Business & Industry
Sustainable Packaging 2020
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3 ways sustainable packaging helps you sell online
50% of internet postal packaging is not recycled (bubble mailers, polybags, plastic tape & voidfill). Watch the video below to learn how Lil Packaging is helping online business owner, Harriet, use more sustainable packaging. Lil Packaging’s Commitment To Sustainability “At Lil Packaging it is our mission to provide internet & mail-order businesses with a greatly...
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Helping businesses invest in circular economy
Urgent global issues pose huge challenges to companies. To tackle them requires a transformation of business models, and even entire production and consumption systems. Investing in circular economy models offers businesses the opportunity to address global challenges like climate change and biodiversity loss, by designing out waste and pollution, keeping products and materials in use,...
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A circular economy for all resources
The meteoric rise in our use of plastic, from just 1.7 million tonnes in 1950 to more than 350 million tonnes a year today, enabled a wholehearted embrace of throwaway living. This ‘on the go’, single use way of life is now firmly embedded in our society and, in some ways, has been exacerbated by...
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The real stats don’t lie; big plastic is on the run
BIG plastic would have you think its best days are ahead of it. And they’re prepared to provide you with a deluge of figures to prove it. The industry boasts it has invested more than £150 billion in petrochemical plastic capacity over the past decade in the US alone. The British Plastics Federation presents the...
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A flexible approach to tackling plastic pollution
One of the biggest challenges we face in tackling plastic pollution is soft, flexible plastics, like bags and wrapping. These plastics are lightweight and water-tight and an efficient packaging solution for many products. But the biggest challenge lies in recycling them. Flexible plastics constitute a quarter of all UK consumer plastic packaging by weight, but...
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Plastic packaging tax starting in April 2022
Plastic waste is a pressing issue both here and abroad. Often, it does not decompose and can last centuries in landfill, or else ends up littering the streets or polluting the natural environment. Every year over 2 million tonnes of plastic packaging are used in the UK alone.[1] The vast majority of plastic packaging originates...
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These essential workers are slipping through the cracks
Waste pickers are among society’s most essential workers. They’re also some of the most marginalised. Here’s how you and I can help them through this crisis. From Jakarta to Brooklyn, from Dakar to Rio de Janeiro, waste pickers have laboured tirelessly for decades to keep our streets clean and liveable – all without guaranteed pay,...
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Recycling the unrecyclable – how advanced recycling is the answer to eliminating environmental plastic pollution
With the UK’s recycling rate at just 45%1, the majority of plastic packaging is sent to incineration or landfill, resulting in environmental plastic pollution and increasing CO2 emissions. With the goal of recycling 500,000 tonnes of plastic waste annually by 2025, Mura Technology present Cat-HTR™ – the future of plastic recycling. Despite growing rates of...
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“Carbon dieting” – why we need renewable feedstock
With the threat of climate change and global warming now ever-present, the onus is on all of us to take action. Temperatures on earth are rising. Although the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has calculated that a 1.5-degree rise should be the maximum allowed, we are currently facing a two-degree rise. This is something...
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Reframing sustainability while unlocking brand love
COVID-19 has created a unique point in time for business; those that take real action will emerge as winners. COVID-19 has created a perfect storm with businesses’ behaviours under the spotlight for how they are treating their employees and customers, to how they are helping solve this interlinked health and climate crisis, right through to...