Articles Tagged with ''sustainability''

Collaborative effort demonstrates a recycle-to-energy alternative that diverts plastic waste from landfills

It represents one of FSC’s largest multi-site certifications, covering a total of 92 facilities worldwide.

Numi Organic Tea partners with Mother Parkers Tea & Coffee to launch tea, available in recyclable pod.

Biome Bioplastics has undertaken pioneering research with the University of Warwick that has successfully demonstrated the feasibility of extracting organic chemicals from lignin for the manufacture of bioplastics.

While plastic packaging is the fastest growing form of packaging in the U.S. in large part due to the popularity of fast food and consumer beverages, only 14% of it is recycled.

Growing consumer interest in food provenance and production methods is leading to a spike in traceability schemes.

The website launched already for the U.S. market in English and will be rolled out globally over the course of the first half of 2015.

In the last two years, Recycling Reinvented has worked to introduce legislation in several states and commission a cost-benefit study for Minnesota to show how EPR could increasing recycling rates and find cost efficiencies on a statewide level.

PLAPACK project has finished successfully after three years of development. AIMPLAS collaborated in this project, funded by Direct Innovation Line CDTI, along with two research centres and six companies. The result is a new generation of biodegradable plastics of natural sources used for the manufacturing of clothes hangers, disposable household and food packages.