Sustainability
Sustainability
Honeycomb technology combined with fire-resistant basalt fibres creates innovative solution combining a lighter weight, safety and sustainability.
In a legislative session full of plastics bills, Colorado wrapped up June 8 by banning plastic bags and EPS takeout containers, dropping an alternative pushed by industry, and giving cities the authority to go further.
Barbie is debuting its first doll made from recycled plastic along with a marketing campaign, "The Future of Pink is Green."
Borealis is expanding its commitment to Project STOP in Indonesia, enabling effective waste management to be extended to 2 million people in Indonesia by 2025.
Brightmark LLC said the facility will turn waste plastics into fuels, plastic feedstocks and waxes, and will be the largest such plant in the world. It did not provide a date for when the $680 million plant would start.
The company that owns the Crystal Geyser Alpine Spring water brand is opening its second PET recycling plant, part of a goal to have 50 percent recycled content in its bottles.
The beverage company is teaming up with Ocean Cleanup to install trash interceptors across 15 polluted rivers over the next 18 months.
A plastics recycling trade group wants to see the definition of chemical recycling limited to circular loops used to make new plastics, but other industry groups want broader considerations.
Amazon shareholders voted down a plastics packaging resolution at their annual meeting in late May, but green investment groups are pressing ahead with efforts to get other companies to cut back on virgin plastic.
In response to environmental and sustainability concerns, Gerresheimer has developed the EcoLine. According to the company, the line demonstrates that the full range of plastic packaging solutions supplied by Gerresheimer can be developed and produced sustainably.
Major PET recycler CarbonLite is selling each of its three plants as part of a bankruptcy filing.
Three resin companies and Closed Loop Partners are launching a $100 million plastics recycling investment fund.
Safilo produces premium sunglass lenses with a carbon footprint that is reduced by 50% due to the use of mass-balanced bio-polyamide and renewable energy during production.
GHG emissions from the polypropylene produced by Borealis as part of the company’s Bornewables product range of polyolefins are at least 120% compared to virgin polypropylene, according to a recently completed life-cycle assessment.