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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.
The use of plastic is vital in our everyday lives. Yet most plastic is based on non-renewable fossil-based resources, which is not a sustainable situation. How can plastics become more sustainable?
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.