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...This is a process that few municipal waste schemes can handle. Starch coatings can be compostable, but not recyclable....
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...“With the history of the packaging law and the misinformation campaigns on it, it’s not the best deal we could have dreamt of,” said Seán Flynn of the campaign group Zero Waste Europe....
...Packaging waste in the EU has increased about 20 per cent between 2009 and 2020 — a rate much faster than the bloc’s economic growth — to an average of 177kg per capita, despite an increase in recycling....
...The chief executive of French waste and water group Veolia has urged European governments to do more to cut red tape on permits to speed up renewable energy projects....
Start-ups looking to serve a thirsty planet may find it easier to raise funds as droughts make headlines
...Waste-management companies like Republic Services also say they see an opportunity for profit....
...It is also a key location for haters of food waste....
...Frédérique Ries, a liberal Belgian MEP who led negotiations on the law, hailed parliament’s vote as “a strong message in favour of a complete overhaul” of packaging and waste management in the EU....
...Agriton is involved in a project with Reading University, which is working with Reading Council to determine how bokashi could be used in waste management....
...They could also tackle plastic waste, oil spills and other toxic pollutants....
...But if biomass-based schemes are to play a major role, they will require close monitoring of land management in far-flung regions....
...Oil-producing countries have stalled efforts to draft the first legally binding international agreement on cutting plastic pollution, proposing to move the focus to waste management rather than scaling down...
...The head of supply chain management at the Aurubis plant in Lünen added that this was a “challenge”, pointing to the difficult process of estimating how much gold, silver and palladium the whole shipment...
...[transform] waste into new job and income opportunities”....
...The EU legislation, first proposed by the commission in 2022, aims to cut waste by setting targets for recycled content in packaging used for products sold in the bloc....
...More than 80 per cent of waste still escapes such efforts. The scarcity of recycled plastic is a problem for consumer goods companies, particularly those in highly exposed sectors such as beverages....
...It is calling for policy action on three fronts: scrap exports should only be allowed to countries that can demonstrate their ability to treat waste sustainably, the retention of scrap in the UK should be...
...EQT, a Stockholm-based private equity and infrastructure investor, is investing in the sustainability of rising US industrial production as a need for waste management is generated by plants manufacturing...
...The OECD says that waste management systems in non-OECD countries will require $1tn of investment to achieve global plastic recycling goals. Companies can do their bit....
...I’m a big believer in, if they cannot deal with the waste, why do it?”...
...plus policymakers, to tackle the problem of plastic waste at a city-by-city level....
...The FT’s waste collector charges four times more for each kilo of general waste than for a kilo of separate food waste....
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