Category: Waste & Waste Management
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Oceana report exposes Amazon plastic packaging waste
Oceana report exposes Amazon plastic packaging waste
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What you need to know about the plastic crisis
What you need to know about the plastic crisis
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Big brands like P&G and Nestlé say chemical recycling will help meet environmental goals, but the technology is struggling to deliver (NY Times)
Well, US and EU politicians are easily convinced by the promises made by the industry … but at some point the plastic waste will hit the fan
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US State deploys AI system to separate compostables from trash
US State deploys AI system to separate compostables from trash
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Yard waste collection in the US, a few examples
Yard waste collection in the US, a few examples
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Sweden’s chemical recycling plant Site Zero (Update)
Update on Sweden’s chemical recycling plant Site Zero
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Plastic pollution and global warming are linked in a vicious cycle
More and more voices are blaming climate change on plastic and plastic waste. I think we could blame solar eclipses on plastic too.
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US Senate passes recycling & composting bills
US Senate passes recycling & composting bills
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Perspectives on sustainable plastic treatment: A shift from linear to circular economy
Chemical upcycling of plastic provides a sustainable method for plastic waste management.
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Study Into New Zealand-first For End-of-life Plastic Recycling
A new collaboration between industry and Government marks the first step towards a circular economy for soft plastic packaging in New Zealand
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KTH Scientists turn food waste into plastic-free diapers and sanitary pads
KTH Scientists turn food waste into plastic-free diapers and sanitary pads
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Global warming and plastic pollution create vicious circle, report says
Global warming and plastic pollution create vicious circle, report says
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Sustainable waste management: what the EU is doing
Find out how Europeans manage their waste and what measures the EU is taking to ensure environmentally-friendly practices.
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How BPI’s petition to the USDA will support the growth of composting infrastructure
How BPI’s petition to the USDA will support the growth of composting infrastructure
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The US Composting Industry Has a Plastics Problem
The study explored the role of conventional plastics and compostable plastic packaging in compost contamination.
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Global Waste Management Outlook 2024 Report (UN)
Global Waste Management Outlook 2024 Report (UN)
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Is Europe set to become China’s recycling bin? (Euractiv)
Well, the European Commission gets its information from industry lobbyists and NGOs … this should explain the dystopian legal framework around plastic waste. I wonder how long the EU commission will keep running in circles?
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Plastic’s role in the triple planetary crisis
The world is facing a triple planetary crisis: climate change, pollution and biodiversity loss — a trifecta of injustice. While these crises have different dimensions that often overlap, one thing is common in them all — plastic.
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EU PPWR is not compatible with EU law
Well, one must not have a rocket science degree to realise that recent EU legislation on plastic waste management is not what we call ‘good governance’. There are discrepancies between EU legislation and field reality / available technologies; and the European Commission doesn’t even follow their own rules.
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Future of returnable bottle packaging at risk following the sale of Coca-Coca Philippines
Environmental group calls on Coca-Cola Europacific Partners and Aboitiz Equity Ventures to commit to increasing reusable beverage packaging throughout the Philippines following approval of Coca-Cola Philippines acquisition.
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Digimarc Accelerates the Global Fight Against Plastic Pollution
Digimarc Corporation, the pioneer and global leader in digital watermarking technologies, today announced the wide availability and easy accessibility of Digimarc Recycle following successful pilots and testing in multiple countries worldwide.
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Plastic Bag Ban Made Pollution Worse in California
California’s environmental-friendly lawmakers were quite proud of themselves when, in 2014, they passed a first-in-the-nation ban on stores from handing out so-called single-use plastic bags as a means to turn back the tide, so to speak, on an ocean-pollution “crisis” that was threatening marine wildlife and supposedly turning our beaches into waste dumps.
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Auckland Airport expands compost programme
13.5 tonnes of domestic terminal food court organic waste diverted from landfill in three months
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Prison sentences for rogue waste recyclers
Up to 5 years imprisonment for people involved in illegal waste trade between Belgium and France
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Australia Institute in favour of Plastic Tax
By 2050, the amount of plastic consumed in Australia will more than double. Despite government policies aimed at creating a ‘circular economy’, just 14% of plastic waste is kept out of landfill.
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Here’s how a lingerie brand designed its new undies to be totally biodegradable (FastCompany)
Here’s how a lingerie brand designed its new undies to be totally biodegradable (FastCompany)
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Tackling e-waste by making electronics compostable and recyclable
Researchers are tackling the growing problem of electronic waste by designing wearable electronics from sustainable and recyclable materials.
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Researchers engineer bacteria that convert plastic into Spider Silk
For the first time, researchers have used bacteria to “upcycle” waste polyethylene
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Irish Deposit Return Scheme (Video)
The new Deposit Return Scheme for plastic bottles and drinks cans is coming into effect on 1 February. Here’s everything you need to know about how it will impact you.
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New Colorado laws on Pets, plastics and compostables (video)
From pet rent to no more plastic bags, there are big changes ahead with new laws going into effect in Colorado on January 1, 2024.
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Dubai Municipality launches plastic packaging initiative
Dubai Municipality launches initiative to collect and recycle 3 million plastic packaging
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Waste-to-Energy Technical Assistance for US Local Governments
The U.S. Department of Energy Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) and National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) announced selectees for the 2023 Waste-to-Energy (WTE) Technical Assistance for Local Governments Program, which will provide bioenergy assistance for 17 communities in 11 states.
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EU recycling market faces ‘collapse’ after waste export ban
The readers of bioplasticsnews.com knew that already. The house of cards is going to collapse overnight, but the EU commission believes everything is fine in plastic waste land. The EU plastic waste policies have been a gigantic fiasco and the EU commission is in denial.
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Bloomington (Indiana) accepts certified compostable plastics
City solid waste customers who sign up for an organics cart to compost their food scraps receive an annual voucher for 130 free compostable plastic bags.
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California composting facilities surveyed on compostable plastic
California composting facilities surveyed on compostable plastics
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Vietnam Startup makes brewery and seafood waste bioplastics
Bioplastics made of brewer’s grains have higher durability, water and heat resistance than plastics made of paper pulp and bagasse.
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UM students try to compost PLA bioplastics
UM students take the innovative route to compost PLA bioplastics.
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Michigan stadium and campus farm trials compostable packaging
OCS, Athletics, and the Campus Farm are piloting the possibility of composting waste from football games at the Campus Farm.
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Renewed focus on plastic waste in Thailand
Practical solutions are required as the volume continues to mount
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Kenyan Senator calls uncontrolled exports of Second Hand Clothing to Kenya ‘Dumping’ (FREE)
Nominated Senator Hamida Kibwana has described the exportation of sub standard textiles, plastics and synthetics into Kenya from developed countries as “dumping”. This is a FREE article
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Plastic Packaging Use and Recycling Collection Rates Drop for the First Time
Plastic resource efficiency and recycling charity, RECOUP, has launched its annual UK Household Plastic Packaging Collection Survey, which estimates that year-on-year plastic packaging use and plastic packaging collection quantities have dropped for the first time.
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Waste and Recycling Technology Association on chemical recycling
Sutco Managing Director and Chairman of the VDMA Waste and Recycling Technology Association Michael Ludden talks about chemical recycling of plastics in an industry interview.
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US Recycling directory ends
After 20 years of operation, a national online recycling directory for plastic bags and plastic films has been taken offline, six months after an ABC News investigation — The house of cards collapsed
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ACC publishes plastic end-of-life industry roadmap
Durable Plastics in Automobiles, Electronics, Buildings, Infrastructure and Medical Sectors Can and Should Be Part of a More Circular Economic Future
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Impact of EPR Implementation in Philippines
A year after EPR implementation, plastics still end up in landfills, creeks in Philippines’ major islands
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Waste management in new capital of Indonesia
Indonesia’s waste opportunity: Could the new capital be a role model for trash management?
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PPWR threatens bioplastics says EUBP
EUBP wants bio-based and recycled content to be considered as equivalent in the PPWR — Well, the coal mining industry wants coal to be considered as an equivalent to solar energy. EUBP says that bio-based content will achieve net zero … I recognise greenwashers when they use the ‘net zero’ rhetoric
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Vietnam battle against plastic
Why Vietnam faces an uphill battle in its war against plastic waste
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Plastic waste export to Africa is out of control
And they will claims that it is driven by African demand for plastic waste …. knowing that there is no infrastructure in Africa to process the waste and that the plastic waste cannot be recycled …. what a farce
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EU agrees to ban exports of plastic waste to poor countries
EU reaches deal to stop sending waste to countries that can’t process it — Well, finally some common sense by EU institutions
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Putting an End to Plastic Separation Anxiety
Researchers have developed a process to break down the mixture of conventional and bio-based plastics that ends up at recycling centers
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Could bacteria and fungi solve plastic waste crisis? (Washington Post)
One solution to the plastic crisis may lie in bugs’ bellies
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Feasibility of anaerobic co-digestion of biodegradable plastics with food waste, investigation of microbial diversity and digestate phytotoxicity
The effects of biodegradable plastics of different thicknesses (30 and 40 μm) and sizes (20 × 20, 2 × 2, and 1 × 1 mm) on anaerobic digestion of food waste and digestate phytotoxicity were investigated.
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Sweden opens state-of-the-art plant for sorting plastics for recycling
A new plastics sorting facility inaugurated in Sweden on Wednesday is being billed as the largest of its kind, and one designed to double the amount of plastic packaging materials being recycled in the Nordic country.
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Oakland to ban compostable plastic packaging
Oakland intends to ban compostable plastic packaging because they contaminate the compost with microplastics and because commercial composters do not want them.
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Asian plastic rivers – Viral video on social media
This video is getting millions of views on social media. It shows the severity of the plastic waste problem, especially plastic bottles. Responsibility goes to local, regional and national authorities
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Marin County says no to compostable bioplastics
On Nov. 10, Marin County will begin enforcing the Reusable Foodware Ordinance.
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Michigan city no longer accepts BPI certified compostable plastics
The lack of transparency and amateur communication of BPI is just phenomenal. I mean after 10 years of following bioplastics, I’m not sure of what BPI is about.
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ENVI makes sweeping changes to PPWR proposals
The European Parliament’s Committee on Environment (ENVI) has voted on initial amendments to the draft Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR), potentially ushering in sweeping changes.
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Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) Summary (Free)
A summary of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) for dummies. This is a FREE article
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Paper Packaging Industry Statement on EU PPWR
Statement from EPPA on the results of the ENVI Committee vote on PPWR
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Floral waste as a potential feedstock for PHA production
Floral waste as a potential feedstock for polyhydroxyalkanoate production using halotolerant Bacillus cereus TS1: optimization and characterization studies
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From sludge to fuel: Researchers are getting ready to produce green oil in Denmark
Very soon the first green fuel will be made from the sludge in our wastewater. This is the culmination of many years of research and the first oil is planned for delivery to a refinery in the Danish city of Fredericia early next year.
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Plastics Europe raises significant concerns about Environment Committee vote on PPWR
Today the European Parliament Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) voted on the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR).
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New Public-Private Partnerships Look to AI and Enzymes to Break Down Plastic and Textile Waste
Protein Evolution Partners with Agile BioFoundry and the Joint BioEnergy Institute to Decarbonize the Chemicals Industry
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Eco-Products Unveils New Program to Help Prevent Contamination in Compost Streams (FREE)
CIRC program will verify that foodservice operators have taken key steps to avoid sending non-compostable items to composters. This is a FREE article
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LCA of recycling of post-use plastic to plastic via pyrolysis
This LCA from the Argonne National Laboratory underscores that greenhouse gas savings can be achieved when pyrolysis oil, derived from commercial scale pyrolysis plants, is substituted for a virgin feedstock for use in the manufacturing of polyethylene.
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Brooklyn Goes Composting
Sanitation workers will now pick up compost items from residents in Brooklyn who separate their food scraps and yard waste from the trash as part of a citywide composting program that will become mandatory in 2025.
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Singapore’s plastic recycling conundrum: Could bioplastics hold the key?
RWDC Industries has developed a bio-based, biodegradable, and compostable plastic, presenting a potential solution to Singapore’s recycling problem.
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Worse Waste Management Award goes to Palm Beach County
Palm Beach county (Florida) seems to have the worse waste management rules. Not sure whether it’s just outdated waste management rules or sharky business practices.
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Recology points to organics diversion in sustainability report
Recology Sustainability Report: 1.3 Million Tons Diverted from Landfills, Multiple Advancements to Help Address Climate Change
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European Recyclers recommendations for an EU circular economy: exploring chemical recycling when no better recycling alternative available
EuRIC, the European Recycling Industries’ Confederation has issued a roadmap for boosting waste recycling and fostering a clear regulatory framework. The paper reflects EuRIC’s unwavering commitment to advancing sustainability within the recycling industry, with a particular focus on exploring the areas of chemical recycling and mass balance.
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Malaysia Top 10 ocean plastic polluter (Video)
Malaysia has made it to the top 10 countries that throws the most amount of plastic rubbish and waste into the ocean.
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SK chemicals and Lovere partner on waste management
Cooperation MOU signed with Lovere, a leading Chinese company in household waste collection and sorting. Joint investment and business commencement in 2024… Expected to create new value in waste plastic sector
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Beach cleanup in Brazil highlights dangers of plastic pollution
Celebrated on the third Saturday of September since 2018, World Cleanup Day is the largest international environmental mobilization aimed at combating the world’s solid waste problem. In Rio de Janeiro, hundreds took to one of Guanabara Bay’s most polluted beaches to draw attention to the dangers of plastic pollution.
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Complaint against composting and farm gas facility in Delaware
DNREC and Sussex County, Delaware, violated the public’s rights to information and public participation when reviewing permits for Bioenergy Devco’s factory farm gas and composting facility in Seaford, resulting in discrimination against the local community — Don’t underestimate the Bio-economy actors to disregard democracy when implementing their ‘bio’ business model
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Curbside waste collection scam in France
Here’s a video circulating on french social media. Citizens are sorting their waste in coloured bags and containers while the curbside collectors throw everything in the same truck. France is the master of hypocrisy when it comes to waste management
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Syrians earn a living by turning plastic waste into rugs
In Syria’s rebel-held northwest, recycling is changing lives by cleaning the environment and providing income opportunities, all while tackling plastic waste.
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Four years of waste sorting leaves China’s incinerators short of fuel
Despite a reduction in the requisite material, China continues to build new waste-to-power incinerators. Its policy for utilising waste needs standardising and refining, writes Li Jiacheng
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Miami University uses AI for composting
It would be worth getting their feedback after some time to see whether AI can improve composting
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Researchers turning food waste into biodegradable plastic (video)
The U.S. throws out approximately 119 billion pounds of food and 40 million tons of plastic waste every year.
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Capital of Europe says no to compostable bags and packaging (FREE)
There has been a change in the waste management policy of Brussels, the capital of Europe. This is a FREE article
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Indonesian firm turns plastic into bricks (FREE)
Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta, has a construction boom and plastic waste problem; solving both could help achieve its climate goals. This is a FREE article
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New reports measure progress on organics recycling (FREE)
“How is recycling really going?” Versions of that question come to me by phone and email every week. Article by David Goldstein. This is a FREE article
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Amsterdam’s ‘bubble barrier’ fighting plastic pollution (FREE)
Dutch inventors are removing plastic from Amsterdam’s rivers and canals using a ‘net’ made from bubbles. They claim the invention stops nearly 90% of plastic waste from passing downstream. This is a FREE article
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Plastic Overshoot Day
Friday, 28th July 2023 marked the first ever ‘Global Plastic Overshoot Day’ – the date when the amount of plastic produced worldwide surpassed all combined international efforts to manage it effectively — This must be a farce, the real Plastic Overshoot Day must be end of January or beginning of February
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Egypt’s Environment Minister reviews progress of municipal solid waste management system
Egypt’s Minister of Environment, Yasmine Fouad; reviewed a report on the latest developments in the role of the Ministry of Environment in implementing the municipal solid waste management system over the past years, especially with the issuance of the Waste Management Regulation Law and its implementing regulations.
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PET Seems to be the Winner of the Bioplastics Fiasco
Is biodegradable packaging really the answer to the world’s plastic addiction? — It seems that more and more people step away from the bioplastics “mirage”. PET may be the winner of the vacuum created by the fake bioplastics promises. I think the main problem is that the ‘bioplastics pool’ is full of dishonest lobbyists. The…
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Draft Report on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on packaging and packaging waste
Draft Report on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on packaging and packaging waste, amending Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 and Directive (EU) 2019/904, and repealing Directive 94/62/EC
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British Columbia Takes Action on Plastic Waste
On July 14, 2023, the Province of British Columbia published the Single-Use and Plastic Waste Prevention Regulation which will come into effect on December 20, 2023.
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The role of biodegradable materials in reducing medical plastics waste
In recent years, the growing concerns over environmental sustainability have prompted a critical examination of the impact of plastic waste on our planet. Olivia Wilson, outreach manager, ZeroWaste Partnerships, explores the importance of materials’ roles in reducing medical plastic waste.
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Valorization of Honduran Agro-Food Waste to Produce Bioplastics
The development of biodegradable plastics and eco-friendly biomaterials derived from renewable resources is crucial for reducing environmental damage. Agro-industrial waste and rejected food can be polymerized into bioplastics, offering a sustainable solution.
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Landmark California Plastic Law’s Anniversary Brings Progress
Law hits first deadline with appointment of advisory board. Requires packaging to be recyclable or compostable by 2032
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EU-funded project ELLIPSE to valorize slaughterhouse waste and paper and pulp sludge for agricultural and personal care applications
EU-funded project ELLIPSE to valorize slaughterhouse waste and paper and pulp sludge for agricultural and personal care applications
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Corrupt and Failed Waste Management System in Kenya (FREE)
They tried to reassure us that the situation was fine in Kenya, but it’s not. Plastic waste still being dumped in rivers. Where did the money go? In ze pocket of someone. This is a FREe article
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