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...In 2022, as part of its Green Deal, the European parliament proposed ambitious legislation to standardise rules on packaging waste across the bloc, including targets for reducing the amount of material used...
...Lego has instead decided to try to improve the carbon footprint over time of ABS, which currently needs about 2kg of petroleum to make 1kg of plastic....
...“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....
...Disagreements over how the 400mn tonnes of annual plastic waste should be managed have stalled negotiations....
...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....
...A number of barriers hamper the flow of private funding into water tech....
...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...
...Waste-management companies, on the other hand, are expected to pass through most of their extra costs to ratepayers/all of us: The waste industry is likely to pass along the costs of PFAS treatment to customers...
...It is also a key location for haters of food waste....
...Around the waste management facility are huge fields of degraded, gravelly soil. Melta took a tractor load of its end-product compost and dumped it in one of the fields....
...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....
...Given the scale of pollution and waste, more companies like this will be needed....
...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...
...This generates a lot of waste: each year, millions of tonnes of methane-generating spent coffee grounds go to landfill, along with many of the disposable cups used by coffee outlets....
...“It would be absurd for European consumers to finance the low-cost recycling of Asian packaging while, at the same time, the recycling of European packaging waste remains locked in a permanent price crisis...
...“It’s like someone saying they are sending less waste to landfill when they are throwing their rubbish bags into a neighbour’s garden instead....
...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....
...Theddlethorpe, a few miles up the road, is one of three areas in England being considered by the UK for a 36km square underground site to dispose of nuclear waste as it decays, some of it over hundreds of...
...plus policymakers, to tackle the problem of plastic waste at a city-by-city level....
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