UK’s Costa Coffee, a part of Whitebread, has pledged to recycle over a half a billion takeaway cups per year by 2020, in a bid to prevent them from ending up in landfill. The coffee chain, which plans to recycle at least 100 million ...
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Mineral water brand evian announced its plans to use 100% recycled materials for its packaging by 2025. The company says that this ‘circular approach’ will keep the plastic within the economy and out from nature. To achieve ...
More than 150 organizations globally endorsed a new statement that proposes to ban oxo-degradable plastic packaging worldwide. The organisations supporting the initiative include M&S, PepsiCo, Unilever, Veolia, British Plastics Federation ...
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Smurfit Kappa has been awarded the gold Corporate Social Responsibility (‘CSR’) rating by EcoVadis for the fourth successive year. The company ranked among the top 1% of the 30,000 companies that were assessed on a range of ...
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UK-based resource management firm Veolia has introduced a new coffee cup recycling solution, in a bid to reduce cup contamination and increase recycling rates. The solution has been designed based on coffee cup disposal habits and trials ...
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The Ellen MacArthur Foundation in partnership with leading global innovation firm NineSigma, announced the launch of the Circular Materials Challenge to make all plastic packaging recyclable. Solution providers are competing for up to $1 ...
UK-based coffee shop chain Costa has launched a nationwide cup recycling scheme in nearly 2,000 stores of the country. The program has been designed to recover and guarantee the recycling of its takeaway cups. Costa will also accept ...
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US-based coffee firm Starbucks has introduced a new paper cup recycling bin designed to reduce paper cup waste. The new cup bin, which is planned to be made available initially across 21 Starbucks stores in London, UK, by January next ...
The special event of the 9th Expo Central China-Dialogue between Mayors and MNCs in 2015 was held in Wuhan on May 19, 2015. This Dialogue was jointly hosted by the Ministry of Commerce and the people’s government of Hubei province, ...
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Seepage of residual oil previously leaked from PetroChina Lanzhou Petrochemical Co.'s 10.5 million mt/year (210,000 b/d) integrated refinery and petrochemical complex into the water source for water works was behind the unusually high ...
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Veolia Water Solutions and Technologies are to supply PT Asahi Indofood Beverage Makmur with a wastewater treatment plant for a beverage production facility. The beverage plant is in Sukabumi, West Java, Indonesia and the anaerobic ...
HARKAND has increased its presence in the burgeoning Asia Pacific region by securing a clutch of multi-million dollar contracts for execution in 2013/14. Under a deal with PTSC Offshore Services, the ROV support vessel Harkand Harmony has ...
Pentair announced that it received an Aquatech Innovation Award for the Memthane Anaerobic Membrane Bio-Reactor (MBR), a joint innovation between Pentair and Veolia Biothane. Aquatech Amsterdam is the world s top trade exhibition for ...
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Veolia presents two new wastewater treatment processes that 'significantly improve efficiency and reduce costs'. Veolia Water has reported it has introduced two new wastewater processes which significantly improve efficiency and reduce ...
Veolia Water is to design, build and operate Saudi Arabia's largest ultrafiltration and reverse osmosis desalination plant at the Sadara Petrochemical Complex in Jubail City. The new 178 000 m3 per day plant will supply the Sadara ...
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