Sustainability
Sustainability
Having earned ISCC Plus certification for bio-circular plastics for its sales locations in France and Germany in May, Albis has now announced that another 4 applications have also successfully come through the audits conducted by the certification specialist DQS CFS GmbH.
A foundation started by billionaire former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is spending $85 million to bolster local efforts to stop petrochemical and plastics expansions in Texas, Louisiana and the Ohio River Valley.
Two coalitions, one made up of countries and a second made up of industry, came to the U.N. General Assembly session in New York to push for a stricter global plastics pollution treaty. Negotiations start in November.
The board of the North Dakota Industrial Commission has awarded over $15 million in grants for three projects aimed at reducing environmental impacts and increasing energy efficiency.
The British Plastics Federation (BPF) has published a book called Sustainability Management in Plastics Processing: Strategies, Targets, Techniques and Tools.
The Swiss sports brand On has presented its first running shoe with a foam midsole based on materials derived from carbon emissions.
Polstar 0 aims to create ‘world’s first’ zero-emission car by 2030
The solid waste management and recycling company is buying a controlling stake in Avangard Innovative's U.S. business.
Circularise, a supply chain traceability provider launched in 2016 has launched a joint project with ISCC, a sustainability and greenhouse gas certification scheme, to test whether a blockchain system could be used to complement ISCC Plus certification - a sustainability certification process of complex value chains.
Value chain collaboration is increasingly seen as a key element in efforts to boost the sustainability of products and processes within the plastics industry.
The VDMA has conducted a series of ‘Way2K’ interviews industry interviews in the lead-up to the K 2022 trade fair. Here, Dr. Michael Ruf, CEO of KraussMaffei Group GmbH, calls sustainability an ‘imperative’, declaring: "Our industry is facing the task of the century”.
As brand owners begin to use resins made from chemically recycled and bio-based feedstocks, they face questions about how to market their products.
Product carbon footprints sums up the total greenhouse gas emissions generated by a product throughout its life cycle.
Toray Resin Co. has opened a 900-kilowatt solar power unit at its Shelbyville, Ind., plant. leasing it from Duke Energy.