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01.10.2024 PACKAGING UK  Supermarkets receive pushback for discontinuing lids for perishable products / Sainsbury's, Tesco stand by decision to save 260 t/y of plastic

30.09.2024 PLASTICS AND ENVIRONMENT  India overtakes China as biggest polluter / 15% of global population lacks access to waste-collection services – Leeds university research

27.09.2024 SAINSBURY'S  UK retailer plans to reduce plastic packaging by over 560 t/y

24.09.2024 EXXONMOBIL  Oil giant being sued by California for alleged deception of plastics recycling claims / Remedies sought include part of group's profits

24.09.2024 RECYCLING SWITZERLAND  Association to start collecting plastic packaging, drink cartons in October

24.09.2024 PACKAGING USA  Plastics Pact expands materials list for potential elimination by 2030 / More items to be evaluated for possible removal in 2026

23.09.2024 UNILEVER  Partnership with USAID and EY to combat plastic pollution

19.09.2024 PACKAGING NETHERLANDS  Circular strategies could cut demand for virgin plastic packaging by two-thirds – study / More policies focussed on alternative raw materials essential

16.09.2024 PFAS  German Chancellor Olaf Scholz: “We won't accept an undifferentiated blanket ban” / Speech at the VCI summit in Berlin

13.09.2024 CIRCULAR ECONOMY  Roadmap aims to turn rhetoric into action / Manufactured goods, processes account for one third of the Earth's overshoot – Deloitte report

11.09.2024 MARINE LITTER  The Ocean Cleanup declares mission accomplished / Great Pacific Garbage Patch could be plastics-free within 10 years

11.09.2024 PFAS  US petition calls for EPA to steer North Carolina water quality / NGO says state is too industry-friendly / Cape Fear region crucial

10.09.2024 PFAS  “You can assume that our concerns will be heard” – interview with GKV president Helen Fürst on strongly worded PFAS letter to German chancellor Scholz

10.09.2024 PFAS  US EPA extends reporting deadline for ‘forever chemicals' / Cites resource constraints as reason

10.09.2024 HUNGARY  National bottle deposit return system officially started / Part of centralised waste management scheme

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