Category: Sustainability
Sustainability is at the core of the Plastic Recycling Industry
Four Inspirational Organisations Cleaning Our Oceans
It is estimated that around 8 million metric tons of plastic end up in the ocean every yea...
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Top Five Sustainable Brands Of 2021
The Race For Sustainability As brands continue the journey to try to become more sustaina...
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New Renewable & Recyclable Paptic Apus® For Packaging
Paptic has launched the newest addition of fibre-based packaging that is sustainable, the ...
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Mura Announce World’s First Commercial-Scale Plant To Recycle All Forms Of Plastic
In a world filled with nature, there is still plastic finding its way everywhere and anywh...
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Co-op Calls For Ban On Bags-For-Life
Co-op Removes Bags-For-Life From All 2,600 Stores Co-op has announced that they will be r...
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UK “Green Tech” Company To Help Build Europe’s First Plant To Recycle Polystyrene
UK-based innovative technology company Recycling Technologies have been researching and en...
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Four Actions David Attenborough Proposes To Help Save The Planet
Sir David Attenborough has been educating the public on the natural world for decades and ...
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‘Mount Recyclemore’ Sculpture Appears In Cornwall
‘Mount Recyclemore’ Sculpture Appears In Cornwall Of G7 Leaders Heads A sculpture mad...
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#InTheLoop Recycling Bins At Wimbledon 2021
Evian Partners With Hubbub For Wimbledon Evian has announced their partnership with #InTh...
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Say Hello To A Fresh Ocean!
HelloFresh Tackle Plastic Pollution Whilst Helping Communities HelloFresh has partnered w...
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The Netherlands’ Tradition of Recycling
The Netherlands Recycling History The Netherlands is reputed to be the first Western Euro...
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China’s National Sword and Global Recycling
China's Influencing Change Nationwide Shanghai, China has a population of 24 million, whi...
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Mainetti Launches Recycling Initiative
Mainetti Launches Global Recycling Initiative With Huge Brands Mainetti, the global retai...
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Mission Launched To Help Combat Space Debris
Mission Launched By Astroscale To Remove Space Debris Astroscale is the first private com...
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The Ocean Cleanup
What Is The Ocean Cleanup? The Ocean Cleanup is a nonprofit engineering environmental org...
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New Plastic Packaging Tax In The UK
New Plastic Packaging Tax Announced In The UK The government’s Finance Bill is currentl...
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Environmental Cleanup By Ugandan Cyclist
Environmental Cleanup By Ugandan Cyclist Gerald Ndashimye Gerald Ndashimye, 32, has been ...
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Palmolive Using 100% Recycled Bottles
Palmolive Ultra dish soap bottles now made with 100% recycled plastic Palmolive is relaun...
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Thailand’s Transforming Waste Into Greener Pastures
Thailand’s Collective Efforts Are Transforming Their Waste A green movement sparked by ...
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Canada’s History With Recycling And The Environment
Canada’s Environmental Movement A country’s ability to have an effective recycling sy...
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Recycling History in South Africa
Recycling in South Africa Recycling in South Africa has had a different environmental his...
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Coffee Lovers Can Recycle Their Used Machine Pods With New Scheme
Coffee Lovers Can Recycle Their Used Machine Pods With New Scheme For the first time, som...
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New Recycling Technology Transforms Masks and Gowns into School Chairs
Five hospitals in the UK have bought special thermal heating machines which convert used p...
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P&G To Reduce Virgin Plastic
P&G To Reduce Virgin Plastic In The Packaging Design Phase RecyClass is a multi-indus...
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Luxury Cosmetics Go Green
Luxury cosmetics go green by recycling their packaging “The Estée Lauder Companies (EL...
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NGO SapoCycle Recycling Luxury Soap Waste
NGO SapoCycle Recycled Luxury Hotel Soap Is Saving Lives A non-profit organisation in Swi...
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Tesco To Start Recycling Packaging
Tesco To Start Recycling Bread Bags And Crisp Packets Tesco has developed a new plan to r...
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Waitrose Bans Children’s Disposable Plastic Toys
Waitrose Moved By A 10 Year Olds Campaign Waitrose has previously made greener choices wi...
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Wilko Faces The Disposable Masks Issue Head On
#ReclaimTheMask Scheme By ReWorked Wilko is set to trial an in-store recycling scheme for...
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Corona Tackles Sustainability With New Packaging Made From Barley
Corona has created a new, circular form of packaging for 6-pack made from ‘waste’ prod...
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UK Government To Launch Plastic Deposit Return Scheme
The Environmental Audit Committee has launched an enquiry into deposit return schemes acro...
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From Coffee Waste to Football Kits
Football club Forest Green Rovers are making their mark on the pitch with a green approach...
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Spanish Firm Creates Plastic Film With Enzyme Technology
Innovative Film Solutions, working towards innovation in sustainable plastic recycling, ha...
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Innovate UK Invest in Universities Developing Chemical Recycling
A team of academics from the University of Birmingham, University of Surrey and Cranfield ...
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Ikea To Start Selling Spare Parts
Popular Swedish furniture firm, Ikea, has announced their decision to start selling spare ...
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Seagrass Meadows are Helping Prevent Plastic Pollution in the Ocean
Scientists have discovered that a species underwater seagrass, Posidonia Oceanica, may be ...
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Biologists at University of York Discover Method of Turning Waste into Fashion
The University of York has launched a £5.4m project with the Royal College of Art (RCA), ...
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How Electric Vehicles Can Create More Sustainable Business
How Electric Vehicles Can Create More Sustainable Business Electric vehicles have taken t...
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Clothing Made With Recycled Materials
Clothing Made With Recycled Materials Over £340 billion worth of textile material is thr...
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Is plastic waste the perfect building material?
Plastic, has become a central figure in our lives. We wake up and brush our teeth with it,...
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How did the UK lockdown affect household recycling?
As we covered in this recent article, the UK coronavirus lockdown that stretched from Marc...
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Sustainable and Recyclable Packaging
At Plastic Expert, it’s our aim to increase the use of sustainable packaging where possi...
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The Positive Environmental Impact of Lockdown
The coronavirus has caused unprecedented disruption across the globe. Countries have been ...
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How Much Plastic Is In The Ocean?
The issue of plastics in our ocean is one that is climbing the agendas of governments and ...
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Most environmentally friendly brands
When people make a decision to use a business, there are a number of factors they like to ...
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What are the benefits of using recycled plastic?
It’s impossible to avoid the news and chatter surrounding climate change, greenhouse gas...
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How Recycled Plastic Can Be Used in the Construction Industry
Environmentally-friendly practices can go a long way in improving a brand’s image, but t...
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Why recycling is important for your CSR policy
All companies should have a corporate social responsibility policy. This tells the world w...
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How many times can plastic be recycled?
Plastic is one of the most common materials in the world. It comes in various forms, and i...
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5 reasons your business should recycle plastic
Should your business start to recycle plastic? Think about all the different types of plas...
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How the recycling industry has grown in the UK
The UK recycling market continues to grow, but as it does, it finds itself faced with new ...
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Why businesses need to reduce their carbon footprint
If you’ve paid any attention to the news, business or otherwise, over the past decade, t...
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Which car manufacturers use the most recycled plastic?
Plastics are growing increasingly more used throughout the automotive industry. As the foc...
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How is polystyrene recycled?
Despite being one of the most widely used forms of plastic, used in cups, packaging, and p...
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The Top 5 Shopping Centres For Recycling
In this article we take a look at some of the best shopping centres for recycling, takin...
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The top 5 UK cities for recycling
Have you ever wondered what the UK’s greenest cities are? We all recognise the importa...
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Why has China stopped accepting plastic waste for recycling?
For many years, China was the largest market for the world’s waste plastic. Around 50%...
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How blockchain will improve the recycling sector
Traditionally, technologists and developers saw the role of blockchain as being primaril...
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What are the Advantages of Plastic Recycling?
Businesses understand that their customers' needs are changing. No longer are they motiv...
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Recycling plastic film
When we talk about plastic films, we are talking about a broad range of plastic that is so...
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How is plastic recycled?
Have you ever wondered how recycling companies recycle your business waste? It’s a surpr...
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How oil prices affect recycling
Many people rejoice when oil prices plummet, as it means that it’s cheaper to fill up ...
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Plastic Expert launches a UK-Wide Carpet Recycling service
We are very pleased to announce the launch of our brand-new UK-wide carpet recycling ser...
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How the EU Helped Increase UK Recycling Rates
When the UK joined the EU in 1973, recycling as we know it was yet to be born. People ex...
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How to Reduce the Carbon Footprint of Recycling
It’s commonly known that recycling is an important way to reduce your carbon footprint. ...
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Sea Salt Contains Plastic
Warning: Plastic In Salt It’s going to get worse before it gets better. Plastic is poiso...
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An Interview With H2O Salamander
Plastic Expert are very pleased to welcome H2O Technologies and their product, the Salaman...
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5 Ways to have an Eco-Friendly Holiday
For those of us who are looking to do our bit for the planet and reduce our carbon footpri...
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Discussing the Circular Approach
Plastic Expert recently visited the Resource Event at London's ExCel Arena... We listened ...
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6 Recycled Buildings The World Loves!
From container houses to clay 'earthships' and houses made from recycled windows, the worl...
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An interview with James Munro Boon, Founder of Elephant Branded
This week we invited James Munro Boon, founder of Elephant Branded, to take part in a Plas...
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The Recycled Waste House
In this article we look at the Brighton Waste House, a fine example of ecology and archite...
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