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California debates 15% goal for bioplastic beverage bottles

Plastics News

After voting in 2020 to create the country's toughest requirements for recycled plastic in beverage bottles, California lawmakers are now debating setting goals for using bioplastics to bottle soft drinks, water and other beverages.

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Ontario study says a quarter of food manufacturers wait over a year to fill roles

Canadian Manufacturing

TORONTO — A study from Food and Beverage Ontario says a shortage of skilled trades people and lack of access to qualified foreign workers has continued to take its toll on production capacity for the province’s food and beverage processing industry. billion to Ontario’s GDP in 2020. ”

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LRS adopts EverestLabs robotics for aluminum can recovery with CMI funding

Robotics Business Review

The robot works on The Exchange’s residual line to increase revenue and ensure maximum efficiency, recovery, and recycling of used beverage cans (UBCs), said the companies. kg) of recycled aluminum each month, equivalent to about 12 million aluminum beverage cans. consumers recycle less than half of aluminum beverage cans.

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Waterloo extends multi-million dollar deal with long-time partner

Canadian Manufacturing

The original three-year agreement, made in January 2020, included the production of ready-to-drink products under a single trademark owned by the partner. This new extension and expansion will include the production of other beverages under three additional trademarks owned by the partner.

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Reduce plastic production to ease energy crisis, say green groups

E&T

According to a new report from the environmental activist organisation Break Free From Plastic and NGO the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), plastic production was responsible for nearly 9 per cent and 8 per cent of the EU’s final fossil gas and oil consumption respectively in 2020.

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Australian manufacturing sees further decline in June— Ai Group

AU Manufacturing

the lowest score for the sector recorded since the Ai Group survey began in 2020. The food, beverage & TCF index eased by 24.2 point decline in the employment indicator— the lowest employment score since the height of the pandemic in July 2020. The Ai Group Australian Industry Index fell by 1.1 points to -11.9

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Australian industry activity sees slower decline in May— Ai Group

AU Manufacturing

Upstream manufacturing continued a steep decline that began in April, with the chemical index -29.6 – the lowest score for the chemicals sector in the survey’s history, which began in January 2020. the lowest result since May 2020. The contraction in the consumer-facing food, beverage and TCF industry eased by 28.4