Sustainability
Sustainability
Dutch B Corp Dopper this year became the first company to create a range of reusable water bottles that have been awarded Gold level certification from the Cradle to Cradle Product Innovation Institute.
A new study analysing the Norwegian plastics system says a major portion of the country’s circularity and net zero emissions goals are achievable by 2040, but that this will require ‘ambitious policies, innovation, capital investment, cross value-chain collaboration, consumer engagement and labour force reskilling’.
The global plastics processor is out with its latest environmental, social and governance report.
A new report from the White House calls for rapid advancements over the next 20 years in bio-based plastics as part of a bigger government biotech strategy.
Nova Chemicals Corp. has embarked on an ambitious ESG (environmental, social and governance) campaign, with plans to invest as much as $4 billion on sustainable and circular projects.
Essen, Germany - Evonik’s Sustainability Tech Fund, established in 2022 by the venture capital arm of the company, has invested in the British specialist in compatibiliser technology, Interface Polymers Ltd.
Vienna-based Starlinger, a machinery manufacturer and leading producer of woven plastic bag production plants, has released its 2022 sustainability report. It is the company’s first. Available in English and German, the report provides information about Starlinger’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) policy as well as about the measures the company has already implemented.
More than 740 financial institutions holding $136 trillion in assets are, for the first time, seeking plastics pollution-related environmental impact disclosures from thousands of companies.
AMHERST, Mass., U.S. / NOVARA, Italy – OrthoLite, a provider of sustainable, performance and comfort insoles and footwear materials, and bioplastics producer Novamont have successfully created the world’s first circular foam material solution for footwear, the two companies have announced.
A variety of factors — among them, inflation, labor and falling virgin resin prices — have conspired to cause market problems for reclaimers.
Multinational plastic packaging producer Retal has continued its upward trend this year once again with a three-point increase over last year’s EcoVadis score - an achievement largely driven by its Environmental score.
Mepol makes recycled, high-performing technical compounds, officials with LyondellBasell in Dallas said in a news release. It operates compounding plants in Italy and Poland.
Belgium-headquartered waste management company Indaver has selected technology developed by Swiss fluid engineering company Sulzer Chemtech for its new Plastics2Chemicals (P2C) plant.
"Everyone wants to achieve sustainability goals and lower emissions," Deloitte Consulting LLP's David Yankovitz says. "They're trying to figure out what part of the ecosystem they can control and what they can do to act on it."