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INEOS Chemical recycling from late 2023 / Pact with Plastic Energy to use “Tacoil” feedstock	29.04.2020
PLASTICS AND ENVIRONMENT NGO Tearfund links climate change with plastics pollution from major consumer brands / Study focused on six developing countries / Coca-Cola worst offender	09.04.2020
PLASTICS RECYCLING EUROPE "European Plastics Pact" launches / Targets include better life cycle management of packaging and disposables / EuPC sees difficulties and refuses to join	09.03.2020
PLASTICS AND ENVIRONMENT WWF-Malaysia responds to media inaccuracies on Malaysian plastics / Plastic packaging report recommends EPR to address problems in Southeast Asia and China / Indonesia plans plastics tax	28.02.2020
AMCOR Fiscal 2020 outlook improves after first-half results / Bemis integration gives boost / HPRC partnership to improve medical plastics recycling	28.02.2020
PORTUGAL Country joins global "Plastics Pact" network / Aim to recycle 70% of packaging by 2025	18.02.2020
VIRIDOR Unilever and Klöckner Pentaplast agree to purchase recycled plastics from UK facility	11.02.2020
PLASTICS AND ENVIRONMENT Global tourism initiative to tackle plastics waste / Organisations must commit to several targets by 2025 / UNEP and EMF collaboration	07.02.2020
POLYONE Advanced Composites and healthcare applications cushion sales decline in Europe and Asia / Company joins UK Plastics Pact	06.02.2020
COCA-COLA Customers like using plastic bottles, says sustainability head at WEF / New partnership with “Benioff Ocean Initiative” to clean up polluted rivers	27.01.2020
NESTLE EUR 2 bn investment plans to hike use of recycled plastics	22.01.2020
ALPLA Austrian packaging group acquires two HDPE recycling plants in Spain / Plans for capacity expansion	08.11.2019
PROCTER & GAMBLE Consumer goods group plans to save over 300,000 t of virgin plastics per year by 2030 / Up to 50% recyclate used in detergent bottles so far	01.11.2019
PLASTICS AND ENVIRONMENT Early progress being made to eliminate problem packaging / Accelerated efforts needed to reach 2025 targets / Ellen MacArthur Foundation and UNEP progress report	31.10.2019
UNILEVER Commitment to halve virgin plastics use by 2025 / Pledge to help collect and process 600,000 t plastic packaging annually / CEO says need to rethink design	16.10.2019
USA Coca-Cola and PepsiCo leave Plastics Industry Association following pressure from Greenpeace	25.07.2019
KOMPUESTOS Spanish compounder plans to expand / Compostable resins for single-use applications	17.07.2019
PENNON New plastics recycling facility to be fueled with non-recyclable plastics waste	14.06.2019
MONDI Flexible packaging from post-consumer plastics	12.06.2019
PLASTICS INDUSTRY UK Recycling programme Wrap reports on “UK Plastics Pact” progress / Strides made in removing PS and black plastics from packaging as well as single-use items	07.06.2019
HENKEL Detergent and cosmetics packaging made entirely of recyclate / “Social Plastic” rPET in collaboration with Plastic Bank	09.05.2019
VFSE Position paper defends PVC packaging / Call for support to improve collection and recycling	25.04.2019
VEOLIA Partnership with Nestlé to develop recycling schemes in and outside of Europe / Emphasis on flexible plastic packaging	26.03.2019
PLASTICS AND ENVIRONMENT Coca-Cola and other major brands disclose plastic packaging production figures / Businesses across value chain commit to reducing plastics waste / Ellen MacArthur Foundation and UNEP report	20.03.2019
FRANCE National pact on plastic packaging / Government, NGOs and retailers commit to ambitious recycling targets	13.03.2019