1:20 min
Sustainability & Circular Economy
Partnership
Veolia and L'Oréal join forces to manufacture cosmetic packaging made from recycled plastic
To reduce the carbon footprint of cosmetic packaging, Veolia and L'Oréal are joining forces to build a circular economy for plastics: Veolia will supply L'Oréal worldwide with high-quality recycled plastic that will avoid between 50% and 70% of CO2 emissions compared to a standard ...
1:10 min
Sustainability & Circular Economy
Plastic seperation
Coalition Food2Food 2.0 includes more than 30 chain partners committed to the circular use of plastic food packaging
On Friday, December 3rd, the kick-off meeting of the "Coalition Food2Food 2.0" took place. The focus is on an industrial test of CurvCode, a Dutch innovation for separating plastics from waste streams. Efficient sorting is important for transition to a circular plastic chain.
2:44 min
Sustainability & Circular Economy
DRS
Consumer Watchdog: Failure of bottle deposit program costing californians 750,000 tons of greenhouse gases
Inattention to California's bottle deposit program is dramatically growing the state's carbon footprint, according to analysis by the Container Recycling Institute (CRI).
The CRI analysis shows that the state's low bottle and can recycling rate of traditional deposit and ...
1:34 min
Sustainability & Circular Economy
Cut
Kaufland Germany: 20 percent less plastic use
As part of the plastic strategy of the Schwarz Group REset Plastic, Kaufland set specific goals for less plastic and more recycling in 2018. After three years, the company draws a first interim balance: By optimizing and reducing packaging, Kaufland was able to reduce the use of ...
1:40 min
Sustainability & Circular Economy
Circular economy
SIBUR updates its ESG goals under 2025 strategy
SIBUR’s Board of Directors has approved amendments to the 2025 Sustainable Development Strategy. The Company maintains focus on mitigating the climate impact and developing circular economy, while also taking on more ambitious green commitments and expanding the range of diversity ...
3:59 min
Sustainability & Circular Economy
Report
NAS: U.S. should create national strategy by end of 2022 to reduce its increasing contribution to global ocean plastic waste
The United States should create a national strategy by the end of 2022 to reduce its contribution to plastic waste in the ocean, including substantially reducing the amount of solid waste generated in the U.S., says a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, ...