Build Magazine's Recycling & Waste Management Awards

BUILD Magazine Announces The Recycling & Waste Management Awards 2019 Winners, and we're happy to be given the Best NGO for Plastic Pollution Reduction Award! Part of this is also due to our Plastic Disclosure Program work, and your support for those of you who have participated.

Businesses the world over are looking for ways to become more sustainable or, at the very least, to reduce waste. Yet, with ever-rising populations comes an ever-growing problem. This year in particular has seen a laser focus on climate issues and the way we recycle and reuse materials. Perhaps, then, there’s no better time to shine a spotlight on the ground-breaking work that is done in the name of innovation in the recycling and waste management spheres. Here we have showcased just a few of the leading experts in this crucial industry. https://lnkd.in/fuYYbbx https://lnkd.in/fct-bUJ

Avery Dennison Joins Plasticity Partnership

By Avery Dennison

- Published on September 5, 2018 by Plasticity Forum

Global materials science and manufacturing company, Avery Dennison Corporation (NYSE: AVY), and Ocean Recovery Alliance, founders of Plasticity Forum, have entered into a three-year agreement as part of the Plasticity Partner Program.

Over the three year period Avery Dennison and Plasticity aim to collaborate across the industry to discover, connect and facilitate solutions to create innovative prevention programs for plastic pollution.

Click here for information on the 10th Plasticity Forum, this year in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on October 25th.  This is one of the only events in the world which is soley focused on plastic sustainability and circularity, with solutions that can scale.....for a world without the waste footprint. 

Read press release here 

Turkish Olympic Committee and PDP Sport

By South China Morning Post

- Published on July 25, 2018 by Mark Agnew

The Cross-Continental Swim is one of the largest open water swimming events in the world. Up to 2,400 swimmers from 50 countries swim from the European to the Asian side of Istanbul. After 2017, Woodring gave the organisers a checklist he named the Plastic Disclosure Project (PDP), which included headings like “can plastic items be replaced or substituted with something more sustainable”.

“They were very receptive,” he said. “They knew it was good for their brand and wouldn’t cost much.”

This year, they had made a number of changes including information on the side of bins and containers for rubbish shaped like bottles. If you picked up a plastic bottle, they organisers gave out hats.

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