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The most important stories for you to know today

The most important stories for you to know today

The most important stories for you to know today

For years, companies have been trying to offset their greenhouse gas emissions with carbon credits. Now, they want to do the same thing for their plastic pollution.

Plastic credits can help fund waste cleanup, but they can also justify making more plastic.

More consumer products are claiming to be made from recycled ocean or ocean-bound plastics, but green groups say the claims are difficult to prove and may be misleading consumers.

Several years ago, Peter Wang Hjemdahl and two of his colleagues visited the Deonar landfill in Mumbai, India. On one side, they saw enormous mountains of waste

UPM Raflatac is the first company in the world to invest in Ocean Bound Plastics (OBP) waste as label raw material in their new Ocean Action labels. The Ocean Action labels are made from ocean bound plastic using a mass balance approach. Ocean bound plastic is abandoned plastic waste recovered from areas up to 50km inland from waterways, defined as “at risk of ending up in the ocean” by OBPCert. The new innovative label material is made possible by close collaboration with multiple partners ...

Sabic joined an innovative project with value chain partners to help UPM Raflatac launch a packaging label material made from SABIC®certified circular PP based on advanced recycled ocean bound plastic (OBP).

Sabic, a global leader in the chemical industry, has partnered with UPM Raflatac, a top provider of labelling solutions, to launch the world’s first packaging label materials made from certified circular ocean bound plastic.