Sealed Air, a packaging solutions company headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, ExxonMobil Corporation in Irving, Texas, and Ahold Delhaize in Salisbury, North Carolina, recently announced a collaboration on an advanced recycling program that recovers flexible plastics from the food supply chain and reforms them into new, certified circular food-grade packaging.

On April 13, the Plastic Waste Action Alliance (hereinafter referred to as the "Alliance") of the Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) announced the publication of a vision and principles document entitled "Chemical Recycling in a Circular Economy for Plastics", which encourages the development of new plastic recycling technologies that meet the six key principles of safe, reliable and environmentally sound development.

On March 31, at the 6th International Conference on Innovation and Emerging Industry Development co-hosted by the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Shanghai Municipal People's Government, and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Chinese Academy of Engineering released the results of a major consulting project, "my country's Carbon Peaking and Carbon Neutrality Strategy and Path". The report suggests that my country's carbon dioxide emissions are expected to peak around 2027, with the peak controlled at around 12.2 billion tons.

BYD recently signed an order for 30 pure electric buses with Nobina, the largest bus operator in Northern Europe. The buses are scheduled to be delivered by the end of 2022 and put into operation in Helsinki, the capital of Finland. This is the third time BYD has worked with Nobina Finland to promote the electrification of zero-emission buses in the Nordic region, following the company's creation of the largest electric bus fleet in Finnish history last year.

A new program outlined in California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed budget could bring an additional $100 million in additional recycling credits to Californians and direct $155 million to expand the locations of mobile recycling and reverse vending machines that let consumers redeem their bottles and cans under the California Beverage Container Recycling Program, the state’s bottle bill.

China is a major producer, consumer and recycler of plastic packaging and plastic products. The plastic recycling industry processes tens of millions of tons of waste plastics every year. In order to help consumer brands, plastic packaging, plastic product designers and manufacturers produce plastic packaging that is fully compatible with China's plastic recycling system, promote the high-quality development of the plastic recycling industry, and improve the efficiency of plastic recycling and the quality of recycled plastics, the release of the "Plastic Product Recyclable Design Guide" series of standards will take an important and critical step in controlling plastic pollution from the design source!

Currently, Honeywell has cooperated with a number of energy companies and plastic recycling companies to establish recycling plants, using UpCycle process technology to convert waste plastics into reusable polymer raw materials.

Recently, Henkel released its "Sustainability Report", introducing its achievements and progress in the field of sustainable development in 2021, and announced the new "2030+ Sustainable Development Goals Framework."