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Crown Demonstrates Significant Progress Toward Sustainability Goals In New Digital Report

Composed of natural elements that maintain their physical properties forever, metal packaging is a powerful example of a circular economy at work. Once metal enters the material-to-material loop, it will always be available for future generations. Other critical benefits of the format, including its role in …
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Dow Packaging and Specialty Plastics and Keep America Beautiful Announce Hefty

These technologies also have the longer-term potential to generate feedstocks in a closed loop system and can be used to produce new plastics, keeping resources in use and at their highest value and thereby helping create a more circular economy. Keep Cobb Beautiful Inc., a local affiliate of Keep …
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H&M launches new sustainable activewear line

Cecilia Strömblad Brännsten, Circular Economy Lead for H&M, said: "Moving towards full circularity will be the key to our future success. At H&M we have set a vision to become 100 percent circular, which means that we will have a circular approach to how products are made and used covering our …
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PET collection, recycling 'significantly increase' in Europe

"The figures clearly outline the crucial role of PET in a circular economy, and for reaching the plastics recycling targets currently discussed on [European Union] level." France, Germany and Italy represent 47.9 percent of the total volume collected in the region, which was in line with the gradual decline in …
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Crackdown in China creates recycling fears

Cook said this isn't the first time China has put restrictions on the industry, but this time, insiders are looking closely at other alternatives. “This is what happens with markets. They change and they evolve and this is maybe an opportunity for us to be more domestic and create this circular economy around …
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Dow and Keep America Beautiful announce Hefty EnergyBag grant recipients

Midland, Michigan-based Dow Packaging and Specialty Plastics and Stamford, Connecticut-based nonprofit Keep America Beautiful have announced awarding two $50,000 grants to organizations in Cobb County, Georgia, and Boise, Idaho, to establish the Hefty EnergyBag program in their respective …
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The one activewear line you need to get in shape in 2018

Staying fit and eating healthy are top of mind for many of us in 2018, especially after consuming copious amounts of sweets and booze over the holidays. To help ease you into reaching your 2018 fitness goal, H&M is launching an activewear collection so chic it will make you want to flock to the gym just …
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Can Ellen MacArthur and Stella McCartney stop fast fashion destroying the environment?

The Ellen MacArthur Foundation's report 'A new textiles economy: Redesigning fashion's future' presents an ambitious vision of a new system, based on circular economy principles, that offers benefits to the economy, society and the environment. We need the whole industry to rally behind it," says Ellen …
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The show must go on – for all of our sakes

This is set to be a fascinating year for the sector for many reasons: the imminent Defra 25-year environment plan, looming circular economy directives and the proposed resource and waste strategy will keep us all busy. Just as intriguing will be what happens to RWM now it has been sold. The NEC …
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5 trends that will guide the flow of water strategy in 2018

The adoption of digital water technologies and circular economy water strategies will scale and have a positive impact on efforts to manage water scarcity and quality. This will affect not just the public sector and utilities but also the commercial sector. What's more, this movement will be supported not just …
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