Tag: circular economy

January 31, 2023

As the use of renewable energy by electric utility providers continues to grow, the U.S. electric grid faces increasing pressures to both serve a growing fleet of electric vehicles and withstand the worsening impacts of weather. For perspective, the U.S. […]

October 4, 2022

One of the key topics discussed during this year’s ISWA World Congress was Waste-to-Energy (WtE) and the new technologies enabling the sector to exist in a circular economy. The brand new WtE White Book on Technologies for WtE published by […]

August 30, 2022

The Recycling Partnership was established with one goal in mind – creating a truly circular economy across the globe to bring an end to overflowing landfills. In its 2022 Impact Report, the organization breaks down all of the individual successes […]

August 27, 2021

INEOS Styrolution has joined the U.S. Plastics Pact in their support for collaborative, solution-driven initiatives intended to drive significant system change in the design, use, and reuse of plastics. The U.S. Plastic Pact unites cross-sector approaches, setting a national strategy, […]

July 20, 2021

Each year, investors, businesses and governments spend over $1,3 trillion on waste reduction as well as on repair and reuse schemes. The sum in question is inadequate for the purpose of establishing a sustainable and circular economy across borders, a […]

April 27, 2021

Astra Zeneca set a sustainability target to reduce waste and embrace a circular economy. As part of this environmental commitment, the company is also aiming to achieve zero-carbon status at its 4,000-person-capacity campus by 2025. For this, the company installed […]

April 19, 2021

Renault is going to turn its Flins factory outside Paris into a research, recycling and repair centre and will generate more than 1 billion euros in sales from circular economy. Renault’s chief executive Luca de Meo told the french “du […]

April 9, 2021

Frost & Sullivan’s recent analysis finds that leading brand owners and original equipment manufacturers in the industry are adopting strategies to integrate sustainability and circularity into their business activities following mounting pressure from consumers and government bodies. While nearly 370 […]

March 29, 2021

The Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) approved a corresponding report on an action plan of the EU Commission. In it, they call on member states, among other things, to include the circular economy in their respective Corona development plans. […]

March 22, 2021

“The plant embodies the principles of the -platform founded by Borealis to research innovations in the field of circular plastics,” explains Lucrèce Foufopoulos, Borealis Executive Vice President Polyolefins, Innovation & Technology and Circular Economy Solutions. “We offer brand owners and […]

March 15, 2021

The opening of Hong Kong’s first advanced plastic recycling plant mid-this year could kick-start a “closed loop” of turning household resin waste into recycled material, in line with the government’s waste blueprint. New Life Plastics will process up to 100 […]

March 4, 2021

The Remade Institute is a public-private partnership established by the United States Department of Energy and the first institute in the U.S. dedicated to accelerating the nation’s transition to a Circular Economy. It will spend $43 million in new technology […]

October 13, 2020

Plastic is literally and figuratively everywhere it seems. That’s why this RRS webinar on “Single-use Plastics & the Circular Economy — Influencing Global Packaging Policy” caught my eye. New regulations are being enacted that tax, ban, or require producers to […]

March 29, 2019

Recently, the world celebrated Global Recycling Day, our annual reminder that the way we’re living can’t be sustained indefinitely, unless we embrace a new path to national and international resource efficiency. The theme of Global Recycling Day 2019 was “Recycling […]

October 30, 2018

The Board of Directors of The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) has issued a statement calling for the consumer goods industry to play a leading role in eliminating plastic waste on land and sea and endorses the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s New […]

August 24, 2018

Glendale, California based adhesive manufacturer, Avery Dennison, will be the first pressure sensitive labelling material supplier to introduce liner made from recycled PET (rPET) commercially in Europe. The company, which makes and distributs pressure-sensitive adhesive materials, apparel branding labels and […]

June 22, 2018

A £20 million fund has been launched in the UK to explore new ideas and innovations that can bring changes in the plastics manufacturing industry and increase reuse and recycling as part of a move to a more circular economy. […]

February 26, 2018

IT equipment manufacturer, Dell, and actress, entrepreneur and activist Nikki Reed are collaborating in support of the sustainable design movement with jewellery made from gold recycled from e-waste. The Circular Collection by Bayou with Love and Dell is a new […]