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There is no denying that, due to its near-infinite uses and applications and sheer speed from innovation to manufacturing, the world relies heavily on plastic.
As Christiana Figueres, former Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, puts it, our current economy is based on the belief that we can extract resources boundlessly, use them inefficiently, and discard them wantonly, drawing from the planet more than it can regenerate and polluting more than we can clean up.
Plastic - we can and need to do better. Collaboration is the way forward.
Creating an innovative new plastic recycling process that eliminates waste, reduces energy, and enables reuse of both titanium dioxide and polymers in new products.
Way2K is a series of interviews in the lead-up to K2022. Here, Peter von Hoffmann, General Manager Business Unit Engineering Plastics Applications at Coperion, talks about ‘closing the loop’.
There’s a steadily growing demand for more environmentally friendly products. Politicians are also calling for much higher quotas for the use of recycled material.
The introduction of the new UK Plastic Packaging Tax comes into force on 1 April 2022, following the 10 May 2021 guidance on how businesses that manufacture or import packaging to the UK must proceed.
By now, we are all familiar with the controversy and challenges surrounding the usage of hydrocarbon-based plastics, which have fallen from wonder materials to world-polluting menaces in the span of 100 years.
Factories have been the heart of industry for centuries, dating back to the early days of the Industrial Revolution.
The pandemic has undoubtedly caused world-wide disruption in every sector, one of which is the Circular Economy where numerous sustainability initiatives have slowed down or ground to a halt. One area that has expanded, however, is Polypropylene (PP) single-use containers as global take-away food demand has soared.
The circular economy is a term that is increasingly being rolled out by organisations around the world to define how they are taking everything from climate change to waste management seriously. We are, however, way past the point of bold statements and definitions. Transformational actions are urgently needed.
Better design for electronics recycling will minimise the use of hazardous materials and introduce more sustainability into the electronics industry.
America is in a period of transition to an economy increasingly focused on renewable supplies and products with less social and environmental impacts.
This familiar children’s song tells of two characters, Henry and Liza, trying unsuccessfully to fix a hole in his leaky bucket.