The newly released CELC report provides 5 recommendations for Canadians to evolve the plastics economy from one that is linear and wasteful to one that offers economic growth without waste. Read more.
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Many plastic-based building materials that could be recycled aren’t, because most companies haven’t yet figured out how. The AZEK Company cracked this code, and diverted nearly 300 million pounds of waste from landfills in 2019. Every time an office building or an old home is demolished, all of the broken-down materials have to go somewhere. The US Environmental Protection Agency estimates that 230 million to 530 million tons of construction waste are produced annually — and much of that material ends up in landfills. The bulk of construction and demolition waste is old bricks, masonry, concrete, wood and metal; but it’s not exclusively that. Some plastic-based building materials — such as windows, flooring and decking — that could be recycled aren’t, because companies haven’t yet figured out how to collect and reuse the plastic at the heart of these products.
Over £497,000 of National Lottery Heritage Fund investment will be channelled into improving resilience across the Scottish heritage sector…
With no end in sight for the trade tensions between the US and China, efforts to advance the circular economy in both economies are seemingly under threat.
German supermarket retailer Aldi wants to make its packaging more environmentally friendly.
The plastic industry resists banning single-use plastics even as environmental group EcoWaste points out that it’s the solution to plastic pollution
Tyson Foods created a Coalition for Global Protein, which the company says is a multi-stakeholder initiative for advancing the future of sustainable protein.