To solve to this overabundant production and waste, both of plastics (of which currently, out of the total of 400 million tonnes of plastics produced per year, only 9% is recycled, according to UN data) and textiles, recycling stands out as the best alternative.

The first actions to achieve the target of 10 million tonnes of recycled plastics used in products by 2025 have already been launched. This has been announced by the Circular Plastics Alliance (CPA), the initiative launched in 2018 by the European Commission (EC), which brings together 245 public and private…

Sectors, organizations, companies, and governments around the world work every day with the aim of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (2015-2030), also known by their acronym SDGs. This initiative promoted by the United Nations sets the path to fight climate change and economic inequality, promote innovation, sustainable consumption, peace, and…

More than 160 professionals attended the fifth edition of the ‘Plastic and the Circular Economy’ debate, which this year was held in a 3D virtual reality format due to the COVID-19. The meeting, organised by AIMPLAS, the Technological Institute of Plastics, and Cicloplast, was attended by a total of 15…

Tourism is one of the economic sectors most affected by the COVID-19 health crisis. The countries have shielded themselves to try to stop contagion, which has led to a very notable drop of foreign citizens visits. In particular, this industry could face a reduction of up to 78 per cent…

Consumers who are very or fairly involved with the environment increased from a 51% in 2019 to a 59% in 2020   The months of lockdown appear to have changed consumers’ sensitivity to the environment, accelerating a change that was already underway. This is reflected in Kantar’s Who Cares, Who…

A few months ago, the government gave the green light to the draft of the new Waste Law, aimed to boost a circular economy, improve waste management, and fight pollution. This proposed legislation establishes, for the first time in Spanish law, constraints on certain single-use plastics, restricting the introduction of…

Since the World Economic Forum and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation launched the report ‘The New Plastics Economy’ in January 2016, presenting, for the first time, the vision of a global economy in which plastics never become waste, these reports have become a global benchmark, making headlines around the world.  …

Time goes by fast and we are getting closer to 2030, a relevant year on the European Union’s calendar, as the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDAs) should have been achieved by then. Evidently, one of the goals calls for urgent action to combat climate change and its effects. In short,…