Tag: Paid Content
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Can Plastic Pollution Be Fixed?
Correcting our plastic waste problem requires a fundamental change in thinking about how plastics are made, used, and discarded, two new studies say.
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Danish Pro Plastic Campaign
There are many opinions about plastic. But many of us can’t do without it in our everyday lives. We should only use plastic when it makes sense – and we should reuse and recycle it as much as possible. Let’s be realistic when we talk about plastic.
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Britvic Goes rPET
Britvic announces move to 100% recycled plastic bottles in great britain by the end of 2022
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Burger King Goes Reusable Packaging
Burger King® Brand to Pilot Reusable Containers Through Multi-National Partnership With Zero-Waste Packaging Provider, Loop. Partnership Builds on Commitment to Source 100% of Guest Packaging from Renewable, Recycled or Certified Sources by 2025
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How to Recycle Non Recyclable Beauty Packaging
We have to give it to him: this guy is a champion, he’s everywhere. How does he do it? He must have strong allies! He could teach a few thing to the bioplastic sector.
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First Coca Cola Paper Bottle Prototype
At Coca-Cola, we are working to create a bottle made 100% from paper – an innovative packaging technology that may help us achieve a World Without Waste. In a new video, we invite you inside our lab to see our progress.
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Rethinking Plastic Expo
From September 2020 to the end of 2022, Yksi Expo will present an extensive program on the theme of plastic.
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Declining Biodiversity in EU
This report describing the state of nature in the EU is based on reports from Member States under the Birds (2009/147/EC) and the Habitats (92/43/EEC) directives and on subsequent assessments at EU or EU biogeographical levels. In addition to an overview on species and habitats status, both at national and EU levels, it also addresses…
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Ocean Cleanup Sunglasses
Today, we launched the first product made with plastic certified from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch: The Ocean Cleanup sunglasses.
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Church Joins Plastic Battle
Brazilian archdiocese joins plastic recycling program to reduce ocean waste
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UPM Raflatac Forest Film Awarded
UPM Raflatac’s revolutionary Forest Film label material wins Innovation in Sourcing Award from Sustainable Packaging Coalition
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Covestro Stars in a 5G Advertising
Belgium has one of the worse Internet infrastructure in Europe. Some locations in Brussels (capital of Europe) are still on ADSL. 5G is a political fiasco in Belgium. Many NGOs believe 5G is bad for your health. However, Covestro advertises 5G in Belgium.
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Stora Enso Wins Forest Products Innovation Award
Stora Enso honoured with Biorenewable Deployment Consortium’s Forest Products Innovation Award
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Greta Thunberg Warns about EU Agricultural Policy
It’s remarkable when the truth is spoken by teenagers. It also shows the EU hypocrisy. EU CAP is more about profit for a few than well being for many.
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Forbes Gets Confused on Bioplastic Bags
Forbes promotes bioplastic bags but says they are plastic-free. Is that a “greenwashing ” attempt by the producers? What do you think?
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US Open Source Software for Bioreactors
ABPDU’s Open Source Software Benefits Biotech Community
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Scotland Consultation on SUP Ban
Consultation: Introducing market restrictions on single-use plastic items in Scotland
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Plastic Britain Documentary
PLASTIC BRITAIN: ON OUR WATCH is a major new feature length environmental documentary that investigates Britain’s addiction to plastic and discovers the biggest pollution crisis Britain has ever seen.
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P&G Goes Reusable Bottles
p&g beauty: reusable bottles debut at reuters business summit. P&G Beauty announced the launch of its first ever reusable and refillable aluminum bottle system at scale, with its brands Head & Shoulders, Pantene, Herbal Essences and Aussie in Europe
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ASDA Opens New Sustainability Store
Asda has today opened its new sustainability trial store and unveiled a new plastics reduction strategy with a promise that customers will not pay more for greener options.
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EU Adopts Methane Strategy
On October 14, the European Commission presented its EU Methane Strategy, in which the main objective is to reduce methane emissions by 35 to 37 percent by 2030 compared to 1990 levels.
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Biffa Joins Poseidon to Recycle Unrecyclable Plastics
Biffa, the UK’s leading sustainable waste management company, is pleased to announce its involvement in the Poseidon Project, a cross-industry initiative aiming to create a process to chemically recycle harder grades of PET (polyethylene terephthalate) material.
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UK Government Invests in CO2 Captured Bioplastics
Adaptavate secures £500,000 Government funding to take CO2 from air and polluting industries and lock it into the biomaterials of the future.
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Green Dot Bioplastics CEO Talks Alternative Plastics
Green Dot Bioplastics CEO Talks Alternative Plastics on The Future of Agriculture Podcast
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US Bottle Consortium Launched
Bio-Optimized Technologies to keep Thermoplastics out of Landfills and the Environment.
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Nordmann to Market Biofibre
Bio-based compounds for the plastics industry: Nordmann launches distribution partnership with Biofibre
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Bacardi Goes for Biodegradable Bottles
Bacardi first in fight against plastic pollution with 100% biodegradable spirits bottle
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US Synergy Between Biofuels and Biochemicals
US Government understands they have to shift from biofuels to bioproducts. Bioproducts are more profitable.
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Budweiser Group UK Removes All Plastic Rings
Budweiser Brewing Group UK&I, a proud part of AB InBev, today announces that its iconic portfolio of beers is now plastic-ring free – eliminating 250 tonnes of plastic every year across its full canned beer range, including Budweiser, Bud Light and Stella Artois.
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US Army Invests in Bioindustrial Manufacturing And Design Ecosystem
U.S. Department of Defense awards $87.5 million to create a new Manufacturing Innovation Institute sited at the University of Minnesota
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UK Government Invests in Chemical Recycling
UKRI funding puts UK at the forefront of next generation plastic recycling
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Luminescent and Hydrophobic Wood Films
Luminescent and Hydrophobic Wood Films as Optical Lighting Materials
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Chocolate Bar Packaging Revolution
Warsaw firm to create world’s FIRST biodegradable, plastic-free chocolate bar wrappings
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Municipal Waste and Recycling Rate in 29 Countries
We explored the municipal waste of 29 countries over five years to find out how they handle their waste, and whether they’ve been able to reduce it year-on-year.
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Bioplastic Food Freshness Label
Spanish startup launches bioplastic “Food Freshness” label
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Estee Lauder Goes PCR
SABIC, a global leader in the chemicals industry, today announced its collaboration with The Estée Lauder Companies (ELC), a global leader in prestige beauty, global skincare brand Origins Natural Resources Inc. and beauty packaging manufacturer Albéa for the upcoming 2021 market debut of an advanced beauty tube pack for Origins.
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Flax4Life Goes Bioplastics
US-based Flax4Life and good natured Team Up to Deliver Plant-based Packaging
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Impact Lockdown on UK Waste Collection
Eight in 10 councils saw an increase in the amount of recycling being collected since the outbreak and national lockdown.
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All Real Nutrition Protein Bars Goes Bioplastics
Parkside helps all real nutrition make the move to compostables
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Adidas Reinvents the Shoe
Adidas creates robotically woven Futurecraft Strung trainers from “new kind of textile”.
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Plastic Reduction in Cheese Packaging
Wipak UK Plays Key Role in ‘Less Plastic More Fantastic’ Megablock
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New Paperboard Alternative to Plastic Food Trays
Iggesund Paperboard’s new InverformTM for ready-made food packaging trays ticks all the boxes for sustainability and performance.
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Trackers Made from Ocean Plastic
The trackers help you keep track of your personal belongings
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Shell Partners with Government on Chemical Recycling
Shell Partners with Asian Government on Chemical Recycling
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New Bio Material with Same Mechanical Properties as Plastics
20 times more flexible than existing biodegradable materials
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What is Needed for Bioplastics Breakthrough?
What is Needed for Bioplastics Breakthrough
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Fighting Bottle Caps Pollution in Hawai
From Plastic Waste to Fuel—Improving the Environment. It’s not the plastic water bottle that causes the most harm to sea birds, but the cap, which is mistaken for food.
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Food Safe PLA Filaments
Even when a filament is made of food-safe material, the material itself isn’t the only thing impacting the filament’s food safety.
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Is BBI JU the Green Narcissism of EU?
Does BBI JU likes to look at its own reflection in the mirror? Is BBI JU a cash machine for their friends and friends of their friends? Has BBI JU become a fraternity?
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The Carbon Footprint Scam
Big oil distracts from their carbon footprint by tricking you to focus on yours
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Australian Government on Plastic Packaging
Government welcomes further action on plastic packaging
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Aramco and Sabic Fossil Chemical Plant on Hold
Saudi Aramco and Saudi Basic Industries Corp. will re-evaluate the scope of a planned crude-to-chemicals project in the kingdom as they seek to reduce spending amid a slump in prices for their products.
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Future of Plastic in Taiwan
The Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) on Tuesday called on Taiwanese companies to use more recycled plastics in their packaging.
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UPM Builds Biochemical Plant in Germany
The construction of UPM’s innovative biochemicals facility starts in Germany
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Bioplastic Fishing Gear in Japan
‘Green’ fishery gear key to ocean plastic problems. Japan’s Kuraray developing materials to make equipment biodegradable
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Bioplastics To Substitute Synthetic Fibres
Bioplastics will become increasingly important to the textile and nonwovens industries as substitutions for synthetic fibres, as well as in the replacement of general commodity plastic packaging and other end-uses that will be initially easier to develop.
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Ocean Plastic Depot in Canada
B.C.’s first ocean plastic depot opening soon in Powell River
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Solvay Opens Second Bio Solvent Plant in Brazil
The new plant in Paulinia, São Paulo specialises in the development of a bio-based solvent to mainly serve the European and North american market
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Cash is the New King of Plastics
Petrochemical makers delay investments in new U.S. plants as profitability shrinks, reversing a trend fueled by the shale-drilling boom. Cash and liquidity are the new kings.
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Environmental Damage of Glitter
New research indicates that glitter could be causing ecological damage to our rivers and lakes.
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Fossil to Cash in on Build Back Better
Polluters profiting from pandemic bailouts. How the fossil fuel industry is using the COVID-19 crisis to capture public funds and lock in-dirty energy.
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Operation Clean Sweep
Action plan for a European zero pellet loss certification scheme unveiled
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Stora Enso Goes Bio Asphalt
Swedish road and infrastructure operator Svevia has decided to collaborate with Stora Enso in testing lignin in asphalt.
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EU Commissioner Comments Implementation SUP Directive
Virginijus Sinkevičius comments implementation SUP directive
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EU to Optimize Horizon 2020
Many EU Horizon 2020 projects have no real outcome or results. A lack of scrutiny and nepotism seems to be at the root of the problem. EU tax payer money unwisely spent.
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Towards Catalytic Chemical Recycling
Toward Catalytic Chemical Recycling of Waste (and Future) Plastics
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First Road Ready Bioplastic Car Made from Waste
The next steps is to obtain a license plate in an EU country and history will be written.
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How Technology Helped Biopak Conquer Oceania
Find out how deploying Oracle NetSuite helped the business offset more than 44,000 tonnes of CO2 in 2019 alone.
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Sugar Cane Coffee Lid Worse Carbon Footprint than Polystyrene
LCA reveals sugar cane coffee lids have far worse carbon footprint than polystyrene coffee lids. I was impressed by the huge difference.
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UK Plastic Waste Fiasco Continues
UK still shipping plastic waste to poorer countries despite Conservative pledge. More than 300 tonnes a day of plastic scrap has been sent to non-OECD countries so far in 2020. How is this even possible!
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US Government Invests in Bioplastic Projects
Americans cut to the chase. US government invests in practical solutions and real outcome projects. US meritocracy versus EU nepotism. EU gives money to their friends; and to the friends of their friends. Americans invest in good ideas.
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Who is the Canadian Bioplastic Leader?
Let’s take a deeper look at one small-cap Company engaged in the business of plant-based materials and packaging that is positioned to broadly address the consumer goods market with its own sustainable products.
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Japan Food Service, Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Update
With the courtesy of the US government.
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Interview Founder Paptic
A sustainable alternative to plastic packaging materials; Interview with Esa Torniainen, Co-founder and Chief Business Development Officer of Paptic Ltd.
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Gevo and Total Partner on Renewable Isoamylene
Gevo to develop renewable Isoamylene in partnership with TOTAL
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Danimer Scientific Receives United Soybean Board Grant
Danimer Scientific Receives United Soybean Board Grant to Support Biodegradable Plastic Production
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Sabic Renewable Polycarbonate
SABIC, a global leader in the chemical industry, today announced its partnership with Elkamet Kunststofftechnik GmbH, an industry leader in the plastics processing industry.
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Carbon Negative Beer
BrewDog goes carbon negative: ‘Carbon neutral is no longer enough’
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Carbon Neutral Milk in New Zealand
Danone’s New Zealand Karicare milk formula brand commits to carbon neutrality.
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Microbial Biomass Living on Ocean Plastic Waste
Microbial Biomass Living on Ocean Plastic Debris.
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Chemical Recycling: Big Investments vs NGOs
Companies are placing big bets on plastics recycling. Are the odds in their favor? Chemical recycling is attracting billions in capital spending, but environmentalists don’t think it will solve the plastic waste problem.
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First Chemical Recycling Plant in France
This first project in France represents the start of the collaboration between Total and Plastic Energy to deploy chemical recycling.
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Satellites Panels Made from Flax
Natural fibres threaded into satellites for safer missions.
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London Startup Makes Edible Packaging from Seaweed
Seaweed may be the solution to our plastic crisis. A London startup is making edible packaging out of it.
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Licella and Canfor Form New JV Arbios Biotech
Cat-HTR™ Technology Innovators Licella Enter into New Joint Venture with Canfor to Form Arbios Biotech. Longer term, Arbios believes its proprietary technology will enable it to expand into other highly attractive opportunities such as the biochemical and biomaterial sectors.
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New British Bioplastic Standard Welcomed
ULMA Packaging welcomes new British standard for biodegradable plastic — Symphony Environmental developed a plastic that kills Covid19 virus in 1 hour — Unused Verdezyne Biochemical Plant Equipment are for sale
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Wood Based PVC Pipes in Sweden
INOVYN supplies its next generation of sustainable PVC to ‘The Hope Project’
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BASF Appoints Chinese in Supervisory Board
Liming Chen appointed to Supervisory Board of BASF SE
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EU Innovation Agencies to Merge
After signing letter of intent, the European Institute of Innovation and Technology and the European Innovation Council are scoping how they can cooperate
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The Start of Mandatory Packaging Reporting
One country starts with mandatory packaging reporting. Here’s the Factsheet
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Sustainability Metrics According to World Economic Forum
Measuring Stakeholder Capitalism Towards Common Metrics and Consistent Reporting of Sustainable Value Creation
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Can Bacteria Degrade Cellulose?
Researchers have uncovered details of how a certain type of bacteria breaks down cellulose—a finding that could help reduce the cost and environmental impact of the use of biomass, including biofuel production.
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Stora Enso Alternative to Plastic Food Bowls
Stora Enso and Tingstad launch unique formed fiber food service bowls to replace plastics
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