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...This is a process that few municipal waste schemes can handle. Starch coatings can be compostable, but not recyclable....
...“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....
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...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...
...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....
...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....
...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....
...They could also tackle plastic waste, oil spills and other toxic pollutants....
...But demand for the material rocketed as consumer goods companies set targets to cut their reliance on virgin plastics in an attempt to reduce their carbon footprints and plastic waste....
...Whenever there’s a study that dunks on active portfolio management, we’ll be here to cut and paste. Today’s active management dunk comes from Morningstar....
...Activist investor Sparta Capital Management is calling on London-listed engineer Wood Group to consider a US listing to address the “continued underperformance of its shares”....
...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...
...But if biomass-based schemes are to play a major role, they will require close monitoring of land management in far-flung regions....
...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....
...Dell’s family office, DFO Management, has agreed to provide the first outside capital to 5C Investment Partners....
...Tesla faced further setbacks in Sweden after unions said they would stop collecting waste from the US carmaker’s repair centres and the company suffered a legal defeat over the collection of its registration...
...Roaring equity markets and the popularity of a new spot bitcoin exchange traded fund powered BlackRock to record assets under management of $10.5tn and net income that rose by more than one-third....
...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...
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