Russia plans to ban the use of disposable plastics by 2024, Natural Resources and Environment Minister Alexander Kozlov said . Banned goods would include disposable plastic straws, plates, glasses, lids and appliances; coffee capsules; cotton swabs; opaque and colored PET (thermoplastic polyester) bottles; boxes and packs for tobacco products; blister packaging (except for medicines); egg cartons; […]
Tag Archives: Plastic Pollution
08
Aug
Aug
Zalando kicked off its transition from plastic shipping bags to paper bags: While the previous bags were made of plastic with 80% recycled content, the new shipping bags are made of FSCⓇ-certified (FSC® N003557) and recyclable paper. The new shipping bags were previously tested in a 3-month pilot in Sweden and Zalando customers were convinced […]
02
Jul
Jul
According to Eurostat, 31 kg of plastic waste is produced per person across the EU each year, adding up to 15.8 million tonnes in total. Even though Ireland made a statement by being the first EU country to impose a plastic bag fee in 2002, it remains Europe’s worst offender when it comes to annual plastic […]
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Sep
Sep
The packaging industry congregated at the two-day Speciality Films and Flexible Packaging Global Summit on 4-5 September 2018 to confabulate on the pressing issue of plastic pollution, plastic ban, and challenges in waste collection, segregation and recycling. It was Tuesday morning; by 8.50am the ballroom at Grand Hyatt was chock-a-block with more than 1,270 plastics and packaging technocrats from […]