The Alpla Group, together with its joint venture partners Ecohelp (Ecohelp SRL – Romania) and UPT (United Polymer Trading AG – Switzerland), has opened its first PET recycling plant in Romania after a construction time of nine months and investment of around 7.5 million euros. The state-of-the-art plant is now producing around 18,000 tonnes …
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Re.life market, the virtual marketplace for business-to-business buying and selling of recovered commodities, recorded over 150,000 tonnes of recyclable material being traded on the platform in 2022, amounting to over AED100 million in value. This is a major milestone for the platform, which was launched by Re.life in 2021, and a powerful indicator of the …
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Rebound (RPX), a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi’s International Holding Company, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with carbon-focused companies Bioeconomy and ACX Holdings Ltd, the holding company of the AirCarbon Exchange (ACX) group, to identify net-zero carbon and recycled plastics opportunities in the Middle East and around the world. Plastics are on track …
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City Centre Deira has launched a one-of-a-kind sustainable pop-up market. Running until 7 February, the mall is taking steps to minimise the industry’s carbon footprint by welcoming a host of sustainable brands as customers continue to put their purchasing power towards responsible retail as indicated in the results of the Big City Centre Vote. …
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SIG to launch ‘Recycle for Good’, an innovative recycling initiative to enable direct household and food service industry collection of used aseptic carton packs through tech-based solutions. This initiative involving SIG and Tagaddod is the first of its kind in the Egyptian market. Consumers can use a mobile app to arrange for their used …
Dow and LVMH Beauty, a division of LVMH, the world leader in luxury and home to 75 iconic brands, to collaborate to accelerate the use of sustainable packaging across LVMH’s perfume and cosmetic products. This collaboration would enable both bio-based and circular plastics to be integrated into several of the beauty multinational’s product applications without …
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With sustainability at the core of its values, Xerox Emirates to contributing to a green future with the success of its sustainable initiatives launched in the recent years that include the Toner & Cartridge Recycling program with Enviroserve, the Print Releaf program and other internal Recycling initiatives. In a press release received by Packaging …
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Mondi, one of the global leaders in packaging and paper is expanding its unique range of medium, high and very high-barrier paper-based packaging to support customers on their journey to use more sustainable packaging solutions. The company has further evolved its portfolio and now offers a full range of FunctionalBarrier Papers to customers. By …
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Waitrose has announced that it is the first UK supermarket to sell certified own brand home compostable tea bags. All of its Duchy tea bags are now accredited with a TUV OK compost HOME certification so tea bags can be placed directly into a home compost bin or heap. This compost can then be …
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The Ministry of Industry and Advanced Technology (MoIAT) on 17 January 2023 oversaw the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) at Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week (ADSW), which will lay the groundwork for new plastic recycling facility in the UAE. Under the plans, a 12,000 tons per annum polyethylene terephthalate (PET) recycling plant has …
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