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Not kidding. Today I received an anonymous message from a group called the Transparency Collective. I guess they failed to notice the irony.
3 months ago
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47% fewer littered caps! This was AFTER a previous 80% reduction in the number of littered bottles, due to implementation of DRS.
www.packaginginsights.com/news/tethere...
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One year on: Tethered caps reduce litter and reshape beverage bottle design
A year since the implementation of tethered caps, KHS highlights how design experience is central to bottle top innovation, while Zwerfinator, a Netherlands-based environmental activist group, reports...
https://www.packaginginsights.com/news/tethered-caps-impact-pollution-packaging.html
4 months ago
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Ireland’s recycling rate for plastic bottles and aluminium and steel cans has jumped from 49% to 91% since the introduction of the Deposit Return Scheme. Of this, 76% is directly captured via the DRS, with an additional 15% collected through mixed dry recycling.
re-turn.ie/re-turn-2024...
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Re-turn 2024 Annual Report - Re-Turn
Deposit Return Scheme surpasses 1.6 billion as Irish people now recycle 798 million more containers annually.
https://re-turn.ie/re-turn-2024-annual-report/
4 months ago
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Fantastic recycling rates for glass in EU! Note that they use dedicated, separate collection containers in most places to collect glass -- it's not mixed with other materials.
www.packaginginsights.com/news/eu-glas...
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EU glass collection rates climb as countries improve recycling infrastructure and consumer awareness
Glass collection recycling rates are increasing across the EU, with previously underperforming countries improving their national glass collection streams, according to the latest data from Close the ...
https://www.packaginginsights.com/news/eu-glass-recycling-progress-2023.html?vgo_ee=TwYufzSDpum9NcHh6oXyu8K6VxY6Ju%2B3osJU3cm54pfi1qH5evgn6uivBz4Xsx6e%3AWOJaxRGvfPtVyUupVW0IiOU451f3DSMy
5 months ago
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Seem slike a lot of money....$450 billion...
www.plasticsnews.com/news/chemica...
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Chemical recycling will require $453B to become competitive, Bain study says
Recycling polyolefins via pyrolysis twice as expensive as producing virgin polymers in Europe, says a new report.
https://www.plasticsnews.com/news/chemical-recycling-will-require-453b-become-competitive?utm_source=pn-daily-report&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20250527&utm_content=article5-readmore
6 months ago
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Ugh. Pepsi is going backwards on its "target" on 20% reusable packaging.
www.packaginginsights.com/news/pepsico...
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PepsiCo’s reusable packaging rethink stirs waste management debate
PepsiCo has scrapped its 20% reusable packaging by 2030 target. Instead, the beverage giant will now follow a broader agenda aimed at 97% of its packaging being reusable, recyclable, or compostable by...
https://www.packaginginsights.com/news/pepsico-drops-reuse-goal-packaging-2030.html?vgo_ee=e01yWTpRw6u5%2BDd5mPPuUo64Gl%2F9JCELZ6zKWRUczRptkcrYWfydNQmm7QUHbEH%2B%3AMYatorjTzj8FDn1Xa0R87xh%2BoE%2FBhkc6
6 months ago
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Container Recycling Institute
9 months ago
U.S. aluminum beverage can waste is sky-high. CRI's new report - "Improving Efficiency and Sustainability in Aluminum Beverage Can Recycling - explains why, & provides data-based strategies to change this. Read the report:
www.container-recycling.org/index.php/pu...
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Walmart had a goal of using 17% recycled content in their own ("private-brand") plastic packaging by 2025. Instead, they increased their use from 7% in 2021 to 8% in 2023.
www.wastedive.com/news/walmart...
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Walmart says it’s unlikely to meet 2025 plastic, recycling targets
The largest U.S. retailer discussed challenges to increasing PCR adoption. More than two-thirds of its global private-brand packaging was recyclable, reusable or industrially compostable in 2023, acco...
https://www.wastedive.com/news/walmart-packaging-sustainability-goals-plastic/742322/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Issue:%202025-03-12%20Waste%20Dive%20Newsletter%20%5Bissue:71228%5D&utm_term=Waste%20Dive
9 months ago
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reposted by
Container Recycling Institute
9 months ago
A new CRI report shows that implementation of a national beverage container deposit return system (#DRS, aka
#bottlebill
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www.container-recycling.org/index.php/pu...
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Aluminum UBCs
CRI is the model organization instrumental in bringing about a rapid increase in recycling for a world where no material is wasted, and the environment is protected. We succeed because companies and p...
https://www.container-recycling.org/index.php/publications/aluminum-ubc-report
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150 people attended "Deposit Return Scheme Day" in Tehran, Iran last week.
www.tehrantimes.com/news/510204/...
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Deposit Return Scheme Day held in Tehran
TEHRAN – The University of Tehran has held an event titled “Deposit Return Scheme Day” aimed to raise awareness about combating plastic pollution and recycling single-use beverage containers.
https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/510204/Deposit-Return-Scheme-Day-held-in-Tehran
9 months ago
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Eric Feigl-Ding
9 months ago
NEW—Despite pressure, GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson says he will not relent on forcing steep Medicaid cuts. Medicaid pay for over 40% of all births in the US, and over 60% of all seniors in nursing homes. All to pay for multi-trillion $ tax cuts for billionaires.
www.politico.com/live-updates...
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Ami Berger
10 months ago
The cognitive dissonance of getting up every morning and making coffee and walking the dog and going to meetings and answering emails and wondering what to make for dinner while there is a real live actual coup d’etat happening is BONKERS
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Ready, fire, blame! Someone ordered the Army Corps of Engineers to release water at a rate that would have caused flooding. Mind you, that's water that needs to be stored now so it can be used later to water crops in the central valley when the hot, dry summer comes.
www.politico.com/news/2025/01...
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Trump says he opened California’s water. Local officials say he nearly flooded them.
The Army Corps of Engineers moved to release massive quantities of water in Central California, panicking local officials.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/31/trump-california-water-00201909?utm_source=www.doomsdayscenario.co&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=musk-s-junta-establishes-him-as-head-of-government
10 months ago
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Eric Holthaus
11 months ago
A reminder that Los Angeles had its hottest summer in history last year. Southern California has received just 2% of "normal" rainfall during the current "rainy" season. These fires are a direct result of a warming & drying atmosphere caused by burning fossil fuels. We are in a climate emergency.
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So sad to hear that our favorite hiking spot in LA burned down. The Will Rogers historic buildings were such a gem. There were historic photographs and movies in the little museum....https://www.parks.ca.gov/NewsRelease/1346
11 months ago
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