Sustainable Practices

A key goal of the new US Plastics Pact is to recycle or compost 50% of plastic packaging by 2025. Is that realistic?

Report outlines major global efforts to rid environment of plastic waste.

After languishing for nearly two years in the California Assembly and Senate, the California Circular Economy and Plastic Pollution Act once again failed to come to a vote before the legislative session ended at midnight on Aug. 31.

The company’s Twentyby30 program outlines 20 measurable environmental, social, and governance goals to be completed by 2023 or sooner.

While the U.S. Plastics Pact follows the ambitious precedents set by the existing global Plastics Pact network, it is tailored to meet the unique needs and challenges of the U.S. market.

So Good So You brand introduces biodegradable plastic bottles made of PET that the company claims are also recyclable.

Kroger’s new sustainability goals, announced this week, “fall far short of what the company needs to be doing,” according to the environmental organization.

Established in September 2019, the supplier of precision molded parts for medical applications has doubled its press capacity and recycled or reused close to 100% of waste material.

Chemetry’s eShuttle technology produces high-purity ethylene dichloride (EDC), a chemical used primarily for PVC production, at a significant reduction in power consumption and production costs compared with existing techniques.