With the end of the transition period for Brexit looming ever closer, the UK government has outlined plans for its own Circular Economy Package (CEP).
Source: waste-management-world.com
Mondi’s BarrierPack Recyclable laminate earned a 2018 Plastics Recycling Europe Award for Best Technology Innovation in Plastics Recycling. The sustainable innovation has performance properties equivalent to conventional materials, yet is fully compatible with existing industrial recycling streams.
As the world’s climate gets even warmer, we have to ask ourselves: is our obsession with buying new stuff really killing the planet? Read more here.
Pondering the pandemic with 2021 Distinguished Alumni Award recipients… Amid the return of in-person interactions at Caltech’s 2021 Reunion Weekend, one event brought together three of the four 2021 winners of the Distinguished Alumni Award: NASA astronaut Bob Behnken, PhD (MS ’93, PhD ’97); Barbara Burger, PhD (PhD ’87), president of technology ventures and vice president of innovation at Chevron; and Laurie Leshin, PhD (MS ’89, PhD ’95), president of Worcester Polytechnic Institute. (DAA winner Charles Elachi, PhD [MS ’69, PhD ’71], Caltech professor emeritus of electrical engineering and planetary science and former director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, was unable to attend.)
The vision of a “circular economy”—where we use resources sparingly and recycle endlessly—is inspiring businesses and environmentalists alike.
Public perception of corporate responsibility is changing. What you need to know.
Friends of the Earth has called on sporting venues across the UK to promote reusable cup use, after Arsenal FC revealed that a scheme introduced at the Emirates Stadium has prevented more than half a million single-use plastic cups from being disc…