New Plastics Economy
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The New Plastics Economy - an initiative by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation @circulareconomy • #newplasticseconomy #lineinthesand #globalcommitment
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At yesterday's #LondonMarathon , our New Plastics Economy Innovation Prize winners Ooho Water helped replace over 215,000 plastic bottles, with seaweed-based edible capsules. bit.ly/2IPHgSP
Reusable packaging and switching to concentrates are two ways businesses can reduce their need for single-use packaging, in a way that makes sense for them, their customers and the environment| @NewPlasticsEconomy lead Sander Defruyt speaks to Fast Company bit.ly/2ViIbRl
Tomorrow at the G7 Italy resource alliance event in Paris: the importance of voluntary commitments illustrated by the New Plastics Economy #GlobalCommitment and France’s national #plastics Pact. Brune Poirson Baptiste Perrissin-F #CircularEconomy
In our first New Plastics Economy #GlobalCommitment report we call on companies such as take-away food chains, hotels & airlines - industries using significant volumes of single-use plastic - to join this journey towards a #circulareconomy for #plastics newplasticseconomy.org
The decision by more than 30 companies to publicly disclose their annual plastic packaging volumes in the report is an important step towards greater transparency. We encourage all companies that make and use plastics to do the same #GlobalCommitment
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In October we launched the New Plastics Economy #GlobalCommitment calling for businesses & governments to eliminate the plastic we don't need and innovate, so what we do need is circulated and never becomes pollution. See our first progress report here bit.ly/2VSy5mW
France has joined our growing network of Plastics Pacts - committed to creating a #circulareconomy for plastic. The pact has brought together brands, businesses, NGOs and policymakers.
Tous les signataires du #PactePlastiques souscrivent à une vision commune de l’ #EconomieCirculaire dans laquelle le #plastique , aujourd’hui source de #pollution majeure, ne devient jamais un déchet
Découvrez quelques-unes des mesures concrètes de ce Pacte ⤵
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Find out how businesses and policymakers in France are coming together to address #plasticpollution through a new Plastics Pact. bit.ly/2Nm9Qe4
As part of the #GlobalCommitment , governments have committed to supporting a #circulareconomy for #plastic . The UK is looking at how extended producer responsibility can encourage the design of products that can be re-used or dismantled & recycled bit.ly/2GNBcIK
More than half of #GreenhouseGasEmissions are related to materials management activities. The extraction & use of #RawMaterials is more polluting than #recycled materials.
Tune into today's #GreenTalksLive & learn about materials use projections to 2060 👉bit.ly/oecdgreentalks
In October, the UK Government signed the Global Commitment, pledging to work towards a #circulareconomy for #plastic . We must eliminate the plastic we don’t need, and innovate, so what we do need can be circulated in the economy and kept out of the environment. #lineinthesand