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The introduction of the new UK Plastic Packaging Tax comes into force on 1 April 2022, following the 10 May 2021 guidance on how businesses that manufacture or import packaging to the UK must proceed.
By now, we are all familiar with the controversy and challenges surrounding the usage of hydrocarbon-based plastics, which have fallen from wonder materials to world-polluting menaces in the span of 100 years.
Factories have been the heart of industry for centuries, dating back to the early days of the Industrial Revolution.
The pandemic has undoubtedly caused world-wide disruption in every sector, one of which is the Circular Economy where numerous sustainability initiatives have slowed down or ground to a halt. One area that has expanded, however, is Polypropylene (PP) single-use containers as global take-away food demand has soared.
The circular economy is a term that is increasingly being rolled out by organisations around the world to define how they are taking everything from climate change to waste management seriously. We are, however, way past the point of bold statements and definitions. Transformational actions are urgently needed.
Better design for electronics recycling will minimise the use of hazardous materials and introduce more sustainability into the electronics industry.
America is in a period of transition to an economy increasingly focused on renewable supplies and products with less social and environmental impacts.
This familiar children’s song tells of two characters, Henry and Liza, trying unsuccessfully to fix a hole in his leaky bucket.
The Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging Challenge Fund (SSPP) was established to support investment in research and innovation in plastic packaging to help the UK achieve the very stretching Plastic Pact targets.
At the recent inaugural virtual Global Research Innovation in Plastics Sustainability conference, Physical Chemistry Professor Tony Ryan, OBE, from the University of Sheffield,
offered an alternative take on the practice of landfilling.
Albert Einstein famously said that ‘We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.’
But still not good enough, says Anindya Mukherjee, a founding member of Go!PHA, the non-profit initiative created to accelerate the development of the PHA-platform industry.
The use of plastic is vital in our everyday lives. Yet most plastic is based on non-renewable fossil-based resources, which is not a sustainable situation. How can plastics become more sustainable?
