10,000 TPA PET Recycling Plant Receives £2.6m Government Funding 2020-10-16 11:42:22 UKRI Grant for Poseidon Plastics’ Chemical Recycling Plant for PET in Teesside Redcar, UK based Poseidon Plastics has been awarded a £2.6 million grant from UK Research and Innovation, the national science and research funding agency, as part of its Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging challenge. read more ...
Charter Aims to Help Create a Circular Economy for Plastics Through Reuse, Reduction & Recycling 2020-08-27 16:27:18 Plastic Oceans Joins Oceans Plastics Charter to Reduce Waste Plastics in the Oceans Plastic Oceans International (POI), a non-profit organisation dedicated to raising awareness about plastic pollution, has joined the Ocean Plastics Charter (the Charter), a global pact that offers a five-part plan to reduce plastic pollution in marine environments worldwide. read more ...
Collaboration to Spearhead Technology to Enhance the Circularity of Plastics 2020-08-27 16:15:18 Packaging Firm Sealed Air Invests in Advanced Recycling Company Plastic Energy Charlotte, North Carolina based packaging firm, Sealed Air Corporation (NYSE: SEE) has signed a collaboration agreement with advanced plastic recycling technology firm, Plastic Energy’s parent company, Plastic Energy Global. read more ...
Mankind Consuming 1.6 Earth’s Worth of Resources Annually 2020-08-21 13:20:14 TOMRA: Earth Overshoot Day Must Be Tackled with a Plan, Not a Pandemic As the Earth’s population approaches 8 billion, and demand for energy, materials, land and food continuing to grow at an alarming rate, humanity requires would require 1.6 planets to meet its current demand for natural resources. read more ...
Broadly Similar Package to the EU Circular Economy 2020-07-31 11:57:40 UK Government Outlines Circular Economy Package to Boost Recycling & Sustainability With the end of the transition period for Brexit looming ever closer, the UK government has outlined plans for its own Circular Economy Package (CEP). read more ...
CEWEP’s Dr Ella Stengler and Agné Razgaityté on the Implications of the Green Deal on WtE 2020-07-03 16:00:12 IN DEPTH: Waste to Energy & The European Green Deal In order to deal with our waste here in Europe in an environmentally sound way, appropriate capacity for both recycling and for treating residual waste must be made available. EWEP’s Dr Ella Stengler and Agné Razgaityté explore the implications of Green Deal on realising this. read more ... Need for Sustainable Recovery from COVID-19 2020-06-25 16:06:32 Three Events Lined Up as Finland, Canada and the Netherlands Join Forces on the Circular Economy Led by the Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra, Finland has joined forces with Canada and the Netherlands to host three high-level events to address the important role circularity plays in the economies of the future, as well as in the fight against climate change and the nature crisis. read more ... Waste & Recycling as an Example of Green Economic Growth 2020-05-29 14:14:55 BLOG: Creating Economic Wealth from Emissions Reduction – A Case Study of Recycling MRA Consulting’s Mike Ritchie explains why he doesn’t buy the argument that reducing emissions means destroying jobs and the economy. Instead, it means growing jobs and economic wealth in different parts of the economy. read more ... New Initiative to Keep Hard to Recycle Pumps, Caps & Tubes Out of Landfill 2020-05-22 11:08:14 Baylis & Harding Pumps Up its Sustainability with TerraCycle Recycling Programme for Consumers Baylis & Harding, a maker of luxury bath and body products, has teamed-up with specialist recycling firm, TerraCycle, on a new initiative to offer consumers a sustainable solution to recycling for all Baylis & Harding product packaging. read more ... Plastics Converters Call for Focus on Returning Economy & Society to Normality 2020-04-23 11:12:49 VIDEO: EuPC Urge Delay on Single-Use Plastics Directive Until Pandemic Eases With the pandemic wreaking havoc across Europe, not only on national economies but also on societies, communities, EuPC, the EU-level trade association of European plastics converters, is calling for the Single-Use Plastics Directive to be postponed until the situation normalises. read more ... Closed-Loop Solution for Difficult to Recycled Multi-Layer Plastic Films 2020-04-03 12:19:47 Multi-Layer Film Recycling Process from Coperion Avoids Production Waste Stuttgart based plastics manufacturing, processing, handling and recycling equipment manufacturer, Coperion GmbH, is implementing a closed-loop concept for the production of flexible multi-layer film. read more ... Face Masks Made from Manufacturing Offcuts 2020-03-23 10:22:47 COMMENT: Reusable Coronavirus Masks from Ballo Fashion Supplies of facemasks are dwindling and the items themselves are disposable. While their effectiveness at preventing the contraction of the virus is questionable at best, the may prevent carriers from spreading it so easily. Alistair Barnes from Ballo Fashion saw an opportunity... read more ...
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