Procter & Gamble (P&G) has launched a new Fairy Ocean Plastic bottle made from post-consumer recycled (PCR) plastic and ocean plastic as part of the company’s commitment to recycled plastic. The bottle, created in partnership with ...
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Austria-based Erema has unveiled new ReFresher system to produce odourless recyclate from post-consumer material such as household packaging waste. Designed for recyclers and producers, the new ReFresher produces filtrated, degassed and ...
Cardia Bioplastics has launched a sustainable bioproducts bag range which helps divert organic waste from landfill. Cardia Bioproducts Compostable and Biohybrid Bags are now available for the use of retailers, councils, businesses and ...
TOKYO — At a recycling center in Thailand’s Chonburi Province, Fuji Xerox disassembles some 4,000 tons a year of its used printers collected from various parts of Asia. Materials are sorted into nearly 90 different types, such ...
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Recycling and preparing for reuse of packaging waste is to be increased to 80% (by weight) by 2030 with individual materials? required to recycle more. Paper, ferrous metal, aluminium and glass have been set a 90% target while plastic ...
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Suez Cement and Italcementi s first waste treatment plant in Egypt was inaugurated this week. The project uses 45,000t of household waste to produce 35,000t of alternative fuel annually. Given Egypt s on-going fuel concerns the project will ...
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Environmental project, "Bring benefit their city" in Khabarovsk has implemented a full stroke - for the past two months as part of the city had collected about 20 tons of waste glass (cullet). The participants of the project, organized by ...
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To all of us, cluttered waste is a common problem. Be it managing household waste or industrial waste, it seems never ending; an even bigger problem is skip bins that have to be constantly loaded on the trucks to be emptied at the dump. ...
Over the weekend at the Liberal Democrat party conference, the Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg announced that England will follow Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland in charging shoppers for bags. Speaking to Packaging News, Incpen ...
The 'Household Waste – Saved from Landfill' range is manufactured from flexible plastics collected in the UK and is claimed to be a world first for the recycling and film industries. Launched at the Recycling and Waste Management ...
Responses to the Government's Waste Electronic and Electrical Equipment (WEEE) consultation show that there is widespread appetite for an overhaul of the existing regulation, to the relief of many within the lighting industry. The ...
Cosmetic companies are making slow progress in reducing their packaging footprints. Although the cosmetics industry has become preoccupied with green initiatives, few steps have been made to tackle the environmental impact of packaging. ...
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Launching on 12 June, the exclusive online campaign – ‘Together we’re making recycling count’ – will target Tesco Clubcard customers with an invitation to ‘pledge’ to recycle. In return for their ...
According to estimates by the Indian Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD), the urban population of India produces between 0.2 and 0.6 kg of waste per head each day. Over the year municipal waste from the country´s 1.2 billion ...
Metal paint cans have been awarded an On-Pack Recycling Label (OPRL) ‘widely recycled’ label The OPRL scheme was launched in March 2009 in response to research that identified a need to communicate better with consumers ...
Tags: Cans, Metal Paint Cans, OPRL, Label