Recycling

Big brands recruit small innovators in battle against single-use plastics

April 12, 2019

Could the pressure on multinational brands to eliminate disposable plastic packaging turn a handful of environmental tech companies into bona fide disrupters?

Apple's supply chain is eating up clean energy

April 11, 2019

By Heather Clancy

Over the past year, participation nearly doubled in the tech giant’s groundbreaking program to encourage usage of solar and wind.

Life-cycle assessments must better align with circularity

March 28, 2019

By Lise Laurin

How come we tend to look at the implications of one end-of-life action but not others?

IBM chemists have found a faster way to recycle plastics, even stuff coated with residue

February 27, 2019

By Heather Clancy

The technology was born at the company’s research center in California.

Solving the plastic pollution crisis requires focus on another ‘R’ — responsibility

February 21, 2019

By Tom Dowdall

Companies must tackle the problem by reducing and reusing first, rather than skipping straight to recycling as the best solution.

Reuse makes a comeback

February 18, 2019

By Joel Makower

The three Rs were just the beginning.

Better recycling through chemistry

February 1, 2019

By RP Siegel

Breaking it down to basics, like nature does.

Loop’s launch brings reusable packaging to the world’s biggest brands

January 24, 2019

By Joel Makower

Why a quirky startup has attracted P&G, Unilever, Coke, Pepsi, Nestle, Mars, Clorox, Danone and 20 other brands to a platform for disruptive packaging.