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With its latest agreement on the new Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) and coronavirus recovery fund, the European Council has approved the implementation of a plastic tax as of the 1st of January, 2021. The plan foresees a €0.80/kg levy on non-recycled plastic packaging waste to be paid by member states into the EU budget.
On July 23rd, the Pew Charitable Trusts and SYSTEMIQ released a new study: Breaking the Plastic Wave, which the Ellen MacArthur Foundation (EMF) calls "one of the most comprehensive and analytically robust studies ever produced on ocean plastics."
Ongoing certification for the traceability of recycled content in new plastic products aims to create a transparent and responsible communication on recycled plastics use.
Three more of Nestlé Waters North America's U.S. domestic still water brands have started to convert their packaging to 100% recycled plastic.
Mondi has partnered with Austrian meat producer Hütthaler to produce a fully recyclable thermoforming film made from a mono-material for their meat and sausage products.
Although people are working to find renewable alternatives to plastic, there is still no material with all of plastic's advantages without its devastating impact on the environment. Instead of waiting for that magic material, packaging buyers concerned about the climate should consider the existing alternatives and move to composite materials.
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NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) has released an updated analysis of the climate impacts caused by the "tree to toilet" pipeline destroying the climate-critical Canadian boreal forest. The "Issue with Tissue 2.0" report includes a new sustainability ranking for toilet paper brands and other tissue products made by major U.S. producers.
Smurfit Kappa has launched a sustainable new pack which keeps frozen and chilled foods fresh throughout the supply chain.
The Bureau of International Recycling (BIR) Paper Division's first-ever eForum, held June 16th, offered a mix of optimism and concern with respect to the immediate future of the global fibre recycling industry, as China prepares to close its doors completely to imports of recovered paper by the end of 2020.
Monadnock Paper Mills, Inc. based in New Hampshire, has announced a new line of RIT HP Indigo 3-Star Certified media made with 100 percent post-consumer waste (PCW) recycled fiber.
So far in 2020, according to Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries' (ISRI) Chief Economist, Joe Pickard, recovered paper prices were up 50% for April, compared to March, 2020, and up about 40% overall compared to April 2019 numbers, based on U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics information.
Vecoplan has invested in its facility and staff to increase focus on the paper and document shredding markets.
Mack Trucks has extended its Mack GuardDog Connect uptime service and support bundle at no cost through the end of the year or a minimum of three months, whichever is longer, for customers with packages expiring May 1, 2020 to Dec. 31, 2020.
The Lion Electric Co. and Boivin Evolution have sold the first Lion8 chassis with fully automated side load bodies to Waste Connections. The initial vehicles, to be operating in Washington and Florida, represent the first applications of zero-emission trucks with fully electric waste collection bodies and automated arms in North America.
On Wednesday, May 13th, New Way Trucks celebrated its first 100 percent Mississippi-made Cobra refuse truck at its new manufacturing facility in Northeast Mississippi.
According to Tim Worman, product manager for demountables at Stellar Industries, when it comes to loading containers or truck bodies onto a truck chassis, the North American waste and recycling market has traditionally favoured the cable hoist, while the hooklift has been more prominent internationally, where urban space is generally tighter. Canada has been somewhere in between, based on influence from both markets.
Autocar has delivered the first production model DC-64R conventional roll-off to WCA Waste Corporation of Houston, Texas.
Ontario stakeholders now have until July 8, 2020 to submit input on how the province's Blue Box recycling program should be transitioned to a full producer responsibility model.
