I’d love to hear the views of a PET producer as to whether this is a genuine ‘green’ saving. It sounds convincing – Aluminium is infinitely recyclable, but is it still a benefit when energy is taken into consideration? I hope it is. (Martin).
German retail giant Penny Markt is swapping the company’s ten PET beverage [...]
Here’s a link to an interesting viewpoint article from the BBC website, that makes the very good point that plastic bags aren’t the demons that people paint them as, and the real problem with plastic bags is litter, not Carbon footprint. I believe I’ve been making the same point for a couple of years now. [...]
I think this is what they call ‘open-loop’ recycling! (Martin)
Recycled house has a lot of bottle
via BBC News – Recycled house has a lot of bottle.
Tom is professor of art and design at Nottingham Trent. I’m going along to hear him and Janet Shipton speak at a Future factories seminar on Friday this week (19th). Should be interesting (Martin).
We tend to assume that used consumer packaging is just waste. When it stops being a necessity, waste packaging becomes an inconvenience, [...]
I’ve just seen a press release from the Local Government Association (yes, them again) that tells me that the possible cost of the Christmas clear up is as much as £78 million over the normal cost of waste disposal. That’s 230,000 tonnes of waste food, 10,000 tonnes of wrapping paper, 25,000 tonnes of packaging and [...]
I have a great deal of respect for Hillary Benn. He’s saying and doing the right things, he isn’t just following a populist green agenda, he’s maintaining pressure on industry and aiming at the right targets. Of course we must recycle more, value our resources. Much, much more sensible approach than the cretinous attacks on [...]
There has been a piece flying around the internet, a blog post on the American Planet Green site. Here’s a link to it. It looks well researched, and gives us some figures about percentage of municipal waste dumps acounted for by packaging, some comparisons of Carbon footprints by materials etc, then tells readers how they [...]
Another one found and Twittered by JoAnn Hines (@packagingdiva) – She’s good! I can’t hep thinking that this all sounds a bit like cellophane, though. Still, good idea if it works and if it doesn’t use more energy to produce than the plastic would have done (Martin)
ScienceDaily (July 2, 2009) — Margarita Calafell, a researcher [...]
Trials run by WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) show that non-bottle household plastic packaging – margarine tubs, fruit trays and yoghurt pots which are a recycling bugbear for many consumers, can now be recycled. And a competition run by WRAP could provide the funding to stimulate the UK recycling infrastructure and enable this to [...]
A Canadian study into reusable packaging has called for more research into the possible health implications of containers that are not sufficiently cleaned after use.
The Canadian Plastics Industry Association (CPIA) commissioned two laboratories to study the presence of microbes in reusable grocery bags, and a third agency, Toronto-based Spotometrics, was tasked with evaluating the data.
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