Regulations

Time to make the packaging world add up - Ecoveritas

Environmental compliance specialist Ecoveritas is calling on businesses to ensure they hold live and accurate packaging specifications, as producers today became mandated to collect packaging data under new packaging Extended Producer Responsibility rules.

The high price of materialism

By Kathy Illingworth, Head of Sustainability Consulting

Are we buying into our own destruction?

For the first time in history, there are now eight billion people on Earth; eight billion people from a species that, unlike every other species on the planet, does not always put its survival first.

Lack of EPR preparedness laid bare in a new survey

The vast majority of UK businesses view their packaging data collection capability as a “work in progress”, according to a new survey by environmental compliance data experts, Ecoveritas.

UK businesses move to shore up EPR provisions

UK businesses have taken to Google in their droves this week as they get ready for new reporting requirements and reforms to cut packaging waste, according to environmental compliance data experts Ecoveritas.

On the cusp of Europe-wide EPR legislation - Lindhquist

Dr. Thomas Lindhquist, the man behind the original principle of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) in the nineties, insists it remains a viable collective solution to the worsening plastic pollution problem some 30 years on.

World’s first global Youth Interfaith Fellowship on climate change launches at Duke University Divinity School in partnership with Climate NGO – Faith For Our Planet

Faith For Our Planet (FFOP), a global interfaith coalition launched the world’s first ever global Youth Interfaith Program on climate change at Duke University Divinity School yesterday.

Sustainable Food Predictions 2023

Ecovia Intelligence gives its predictions for the year ahead. The previous year (2022) marked the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as geopolitical conflict which has led to high energy costs and food inflation. Although the repercussions will continue to be felt in 2023, the outlook for sustainable foods remains positive...

Government “stalling” on UK Extended Producer Responsibility delays, says Lindhquist

The man behind Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) has called for decisive action on introducing it as pressure mounts for Defra to stop missing legal deadlines.

2023 and packaging: What have we seen so far

By Elena Rotzokou, Global EPR Researcher

Glad tidings often follow trials; many auspicious negotiations nestle an ultimatum; great rewards are inextricable from great risks; and environmental action comes with legal obligations. The world has welcomed 2023 with enormous anticipation as much as pressing demands for concerted climate action, a great portion of which involves the complex world of packaging.

Ecoveritas seeks packaging industry opinion on landmark EPR reforms

With once-in-a-generation packaging Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) reforms close to being implemented, environmental compliance data specialists at Ecoveritas is seeking to canvas the opinion of its client base and the wider packaging sector.

Global Risks 2023: Tensions Peak between Urgent Cost of Living Crisis and Sustainable Climate Action

Cost of living crisis is biggest short-term risk while failure of climate mitigation and climate adaptation are largest long-term concerns
Geopolitical rivalries and inward-looking stances will heighten economic constraints and further exacerbate both short- and long-term risks
Global Risks Report urges countries to work together to avoid “resource rivalries”
Report draws on views of over 1,200 experts, policy-makers and industry leaders. Read the Global Risks Report 2023 here, discover the Global Risks Initiative and join the conversation using #risks23