Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA) has joined the Canada Plastics Pact. https://buff.ly/3xsP0VR #plastics #recyclcing #plasticrecycling
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This week in Ottawa, the UN's Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-4) is gathering to collectively address the plastic waste crisis. Our Canada Plastics Pact Solutions Space, in collaboration with the National Zero Waste Council (NZWC), is contributing to the conversation by calling for the elimination of 13 unnecessary and problematic plastics. This document, released today, provides business and industry leaders with the information and the decision-making framework needed to take steps towards eliminating these unnecessary and problematic plastics—a key action required on the path to ending plastic waste and pollution. We look forward to the innovative solutions this call to action will inspire amongst our partners across the plastics value chain. Read the document here: https://lnkd.in/dWNs5XcS #INC4 #EndPlasticWasteTogether #BeatPlasticPollution #CircularEconomy #ZeroPlasticWaste #PlasticPackaging
Supporting the Elimination of Unnecessary & Problematic Plastics - Working together for a Canada without plastic waste or pollution.
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➡ Yesterday, an op-ed authored by three Canada Plastics Pact Partners, including the Recycling Council of Alberta's former executive director, Christina Seidel, was published in Canada's National Observer! 📰 ➡ Today, the Canada Plastics Pact and National Zero Waste Council (NZWC) launched a guidance document to support the elimination of 13 unnecessary and problematic plastics. This guidance, developed by a cross-section of CPP Partners, is intended for use by all Canadian stakeholders involved in the plastics market. 🔗 Read the Guide: https://lnkd.in/dWNs5XcS 🔗 Read the op-ed: https://lnkd.in/ep5uiXy3
We never stopped saying goodbye to single-use plastics
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The same can be said for materials used in building retrofits. Disposal of materials during a building renewal may support energy and Scope 1 carbon goals, but considering and tracking material life cycle may change how we plan and prioritize these projects.
We can’t protect the ocean from plastic pollution without knowing where it starts. Anthony Merante, Oceana Canada Plastics Campaigner, on the Federal Plastics Registry: “The life cycle of plastic crosses many hands, borders and industries. A plastics registry allows governments to know which types of plastics are being produced, sold and where they end up after their use. Plastics that are used once and go directly to landfill or incineration will no longer be able to falsely claim recyclability. Single-use plastics constitute half of all plastic waste in Canada and have been toted as healthy and convenient without ever fully disclosing their complete environmental footprint or chemical compositions. Canadians deserve to know with clarity the realities of the plastics that contact our food, our goods and ultimately our environment." Read our recommendations to improve the Federal Plastics Registry here: https://lnkd.in/eaVi5_v9
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We can’t protect the ocean from plastic pollution without knowing where it starts. Anthony Merante, Oceana Canada Plastics Campaigner, on the Federal Plastics Registry: “The life cycle of plastic crosses many hands, borders and industries. A plastics registry allows governments to know which types of plastics are being produced, sold and where they end up after their use. Plastics that are used once and go directly to landfill or incineration will no longer be able to falsely claim recyclability. Single-use plastics constitute half of all plastic waste in Canada and have been toted as healthy and convenient without ever fully disclosing their complete environmental footprint or chemical compositions. Canadians deserve to know with clarity the realities of the plastics that contact our food, our goods and ultimately our environment." Read our recommendations to improve the Federal Plastics Registry here: https://lnkd.in/eaVi5_v9
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It’s great that Aduro Clean Technologies Inc. is backing this call for innovation. Being new researchers and future business leaders, we know we must of all with our knowledge in sustainable technologies be influential in driving for a more closed-loop plastic system. The release of this industry guidance is a major milestone in the global fight against plastics. We are excited to contribute towards these strategies through what we know, providing hands-on help where needed as well as coming up with new ideas which can contribute towards realizing them hence ensuring a better tomorrow for everyone. Our hope is that by following the waste hierarchy model; encouraging inter-business cooperation and using our experience gained from years spent working in various environmental sectors – Canada Plastics Pact will achieve its goals on circularity while at the same time acting as an inspiration to other interested parties who might want join too. Anil Jhawar Birendra Adhikari Abhishek Singh Nirav Suhagiya Shovon Ghosh Jan-Willem Lamberink-Ilupeju Marcus Trygstad Stefanie Steenhuis Eric Appelman Ofer Vicus Abe Dyck Mena Beshay, CPA, CMA, CPA (US), CFE
As a Canada Plastics Pact Partner, we are pleased to share the launch of the new industry guidance to support the elimination of unnecessary and problematic plastics. This guide, developed in partnership with National Zero Waste Council (NZWC), serves as a key milestone in efforts by CPP’s +100 Partners to address the first target of its roadmap to #circularity. Recycling is an important part of this strategy but it can't bear the full burden of solving the plastic crisis on its own. Following the waste hierarchy, we must begin at the source. At #AduroCleanTech, we support this call for innovation for the industry to collaborate and scale solutions we need to enable a #circulareconomy for #plastics. Read the Guide: https://lnkd.in/dWNs5XcS #EndPlasticWasteTogether #reducereuserecycle #chemicalrecycling #TheBetweenChemistry
Supporting the Elimination of Unnecessary & Problematic Plastics - Working together for a Canada without plastic waste or pollution.
https://plasticspact.ca
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We've recently brought together a cross-journal collection highlighting ways in which plastic waste can be utilised to reduce the amount sent to landfill. From upcycling waste into energy storage materials, to converting waste into value-added chemicals, the collection covers a wide variety of potential uses of plastic waste. Check out the full collection here 👉https://lnkd.in/e-FaBuEk Included in the collection is "From waste plastics to layered porous nitrogen-doped carbon materials with excellent HER performance" by Dan Li, Fan Zhang, et al., now published in ChemComm 👉 https://lnkd.in/e6AkUiMy One potential use of plastic waste is simply to burn it as a fuel source. If you'd like to learn more about the environmental impact of this, then check out our upcoming Webinar, "Trash Burning and Non-Traditional Fuels"! Featuring talks from Eri Saikawa and Erik Velasco Register for free here 👉https://lnkd.in/escUkPTP
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As negotiations on the global plastics treaty enter the final year, I found the The Center for Climate Integrity report 'The Fraud of Plastic Recycling: How Big Oil and the plastics industry deceived the public for decades and caused the plastic waste crisis' a compelling read. Its important to understand the history of plastic waste issue including campaigns and efforts by fossil fuel and other petrochemical companies as UN member states consider measures to end plastic pollution, especially in the light of increasing production. To be clear, I don't think all plastic recycling is a fraud - we do have some good examples such as collection and recycling through deposit return schemes but, as we know, not all plastics are equal and if we continue without addressing the problem at the source the plastics crisis is set to grow. https://lnkd.in/gS-xdfya
The Fraud of Plastic Recycling
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Despite the ubiquity of plastics in modern society, plastics waste management in the United States remains underdeveloped, with less than 10 percent of plastics waste recycled annually. “There are isolated examples of successful plastics recycling in the U.S., but overall, there is ample opportunity for higher levels of collection, reprocessing, and reuse of plastics,” said David Dzombak, chair of the committee that wrote a recent Transportation Research Board report on plastics waste. The report provides recommendations to better manage plastics waste by expanding and standardizing waste collection, increasing recycling, and exploring new applications for plastics waste in infrastructure. To learn more about the report, visit https://ow.ly/OC2p50Q8onh. #PlasticsRecycling #PlasticWaste #Plastics
U.S. Should Expand and Standardize Plastics Collection and Recycling, Study Potential Uses in Infrastructure, Says New Report
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Here some benefits of sorting Mixed Waste whether the final treatment involves #incineration or another method. The primary focus is on recovering #Resources to keep them in the economy and protect the #Environment, reducing #ghgemission and consequently addressing #climatechange. Let's not leave #plastic behind and achieve the Waste #Recycling targets of 80% by 2030. NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) Environment Protection Authority Victoria (EPA) Environment Protection Authority South Australia (SA EPA) #wastemanagement #plasticrecycling #plasticpollution #energyfromwaste
Policymakers hold the key to enabling the new plastics economy. 🔑 By introducing legal measures ensuring effective mixed waste sorting prior to incineration, more plastics can be recovered for recycling. Our data shows it can increase recycling rates by 2 – 5 times. Waste-to-Energy plants can also benefit from #MixedWasteSorting as it significantly reduces greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Every ton of plastic waste incinerated generates around 2.5t CO2 emissions. We encourage policymakers to introduce legal measures to recover plastic from mixed waste before final disposal, including a meaningful CO2 tax on plastic incineration. Mixed waste sorting prior to incineration is just one of our ten recommendations for the UN Treaty on Plastic Pollution. Discover more here: https://lnkd.in/dF3bP-Ev #GlobalPlasticsTreaty #EnvironmentalPolicy #PlasticPollution #PlasticRecycling #PlasticTax #ProducerResponsibility #WasteToEnergy #WasteManagement #Incineration #Recycling
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The #plastics industry is the #oilandgas industry. Unsurprisingly, they deceived the public with dubious recycling promises and “ambitions”; now plastic waste pollution is ubiquitous: from the oceans to inside our bodies. From the article: “industry appears to have championed recycling mainly for its public relations value, rather than as a tool for avoiding environmental damage. ‘We are committed to the activities, but not committed to the results,’ a vice president at #Exxon Chemical said during a meeting in 1994 with staff for the American Plastics Council” 30 years later, “advanced recycling” is -according to critics cited- the same sham. Gotta remember that the massive chain of plastics to waste begins with #oil and #gas fracking and then cracking in refineries. So this too, like #climatechange, can be stopped at the source.
Reduce, reuse, redirect outrage: How plastic makers used recycling as a fig leaf — NPR
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