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Packaging is a resource that should never be wasted.
UNESDA’s Circular Packaging Vision 2030 acknowledges the central role that beverage packaging can play in a circular economy. Europe’s soft drinks sector is committing that its packaging will be fully circular by the end of the decade. To start with, it pledges that by 2025 all our plastic, metal and glass packaging will be 100% recyclable and all PET bottles will contain a minimum average 50% rPET. By 2030, beverage packaging will be 90% collected, there will be more refillable packaging and we will have moved towards 100% recycled and/or renewable PET bottles.
With this Vision 2030 our industry is standing up to be counted. We are declaring our intention and commitment to be part of the solution and to support the European Commission in accelerating the transition towards a green economy.
From Monday, South Australia s going to be a little bit greener.
Not only is the state a leader in renewable energy, it s also the first jurisdiction in the country to ban all single-use plastic items.
From 1 March 2021 all single-use plastic straws, cutlery and plastic stirrers will be banned across South Australia. Drinking straws will still be allowed to be given to people with a disability or medical requirement .
Other single use plastic items will be banned in a second stage next year, while other items like takeaway coffee cups need further analysis and consultation .
There s even fines for those that break the new laws - with maximum penalties of up to $20,000.
During the 5th United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-5), the first part of which was held virtually on February 22 and 23, the German delegation announced – on behalf of Ecuador, Ghana and the Germany itself – the decision to begin preparations to convene a Ministerial Meeting on Marine Pollution by Plastics, the same one that would take place at the end of the third quarter of this year.
Germany, Ecuador and Ghana concerned about marine plastic pollution
The initiative is supported by the Presidency of the UNEA, currently under the leadership of Norway, and would benefit from close cooperation with the Secretariat of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP).
The story of the EU s plastic packaging conflict of interests
Some 20,000 cubic meters of waste float on Lake Potpecko in Serbia: plastic bottles, cans, old refrigerators and other rubbish
Brussels/Berlin, 24. Feb, 07:14
Some 20,000 cubic meters of waste float on Lake Potpecko in Serbia: plastic bottles, cans, old refrigerators and other rubbish.
The floating pollution threatens to clog the dam s hydroelectric power station in the lake. Since last week, the Serbian authorities have sent two boats to the lake, collecting up to 100 cubic meters of plastic and other rubbish every day.
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