2:17 min Sustainability & Circular Economy
Legislation
New California law requires all packaging to be recyclable or compostable, significantly cutting plastics use
Legislation strengthens state’s recycling system and shifts burden of plastic waste from Californians to the plastics and packaging industry.
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1:17 min rPET & PET Flakes
Joint venture
Circularix and Macquarie Group to build and operate PET recycling plants across U.S.
HPC Industries LLC and Macquarie Group's Commodities and Global Markets group (Macquarie) have formed a joint venture to produce recycled polyethylene terephthalate (rPET).
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2:40 min Sustainability & Circular Economy
Ban
India: Ban on identified single use plastic items from 1st July 2022
National and State level control rooms to be set up for checking illegal manufacture, import, stocking, distribution, sale and use of banned single use plastic items Success of the ban possible only through effective engagement and concerted actions by all stakeholders Public ...
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2:50 min Sustainability & Circular Economy
DRS
TOMRA: Romania prepares for deposit return system
Romania is on a rapidly approaching deadline to launch its deposit return system in October 2022 (in accordance with Government Decision 1074/2021), to align with the targets of the European Union’s Single-Use Plastics Directive and to tackle beverage container pollution.
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1:44 min Sustainability & Circular Economy
Award for multilayer PET plastic recycling
REPETCO receives the Retina ECO award to the SME in innovation and sustainability
The event was presided over by H.M. The Queen of Spain. Retina ECO awarded the technology developed by REPETCO for the recycling of food multilayer PET plastics.
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