GUANGZHOU, CHINA — German plastics maker BASF SE hopes to seed the market for biodegradable plastics in China with a trial program composting household food waste in 100,000 homes in the central Chinese city of Wuhan.
SACRAMENTO, CALIF. — Nestlé Waters, manufacturer of Arrowhead brand bottled water, has committed to using 50 percent recycled content in its water bottles, according to Californians Against Waste.
GUANGZHOU, CHINA -- China’s “Green Fence” crackdown on dirty scrap materials has reduced imports of plastic waste by 5.5 percent in the first four months of the year, a significant change for a country long-used to double-digit increases in recycled materials flowing in.
WILMINGTON, DEL. — In remote villages in sub-Saharan Africa, medicine can be hard to find, while Coca-Cola is virtually everywhere.
MINNEAPOLIS — Sustainable chemical maker BioAmber Inc. raised $80 million in an initial public offering of its stock on May 10.
HONG KONG -- Following its inaugural conference on plastic waste issues on the sidelines of the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Brazil last year, the Plasticity conference is coming to Hong Kong in early June.
MONETTE, ARK. — Colson Caster Corp., a manufacturer of caster and wheel products, picked up a cash incentive check from a local utility for installing insulating blankets on its injection molding machines.
CONSETT, ENGLAND — Plastic milk bottle manufacturer Nampak Plastics Europe Ltd. claims to have supplied the world's first four-pint milk bottle containing up to 30 percent recycled high density polyethylene.
LUDWIGSHAFEN, GERMANY — BASF SE has added to its Ecovio range of compostable and partially bio-based plastic with formulations suitable for thermoforming and injection molding.
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