GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Paper, plastic or neither? Replacing the single-use shopping bag may be one of the most complex sustainability challenges of our time. Having different perspectives, different people with different backgrounds … that’s where you get true innovation," said Jane Ewing, senior vice president of sustainability at Walmart.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 18, 2022

What would need to happen for plastic building products to be considered truly sustainable?

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 29, 2021

This acquisition could help make sustainable packaging the norm . With consumers demanding better from companies and consumer packaged goods companies setting sustainable packaging goals tied to 2025 , it seems the right time for this partnership, according to Ecologic Brands founder Julie Corbett. Deonna Anderson. Across the U.S.

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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. But COVID-19 has thrown a wrench in those plans, with single-use packaging skyrocketing, low fossil fuel prices and disrupted recycling systems, already weakened by China’s 2018 plastics waste ban. .

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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

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The top 2020 trends in sustainability, according to GreenBiz readers. At GreenBiz, we’ve been reporting on the world of sustainable business for over two decades, but this year has been unlike any other. We named eight of the biggest players in the space so sustainability professionals know what and who to watch out for.

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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. The company launched its Now & Next Sustainability strategy in 2020.

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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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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

An idea for solving the plastics crisis. A major problem with behavior-change programs in the waste industry is that they rely on consumers being taught to feel the guilt of plastic in the ocean, and the harm to turtles and whales. percent of America’s plastic waste is actually recycled. Sara Kingman. Tue, 09/15/2020 - 01:30.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 1, 2021

Walgreens Boots Alliance exec talks plastic, packaging and COVID-19. With all of that in mind, how do you set your sustainability goals, and how these entities work together, if they do at all, to achieve your goals? Anderson: I wanted to talk through some of WBA’s sustainability ambitions. Deonna Anderson.

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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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GreenBiz

JUNE 1, 2020

Is sustainability undergoing a pandemic pause? If you were to believe the mainstream business media, there would be no question whatsoever that the twin crises of a pandemic and a recession have pretty much put the kibosh on sustainable business activity. The reality is that corporate sustainability is alive and well.

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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. A clean-up organised by Parley (photo credit: ParleyfortheOceans).

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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

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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GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2021

Ecosystems for good: How collaborator networks achieve sustainability. Case in point: sustainability. Digital ecosystems and the orchestration of large value networks are emerging as our only real chance to reach the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Golnar Pooya. Tue, 07/06/2021 - 02:00. Shockingly, 2.2

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021. These 20 C-suite executives have steered their companies forward through much disruption, providing inspiration for the possibilities of advancing sustainability, social responsibility and circular business models — sometimes all at once. Elsa Wenzel. Mon, 01/11/2021 - 02:15.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Gillette plans to shave use of virgin plastics by 50% by 2030. Personal care products brand Gillette, known for its razors, set out to become a more sustainable company one decade again. On Monday, Gillette announced its 2030 goals to uplevel its sustainability ambitions. Reduce absolute virgin plastic by 50 percent.

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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.". "We Deonna Anderson. Fri, 07/24/2020 - 01:15.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 24, 2020

The rise (and rise) of sustainability-linked finance. One silver lining of this horrific moment is the rise of loans, bonds and other financial instruments linked to sustainability outcomes. In this sense, "sustainability" is broadly defined to include environmental issues as well as social ones. Joel Makower.

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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. Jesse Klein. Thu, 08/27/2020 - 01:45. So far, most big companies seem to be standing by their pledges.

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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

DECEMBER 29, 2020

The sustainability year 2020 in review, in haiku. At Circularity, Plastics gets Serious. aiming to contain plastics’. Sustainability. Sue Lebeck. Tue, 12/29/2020 - 01:00. Editor's note: Back by popular demand, smart cities consultant Sue Lebeck provides GreenBiz highlights from the past year in verse. Leaders gather for.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 27, 2025

Members of the new Sustainable PLFs 2040 initiative will collaborate to revolutionise the way PLFs are made, used and disposed of by 2040. Under the new formal structure of the Sustainable PLFs 2040 initiative, a foresight and coordination group will be responsible for overseeing delivery against a roadmap previously published by the RSC.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

How BASF’s reciChain aims to improve traceability of recycled plastics. The vision for BASF’s reciChain project is to take circularity into the real world by increasing traceability of recycled plastics. The company created a plastic additive that enables the traceability. View archived videos from the conference here.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 17, 2020

There are obvious steps to reduce environmental impact such as getting rid of single-use plastics or curtailing excess packaging. But retailers could also optimize back-end operations to reduce their environmental impact by using data to match customer purchasing habits with merchandise and inventory.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 18, 2025

Key Production Group , said to be Europes leading bespoke physical music and packaging manufacturing broker, has announced the full rollout of its Key Production Recycling scheme, which the group says provides a responsible and sustainable recycling option for vinyl and CDs that are no longer playable.

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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

JULY 20, 2020

How a Blue New Deal charts a course for a sustainable sea change. When we talk about the blue economy, we're talking about sectors that are sustainable and that maintain the health of the ocean that support our economies and communities, both human and wild," said Helvarg. Joel Makower. Mon, 07/20/2020 - 02:11.

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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

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Going plastic neutral: Footprints, credits and offsets. What does it mean for companies to go "plastic neutral" and what will it take to scale, track and standardize effective plastic-offsetting infrastructure? But what about going “plastic neutral”? But what about going “plastic neutral”?

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

How 12 Emerging Leaders are embarking on sustainability career journeys. In early February, more than 1,200 sustainability professionals gathered online for GreenBiz 21. From marketing to engineering, the GreenBiz 21 Emerging Leaders represent a variety of professions in the sustainability field. Deonna Anderson. Natalie Gray.

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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. How companies can apply a full value-chain approach to their sustainability strategies.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Notably, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development released the Circular Transition Indicators and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation launched the Circulytics tool; GRI established a new standard on waste ; and the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute released the fourth version of its product standard. Subscribe here.

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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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