Haringey Council’s Post

Imagine a world without plastic as this spot for På(fyll) does: 🧴If we had to replace containers for laundry detergent, what would we use?🧴 Or is there no alternative and the approach using refills and recycles is the only way? #packaging #plastic #detergent #recycling

Shifting to more sustainable habits, like reusable coffee cups, is a powerful way to cut down the plastic pollution washing into our waterways - it’s great to see this Sydney cafe taking such a powerful step

The new #recycling ♻ figures for #plasticpackaging in 2021 are out: And the winner is... 🥇 Slovenia with 50%! 🎉 Congratulations Slovenia! But the chasing pack is closing in: Belgium has moved into the top group, with a 49% recycling rate. The corrections made by Spain and Italy are remarkable. But all this is nothing in comparison with the collapse of Sweden's recycling rate: Compared to 2019, its recycling rate has halved! Since money has to be sent to Brussels for non-recycled plastic packaging waste, the Commission is apparently keeping a closer eye on the Member States. It is a pity that there are still no updated figures for last year's winners, Slovakia and Lithuania. Are they still calculating and checking? To be continued... Link to the offical Eurostat data: https://lnkd.in/eaGPH3M9 IK Industrievereinigung Kunststoffverpackungen e. V. European Plastics Converters | EuPC

🌱 eco·pí boasts an impressive composition of 93.11% fiber, with a minimal plastic content of just 1.7g out of its total weight of 25g. In stark contrast, the Nuns Hat weighs in at 71g, comprised entirely of plastic. This translates to a remarkable 97.6% reduction in plastic, by weight, in favor of eco·pí, marking a groundbreaking stride toward a more eco-friendly future. Furthermore, eco·pí achieves a staggering 65% reduction in total materials weight, underscoring its commitment to minimizing environmental impact. 🌿

♻ Last week in Madrid we were delighted to launch our report analysing the realities of the separate collection of single use plastic bottles in Spain. The report was a 7-month collaboration between ourselves, Zero Waste Europe and Spanish experts with a detailed knowledge of waste management in Spain. ♻ The outcome was a significant finding that challenges the current misconception that Spain is on track to achieve collection rates in line with its own legal requirements, as well as those for the EU under the Single Use Plastics Directive. The figure of 71% collection of SUPD bottles had been put forward by the PRO Ecoembes, yet our work concluded that this rate is actually 36%.   ♻ In the light of this work, we are in a position to estimate that Spain is very unlikely to have met its own mandatory separate collection target (70%) for SUPD Bottles in 2023. A DRS is the only change to collection systems that would enable Spain to move rapidly from a collection rate of 36% in 2021, to the target of 77% set for 2025. Media interest in the news story was huge. Our research was covered in a plethora of national media outlets and global news websites. A link to the full report, hosted on our website, can be found in the comments below 👇 #recycling #DRS #research

In Norway, the prices of packages are being raised so that people buy them less. The experiment was launched by the Meny grocery chain back in 2019. Initially, the package cost 1.6 crowns , then the cost was increased to 3 crowns , now the package cost is 4.25 crowns. According to the Environmental Foundation, in 2022 there were 132 plastic bags per year for every Norwegian, or 722 million plastic bags for the whole country. At the same time, in 2021, this figure was almost 100 million higher. Meny's immediate goal is to reduce consumption to 40 packages per person per year. I believe that this is an excellent and very correct practice. It is important and necessary to educate environmental awareness, but if each package costs a significant amount, then people are more likely to wonder whether they need the notorious package with packages, or can still do with reusable analogues. #use less plastic # ecological solutions

#Alienor10years - It took our team 10 years to allow for used #coffeecapsules to be permitted in the collective #packaging bag in Belgium for #recycling ♻ Our clients were frontrunners by promoting this solution for years. The way to success was long but worth it! 🏆 Before, almost all coffee capsules were incinerated, today, they are recycled! But these wins, anecdotic to some and game changing for others, were not only possible through operational solution. To allow our project to be recognised as crucial and be implemented on the ground, we had to gain the support of decisionmakers, both in Administrations and Parliaments, to who we advocated the environmental, social and economic advantage of our solution 🌳 💰 ➡ Building an impactful dialogue with policymakers is our core work 🤝 Our professionalism and expertise allow us to consolidate trust and to share reliable facts and data to policymakers. We help our clients navigate European and national political and legislative environments to get their position heard 📢 If you need our support in making your voice heard and count in public policies, we are here to help! Mélanie Lamaison Elise Regairaz Axel Touja Thibault Van Lierde Cécile Fouquet Charlotte Musquar Julie Aleksandrova Cynthia Benites Hélène Hajek Arnaud Rossell

Good progress indeed and thanks for sharing Martin Engelmann. The primary goal of policy makers needs to be reducing landfill and incineration at the end of the chain and dependence on virgin fossil feedstock in the beginning. Curious to see how the PPWR negotiations will unfold. Feels to me like in some aspects they are interfering too much on what’s working, like creating reuse targets for flexible secondary packaging that is currently an efficient solution that gets recycled and perhaps not focusing enough on the big picture (overall resource efficiency of how the EU resources are used and reused). #ppwr #circulareconomy #recycling #packaging #ChangingPlasticsforGood

We're proud to be one of the beneficiaries of WRAP’s £3.2 million fund dedicated to The Plastics Pact projects around the globe, including locations like India, Chile, South Africa, Kenya, Mexico, and Colombia. Together, we're setting into motion waves of transformative change, as we work toward a strong and consequential United Nations Treaty to End Plastic Pollution. 🚀 The support from WRAP's grant has been instrumental in our efforts to develop and trial our revolutionary seaweed-based materials, Notpla Film and Notpla Pipettes, in new markets such as Chile. 🇨🇱 It helped us to further delve into market research and navigate novel legislation focused on curbing plastic waste overseas, all in preparation for a future free from plastic pollution. In response to emerging legislation in Chile, which is designed to ban single-use plastic sachets in foodservice environments, we used the WRAP funding to trial Notpla Film as sachets for mayonnaise together with a leading food supplier. We also collaborated with some talented Chilean designers who played a role in the consumer trial of our products. This synergy proved a strong market appetite for truly sustainable packaging alternatives globally. 🌊 🌿 Thank you to WRAP and Innovate UK for providing the funding and support that brought this project to life. 💪 Intrigued by our journey and WRAP’s influence? Read the full report here ⬇ #Notpla #SustainablePackaging #PlasticsPact #WRAP #InnovateUK

🎥 Today, we are sharing a video that resulted from the successful implementation of the Low Plastic Zone initiative. 🌊🌱 The Low Plastic Zone initiative was implemented as part of the project "Tackling single-use plastics in the Adriatic region through public and private action," funded by MedWaves and GIZ. The goal was clear: to reduce the use of single-use plastic in the HoReCa sector. Hotels, restaurants, and bars in Mostar happily joined the LPZ initiative, replacing single-use plastic products with sustainable alternatives. Below, take a look at what our partners who actively participated in implementing the LPZ initiative had to say and how these changes have affected their businesses and the environment. #togetherwecanmakeadifference 🌿   . . . https://lnkd.in/dFQ4SPQy