Think tank Circle Economy, in collaboration with Deloitte Netherlands, has this week (16 April) released its updated Circularity Gap Report for 2026. The report breaks down the world’s estimated ...

For years, corporate sustainability has been in a highly visible phase. Bold press announcements, ambitious targets, and high-level pledges made headlines, signaling commitment to circularity and ...

Mike Jones, the U.K.-based head of Innovation and global general manager of Intelligent Solutions at Mainetti, a leading sustainable packaging producer headquartered in Italy, says regulation-driven ...

The Council has adopted its position on amending the Critical Raw Materials Act (CRMA). The amendments proposed by the Commission transfer the responsibility for identifying large companies using ...

“Beyond doing less harm, an Office of Circularity could actively do good by recirculating usable items to New Yorkers in need, creating local green jobs and building community, all while offering a ...

Fast fashion, fast food, fast furniture, fast tech. So many consumer industries are predicated on speed and scale, overproducing and churning through new trends at record pace — often to a destructive ...

New paper draws on full value chain expertise to identify priority actions across design, collection, and end markets The U.S. Plastics Pact (USPP) today released Journey to Film & Flex Circularity: A ...

The US Plastics Pact (USPP) has released a resource, Journey to Film & Flex Circularity: A Framework of Necessary Design, Collection, and End Market Levers, aimed at addressing the complex challenges ...

Recycling of flexible packaging has moved from an industry challenge to an industry imperative. In recent weeks, two major industry groups have released new reports aimed at accelerating progress on ...

Around the world, governments and businesses are talking more and more about the need to move from today's "take, make, waste" economy to a circular one, where products are designed to last, materials ...

The phenomenon known in biology as convergent evolution describes how distant species can develop similar structures when confronted with comparable challenges. Dolphins and ichthyosaurs, for example, ...

This press release was updated on 25 February to add the agreed text. The Council presidency and the European Parliament’s representatives today reached a provisional agreement on the regulation ...