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...He also noted that the lifecycle assessments were based on the premise that all plastic tubs would be recycled, compared with Europe’s actual plastic recycling rate of about 40 per cent....
...It is also on track to eliminate single-use plastic bags used in packaging its bricks by 2025 with many current sets featuring paper containers instead....
...The rules to cut packaging waste, provisionally agreed by EU lawmakers on Monday night, failed however to outlaw cardboard fast-food cartons and coffee cups or force consumers to use reusable containers....
...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....
..., plastic reusable containers used less water and were less carbon-intensive....
...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....
...“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...
...And we have not made much progress on recycling and reuse. More than 80 per cent of waste still escapes such efforts....
...The World Bank and Citi have launched a $100mn bond to combat waste, with repayments partly determined by the sale of plastic and carbon offset credits....
...They could also tackle plastic waste, oil spills and other toxic pollutants....
...Instead, they proposed a voluntary, “bottom-up” approach focused on improvements to plastic recycling....
...Even when done in the right way, there are limits to recycling — or at least to the so-called mechanical recycling that is the global norm, where waste plastic is sorted, shredded, melted and turned into...
...Plastic fantastic Europe’s packaging industry has warned that slow progress on waste rules could make it even more confusing for consumers to know what to do with their used containers, writes Alice Hancock...
...Disposable coffee cups look like they should be recycled, but most are a mix of plastic and paper, which is hard to separate. Mostly, they should go in the main waste bin....
...The glut of virgin plastic presents a challenge to companies trying to reduce their reliance on single-use plastics in the face of stricter regulation and government pledges to reduce plastic waste pollution...
...“If you’ve got to address climate, you’ve got to address the plastic waste problem in this world,” he said....
...[transform] waste into new job and income opportunities”....
...They argue that unless the production of cheap plastics is curtailed, the finances of recycling waste will not be economical....
...Pepsi responded that it was “serious about plastic reduction and effective recycling”. A start-up in Seattle is trying to fix the recycling problem with a subscription service for waste disposal....
...By far the largest project of those is the Deekali plastic collection and recycling project in Senegal, approved by Verra in June, which says it brings together hundreds of waste collectors and three recycling...
...Payments would be made to a publicly run scheme administrator before being passed to councils to collect plastic waste and handle its recycling....
...The world’s three other biggest smartphone vendors, by volume — Samsung, Xiaomi and OPPO — also offer e-waste take-back schemes and recycling programmes via WEEE partners....
...Cars were a novelty once; so were oil wells, plastic bottles and coal-fired power stations....
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