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South Africa is tapping into the potential of plastics like never before. By - Cape Business News While plastics still face significant criticism worldwide, South Africa, particularly Plastics SA is committed to driving positive environmental change and proving the eco-friendly potential of plastics through various initiatives such as supporting river catchment projects and clean-ups held around the country on beaches, rivers, and communities. |
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Medical plastics and their journey towards sustainability. By - Medical Plastics News Single-use plastics have revolutionised healthcare tremendously and negatively contributed to climate change and waste in medical packaging. Katherine Hoffman sheds light on how hospitals and pioneers in the Chemical Manufacturing industry like Eastman are engaged in collaborative efforts to enable the recycling of PETG. |
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ReCircle - Paving a secure road for plastic scrap towards recycling destinations. By - Chris Voloschuk Rahul Nainani and Gurashish Singh Sahni are close to sealing the plastic scrap management gap with an ethically organised and trackable supply chain by collaborating with a network of material collectors, processors and waste management companies in India through their Mumbai-based company, ReCircle. |
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Roadmap 2.0 - A safe future for the planet through circular packaging. By - Chris Voloschuk Keeping practicality, the successes and lessons learned in mind from their initial initiative, the US Plastic Pact released Roadmap 2.0 — a strategic plan developed to transform how companies design, use and reuse plastics in their packaging while focusing on creating a circular economy. |
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Borcycle M - The key to recycled plastic’s evolution. By - Brian Taylor Borealis AG, an Austria-based packaging and plastics recycling company, intends to install a recycled-content polyolefins (rPO) demonstration line using its Borcycle M technology in Beringen, Belgium, that can mechanically transform recycled post-consumer scrap into a high-quality rigid plastic material that offers exceptional flexibility and versatility. |
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That’s all for now. Issued in public interest by Indian Centre for Plastics in the Environment,
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