Recycling end-of-life plastic is still the best route for recovering this versatile and long-life material. Processing the material is the best way to preserve valuable resources and reduce negative environmental impact. “Plastic recycling does work. Littering plastics has a ...

South Africa’s plastic recycling industry was severely challenged but delivered figures that are to be applauded. This is the opinion of South African National Bottled Water Association (SANBWA) CEO, Charlotte Metcalf, who listed the major challenges as ongoing load-shedding, water ...

Suntory Group tannounced that, as a crucial step toward its aim to use 100% ...

Consumer confusion risks undermining the UK Government’s flagship recycling policy, the Deposit Return Scheme, new research (1) from Tetra Pak has revealed.

UK Plastics Pact members have reduced problematic single-use plastic items by 46% and reduced the amount of packaging on supermarket shelves by 10% in the period 2018-2020. Recycled content has doubled in two years through Pact action, saving 140,000 tonnes of CO2e. Although in ...

Aldi is trialling its first deposit return scheme at its Bathgate store in West ...

Thanks to a new collaboration with Malaysia-based plastic recycling company HHI, ...

Sustainability charity WRAP and Innovate UK have launched a major new UK fund to reduce the impact of plastics on the environment in India, Chile, Kenya and South Africa.

With a new project organization, BASF is bundling and accelerating its extensive cross-company activities to reduce its CO2 emissions by 25 percent by 2030 compared with 2018 and become climate neutral by 2050. The unit, called “Net Zero Accelerator”, focuses on implementing and ...

A €2.9 million project aimed at tackling plastic packaging pollution has been ...