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Rare Earth Elements are Contaminating Consumer and Environmental Plastics

According to a new study, some of the rarest metals found on Earth - utilized in smartphones and other electrical equipment manufacturing - are increasingly being found in day-to-day consumer plastics.

18 Feb 2021

Performance Food Group and WestRock Launch Sustainability Initiative

February 8, 2021 Performance Food Group, and pizza box manufacturer, WestRock are working together to deliver Sustainable Choices™ - a pizza box recycling educational program - to pizza box customers, and pizza consumers across the US.

10 Feb 2021

Using Food Waste Byproducts for Agricultural Purposes

There's a better end for used food than taking up space in landfills and contributing to global warming.

28 Jan 2021

Student Initiative Saves Over 30 Tonnes of Face Mask Waste From Entering Landfill

Mask Bros’ co-founders, Frederik Filz and Cogan Wade, the student pioneers who exposed price-gouging by major British high-street stores in 2020, are pleased to announce that they have now supplied 25 million of their fully recyclable medical masks to businesses and consumers and has consequently saved over 30 tonnes of mask waste from going to landfill.

27 Jan 2021

New Catalyst Process Recycles Plastic Waste into Useful Materials

Scientists have used an innovative catalyst process to recycle a certain kind of plastic for the first time.

6 Jan 2021

New Technology can Remove Harmful Pollutants from Drinking Water

There is no life without drinkable water. But despite this scary fact, almost 1.1 billion people across the world do not have access to freshwater, while another 2.4 billion individuals suffer from diseases caused by unclean drinking water.

10 Dec 2020

Crest, Oral-B and Blend-a-med Announce the Launch of Their First Ever Recyclable HDPE Toothpaste Tubes in North America and Europe

Today, Procter & Gamble Oral Care unveils its newest packaging innovation across its leading toothpaste brands, Crest, Oral-B and Blend-a-med. This announcement increases the level of recyclability of its toothpaste tubes, as part of the P&G Ambition 2030 commitments of achieving 100% recyclable or reusable packaging.

2 Dec 2020

Inverform™ – A New, Sustainable Paperboard Alternative to Plastic Food Trays

Iggesund Paperboard’s new InverformTM for ready-made food packaging trays ticks all the boxes for sustainability and performance.

From Holmen Iggesund 18 Nov 2020

PUB, Singapore’s National Water Agency Selects ABB to Automate World’s Largest Membrane Bioreactor

With a treatment capacity of 800,000m³? per day – enough to fill over 300 Olympic-size swimming pools – the Tuas Water Reclamation Plant will ensure Singapore’s water security through the reclamation of used water.

From ABB 17 Nov 2020

Breakthrough Can Help Drive New Recycling and Manufacturing Prerosperity

Research by the UNSW Sustainable Materials Research and Technology (SMaRT) Centre has found a way that could start a new ‘green aluminium’ manufacturing revolution and bolster Government 2020 Budget and industry efforts to advance Australian manufacturing, and be more sustainable and create new jobs.

12 Nov 2020