Burger King and Costa Coffee launch returnable cup scheme - New ‘disappearing’ fibre-based bottle - How to industrially electrify Europe
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The?Borrow Cup?project -? a returnable cup initiative between multiple national brands -?launches in Glasgow today, including?Costa Coffee, Caffè Nero and Burger King UK?and aiming to reduce the reported 388.7 million single-use cups used in Scotland each year.
Ranpak has combined automation and protective paper technology into three integrated solutions that apply recyclable and biodegradable pads or void fill to e-commerce and industrial packages, seeking to reduce the labour and training required of human operators.
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At 2025’s World Economic Forum?Annual Meeting?in Davos, NBCo presented its ‘disappearing’ fibre-based bottle, intended to be up to 99% recyclable and biodegradable in the natural environment, as a replacement for conventional plastic bottles.
The World Economic Forum (WEF) recently published a report setting out its strategies and policy recommendations for industrial electrification in Europe. In this edition of the Brief, we take a look at the proposed strategies and policies and the key challenges that could potentially impede the electrification process.
TOMRA has introduced TOMRA B7, the first TriSort reverse vending machine (RVM) in its Basic Line, designed to make drink container recycling more accessible and efficient for small businesses and markets new to deposit return schemes (DRSs).
Owner at Fernando Marin Consulting
1 个月The disappearing bottle looks like a good step, but on the other side the borrow cup looks just a reinventing BS to continue using plastics, but instead of dropping them in a recycling container by customers, it will be "recycled" by selling brands, assuming they are returned. After "recycling maybe 10-20% the same than always with plastics. If another solution is prepared, I would love to hear what they are going to do after the cups are returned.