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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.
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.