Access to reliable information on hazardous chemicals remains a critical bottleneck for the circular economy. Globally, around 350,000 chemical substances are registered, yet the majority lack comprehensive data on their hazardous properties.
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Plastics have long been central to automotive innovation—reducing weight, improving fuel efficiency, and enhancing safety—but they now represent one of the industry’s most persistent sustainability challenges.
Australia’s Swinburne University of Technology has launched the Si-Zero Project, an international initiative aimed at creating an automated, zero-carbon process for recycling solar panels using robotics and green energy.
Officials from Mexico and the European Union convened in Quintana Roo to advance joint strategies for managing sargassum, a pervasive coastal seaweed, and to identify opportunities for its transformation into valuable resources under the Global Gateway initiative.
When two of Europe’s most established sustainability players — TotalEnergies and Veolia — align, it signals not another corporate pledge but a convergence of industrial capabilities aimed squarely at the hard-to-abate frontiers of decarbonization.
In 2024, U.S. industries generated over 265 million tons of municipal solid waste, with hazardous industrial byproducts remaining one of the least addressed categories of material recovery.
The UK’s ambitions for a circular economy are facing a fiscal roadblock, according to a recent analysis by BB-REG-NET.
Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, has announced a $2.3 billion investment aimed at achieving net-zero operations across its international business by 2040, signaling a major shift in how retail corporations balance profitability with environmental responsibility.
The UK handles over 70 million tones of material annually through its resources and waste industry—a sector employing some 145,000 people.
“5.57 million metric tons.” That is the volume of plastic packaging reported in 2023 by members of the U.S. Plastics Pact (USPP), representing roughly a third of the packaging covered by the initiative.