Covestro is working with Fairphone, a Dutch company committed to building an environmentally friendly smartphone market, to provide more circular material solutions for its smartphones. The Fairphone 4 parts made from Covestro's post-consumer recycled (PCR) polycarbonate materials include the back cover, middle frame and wireless charger.

Environment Canada has issued regulations to ban single-use plastics in the country. Canada's Minister of Environment and Climate Change Steven Guilbeault and Minister of Health Jean-Yves Duclos issued regulations to ban single-use plastics, including checkout bags, cutlery, food service utensils made of or containing hard-to-recycle plastics, ring carriers, stirrers and straws (with some exceptions).

‘Cradle to cradle’ is an important concept that emphasizes a nature-based circular economy, advocating that consumer goods be returned to the biological or technological cycle to save precious resources and raw materials. igus, a specialist in sports plastics, is also working towards the same goal and has launched the world’s first drag chain made entirely of recycled materials, all of which are made from the chainge drag chain recycling program.

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.