Collaboration agreement on first ever European OCS certification scheme signed - Unintentional loss of plastic pellets can occur at all stages along the value chain despite the application of the current standard environmental, safety and quality management controls. The “Operation Clean Sweep®”…

Greater participation in the Recycle N Save initiative by the public, with a higher rate of increase of recyclers opting for non-monetary rewards and about one in five of them choosing the ‘No Reward’ option when they recycle.

We cannot afford to waste any more time in our efforts to tackle waste and create sustainable communities. Global waste is expected to reach 3.4 billion tons in 2050 – a 70% increase on the latest figures – and 40% of all current plastic waste is entering and polluting our environment.
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Henkel is reaching a milestone in its engagement for sustainable packaging: The company used almost 700 million bottles made of 100 percent recycled plastics for Laundry & Home Care products in Europe – more than 400 million alone in 2020. The recycled material stems from post-consumer waste,…

Neste successfully processed 400 tons of liquefied plastic waste at its refinery in Finland this fall, an amount corresponding to the annual amount of plastic waste generated by 20,000 average European citizens*. This was the first time Neste processed liquefied waste plastic at an industrial scale.…

HMSHost International, global market leader in the food and hospitality industry for people on the move, puts sustainability firmly on the menu by introducing Vrumona’s 100% recycled plastic (rPET) Sourcy mineral water at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. From this month onwards, all locally sourced…

Alkaline water brand shares plan to divest from traditional plastic bottles, moving to rPET and aluminum in 2021 - Perfect Hydration (pH) – the ultra-purified alkaline water with electrolytes – is converting its 1-liter, 1.5-liter and 1 gallon bottles to post-consumer recycled polyethylene…

Those were the 2000’s, a few months before the Olympic Games in Sydney 2000 take-off, AMUT was handling over to Coca Cola Amatil in New South Wales the first plant in the world for the recycling of PET post-consume bottles, aimed to produce RPET food grade: this is when the application of the…

LyondellBasell one of the world's largest plastics, chemicals and refining companies announced it has joined the United Nations (U.N.) Global Compact, the world's largest corporate sustainability initiative. Under the U.N. Global Compact, signatories are encouraged to align their operations and…

The ISS ESG Corporate Rating considers Environmental, Social and Governance (“ESG”) practices by evaluating more than 100 industry specific indicators. Companies are categorized as Prime if their ESG performance exceeds the threshold criteria for companies in its sector.

Milliken & Company’s Chemical Division has joined the Digital Watermarks Project, a large-scale initiative testing the viability of digital watermarking technologies for the accurate sorting of plastics.

ALPLA produces the pet ‘pearl bottle’ for Genossenschaft Deutscher Brunnen – life cycle assessment confirms sustainability of this packaging solution.