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California has leapt ahead of the EU in plastic bottling recycling policy by introducing the most stringent recycling requirements globally. It's a critical step towards a circular economy. How could this forward-thinking regulation impact on other countries around the world.
My oldest boy is 8 now. So I guess some time in 2012 I walked down an aisle of a shop in Stockholm looking to purchase a car seat.
World leaders seem to have been talking about the problem of plastic pollution without doing much about it for ages.
The aim towards a circular economy is one of many initiatives being pursued within the wider issue of mankind's environmental impact.
We use plastic like there is no tomorrow. Regardless of the value this material may still have after use, we toss and burn almost all of it after not even 5 minutes of use.
Ashlee Jahnke is the research director at UK-based Teysha Technologies. In her opinion, better-designed plastics are urgently needed to address the waste problem.
Deep inside the EU’s seven-year budget and recovery plan, which was approved on Friday 24 July, is a plastics’ waste levy of €800/tonne that comes into force in January 2021, despite the fact that insufficient recycling infrastructure exists throughout the EU.
The last meeting of the European Council ended with decisions that will have major implications for the plastics processing industry, writes Tomasz Mikulski, of ML Polyolefins.
How collaboration is key for moving toward a reusable packaging paradigm
When a crisis situation hits, it tests you. It somehow bonds you. To your colleague, your neighbour, your friends and family in other locations, the frontline workers you never met.
Over recent decades, plastics have proven themselves to be extremely valuable with many benefits. Plastic is vital to day-to-day life. However, when used plastics enter waste streams it is more challenging to recover the material for reuse.
Fierce fights they are... On the one hand we have old plastic industry players hailing the hygiene and use of more, new plastics in CoVid crisis times. On the other, we have environmental backers, virologists and governmental leaders stressing the environmental crisis as the absolute cause for all the misery we are in now.