plan to boost plastics production in China

Study indicates marine plastic pollution as a breeding ground for disease-causing bacteria

Why plastics are also a climate issue

Why CDP introduced plastic reporting

Using sunlight to recycle black plastics

Pact including Coca-Cola, Nestlé moves 2025 plastic reduction goals to 2030

Most companies are fumbling their 2025 plastic waste targets

‘Zero draft’ lends shape to global plastics treaty

Why it matters that New York state is suing PepsiCo over single-use plastic

PepsiCo doubles down on reducing virgin plastic

Paper, plastic or neither? Inside the collaboration to reinvent the shopping bag

How much will we sacrifice for plastics?

Financing the end of plastic pollution

How global plastic policies could slash virgin plastic production by 30 percent by 2040

Inside Amazon’s push to switch from plastic to paper mailers

Walgreens Boots Alliance exec talks plastic, packaging and COVID-19

Plastic supercapacitors could solve energy storage problems

Business should take these 3 actions to bolster the global plastics treaty

Circularity: Innovative Solutions to Address the Plastic Challenge

Plastic crystals could replace greenhouse gases used in refrigerators

How a global treaty could solve the plastic waste crisis

Achieving Plastics Circularity: Technology and Partnerships to Close the Loop

6 ways to tackle the damage plastics are doing

Seafood product replaces plastic pallets with fibre-based solution

Views on single-use plastic waste vary based on concern about health impacts, survey finds

Walmart replaces plastic e-commerce envelopes with recyclable paper

The Great Lakes are awash in plastic. Can robots and drones help?

This California law changes things for plastics in the state

As plastics pile up, can 'advanced' recycling cut the waste?

Beating food waste needs plastic — the question is where and when

Closed Loop Partners teams with Walmart, CVS, Target to take on the plastic bag

Preserving the Value of Our Ocean by Preventing Plastic Waste

The case for exploring jute as an alternative to plastic

Will 2025 plastic packaging commitments ring hollow?

Chemicals could undercut a global plastics treaty

Failure is an option: We already know the outcome of global plastic waste negotiations

New technologies enable a colorful future for circularity of PET plastic

The plastics conversation is stagnant. These 3 actions can change that

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