Category: Sustainable Business
Plastic Expert looks at superb examples of what makes a sustainable business.
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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How Working From Home Has Impacted The Environment
Working from home has become the new normal. Despite a steady growth of remote working sin...
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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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Hazardous Waste Disposal – What Your Company Needs To Know
If you’re in charge of a business that produces hazardous waste as part of your business...
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Is Chemical Recycling the Answer to the Plastic Waste Crisis?
It is estimated that over 700 species of marine animals are known to be affected each year...
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Taking your business to zero waste
The term Zero Waste is being spoken about more and more in recent times but what does it a...
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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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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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How car manufacturers are using recycled plastic
You probably had a good idea that cars weren't any good for the environment - unless youâ€...
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5 companies leading the way in recycling innovation
The UK produces a lot of waste. In 2016, the UK generated 222.9 million tonnes of waste, w...
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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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Recycling plastic from electrical waste
As part of the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Regulations (or WEEE), which has ...
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How is PVC guttering recycled?
Polyvinyl chloride, or PVC, is used for a wide range of applications across the world. Amo...
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How dirty LDPE plastic film is recycled
The possibilities of plastics recycling technology and processes have grown at a rapid rat...
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How is PP plastic recycled?
PP stands for polypropylene, and it's one of the most commonly used types of plastic in th...
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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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How Recycled Plastic Is Used In UK Manufacturing
Plastics come with a stigma. Mention them in a conversation, and people will instantly tal...
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Plastic Expert Offers Money For Cardboard
You might ask, why should I recycle cardboard? What will I get out of it? Well recycling y...
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Plastic Expert launches national wheelie bin recycling service.
Plastic Expert is pleased to announce that we have now launched our new National Wheelie ...
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Youth Epilepsy Lego Club receives donation from Plastic Expert founder
In the spring of 2017, Plastic Expert co-founder Russell Greig-Bartram visited Young Epile...
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How Far Does Your Recycled Waste Travel?
10 miles? 100 miles? 11,713 miles to the shores of China? Plastic Expert are back once ag...
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Liberty Bottleworks
Liberty Bottles are an American business looking far ahead to the future. They’re settin...
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An Interview With Strooder
Plastic Expert is pleased to welcome Stephen Lloyd from Strooder... Hi there, would you l...
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The Fairphone
'Hello? Yes, this is Earth speaking' Environmentally conscious entrepreneurs around the wo...
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An Interview With Ellie Ellie
Plastic Expert is pleased to welcome Danielle Plowman, Managing Director and Founder of B...
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An Interview With Ecosia
Plastic Expert are delighted to welcome Ecosia... 'The world's leading environmentally fr...
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5 Green Businesses to look for in Bristol
Alright my lover? Bristol has become the UK's 'Green Capital', which makes quite a lot of ...
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10 UK Businesses With a ‘Green Core’
Having a 'Green Core' is more than just a selling tool for some businesses. Some have a gr...
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An interview with Lucy Bee
Hi Lucy, would you like to introduce yourself and your product? I’m 23 and the co-found...
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Disruptive Businesses Forcing Innovation
Plastic Expert visited the Resource Event at London's ExCel arena recently and among the m...
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Interview with Magi Raible
Plastic Expert is pleased to welcome Magi Raible, founder of LiteGear... Hi Magi, would y...
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An Interview With Green Warehouse
Plastic Expert are pleased to introduce Green Warehouse Ltd for a Sustainable Business Int...
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Budget Dumpster
Plastic Expert would like to welcome the United States' leading waste removal company: Bud...
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TRJFP Northampton
It has been reported in local media that a café in Northampton, England, would be 'sellin...
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Lush
Lush - Marching from the front in the battle for responsible packaging A conscious effort ...
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Dirtball Fashion
This week we spoke to Joe Fox from Dirtball Fashion, an American company making clothes fr...
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The Great Outdoor Gym Company
This week our featured sustainable business is 'The Great Outdoor Gym Company'. A Great I...
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Ecovative
Recently, we caught wind of Ecovative, an American business who grow their own packaging....
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Enviromate
We here at Plastic Expert are pleased to welcome the founders of Enviromate... Hi guys, w...
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Hahn Plastics Ltd
Hi there, would you like to introduce yourself and the business? Hahn Plastics Ltd is par...
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What Daisy Did
'Our brand is a protest against the disposable fast fashion industry' Meet Daisy and Ozri...
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Forest Green Rovers
Whether your scarf is red, white or blue, you should be concerned for the sustainable futu...
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