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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...
...“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....
...A number of barriers hamper the flow of private funding into water tech....
...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...
...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, 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....
...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....
...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...
...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...
...Plenty of US towns seem tempted to try: 75 North American communities have set up Blue Zones projects since the first one in 2009 in Albert Lea, Minnesota, a town of 18,000 people....
...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...
...Rokos Capital Management, which manages about $16bn of assets, is up 8.8 per cent in 2024 to February 16. It told investors that the gains were largely driven by the recent sell-off in bond markets....
...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...
...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...
...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....
...Sanchez Balcazar, head of global bonds at Pictet Asset Management....
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