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How the plastic industry lied about recycling for decades

Corporate Knights

For 40 years, plastic and petrochemical companies have tried to convince the public that plastics can be recycled. But they’ve known for just as long that plastics recycling would never work. recycling rate for plastics sits at about 5 or 6 percent. Today, the U.S. It has never risen above 10 percent.

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A look at the secret world where our waste ends up

Corporate Knights

We think about throwing things away, but don’t really understand where away is or who the people are on the other side.” Humans produce about 2 billion tons of solid waste each year, according to the World Bank, and only about one-fifth of all that waste is recycled or composted. Humans have always created waste.

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Circular economics and the $57B e-waste opportunity

GreenBiz

The plastic waste problem gets plenty of attention, and for good reason: If we continue mismanaging this material as usual, there could be 7.7 Just as stunning: Plastic isn't the fastest growing waste stream the world needs to deal with. . percent of electronics are collected, refurbished or recycled worldwide.

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What It Takes To Recycle More Packaging on the Path to a Circular Economy

3BL Media

DESCRIPTION: Ever wondered what goes into the recycled-content products and packaging you see on store shelves? Take Sustana Fiber ’s recycling mill in De Pere, Wisconsin, as an example. With expanded capabilities comes a need for supply — and accessing recyclable materials requires efficient community infrastructure.

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Circularity in the Era of Overshoot

Chris Hall

Scaling up the circular economy remains a significant challenge in the current geopolitical climate, says Dr Anthony Kirby, Head of Regulation and Risk for Asset Management and Capital Markets in Europe at EY. According to the foundation , the circular economy is a system where materials never become waste and nature is regenerated.

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PepsiCo CSO on embedding sustainability into 'day-to-day business'

GreenBiz

Even though the foundation is a separate entity, there is a close link between its mission and the company’s sustainability goals, according to senior executives. Any goal we set, believe me, there's a lot of work behind coming up with those goals. We're a company that likes to set a big objective out there and then go get it.

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The Chemical Industry: What Investments Need To Be Made To Get to Net Zero? | LyondellBasell

3BL Media

This article, written by LyondellBasell Senior Vice-President, Strategic Planning and Transactions, Ronald Haddock, was originally posted by the World Economic Forum as part of a series focusing on the transformation of the chemicals industry.

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