Innova's global new product database shows that the release rate of new food and beverage products with environmental protection claims is three times that of the entire industry. In order to comply with consumers' demands for environmental protection, the food and beverage industry is taking positive actions. After Master Kong Ice Tea and Pepsi launched "unlabeled" bottles in China, many beverage brands also began to "tear off" labels and sell beverage bottles "naked".

Xtep Group, a sports footwear and apparel company, has launched an environmentally friendly windbreaker made of 100% polylactic acid, further implementing the company's green and sustainable strategy by using biodegradable and environmentally friendly materials.

The European Commission is considering extending mandatory recycled content targets to the construction, automotive and packaging sectors, a representative of the EU’s executive arm confirmed last week, ICIS.

At the 2022 "German Innovation Award" ceremony that ended not long ago, Faurecia, a subsidiary of the FORVIA Group, won the first prize in the "Excellent Innovation in Business to Business (B2B) - Automotive Technology" category with its sustainable interior composite materials NAFILean-R and rCF NFPP.

The theme of World Oceans Day and National Oceans Publicity Day in 2022 is "Protecting the Marine Ecosystem and Harmonious Coexistence between Man and Nature", and this theme will be used during the 14th Five-Year Plan period, aiming to call on people to enhance their awareness of marine protection and say no to all kinds of behaviors that pollute the ocean.

Hexpol TPE launches TPE products based on recycled marine debris, enabling waste fishing nets, trawl nets and ropes that would previously have been discarded in the environment to be mechanically recycled into high-grade, virgin-like raw materials.

Recently, the National Development and Reform Commission, the National Energy Administration and nine other departments jointly issued the "14th Five-Year Plan for Renewable Energy Development". The "Plan" anchors the carbon peak and carbon neutrality goals, closely focuses on the requirement that the proportion of non-fossil energy consumption reaches about 20% by 2025, and sets four major goals.

Recently, Sharp AQUOS launched a new Wish series of mobile phones in Japan and Taiwan. The newly released AQUOS Wish model is SHG06. The matte back cover of AQUOS wish is made of recycled materials (PCR) with a content of up to 35%.