Nestlé to invest €1.68 billion in sustainable packaging

Building on its 2018 commitment to make 100% of its packaging recyclable or reusable by 2025, Nestlé is aiming to reduce its use of virgin plastics by one third in the same period whilst working with others to advance the circular economy and endeavour to clean up plastic waste from oceans, lakes, and rivers.

How P&G and IKEA talk about circularity

when it comes to talking up the benefits of a circular economy, we’re hearing companies tout remanufacturing, repair, refurbishment, “product as a service” (aka rental) versus ownership, recirculation of stuff, the reuse of containers  — and the regenerative nature of all these behaviors.

Ocean plastics to nearly triple by 2040, MacArthur Foundation warns

COWES – The Ellen MacArthur Foundation has released Breaking the Plastic Wave: A Comprehensive Assessment of Pathways Towards Stopping Ocean Plastic Pollution, which estimates that the volume of plastics in our oceans could almost triple by 2040. 

Unilever To Add Carbon Footprint Information on Packaging

Unilever, the industrial giant behind the Seventh Generation, Dove, Ben & Jerry’s, Lipton, and dozens of other familiar brands, will add carbon footprint labels to its packaging. It’s an important change that will let you track the company’s progress toward its goal of achieving carbon neutrality for all its products by 2039.

EU Plastic Tax: A danger for EU Single Market & Recovery

With its latest agreement on the new Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) and coronavirus recovery fund, the European Council has also approved the implementation of the so-called plastic tax as of the 1st of January 2021.

EU Plastic Tax: A danger for EU Single Market & Recovery

With its latest agreement on the new Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) and coronavirus recovery fund, the European Council has also approved the implementation of the so-called plastic tax as of the 1st of January 2021.

Walmart plans to achieve zero waste in our own operations by 2025

By the end of 2017, we diverted from landfills 81 percent of unsold products, packaging and other waste materials in the U.S. and 78 percent* globally.