Tag "műanyag"

Reckitt Benckiser Partners With Yoyo In France For Plastic Recycling Pilot

British household goods maker Reckitt Benckiser has announced a partnership with French start-up company Yoyo to step up plastic recycling. The initiative will involve a five-month pilot project aimed at...

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Plants also eat plastic

According to a recent research, plastic waste not only pollutes the waters of the seas and oceans, but as it turned out, in addition to animals, plants are also able...

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Asda To Remove Plastic Forks From Salads And Protein Bowls

UK retailer Asda is to remove plastic forks from its own-brand salads and protein bowls as part of its pledge to ‘Use less and recycle more’. The new packaging for...

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More than ten thousand tonnes of plastics will have to be replaced next year, according to the interests of the packaging industry

On an annual basis, more than ten thousand tons of products may be affected by the imminent ban on single-use plastics in Hungary, the National Association for Packaging and Material...

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ITM recommends banning additional disposable plastic products

The Ministry of Innovation and Technology (ITM) would ban the marketing of disposable plastic beverage glasses and light and very light, including biodegradable plastic carrier bags in Hungary from January...

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Plastic is not the number one sin

Not a day passes by without you reading  an article about the harmful environmental effects of plastics. Never, or at least with much less emphasis, is placed on the other...

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Bioplastics – Video of the day

This conceptual project by Royal College of Art graduate Johanna Schmeer builds on developments in nanotechnology to create synthetic foods for feeding the world’s burgeoning population. Bioplastic Fantastic – Between Products and Organisms from...

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Iceland Reduces Plastic Use In By 29% In Two Years

UK retailer Iceland has announced that it has cut the use of plastics in the packaging of its store-brand products by 29%, two years after vowing to remove plastics completely...

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The impact of microplastics on food safety: the case of fishery and aquaculture products

Microplastics present in the oceans and inland waters are unintentionally ingested by a large number of aquatic animals of commercial value. These plastic particles are made of compounds such as...

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Finally, ALDI leaves the plastic lid out off the sour cream glasses

By the end of March this year, ALDI will leave the plastic lid out off all Hungarian-branded own-branded dairy products. ALDI will continue its efforts to reduce the amount of...

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(HU) Magyarország jövőre betiltja az egyszer használatos műanyagokat

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Customers Embrace Produce Without Plastic

Customers in three Countdown stores are experiencing a very different-looking produce section from today, as part of a ten-week plastic reduction test which will see more than a tonne of...

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Asda Unveils ‘Fishing For Plastic’ Initiative To Tackle Pollution

British retailer Asda has announced the launch of a new initiative, ‘Fishing For Plastic’, with which the Walmart-owned operator will seek to tackle marine pollution. As part of the initiative,...

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Recycling obstacles: Nestlé Waters reveals nearly half of consumers say it’s easier to bin than recycle plastic

Nestlé Waters North America (NWNA) has unveiled its third annual comprehensive national study, This is How We Planet: America’s Perspective on Water, Packaging and Health. The bottled water manufacturer reveals...

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Coca-Cola looks at establishing plastic recycling plant in Australia

Beverage maker Coca-Cola Amatil is looking to establish a major recycled processing plant in Australia with French company Veolia as the drinks giant seeks alternatives to importing recycled plastic for...

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Tesco vows to remove 1 billion pieces of plastic packaging by end-2020

Britain’s biggest retailer Tesco (TSCO.L) has pledged to remove one billion pieces of plastic packaging from products in its UK stores by the end of 2020, seeking to reduce its...

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Dove To Launch Bottles Made Of 100% Recycled Plastic By Year End

Unilever has announced plans to introduce bottles made of 100% recycled plastic for Dove beauty products range by the end of 2019. The new bottles will be launched in Europe...

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Alternative drinking straws

A Hungarian enterprise is selling drinking straws made from a special kind of reed that grows in Vietnam. They can be used several times for both cold and hot drinks....

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Waitrose Removes Plastic Packaging From Multipack Cans

UK retailer Waitrose & Partners has removed plastic packaging from multi-pack cans of its bestselling staples. The idea is being tested on essential Waitrose’s baked beans, chopped tomatoes, plum tomatoes,...

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Schwarz Group buys recycling specialist

Germany’s Schwarz Group takes over the Austrian Sky Plastic Group through its subsidiary Greencycle. The company is established in plastics recycling and is intended to provide the parent company of...

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Less plastic at SPAR

The retail chain has reduced the weight of bottles of some of its own branded mineral waters and packed more fruits in smaller weighted nylon pouches or paked with degradable...

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Coca-Cola To Introduce Cardboard Packaging For Multipack Cans

Coca-Cola has announced that it is to replace plastic shrink-wrap from multipack beverage cans in Great Britain with cardboard packaging in the next 18 months. The new packaging will be...

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Students Invent Bacteria That Eat Plastic From The Oceans And Turn It Into Water

The high pollution in the oceans is a big problem on the planet. According to recent research, it is likely that in the year 2050 we will find more plastic...

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Netto Marken-Discount To Switch To Unpackaged Cucumbers

German discounter Netto Marken-Discount has announced that it is to only sell unpackaged cucumbers from mid-September onwards. As a result, all conventional and organic cucumbers will be sold packaging-free in 4,260 Netto...

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Tesco: Remove, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Tesco has announced the second phase of its ‘Remove, Reduce, Reuse and Recycle’ plan aimed at tackling excess packaging in private-label as well as branded products. As part of the...

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Origami cranes: Nestlé Japan to switch out plastic for paper on KitKats

Nestlé Japan is replacing the plastic wrapping on its KitKat candy bars with paper in a bid to become one step closer to its commitment of 100 percent recyclable or...

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Amazon India Plans To Scrap Single-Use Plastic

Amazon.com Inc’s India unit plans to replace single-use plastic in its packaging by June 2020, the company said on Wednesday, the latest move by an ecommerce giant to weed out...

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M&S opts for glitter-free Christmas cards & wrap

Marks & Spencer has said it has removed glitter from its entire Christmas celebration range this year, in a bid to improve recyclability and reduce the impact of microplastics on...

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Rewe Group Pledges To Offer ‘Unpackaged’ Cucumbers

German retailer Rewe Group has pledged to remove plastic packaging from its cucumbers, saving up to 160,000 kilograms of plastic per year. As the retailer noted, the thin plastic film...

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Asda Uses Non-Recyclable Plastic For Car Park Makeover

UK retailer Asda has announced that it has resurfaced its car park in Wakefield with non-recyclable plastic from discarded water bottles. The initiative is part of Asda’s commitment to reduce...

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