2:31 min Sustainability & Circular Economy, Packaging & Application
Reduction

Finland: Agreement to reduce consumption of single-use plastic cups and food packages

Finland wants to introduce a voluntary Green Deal agreement to reduce the consumption of single-use plastic cups and certain food packages. The aim of the agreement is to find the most effective and, from the perspective of the businesses, feasible ways to fulfil the EU obligations. ...
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2:90 min Sustainability & Circular Economy, PET materials
Expansion

FrieslandCampina once again investing in sustainable PET line for production facility in Aalter

FrieslandCampina is investing in a third PET line for its production facility in ...
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3:90 min Sustainability & Circular Economy
New plant

Viridor’s new £317m Avonmouth plastics reprocessing and waste management centre offically opened by UK government minister

£317m centre will process 1.6 billion plastic items and divert 320,00-tonnes of ...
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1:32 min Strategies & Market Analysis, Sustainability & Circular Economy
Review

Berry Global’s impact report signals significant strides in ESG actions

Berry Global Group, Inc. has launched its 2021 Impact Report, delivering a comprehensive and transparent assessment of the Company’s progress in meeting its ambitious worldwide Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) targets.
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1:39 min Sustainability & Circular Economy
Recognition

Dutch PET Recycling BV is the first company in the Netherlands to obtain the global Ocean Bound Plastic (OBP) certificate

Dutch PET Recycling is a plastic recycling company with a focus on rPET bottles/flakes, connecting local recycling companies with the demand from the circular plastic industry.
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5:17 min Sustainability & Circular Economy
Acquisition

A Closed Loop Partners managed investment fund leads a consortium of investors in acquiring Sims Municipal Recycling, one of the largest privately held recycling companies in the world

The Closed Loop Leadership Fund, L.P., a private investment fund managed by Closed Loop Partners (CLP), has led a consortium of investors, including the Partnership Fund for New York City, in acquiring a majority stake in Sims Municipal Recycling (SMR).
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3:32 min Sustainability & Circular Economy
Fund

Plastic packaging innovations receive £30 million boost from UKRI

The Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging (SSPP) Challenge has announced £30 million in funding for 18 groundbreaking collaborative projects.
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1:44 min Sustainability & Circular Economy
Sustainability

UN Environment Assembly opens, sets sites on ending plastic pollution

Delegates were looking to advance a global agreement on plastic pollution, among a ...
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1:10 min Strategies & Market Analysis, Sustainability & Circular Economy
Monitoring system

PolyREC® launches RecoTrace™, the multipolymer data collection system to record European recycled plastic data

PolyREC® now a recognized data collector for the Circular Plastics Alliance (CPA) RecoTrace™ is the first comprehensive data system to monitor plastic recycling and recycled plastics use Call on plastics recyclers and converters to register recycled plastics data in RecoTrace™
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1:19 min Sustainability & Circular Economy
Approval

Norner offers RecyClass certification and testing

Norwegian company Norner has gained official approval as a RecyClass certification body and recognised laboratory.
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