Canada has finalized regulations on how they will address climate change by banning single-use plastics.
Moving forward with their comprehensive plan, the government is taking the final steps to meet this commitment, which will begin in December 2022.
The regulation will ban the manufacture and imp...
The Costa Rican government signed a "plastic ban" on April 12, banning the sale and free distribution of plastic bags and banning plastic straws, which will be officially implemented one year later. And the "eco-coin" will be extended to many countries in Latin America.
The bill ...
On June 1, 2023, the local government of Danao City, Cebu Province, Philippines, announced a citywide ban on the use of plastic products by businesses.
In fact, the city's plastic ban went into effect two years ago, but was suspended during the New Crown epidemic.
City information officer Mitch Mon...
On May 1, 2023, the Los Angeles County Waste Reduction Ordinance for Disposables and Expanded Polystyrene Products goes into effect, which was adopted by the Los Angeles County Board of Commissioners in April 2022 to reduce waste and litter in communities and waterways while reinforcing sustainabili...
Packaging is a growing source of waste. It is also one of the major users of virgin materials. The European Commission hopes to solve this problem by revising the Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive (EU Packaging & Packaging Waste Directive, PPWD).
The average European produces almost 180 k...
As regulatory pressure increases, multinational chemical companies are paying more attention to the carbon footprint of their raw materials.
According to the most widely used international greenhouse gas accounting system, the carbon emissions of enterprises are divided into three ranges:
Scope I:...
According to the EU Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) news, on January 2, 2023, the EU notified the import of children's tableware and strip leaf kiwi extract failed. The specific notification reads as follows:
Briefing time | Notify the State | Products | Number ... |
The Waste Fund Packaging Foundation in the Netherlands has proposed a new plastics guide that aims to help municipalities, importers, producers and recyclers create a 100 percent fossil-free, zero-damage packaging system for people and the environment by 2050. The guidelines focus on reducing plasti...
The Sri Lankan government announced on Feb. 14 that it will ban the use of single-use plastic products. This follows a series of deaths of wild elephants and deer from plastic poisoning in the country.
Sri Lanka's cabinet spokesman and media minister Bandura Gunawardena said the country will ban th...
On Feb. 16, 2023, Md Shahab Uddin, the Bangladesh government's minister of environment, forests and climate change, said the government has taken steps to reduce single-use plastics by 90 percent by 2026.
"There are also plans to increase the recycling rate of plastic waste to 80 percent by 20...
