VinylPlus on track to reach sustainability goals

VinylPlus, a European sustainability initiative set up with the aim of recycling 800,000 tonnes of PVC per year by 2020, is on track to achieve its goal after 257,084 tonnes were recycled in 2011.

The initiative is on track despite continuing adverse market conditions and the decrease in volumes of PVC waste in construction, says the group.

With The Biodegradable Bottle Cycling Just Got Even Greener!

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Cycling isn’t just healthy and fun it’s also one of the key ways for developing sustainable transportation models for our increasingly congested cities filled with noise and atmospheric pollution.

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BPF welcomes recycling and energy from waste plants

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The British Plastics Federation (BPF) has welcomed the opening of the Eco Plastics recycling plant at Hemswell, Lincolnshire, and the Thames riverside energy from waste plant at Belvedere, Kent.

Peter Davis, director-general of the BPF, said: “These new advanced recovery facilities take us a step closer to achieving our Plastics 2020 Challenge objective of preventing used plastics being dumped in landfill by 2020.

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A cooler, cool box, portable ice chest, chilly bin (in New Zealand), or 'esky' (Australia) most commonly is an insulated box used to keep food or drink cool. Ice cubes are most commonly placed in it to help the things inside stay cool. Ice packs are sometimes used, as they either contain the melting water inside, or have a gel sealed inside that stays cold longer than plain ice (absorbing heat as it changes phase).

Green Plastics

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Green Plastics, sometimes also called Bioplastics, are plastics that are biodegradable and are usually made mostly or entirely from renewable resources. Frequently there is also a focus on environmentally friendly processing. Green plastics are the focus of an emerging industry focused on making convenient living consistent with environmental stability.