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Digital Editor Albertsons has joined the Beyond the Bag Initiative, complementing the plastic reduction efforts already underway at its stores. Adding to its current efforts to reduce waste, Albertsons Cos. has now also joined the Beyond the Bag Initiative to replace single-use retail plastic bags. Beyond the Bag, launched by the Consortium to Reinvent the Retail Bag, is a multiyear collaboration across retail sectors that aims to identify, test and implement innovative design solutions that serve the function of today’s single-use plastic retail bag, delivering ease a...

Getty Images It’s always tempting to pen an article in early January filled with predictions for the coming year, but after what we all collectively endured in 2020 and thus far in 2021, my hat goes off to anyone who has the confidence to make predictions again. Looking back at the past four years in recycling, we’ve faced unprecedented market turbulence following China’s ban on recycling exports, and now extraordinary operational and health challenges in a global pandemic, all set amid the national backdrop of escalating racial tensions and mounting polarization in ...

Dec 16, 2020 Today, Closed Loop Partners released a report dispelling myths and demystifying the rapidly growing landscape of plastic alternatives, with a focus on bio-based plastics, biopolymers and compostable products and packaging. The report unpacks the opportunities and challenges within the industry’s move toward these alternative materials, considering sustainable sourcing of feedstocks and end-of-life recovery pathways that recapture their material value after use. Currently, only 9% of the world’s plastic is recycled globally, while 11 million metric tons of plastic waste enters...