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Resource Recycling har intervjuet Tomras CEO Stefan Ranstrand. Det har blitt til en meget(sigende) interessant artikkel som alle med interesse for selskapets fremtid må lese. Her i trådstarten fokuserer jeg imidlertid på en svært interessant uttalelse fra Stefan som ikke er kjent for å overby, tvert imot. Derfor velger jeg å ta frem utropstegnet når Stefan sier at han tror ting vil skje i USA, men ikke på grunn av fremsynte politikere som vedtar reguleringer på linje med politiske vedtak som allerede er gjort i f.eks. EU. Stefan tror derimot store "consumer goods companies" selv vil ta lederansvar, til tross for manglende myndighetspolitikk på området. En glimrende illustrasjon av hvor mye det nå betyr for omdømmet til verdens store brands å være forbundet med bærekraft og "doing the right thing". Når det gjelder Coca-Cola Company, er jeg usikkker, men jeg vet at Tomra samarbeider med størrelser som Pepsi Cola, Nestle, Uniliver og Procter and Gamble. Dette er virkelig spennende!
Tomra CEO: Industry has an opportunity for greater value recovery
Posted on August 27, 2019
by Colin Staub
The leader of a global recycling equipment company says improved processing infrastructure will be vital to the industry’s future. But collaboration among all stakeholders is just as important.
Recent recycling market challenges have spurred significant dialogue over the future of materials recovery and how to avoid market crises. As a major equipment supplier for the recycling industry, Tomra has had a unique position on the market shifts.
Stefan Ranstrand, president and CEO of Tomra, offered his thoughts on the potential available for the industry, given the right investments and cooperation.
“There is an opportunity to extract more value, to turn the tap of virgin and open the tap of recycled material,” Ranstrand said. “This will be done over stages of a long time, not instantly, but every long march starts with a first step, and that’s the journey we want to take with the industry here.”
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Tomra has worked with several consumer goods companies on pilot projects to demonstrate that with greater sorting and washing, low-value plastic can be recycled into packaging. (Ranstrand declined to name the companies, citing confidentiality agreements.)
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Ranstrand envisions a system in which recycled resin costs less than virgin material. This dynamic has been difficult to achieve in recent years due to low oil prices, but Ranstrand says the key is to build demand.
He noted government regulations could help to build demand, pointing to the single-use packaging directive announced this year in the European Union. The new regulations will increase collection requirements for plastic containers in the coming years and will implement recycled content mandates on new plastic packaging.
Although that type of aggressive EPR system and mandate has not been seen in the U.S., Ranstrand said he is optimistic given the interest from consumer goods companies, even without the regulation.
“There’s a high willingness from them to do something,” he said.
https://resource-recycling.com/recycling/2019/08/27/tomra-ceo-industry-has-an-opportunity-for-greater-value-recovery/
Tomra CEO: Industry has an opportunity for greater value recovery
Posted on August 27, 2019
by Colin Staub
The leader of a global recycling equipment company says improved processing infrastructure will be vital to the industry’s future. But collaboration among all stakeholders is just as important.
Recent recycling market challenges have spurred significant dialogue over the future of materials recovery and how to avoid market crises. As a major equipment supplier for the recycling industry, Tomra has had a unique position on the market shifts.
Stefan Ranstrand, president and CEO of Tomra, offered his thoughts on the potential available for the industry, given the right investments and cooperation.
“There is an opportunity to extract more value, to turn the tap of virgin and open the tap of recycled material,” Ranstrand said. “This will be done over stages of a long time, not instantly, but every long march starts with a first step, and that’s the journey we want to take with the industry here.”
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Tomra has worked with several consumer goods companies on pilot projects to demonstrate that with greater sorting and washing, low-value plastic can be recycled into packaging. (Ranstrand declined to name the companies, citing confidentiality agreements.)
...
Ranstrand envisions a system in which recycled resin costs less than virgin material. This dynamic has been difficult to achieve in recent years due to low oil prices, but Ranstrand says the key is to build demand.
He noted government regulations could help to build demand, pointing to the single-use packaging directive announced this year in the European Union. The new regulations will increase collection requirements for plastic containers in the coming years and will implement recycled content mandates on new plastic packaging.
Although that type of aggressive EPR system and mandate has not been seen in the U.S., Ranstrand said he is optimistic given the interest from consumer goods companies, even without the regulation.
“There’s a high willingness from them to do something,” he said.
https://resource-recycling.com/recycling/2019/08/27/tomra-ceo-industry-has-an-opportunity-for-greater-value-recovery/
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29.08.2019 kl 17:19
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Nå er det ikke lenger et spørsmål om Coca-Cola Company og andre big consumer companies vil ta forsøplingen produktene deres forårsaker på alvor og gjøre noe for å rydde opp. De må rydde opp for å forsvare omdømmene til sine brands, og det har de nå forstått slik det fremkommer i intervjuet med Tomras CEO i trådstart. De har ikke noe valg hvis de skal unngå at business blir rammet.
'Like mopping up a flood': throwing in the towel over beach plastic pollution
On his last mission to clean his local beach in Aberystwyth, volunteer Alan Cookson explains why the relentless tide of litter has defeated him
Maeve Shearlawand Kyri Evangelou
Thu 29 Aug 2019 12.05 BST Last modified on Thu 29 Aug 2019 13.07 BST
A father of three who has led volunteer beach cleans for the last four years in west Wales is quitting because of the insurmountable plastic problem around Britain’s coastlines.
When Alan Cookson, 46, started cleaning Aberystwyth’s beaches he says there were 5.5tn pieces of plastic in the sea. Now there are at least 51tn.
“It’s like you’re trying to mop up a flood but the tap’s still running.” Cookson feels like he’s spent the last four years on the losing team: “If it was a football match you would have changed tactics by now.”
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Cookson, a former Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) volunteer, is deeply critical of the charity sector. When it comes to the anti-plastic fight “they are not even in the ring”.
He also says that initiatives like SAS’s “plastic-free communities”, and charity campaign “keep Wales tidy” are not working.
He’d like to see charities challenge “corporate consumer capitalism”, by which he means companies like Coca-Cola, who are producing 3m tonnes of plastic packaging ever year – equivalent to 200,000 bottles every single minute.
A Coca-Cola spokesperson said: “We don’t want to see any of our packaging end up as litter. We are supportive of reforms, including the introduction of a deposit return scheme here in Great Britain, to help us get more packaging back. In Great Britain, all our bottles and cans are already 100% recyclable. When disposed of properly, our bottles can be recycled into new bottles over and over again.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/29/throwing-in-the-towel-over-beach-plastic-pollution
'Like mopping up a flood': throwing in the towel over beach plastic pollution
On his last mission to clean his local beach in Aberystwyth, volunteer Alan Cookson explains why the relentless tide of litter has defeated him
Maeve Shearlawand Kyri Evangelou
Thu 29 Aug 2019 12.05 BST Last modified on Thu 29 Aug 2019 13.07 BST
A father of three who has led volunteer beach cleans for the last four years in west Wales is quitting because of the insurmountable plastic problem around Britain’s coastlines.
When Alan Cookson, 46, started cleaning Aberystwyth’s beaches he says there were 5.5tn pieces of plastic in the sea. Now there are at least 51tn.
“It’s like you’re trying to mop up a flood but the tap’s still running.” Cookson feels like he’s spent the last four years on the losing team: “If it was a football match you would have changed tactics by now.”
...
Cookson, a former Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) volunteer, is deeply critical of the charity sector. When it comes to the anti-plastic fight “they are not even in the ring”.
He also says that initiatives like SAS’s “plastic-free communities”, and charity campaign “keep Wales tidy” are not working.
He’d like to see charities challenge “corporate consumer capitalism”, by which he means companies like Coca-Cola, who are producing 3m tonnes of plastic packaging ever year – equivalent to 200,000 bottles every single minute.
A Coca-Cola spokesperson said: “We don’t want to see any of our packaging end up as litter. We are supportive of reforms, including the introduction of a deposit return scheme here in Great Britain, to help us get more packaging back. In Great Britain, all our bottles and cans are already 100% recyclable. When disposed of properly, our bottles can be recycled into new bottles over and over again.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/29/throwing-in-the-towel-over-beach-plastic-pollution
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PepsiCo samarbeider altså med Tomra. I denne artikkelen fra Fortune får vi demonstrert at PepsiCo ligger langt i forkant av amerikanske politikere når det gjelder mål og ambisjoner for innhold av resirkulert plast i selskapets produkter. PepsiCo påpeker blant annet at rutiner for innsamling av plastflasker (les: pantesystemer) er altfor dårlig mange steder. Særlig i Asia, men også i USA. Jeg kan bare gjenta: Hold på hatten når det smeller!
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PepsiCo To Cut Back on Non-Recycled Plastics in Its Bottles by 2025
By Katherine Dunn
September 13, 2019
Food and beverage giant PepsiCo announced Friday that it will reduce the share of non-recycled plastic in the packaging of its beverages by 35% by 2025, amid growing consumer backlash against the use of single-use plastics and a push for recycling systems to become more robust.
That shift extends the company's previous goal of increasing the recycled content in its beverage packaging to 25% by 2025, the same year Pepsi aims to make all of its packaging recyclable, compostable, or biodegradable. In 2018, the baseline year for the current target, the company said its total "virgin"—or non-recycled—plastic volume was 2.2 million metric tons.
However, the 35% target will encompass some variation across regions and brands, said Simon Lowden, a president at PepsiCo who also leads the company's plastic initiative. While some brands are already made from fully recycled plastics—the Naked Juice brand, for example—he pointed to large regional variations in the infrastructure to collect, sort and process recyclable plastics.
"There's parts of the world where it's easier than others," he said, adding that Europe in particular has a strong system for collecting and processing recyclable material, while Asia is a challenge, and the U.S. is "somewhere between the two."
Pepsi's target requires progress not only in collecting good-quality plastic at a local level—the company has previously spoken ou about the need to reinforce U.S. recycling programs, which have been cut in many regions—but an expansion of the recycling processing industry itself, said Lowden. To supply Pepsi, the industry will "have to grow, absolutely," he added.
Plastic recycling is surprisingly hard to get right, due to a handful of challenges ranging from government policies and lax collection programs, to a lack of education about sorting, to soft demand for recycled plastics even once it's produced. Even in Germany—often crowned the world's top recycling nation—virtually all single-use plastic is collected, but actual recycling rates for that same packaging is just over 48%.
The push towards recycled plastic will also come at a cost, Lowden acknowledged.
"It is an innovative material," he said. "It will always be more expensive in the short term."
https://fortune.com/2019/09/13/pepsi-recycled-plastics-packaging-bottles/
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PepsiCo To Cut Back on Non-Recycled Plastics in Its Bottles by 2025
By Katherine Dunn
September 13, 2019
Food and beverage giant PepsiCo announced Friday that it will reduce the share of non-recycled plastic in the packaging of its beverages by 35% by 2025, amid growing consumer backlash against the use of single-use plastics and a push for recycling systems to become more robust.
That shift extends the company's previous goal of increasing the recycled content in its beverage packaging to 25% by 2025, the same year Pepsi aims to make all of its packaging recyclable, compostable, or biodegradable. In 2018, the baseline year for the current target, the company said its total "virgin"—or non-recycled—plastic volume was 2.2 million metric tons.
However, the 35% target will encompass some variation across regions and brands, said Simon Lowden, a president at PepsiCo who also leads the company's plastic initiative. While some brands are already made from fully recycled plastics—the Naked Juice brand, for example—he pointed to large regional variations in the infrastructure to collect, sort and process recyclable plastics.
"There's parts of the world where it's easier than others," he said, adding that Europe in particular has a strong system for collecting and processing recyclable material, while Asia is a challenge, and the U.S. is "somewhere between the two."
Pepsi's target requires progress not only in collecting good-quality plastic at a local level—the company has previously spoken ou about the need to reinforce U.S. recycling programs, which have been cut in many regions—but an expansion of the recycling processing industry itself, said Lowden. To supply Pepsi, the industry will "have to grow, absolutely," he added.
Plastic recycling is surprisingly hard to get right, due to a handful of challenges ranging from government policies and lax collection programs, to a lack of education about sorting, to soft demand for recycled plastics even once it's produced. Even in Germany—often crowned the world's top recycling nation—virtually all single-use plastic is collected, but actual recycling rates for that same packaging is just over 48%.
The push towards recycled plastic will also come at a cost, Lowden acknowledged.
"It is an innovative material," he said. "It will always be more expensive in the short term."
https://fortune.com/2019/09/13/pepsi-recycled-plastics-packaging-bottles/
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Nestle samarbeider også med Tomra og hyller loven som pålegger prosentvist innhold av resirkulert plast i plastflasker. Loven passerte begge kamrene i kongressen i California fredag. Loven går dermed til guvernøren for underskrift og endelig godkjenning. Det meste taler for at California vedtar enda mer omfattende lover når det gjelder plast og resirkulering når kongressen igjen åpner for behandling og godkjenning av lovforslag i januar 2020.
Nestlé Waters North America Applauds California Legislature for Passing New Recycled Content Law
-- Ambitious and Workable New Law Helps take the "Single" out of "Single-Use Plastics" --
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Nestlé Waters North America
Sep 17, 2019, 13:31 ET
STAMFORD, Conn., Sept. 17, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Nestlé Waters North America applauds the California Legislature for passing Assembly Bill 792 and encourages Governor Gavin Newsom to sign the bill into law. Over the next 11 years, this new law will continue to increase the percentage of recycled content in plastic beverage containers sold in California.
Assembly Bill 792, sponsored by Assembly Members Phil Ting and Jacqui Irwin, passed in the Assembly on September 13th and the Senate in the early morning hours of September 14th.
This ambitious and workable new law will require beverage manufacturers to use 10% recycled plastic in their containers sold in California starting on January 1, 2021. That percentage increases aggressively to 25% by January 1, 2025 and 50% by January 1, 2030. These requirements pertain to all beverage containers subject to the California Redemption Value.
Importantly, the new law includes pragmatic considerations to prevent beverage manufacturers from being unfairly penalized if their good faith efforts to comply are not successful due to factors outside their control. CalRecycle will have the discretion to reduce or waive the standard based on a change of market conditions, recycling rates, the availability of food-grade recycled plastic, or the lack of recycling or processing infrastructure.
"Nestlé Waters North America appreciates that legislative leaders worked with industry and environmental groups to create this landmark piece of legislation," said Charles Broll, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Nestlé Waters North America.
NWNA strongly supports the increased use of recycled content and has demonstrated unparalleled industry leadership in its use. In December 2018, NWNA announced a goal to use 25% recycled PET, or rPET, across its U.S. portfolio by 2021 and 50% by 2025. The company currently uses 50% rPET in all of its individual-sized bottles of Arrowhead® Brand Mountain Spring Water and Nestlé® Pure Life® Purified Water produced in California.
To accomplish this, NWNA works with a number of strategic suppliers of food-grade, post-consumer recycled plastic. Nationally, the company introduced a 700-ml immediate consumption bottle made from 100% rPET for its namesake Nestlé Pure Life brand and a 900-ml 100% rPET bottle for a new national offering called Poland Spring® ORIGIN. In June, Poland Spring® Brand 100% Natural Spring Water, NWNA's regional spring water brand in the northeast, made the industry-leading commitment to convert all its individual-sized still water bottles to 100% recycled plastic by 2022. The conversion has started already, with its 1 Liter and 1.5 Liter still water sizes being made with 100% recycled plastic.
Together, these activities make NWNA one of the largest purchasers of food-grade postconsumer recycled plastic in the nation. It has also made NWNA an industry leader in California, as demonstrated in the company's recent AB 2530 Plastic Beverage Container Virgin and Post-Consumer Resin Report detailing NWNA's rPET use, which constitutes 37% of the total volume of PET in the bottles it sold last year in the state.
As recycling rates in the United States still hover around 30%, NWNA views the push toward using more recycled materials to be the next phase in making the company's packaging more sustainable and addressing the issue of plastic waste.
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/nestle-waters-north-america-applauds-california-legislature-for-passing-new-recycled-content-law-300920042.html
Nestlé Waters North America Applauds California Legislature for Passing New Recycled Content Law
-- Ambitious and Workable New Law Helps take the "Single" out of "Single-Use Plastics" --
NEWS PROVIDED BY
Nestlé Waters North America
Sep 17, 2019, 13:31 ET
STAMFORD, Conn., Sept. 17, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Nestlé Waters North America applauds the California Legislature for passing Assembly Bill 792 and encourages Governor Gavin Newsom to sign the bill into law. Over the next 11 years, this new law will continue to increase the percentage of recycled content in plastic beverage containers sold in California.
Assembly Bill 792, sponsored by Assembly Members Phil Ting and Jacqui Irwin, passed in the Assembly on September 13th and the Senate in the early morning hours of September 14th.
This ambitious and workable new law will require beverage manufacturers to use 10% recycled plastic in their containers sold in California starting on January 1, 2021. That percentage increases aggressively to 25% by January 1, 2025 and 50% by January 1, 2030. These requirements pertain to all beverage containers subject to the California Redemption Value.
Importantly, the new law includes pragmatic considerations to prevent beverage manufacturers from being unfairly penalized if their good faith efforts to comply are not successful due to factors outside their control. CalRecycle will have the discretion to reduce or waive the standard based on a change of market conditions, recycling rates, the availability of food-grade recycled plastic, or the lack of recycling or processing infrastructure.
"Nestlé Waters North America appreciates that legislative leaders worked with industry and environmental groups to create this landmark piece of legislation," said Charles Broll, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Nestlé Waters North America.
NWNA strongly supports the increased use of recycled content and has demonstrated unparalleled industry leadership in its use. In December 2018, NWNA announced a goal to use 25% recycled PET, or rPET, across its U.S. portfolio by 2021 and 50% by 2025. The company currently uses 50% rPET in all of its individual-sized bottles of Arrowhead® Brand Mountain Spring Water and Nestlé® Pure Life® Purified Water produced in California.
To accomplish this, NWNA works with a number of strategic suppliers of food-grade, post-consumer recycled plastic. Nationally, the company introduced a 700-ml immediate consumption bottle made from 100% rPET for its namesake Nestlé Pure Life brand and a 900-ml 100% rPET bottle for a new national offering called Poland Spring® ORIGIN. In June, Poland Spring® Brand 100% Natural Spring Water, NWNA's regional spring water brand in the northeast, made the industry-leading commitment to convert all its individual-sized still water bottles to 100% recycled plastic by 2022. The conversion has started already, with its 1 Liter and 1.5 Liter still water sizes being made with 100% recycled plastic.
Together, these activities make NWNA one of the largest purchasers of food-grade postconsumer recycled plastic in the nation. It has also made NWNA an industry leader in California, as demonstrated in the company's recent AB 2530 Plastic Beverage Container Virgin and Post-Consumer Resin Report detailing NWNA's rPET use, which constitutes 37% of the total volume of PET in the bottles it sold last year in the state.
As recycling rates in the United States still hover around 30%, NWNA views the push toward using more recycled materials to be the next phase in making the company's packaging more sustainable and addressing the issue of plastic waste.
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/nestle-waters-north-america-applauds-california-legislature-for-passing-new-recycled-content-law-300920042.html
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