3:16 min Global themes, Sustainability & Circular Economy
Sustainability

Alliance To End Plastic Waste welcomes four new companies to its global coalition to help combat plastic waste in the environment

The Alliance to End Plastic Waste (AEPW) announced four new companies from across the plastics value chain have joined its ranks in an effort to help end plastic waste in the environment. The new members, Charter NEX Films, Milliken & Company, Pregis and Geocycle add to AEPW’s ...
0:50 min Global themes, Sustainability & Circular Economy
Funding

Troy University receives additional $2.7 million grant for plastics recycling research

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has awarded Troy University a $2.7 million research grant to be used by the University’s Center for Materials and Manufacturing Sciences to research new methods for recycling plastics.
2:80 min Global themes, Sustainability & Circular Economy
Partnership

Borealis, Nestlé, and Walmart join New Plastics Economy as Core Partners

Borealis, Nestlé, and Walmart have joined eight other leading businesses to become part of the Core Partners group for the New Plastics Economy, an initiative which brings together key stakeholders to rethink and redesign the future of plastics. Beginning with plastic packaging, the ...
1:20 min Global themes, Sustainability & Circular Economy
Switch

Coca-Cola in Sweden first out to change the entire locally produced PET portfolio to 100 percent recycled plastic

Coca-Cola in Sweden is the first market in the world to switch to 100 percent ...
2:90 min Global themes, Sustainability & Circular Economy
Recycling

Viridor and Unilever agree five-year contract for recycled plastic

Viridor and Unilever have agreed a new contract which will see Unilever receive of a range of recycled plastic from Viridor’s £65m Avonmouth Resource Recovery Centre near Bristol.
2:50 min Global themes, Sustainability & Circular Economy
Sustainability

McDonald’s launches innovative ‘Better M’ platform to showcase packaging & recycling solutions and Europe-wide customer trials

McDonald’s announced a wide-ranging programme to remove and minimise plastic and improve recyclability in packaging across Europe. The plan comprises removal of McFlurry lids across every European country in which McDonald’s operates and the rollout of a new fibre-based lid across ...
1:41 min Global themes, Sustainability & Circular Economy
Campaign

Amcor leads industry conversation with “Choose Plastic” initiative

Lightweight, shatterproof, transparent, recloseable, resealable and infinitely ...
1:26 min Global themes, Sustainability & Circular Economy
Announcement

Suntory Group joins the Global Plastic Action Partnership

Suntory Group today announced that it has joined the Global Plastic Action Partnership (GPAP), a global platform that works to effectively and sustainably reduce plastic waste and pollution around the world. This partnership will help Suntory be part of a more sustainable society ...
3:26 min Global themes, Sustainability & Circular Economy
Speech

President and CEO of the alliance to end plastic waste gives keynote speech in Singapore at the responsible business forum on sustainable development

On November 18th, Alliance to End Plastic Waste President and CEO, Jacob Duer, addressed this 2019 Responsible Business Forum on Sustainable Development in Singapore to discuss circularity and the Alliance’s role in helping end plastic waste in ...
4:28 min Global themes, Sustainability & Circular Economy
Waste collection project in the megacity Bekasi over a period of three years

One Earth – One Ocean e.V. cooperates with Schwarz Group – Joint river cleaning project on Java/Indonesia

The environmental organization One Earth – One Ocean e.V. (OEOO) together with the ...