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Coke Unveils World's First Entirely Plant-Based PET Bottle

The Coca-Cola Company today unveiled the world’s first PET plastic bottle made entirely from plant materials at the World Expo — Milan.PlantBottle packaging is Coca-Cola’s vision to develop a more responsible plant-based alternative to packagin... View More

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How Emerging Players, Business Models, Partnerships Are Innovating for a Circular Economy

Couldn't make ittoSB '15 San Diego?View this session'spresentationhereand catch up onthe week's ... View More

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Trending: Pro Baseball, Public Schools Innovating to Reduce Waste

As concerns over bulging landfills abound, a diverse and growing group of innovators across the country are looking for new ways to transform trash into something less wasteful.The Minnesota Twins and Eco-Products, for example, recently partnered to ... View More

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REPREVE Turns 60 Million Recycled Plastic Bottles into Graduation Caps and Gowns

Just in time for graduation season, REPREVE recycled fibers will be used in Oak Hall graduation gowns at more than 1,100 colleges and universities across the country. Since the introduction of REPREVE, nearly 60 million plastic bottles have been recy... View More

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Startup Creates Reusable To-Go Containers for Food Service Industry

Preserve, producer of sustainable consumer goods with a focus on creating closed loop products using recycled plastic, today announced the launch of Preserve 2 Go — a durable, reusable clamshell container designed for use in food services.Developed... View More

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Biome Bioplastics Leading £3M Program to Develop, Scale Plant-Based Chemical Feedstocks

Biome Bioplastics, one of the UK’s leading developers of bio-based alternatives to petroleum-based plastics, has begun a major development program to progress successful bio-based chemicals research through to industrial scale production. The proje... View More

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The Many Challenges of Plastic Recycling

Upwards of 100 million tons of plastic are manufactured annually across the globe. That’s 200 billion pounds of new material on-market every year, ready to be thermoformed, laminated, foamed and extruded into billions of products and packages. In t... View More

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adidas Partners to Help End Ocean Destruction, Releases Sustainability Progress Report

Today, the adidas Group announced a partnership with Parley for the Oceans, an initiative dedicated to raising awareness about the beauty and fragility of the oceans and to collaborating on projects that can end their destruction. Together, the organ... View More

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Trending: Plastic Hotel Sheets and a Dress Made from Beer … the Latest in Sustainable Textiles

This week, W Hotels Worldwide, part of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, became the latest company to jump on the plastic-waste-to-fabric train when it announced a new partnership with global music artist and entrepreneur will.i.am and The Coc... View More

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Woolworths Teams Up with Pharrell Williams, Asks South Africa ‘Are You with Us?’ on Sustainability

Woolworths CEO Ian Moir announced a partnership with Grammy Award-winning musician, record producer and philanthropist Pharrell Williams last week. The collaboration is the first of its kind for a South African retailer.Williams will become the new S... View More

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Forget the Recycling Bin – If All Goes Well, You’ll Soon Be Able to Eat Your Water Bottle

The latest innovation in the fight against plastic water bottles comes in the form of an edible and flexible water “blob” container called the Ooho!, made by startup Skipping Rocks Lab. To use it, consumers can bite the blob and suck out the cont... View More

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BASF Tool Helping Designers Lightweight Products, Minimize Development Costs

A common misconception regarding fiber-reinforced plastics is that the material’s performance cannot be predicted, as with steel or aluminum. But BASF says its ULTRASIM® performance-prediction technology routinely delivers 90-95 percent accuracy w... View More

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Biobased Plastics: Fostering a Sustainable and Resource-Efficient Circular Economy

Bioplastics are not a single kind of plastic, but rather a family of materials that vary considerably from one another. There are three groups in the bioplastics family, each with its own individual characteristics: biobased, biodegradable, or both b... View More

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To Recycle or Not to Recycle: The Economics of Garbage

People are confused about recycling because they complain that the entire process – from labeling, to which bin is which, to what your municipality accepts - makes it difficult to determine a material’s recyclability. This issue is especially com... View More

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Ford Brings REPREVE to the 2015 F-150

What if we could redirect plastics from landfill and use them to create innovative materials, and then put them in the all-new Ford F-150, part of Ford F-Series, America’s best-selling truck?​ We could make a big difference. ... View More

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Additives to Biodegrade Plastics Offered False Hope, Says Latest Study

The world today has a plastic addiction, a vice that creates major environmental issues by entering waterways and clogging up our landfills and oceans. The problem is that conventional plastics have a half-life (the time it takes for half of the prod... View More

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Amerplast Announces New, Flexible Packaging Made From Sugar Cane

This week, Amerplast, one of Europe's largest flexo printers and bag converters, began a supply partnership with Braskem, a global leader in biopolymers, to market Green Polyethylene (Green PE) made from a renewable sugar cane ethanol, to tissue segm... View More

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Being Socially Responsible is Business as Usual for us at AT&T, and we Weave it Into Everything we do

 Being socially responsible is business as usual for us at AT&T, and we weave it into everything we do. So today, for the fourth year in a row, we want to recognize several suppliers who have really taken to heart our call to action for sustaina... View More

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Procter & Gamble Joins GreenBlue’s How2Recycle Label Program Encouraging At-Home Recycling

 GreenBlue’s Sustainable Packaging Coalition (SPC) today announced that The Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE:PG) has joined the organization’s How2Recycle Label program. Procter & Gamble (P&G) will initially carry the label on their... View More

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Dow Pilot Program Shows Plastic Waste Can Be Turned Into Fuel

The Dow Chemical Company recently completed a pilot program aimed at showing how certain plastics such as juice pouches, candy wrappers and plastic dinnerware — which are not easily recyclable under traditional models — can be converted into synt... View More

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