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A new report highlights 15 policies that could drive a major decrease in plastic use around the world — but will governments adopt them as part of a new global plastics treaty?
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Sponsored: Molecular recycling can prevent this growing stream of waste from cars out of landfills.
by Chris Layton
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Sponsored: Leadership no longer looks like a large company beating the competition to an incredible, unique solution; it looks like changing the system through collaborative innovation.
by Cathy Combs
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These remote-control devices raise the profile about the growing problem of plastics in the lakes that provide one-fifth of the world's freshwater.
by Elsa Wenzel
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Here's how innovators at Circularity 22 are dealing with the scourge of plastic waste mismanagement.
by Holly Secon
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Ocean plastic waste often flows from rivers. Innovative businesses are deploying low-cost, low-tech solutions.
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It's a burning problem, among others.
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The U.S. recycling system is notoriously ineffective. A new Recycling Partnership project convenes 60 organizations and aims to change that by 2025.
by Holly Secon
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Without data, it's difficult to know your impact. Simply put, we can’t manage what we can’t measure.
by Erin Simon
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Sponsored: Eastman’s chief commercial officer, Brad Lich, discusses their innovative chemical recycling technologies to support a more circular economy right now.
by Brad Lich
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Across industries, companies are using tech and data to increase their circularity.
by Jim Sullivan
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When junior employees see “pls fix” in an email, they know to drop what they’re working on and jump on the latest, probably time-intensive request from the
by Eastman
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Advanced recycling methods have the potential to vastly increase the amount of plastic that gets recycled into feedstock and new products. For these innovations to work at the scale needed to address global plastic pollution, however, processes and infrastructure must be in place across the entire life cycle of plastics disposal and product production.
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The transition to a circular economy requires a host of new solutions to address gaps in the plastics value chain - from improving data and digitalization in waste management, to improving the economic viability of recycling solutions.
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Bringing you the five biggest stories of the circular economy from this past year, and some predictions for the next.
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Over an average lifetime of 78.7 years, one American would send 67,000 pounds of waste to landfills. Incentives for recycling can bring that number down.
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The collaboration spearheaded by WWF will focus on boosting recycling infrastructure and public awareness campaigns in the U.S.
by Toby Hill
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Confusion among terms like bioplastics, bio-based and biodegradable plastics makes it hard to discern and make the environmentally responsible choice.
by Anja Krieger
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Malaysia sent the United States back its scrap material. Here's what that means for curbing plastic waste.
by Kate O'Neill
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Why we're still at sea on ocean plastics — the real reasons we haven’t solved the plastic crisis yet
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Our circular economy analyst on the Ocean Plastics Leadership Summit, a seaside session with companies, NGOs, waste management firms and innovators.
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A new project can help empower local communities to take recycling into their own bins.
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The best of live interviews from GreenBiz events. This episode: Can consumer goods companies and NGOs team up for material health and social good?
by Joel Makower
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The accumulation and concentration of marine plastics have grown significantly over the past half-century. Here's why that matters.
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Cutlery, cotton buds, straws, balloon sticks and stirrers could all be gone later this year under a new proposal.
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Waste management and pollution prevention are historically ineffective in China — here's why that matters.
by Joachim Roth