Category: Self-Regulation & Commitments
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Corona Goes Net Zero Plastic Footprint
Corona becomes first global beverage brand to achieve a net zero plastic footprint globally
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French Government Launches ESG Platform
The Government is setting up a platform to allow companies to publish, in full transparency, their environmental, social and good governance (ESG) data
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AB Inbev Develops Worlds Lightest Glass Bottle
’Game changing’ glass innovation will help considerably reduce CO2 emissions
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Coca Cola Partners with The Ocean Cleanup
The Ocean Cleanup And The Coca-Cola Company Announce Partnership
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KFC Goes Home Compostable Packaging
KFC Canada announces 100% home compostable consumer packaging by 2025
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Amazon Shareholders Discuss Plastic
Amazon shareholders to discuss retailer’s plastic footprint
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Graham Packaging Sourcing Team Discuss ESG
One of the reasons we earned the top ESG rating in our sub-industry was thanks to our dedication throughout our supply chain to sourcing sustainable and ethical material. Watch as our procurement team explains the ways we are continuing to work to preserve our planet
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Scrap Recycling Industry Position on Environmental Justice
These scrap recyclers industries often pollute soil and waterways with heavy metals
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ASDA Plastic Free Beyond Packaging
We have been working hard to remove plastic from across the business…but it doesn’t just stop at our packaging
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New Global Voluntary Carbon Exchange and Marketplace
DBS, SGX, Standard Chartered and Temasek to take climate action through global carbon exchange and marketplace
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HelloFresh Ocean Plastic CSR
HelloFresh stops 37,5 million plastic bottles from entering the ocean
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News from Plastic Land (FREE)
I was doing my shopping when I realised that more plastic packaging had been removed from the supermarket shelves.
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Tesco Removes Plastic Packaging for Beer and Cider
Tesco has become the first major retailer to scrap soft plastic rings and shrink wrap packaging from all beers and ciders in its UK stores
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Perstorp Emission Reduction Target
Perstorp to set science-based emission reduction targets in line with Paris Climate Agreement
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EU Chemical Industry Statement on Sustainable Strategy (FREE)
Joint Statement On The 1st Meeting Of The High-Level Roundtable On The Implementation Of The Chemicals Strategy For Sustainability.
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Mattel Launches TakeBack Program
Mattel Launches New Toy Takeback Program Called Mattel PlayBack
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Burger King Green Packaging Pilot Program
BK Tests Alternatives for Cutlery, Straws, Drink Lids, Frypods, Whopper Wrappers and Napkins and Expands Loop Reusables Test in Partnership with The Coca-Cola Company and Kraft Heinz
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Dupont Shareholders and Management Disagree on Plastic Pellet
The current Dupont management is probably not the most sustainable team ever put together in the history of mankind
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Old Spice Goes All-Paper Plastic-Free Packaging (FREE)
Old Spice And Secret Become First Major Brands To Introduce All-Paper, Plastic-Free Deodorant Packaging.
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Milliken Sustainability Report
Global manufacturer Milliken & Company today released its third annual corporate sustainability report, entitled Together for Tomorrow.
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Starbucks to End Disposable Cups in South Korea
Starbucks to End Disposable Cup Use in South Korea by 2025
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Beiersdorf Goes Renewable Plastic Packaging Globally
Beiersdorf launches first packaging made from certified, renewable plastics
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Waitrose Removes PLA Packaging
Waitrose removed all PLA packaging from its own products
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French Law on Plastic Pellets Loss
The New French Decree on Plastic Pellet Loss was published
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Johnnie Walker Goes Sustainability Push
Johnnie Walker Keeps Walking as It Launches Its Biggest Ever Sustainability Push
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Tesco To Stop Plastic Bags for Click and Collect
Tesco issues new ban affecting every person who shops online
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New Seasons Market Stops Single Use Water Bottles
New Seasons Market to Eliminate Single-Use Bottles of Water by Earth Day
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Aldi Replaces Plastic Straws Paper
Across Aldi’s own-label Juice Cartons and Real Fruit Kids Smoothies
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P&G Joins the Recyclass Initiative
P&G and Its Brands, Like Pantene, Gillette, Ariel, Fairy and Oral B Are Reducing Virgin Plastic by Design and Enable Circularity at Scale
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Tetra Pak Actions for Reduced Littering and Sustainable Future
Tetra Pak today announces it is ready to deploy its portfolio of tethered cap solutions
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ASDA Goes Reusable Fruit and Veg Bags
Asda removes more than 100m pieces of single use plastic from its stores
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Time to Transform Initiative by WBCSD
Time to Transform – Leading multinational companies set urgent action agenda for all people to live well, within planetary boundaries
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Unilever Invests in Closed Loop Partners
Unilever North America Investment Will Recover More than Half of its Plastic Packaging Footprint
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Corona Beer Goes Barley Multipack
Corona Reinvents Sustainable Packaging by Launching Beer Pack Made Using Barley
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Formula One Bans SUP Bottles
F1 to eliminate single-use plastic bottles for staff in 2021
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PolyRec is New EU Plastics Circularity Consortium
PolyREC Created to Report on Europe’s Plastics Circularity
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Tesco Starts Recycling Points Networks for Soft Plastic
Tesco to launch UK’s biggest network of recycling points for soft plastic
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New UK Recycling Charter
Producers and councils join forces on ‘public confidence in recycling charter’
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New Clariant Code of Ethics
Clariant’s Code of Ethics “Reflect Ourselves” is laying down our commitments and is intended to be a guide with ethical principles and examples to enable our personnel and associated parties to act with highest standards of integrity
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5 Companies Join Alliance to End Plastic Waste
The Alliance to End Plastic Waste, an international non-profit organisation, welcomes five new members—Amcor plc, Atlantic Packaging Co., Inter Pipeline Ltd, Kirin Holdings and Novacel—bringing its total membership to 57 companies, a group comprising some of the world’s largest organisations in the plastic value chain
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Mondelez Commits To Virgin Plastic Reduction
Company builds on existing 2025 goals with new aim to cut virgin plastic use in rigid plastic packaging by at least 25%
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Hershey Sets Sustainability Targets
Hershey Announces Bold 2030 Goals to Reduce Environmental Footprint and Address Climate Change
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Herman Miller Goes Sustainable Textiles
The textile collection, Revenio, features fabric made entirely of recycled and ocean-bound plastic materials and an industry-leading 100% post-consumer recycled biodegradable polyester
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Greenpeace Supermarket Plastic Ranking
How does your favorite supermarket rank when it comes to reducing the plastic pollution flooding our oceans, waterways, and communities?
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Dow Supports ICT in Ghana (FREE)
Dow supports communication infrastructure connecting 50,000 people in Eastern Ghana. Creation of information and communication facilities to help harness the full potential of development in the region.
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Borealis Invest in Regenerative Thermal Oxidizer (FREE)
Borealis invests EUR 17.6 million to lower CO2 emissions, energy consumption, and flaring at plant in Finland. This is A FREE article
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Paris Agreement Will Not be Reached
The chances are low that Paris Agreement Targets will be reached under current trends
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EU Soft Drinks Industry Circular Packaging Targets
EU beverage packaging aims to be fully circular by 2030 The European soft drinks industry’s Circular Packaging Vision 2030:
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Yves Rocher to Stop Cellophane Plastic Films
Here are Yves Rocher recent plastic commitments
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Shady Plastic Credit and Offset Schemes Report
As more companies and governments make commitments to address plastic pollution, several plastic offset claims and credit schemes have emerged
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Conagra Brands Issues Sustainability and Packaging Commitments
Conagra Brands Issues 2020 Citizenship Report and Sets New Environmental and Diversity Commitments
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Nestle Net Zero Strategy
Nestlé sets climate priorities for Europe, Middle East, and North Africa.
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Unilever Plastic Strategy in Pakistan
Is this an honest initiative or a mega greenwashing attempt from Unilever?
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COOP Removes Plastic from Easter Eggs
Co-Op Cracks Plastic Packaging Solution For Own-Brand Easter Eggs
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Mars Balisto Goes Paper Packaging in Germany
Mars Wrigley’s BALISTO® Chocolate Bar Now in Paper for German Retail
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Coke Goes rPET in US
Coca-Cola Trademark brands (Coke, Diet Coke, Coke Zero Sugar, Coca-Cola Flavors) will debut a 13.2-oz. bottle made from 100% recycled PET (rPET) plastic this month in California, Florida and select states in the Northeast, with other sparkling beverage brands following this summer.
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Henkel Joins Sustainable Label Consortium CELAB
Henkel Adhesive Technologies joins sustainable label consortium CELAB
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Henkel Sustainable Toilet Cleaner Packaging
New packaging for toilet cleaners: less plastic and more recycled material
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When The Biggest Polluters Start to Preach
A letter from Blackrock CEO. Is it sincere or is it a greenwashing attempt to promote self-regulation in order to avoid stringent legislation?
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Delhaize Stops Plastic for Bio Range
The whole assortment of Delhaize organic fruits and vegetables soon without disposable plastic packaging
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Is Green Self Regulation Working?
330+ target-setting firms reduce emissions by a quarter in five years since Paris Agreement
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EU Goes for Green Self-Regulation Instead of Legislation?
Did EU decided to go for industry voluntary initiatives instead of legislation? Isn’t that a cold shower for the environment?
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Mondi Sustainable Action Plan
MAP2030: Global packaging and paper group Mondi launches its sustainable development action plan for the next 10 years
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UK Supermarkets Ranking in Plastic Waste
Too many of the UK’s leading supermarket chains are treading water in the fight against mounting plastic pollution, our latest research reveals
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Waitrose is First in Greenpeace Plastic Ranking
Waitrose ranked first for efforts to reduce plastics in Greenpeace report as it confirms latest plans for refillables test
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Smurfit Kappa Sustainability Targets
Smurfit Kappa sets new sustainability targets with Better Planet 2050
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Heinz Stops Multipack Plastic Packaging
Heinz continues to remove plastic from supermarket shelves with the launch of a convenient & skinny cardboard sleeves on all multipack canned products, the new Heinz Eco-Friendly Sleeve Multipack.
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Big Oil Flagship Plastic Waste Project Turns into Fiasco
What if the plastic waste projects supported by the world biggest oil companies turn into a fiasco?
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Cargill Accused of Being World’s Worse Company
Cargill is the mother company of NatureWorks. Ex US Congressman accuses Cargill of being world’s worse company. Some serious accusations. I almost fell off my chair.
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PepsiCo Climate Goal
PepsiCo Doubles Down on Climate Goal and Pledges Net-Zero Emissions by 2040
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Maersk Partners with The Ocean Cleanup
A.P. Moller- Maersk, The Ocean Cleanup extend relationship with new three-year partnership
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European Plastic Industry Goes for Zero Pellet Loss
Collaboration agreement on first ever European OCS certification scheme signed
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Adidas Goes Sustainable Materials
Adidas: In 2021, For The First Time, More Than 60 Percent Of All Products Will Be Made With Sustainable Materials
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Prince of Wales Launches Terra Carta
As part of the Sustainable Markets Initiative, HRH The Prince of Wales, announces the ‘Terra Carta’
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HSBC Cutting Carbon for Companies
HSBC has led a world-first financing deal that will pay for sectors including utilities and construction to reduce emissions in China and beyond.
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SunChemical Guide to Sustainable Packaging
Sun Chemical Issued a guide on sustainable packaging full of Biobased, plant-based, bio-renewable, biodegradable, comostable, etc.
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Yum China Goes Bioplastics
Yum China Targets 30% Reduction Of Non-degradable Plastic Packaging Weight By 2025
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H&M Says Plastic is Not Needed for Secure Packaging
With online shopping increasing worldwide and with that plastic waste, there is an increased need to find new solutions for more sustainable packaging. Now we introduce a new multi-brand paper packaging system that is reusable and recyclable.
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New Retailer Joins Consortium to Reinvent Retail Bag
Initiative is retailer’s latest effort to lessen its environmental impact — TEAL Innovates PHA Cosmetic Packaging for Beauty and Hotel
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Viet Nam National Plastic Action Partnership
The Viet Nam National Plastic Action Partnership (NPAP) is a collaboration between the Government of Viet Nam, represented by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and the Global Plastic Action Partnership, a multistakeholder platform at the World Economic Forum that translates commitments to reduce plastic pollution and develop a circular economy
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H&M Ocean Plastic Collection
H&M has joined forces with Danone AQUA for the bottle2fashion project, which transforms plastic bottle waste from the shores of Indonesia into recycled polyester.
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LyondellBasell Joins UN Global Compact
LyondellBasell joins the United Nations Global Compact
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Henkel to Increase Use of Bioplastics
Henkel launched almost 700 million bottles made of 100% recycled plastics to the market in Europe
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Chemical Industry Joins #TakeTheBall Initiative
#TakeTheBall is a social media initiative to highlight your commitment to the UN SDG Goals
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Google and Unilever Partner on Palm Oil Deforestation
How Google will help end deforestation in our supply chain. A new partnership with Google Cloud will use satellite photos to help monitor the ecosystems connected to our raw materials. We’re starting with palm oil and scaling up.
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Tesco Cuts Plastic From Christmas Range
Tesco has removed over 20 million pieces of plastic from this year’s Christmas range.
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Amazon Bans PLA and PHA Food Packaging
What a terrible blow to the bioplastics industry. The bioplastic associations are not doing a very efficient job. I mean, a ban on PHA? We’re dealing with amateurism here.
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UK Plastics Pact Update
UK Plastics Pact cuts unnecessary plastic by 40% and increases plastic recycling by 107,000 tonnes
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Coca-Cola European Partners Goes Net Zero Green House Gas Emissions
Reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040
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