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...Disagreements over how the 400mn tonnes of annual plastic waste should be managed have stalled negotiations....
...In practice, however, it has been tough attracting financing to what is a slow-moving, highly regulated sector — and one based around a resource for which, many argue, large companies and agribusinesses...
...The group’s energy activities are largely aimed at using existing resources such as capturing excess heat from industrial processes or burning non-recyclable waste....
...Waste-management companies like Republic Services also say they see an opportunity for profit....
...But if biomass-based schemes are to play a major role, they will require close monitoring of land management in far-flung regions....
...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...
...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....
...[transform] waste into new job and income opportunities”....
...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 Waste and Resources Action Programme, or Wrap, a green campaign group, says that clearer and more consistent labelling is an obvious starting point, along with pack sizes and formats to suit single-occupancy...
...if we want to be serious about resources.”...
...Recycling “is essentially an industry of waste management”, Vishvakarma says. “The goal tends to be to get rid of it, out of mind and out of sight.”...
...He points out that the Sellafield nuclear waste management plant in Cumbria is using an AI-powered robot to keep its operators “out of harm’s way”....
...“Solar product and component manufacturers are taking the lead and looking at ways to increase the recyclability and end-of-life management of their products,” Clyncke adds....
...It is startling that the UK government appears to have traded £500mn of taxpayer subsidies for 3,000 upfront job losses in south Wales, without a management plan or phasing agreed....
...I’m a big believer in, if they cannot deal with the waste, why do it?”...
...“I’m pretty tired of constantly worrying that somebody in Washington DC makes a decision that’s going to impact my family in Fayette county,” said Nick Staffieri, a waste management team leader at EQT Corporation...
...As well as solar and wind power, the asset manager has exposure to anaerobic digestion (which generates energy from methane produced from waste) and “waste to energy” schemes....
...In November, New York state sued PepsiCo for plastic waste pollution....
Australian pension fund CIO discusses sustainable investing amid political uncertainty
...ReLondon, for example, is a partnership of London boroughs that aims to improve resource management....
...Instead, IRH said in a statement that it believed “sustainable mining can propel economic growth, deliver meaningful impact in communities, and position the UAE as a global leader in resource management”...
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