{"id":118947,"date":"2023-11-24T07:59:18","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T05:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/life-projects-tackling-plastic-waste-and-packaging-in-the-face-of-online-sales\/"},"modified":"2023-11-24T07:59:18","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T05:59:18","slug":"life-projects-tackling-plastic-waste-and-packaging-in-the-face-of-online-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/life-projects-tackling-plastic-waste-and-packaging-in-the-face-of-online-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"LIFE projects tackling plastic waste and packaging in the face of online sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118947\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>According to Eurostat, Europeans generated 34.6 kg of plastic packaging waste in 2020, of which only 13.0 kg were recycled. This leaves 21.6 kg per person destined for landfills, incinerators, or the environment. During their lifespan, two LIFE projects aimed to tackle waste from packaging and shoe manufacturing &#8211; LIFE RECYPACK and LIFE ECOTEX respectively.<\/p>\n<p>LIFE RECYPACK collected and recycled commercial plastic packaging waste (CPPW) from commercial centres, shops, and large chain distribution companies. The project operated two recycling facilities in Hungary and Spain, producing recycled plastics to manufacture new plastic products. Key to the project was the development of four processes in Spain and Italy. In a similar circular economy process, LIFE ECOTEX took a closer look at polyester, the second largest family of plastics found in clothing and footwear. Shoemaking processes create wasted materials such as polyester mixed with other materials and glues. These are hard to separate in traditional mechanical recycling methods; and until LIFE ECOTEX, landfill or incineration were the primary solutions. The project developed an innovative system to recycle these materials so they could be used in other industries such as packaging.<\/p>\n<p>During its operation, LIFE ECOTEX treated 550kg of waste; produced more than 350kg of purified BHET; manufactured 300kg of renewable PET; and produced 800kg of PSF to be used. And per tonne of PET produced, the project saved 1.04 tonnes of greenhouse gases emissions. Around 330 shoe insoles and 24 insulations panels have been created by this circular economy process.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/cinea.ec.europa.eu\/news-events\/news\/life-projects-tackling-plastic-waste-and-packaging-face-online-sales-2023-11-23_en\">European Commission<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/environmental-news-en\/2-438\/\">LIFE projects tackling plastic waste and packaging in the face of online sales<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[12395,575,518,12396],"class_list":["post-118947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ecotex","tag-environmental-news-en","tag-life","tag-recypack"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}