Day: May 17, 2020
European Trade Associations Back Mandatory Recycled Content Policy « Recycling « Waste Management World
EuRIC and FEAD have offered their full support to the European Parliament’s draft report to make it mandatory to produce beverage containers with at least 25% of recycled plastics by 2025….
INCPEN join OPRL’s guarantors
INCPEN has joined OPRL’s guarantors, recognising that the two organisations shared membership and mutual interests in packaging recyclability.
Henkel sustainable packaging: ‘ambitious targets’ set
Henkel, parent-company of Schwarzkopf, has announced it is taking decisive steps towards sustainable packaging.
Rare Metals from e-Waste | myScience / News
8.01.2019 – This year, beautifully wrapped laptops, mobile phones or even new TV sets lay under numerous Christmas trees. They are enthusiastically put into use – and the old electronic devices are disposed of.
Tuck School of Business | How E-Waste Encourages Competitors to Collaborate
Research by Tuck professor Laurens Debo investigates optimal scenarios for recycling electronics and discovers uncommon coalitions between competing firms….
Unilever and Veolia sign Collaboration Agreement on Sustainable Packaging
Unilever and Veolia announced that they have signed a collaboration agreement to jointly work on emerging technologies that will help create a circular economy on plastics across various geographies, starting in India and Indonesia.
Terrasse des Canaux, a temporary space built with circular economy
Discover this temporary space, built using materials from company building sites and other sources!
Paris is building the world’s greenest business district. What can other cities learn from it?
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How repairable kitchen product business Pivoke tackles e-waste
KASEY Hou set up her repairable flatpack toaster business, Pivoke, to tackle the growing problem of e-waste as part of a student project when she……
ESA Report: Are Weight Based Recycling Targets Fit For Purpose?
The Environmental Services Association (ESA) has today (20 August) launched the second of two new reports looking at what it will take to meet the (weight based) recycling targets proposed by the EU Circular Economy Package.
Unilever & Veolia Sign Collaboration Agreement On Sustainable Packaging
Unilever and Veolia have announced that they have signed a collaboration agreement to jointly work on emerging technologies that will help create a circular economy on plastics across various geographies, starting in India and Indonesia.
How One E-Waste Recycler Uses Education to Incentivize the Right Behaviors | Sustainable Brands
Companies of all sizes dedicate increasing shares of their capital and operating budgets to the acquisition of IT hardware and services. Disposition often remains an afterthought; and, as with most forgotten line items, there is often no budget attached to this part of the lifecycle.
Jebel Ali Move for Sims Recycling Solutions E-Waste Recycling Facility in UAE
Sims Recycling Solutions has moved to a larger facility in Jebel Ali due to high demand for services in the United Arab Emirates….
So You Recycled Your Old Laptop. Here’s Where It Might’ve Gone
As e-waste inundates the globe, companies are scrambling to keep it out of landfills.
War on e-waste
These days, technology plays a big part in our lives but that technology usually only lasts for a very small part of our lives. So, what happens to all of our old TVs, phones and computers?
E-Waste Activists Crash One of the World’s Biggest Tech Parties
Crowds likely did a double-take this week as they streamed into Mobile World Congress, the largest mobile tech conference on the planet. And not because of the new gadgets. Activists took over the sidewalk in front of the MWC to (literally) illustrate the environmental impact of e-waste. As far as messages go, this one ain’t subtle. The 3D pavement art opens a chasm of e-waste under the feet of attendees.
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