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TOYO INOVEX and Nissei Plastic Industrial Co., Ltd. Integration Press Conference

TOYO INOVEX and Nissei Plastics Co., Ltd. Integration Press Conference. photo shows (from left) Hozumi Yoda, President of Nissei Plastics Co., Ltd., and Yoshiaki Tabata, President of TOYO INOVEX.=November 14,2025,Tokyo

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TOYO INOVEX and Nissei Plastic Industrial Co., Ltd. Integration Press Conference

TOYO INOVEX and Nissei Plastics Co., Ltd. Integration Press Conference. photo shows (from left) Hozumi Yoda, President of Nissei Plastics Co., Ltd., and Yoshiaki Tabata, President of TOYO INOVEX.=November 14,2025,Tokyo

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TOYO INOVEX and Nissei Plastic Industrial Co., Ltd. Integration Press Conference

TOYO INOVEX and Nissei Plastics Co., Ltd. Integration Press Conference. photo shows (from left) Hozumi Yoda, President of Nissei Plastics Co., Ltd., and Yoshiaki Tabata, President of TOYO INOVEX.=November 14,2025,Tokyo

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Recycling Center Droppie Rewards Consumers for Clean Waste - The Hague

People are dropping off plastic bottles at the Droppie recycling center. The company pays consumers for properly separated waste: textiles, electronic waste, oils, plastics, and cans. Droppie then wants to sell this "clean" waste stream to companies that process or recycle waste. The Hague, Netherlands on July 16, 2025. Photo by Robin Utrecht/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Recycling Center Droppie Rewards Consumers for Clean Waste - The Hague

People are dropping off plastic bottles at the Droppie recycling center. The company pays consumers for properly separated waste: textiles, electronic waste, oils, plastics, and cans. Droppie then wants to sell this "clean" waste stream to companies that process or recycle waste. The Hague, Netherlands on July 16, 2025. Photo by Robin Utrecht/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Recycling Center Droppie Rewards Consumers for Clean Waste - The Hague

People are dropping off plastic bottles at the Droppie recycling center. The company pays consumers for properly separated waste: textiles, electronic waste, oils, plastics, and cans. Droppie then wants to sell this "clean" waste stream to companies that process or recycle waste. The Hague, Netherlands on July 16, 2025. Photo by Robin Utrecht/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Recycling Center Droppie Rewards Consumers for Clean Waste - The Hague

People are dropping off plastic bottles at the Droppie recycling center. The company pays consumers for properly separated waste: textiles, electronic waste, oils, plastics, and cans. Droppie then wants to sell this "clean" waste stream to companies that process or recycle waste. The Hague, Netherlands on July 16, 2025. Photo by Robin Utrecht/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Recycling Center Droppie Rewards Consumers for Clean Waste - The Hague

People are dropping off plastic bottles at the Droppie recycling center. The company pays consumers for properly separated waste: textiles, electronic waste, oils, plastics, and cans. Droppie then wants to sell this "clean" waste stream to companies that process or recycle waste. The Hague, Netherlands on July 16, 2025. Photo by Robin Utrecht/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Recycling Center Droppie Rewards Consumers for Clean Waste - The Hague

People are dropping off plastic bottles at the Droppie recycling center. The company pays consumers for properly separated waste: textiles, electronic waste, oils, plastics, and cans. Droppie then wants to sell this "clean" waste stream to companies that process or recycle waste. The Hague, Netherlands on July 16, 2025. Photo by Robin Utrecht/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Recycling Center Droppie Rewards Consumers for Clean Waste - The Hague

People are dropping off plastic bottles at the Droppie recycling center. The company pays consumers for properly separated waste: textiles, electronic waste, oils, plastics, and cans. Droppie then wants to sell this "clean" waste stream to companies that process or recycle waste. The Hague, Netherlands on July 16, 2025. Photo by Robin Utrecht/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Recycling Center Droppie Rewards Consumers for Clean Waste - The Hague

People are dropping off plastic bottles at the Droppie recycling center. The company pays consumers for properly separated waste: textiles, electronic waste, oils, plastics, and cans. Droppie then wants to sell this "clean" waste stream to companies that process or recycle waste. The Hague, Netherlands on July 16, 2025. Photo by Robin Utrecht/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Recycling Center Droppie Rewards Consumers for Clean Waste - The Hague

People are dropping off plastic bottles at the Droppie recycling center. The company pays consumers for properly separated waste: textiles, electronic waste, oils, plastics, and cans. Droppie then wants to sell this "clean" waste stream to companies that process or recycle waste. The Hague, Netherlands on July 16, 2025. Photo by Robin Utrecht/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Recycling Center Droppie Rewards Consumers for Clean Waste - The Hague

People are dropping off plastic bottles at the Droppie recycling center. The company pays consumers for properly separated waste: textiles, electronic waste, oils, plastics, and cans. Droppie then wants to sell this "clean" waste stream to companies that process or recycle waste. The Hague, Netherlands on July 16, 2025. Photo by Robin Utrecht/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Recycling Center Droppie Rewards Consumers for Clean Waste - The Hague

People are dropping off plastic bottles at the Droppie recycling center. The company pays consumers for properly separated waste: textiles, electronic waste, oils, plastics, and cans. Droppie then wants to sell this "clean" waste stream to companies that process or recycle waste. The Hague, Netherlands on July 16, 2025. Photo by Robin Utrecht/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Recycling Center Droppie Rewards Consumers for Clean Waste - The Hague

People are dropping off plastic bottles at the Droppie recycling center. The company pays consumers for properly separated waste: textiles, electronic waste, oils, plastics, and cans. Droppie then wants to sell this "clean" waste stream to companies that process or recycle waste. The Hague, Netherlands on July 16, 2025. Photo by Robin Utrecht/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Recycling Center Droppie Rewards Consumers for Clean Waste - The Hague

People are dropping off plastic bottles at the Droppie recycling center. The company pays consumers for properly separated waste: textiles, electronic waste, oils, plastics, and cans. Droppie then wants to sell this "clean" waste stream to companies that process or recycle waste. The Hague, Netherlands on July 16, 2025. Photo by Robin Utrecht/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Recycling Center Droppie Rewards Consumers for Clean Waste - The Hague

People are dropping off plastic bottles at the Droppie recycling center. The company pays consumers for properly separated waste: textiles, electronic waste, oils, plastics, and cans. Droppie then wants to sell this "clean" waste stream to companies that process or recycle waste. The Hague, Netherlands on July 16, 2025. Photo by Robin Utrecht/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Recycling Center Droppie Rewards Consumers for Clean Waste - The Hague

People are dropping off plastic bottles at the Droppie recycling center. The company pays consumers for properly separated waste: textiles, electronic waste, oils, plastics, and cans. Droppie then wants to sell this "clean" waste stream to companies that process or recycle waste. The Hague, Netherlands on July 16, 2025. Photo by Robin Utrecht/ABACAPRESS.COM

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INDONESIA-JAKARTA-PLASTIC BOTTLES BOAT-PARADE

(240727) -- JAKARTA, July 27, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- Boats made of plastic bottles sail in the Banjir Kanal Timur river in Jakarta, Indonesia, July 27, 2024. Thirty-two boats made of waste plastics and in various shapes took part in a boat parade event in the Banjir Kanal Timur river in Jakarta, Indonesia on July 27. Organized by local water agencies on Indonesia's National Rivers Day, the event is to call on people to protect rivers and recycle plastic waste. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Zulkarnain)

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INDONESIA-JAKARTA-PLASTIC BOTTLES BOAT-PARADE

(240727) -- JAKARTA, July 27, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- A boat made of plastic bottles sails in the Banjir Kanal Timur river in Jakarta, Indonesia, July 27, 2024. Thirty-two boats made of waste plastics and in various shapes took part in a boat parade event in the Banjir Kanal Timur river in Jakarta, Indonesia on July 27. Organized by local water agencies on Indonesia's National Rivers Day, the event is to call on people to protect rivers and recycle plastic waste. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Zulkarnain)

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INDONESIA-JAKARTA-PLASTIC BOTTLES BOAT-PARADE

(240727) -- JAKARTA, July 27, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- Boats made of plastic bottles sail in the Banjir Kanal Timur river in Jakarta, Indonesia, July 27, 2024. Thirty-two boats made of waste plastics and in various shapes took part in a boat parade event in the Banjir Kanal Timur river in Jakarta, Indonesia on July 27. Organized by local water agencies on Indonesia's National Rivers Day, the event is to call on people to protect rivers and recycle plastic waste. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Zulkarnain)

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INDONESIA-JAKARTA-PLASTIC BOTTLES BOAT-PARADE

(240727) -- JAKARTA, July 27, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- Boats made of plastic bottles sail in the Banjir Kanal Timur river in Jakarta, Indonesia, July 27, 2024. Thirty-two boats made of waste plastics and in various shapes took part in a boat parade event in the Banjir Kanal Timur river in Jakarta, Indonesia on July 27. Organized by local water agencies on Indonesia's National Rivers Day, the event is to call on people to protect rivers and recycle plastic waste. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Zulkarnain)

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INDONESIA-JAKARTA-PLASTIC BOTTLES BOAT-PARADE

(240727) -- JAKARTA, July 27, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- A boat made of plastic bottles sails in the Banjir Kanal Timur river in Jakarta, Indonesia, July 27, 2024. Thirty-two boats made of waste plastics and in various shapes took part in a boat parade event in the Banjir Kanal Timur river in Jakarta, Indonesia on July 27. Organized by local water agencies on Indonesia's National Rivers Day, the event is to call on people to protect rivers and recycle plastic waste. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Zulkarnain)

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INDONESIA-JAKARTA-PLASTIC BOTTLES BOAT-PARADE

(240727) -- JAKARTA, July 27, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- A boat made of plastic bottles sails in the Banjir Kanal Timur river in Jakarta, Indonesia, July 27, 2024. Thirty-two boats made of waste plastics and in various shapes took part in a boat parade event in the Banjir Kanal Timur river in Jakarta, Indonesia on July 27. Organized by local water agencies on Indonesia's National Rivers Day, the event is to call on people to protect rivers and recycle plastic waste. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Zulkarnain)

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EU probes Italy's failure to curb single-use plastic

STORY: EU probes Italy's failure to curb single-use plastic SHOOTING TIME: May 23, 2024 DATELINE: May 24, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:08 LOCATION: Rome CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of plastic products in Rome STORYLINE: The European Commission on Thursday announced it is taking legal action against Italy for allegedly failing to implement directives aimed at curbing the use of single-use plastic. Italy was an early supporter of Europe's efforts to cut down on pollution from single-use plastics, but in recent years it has opposed the evolution of the rules. In 2021, Italy was the subject of a European Union (EU) investigation that found the country's domestic rules on single-use plastics failed to conform with those of the EU. Subsequently, the country formally "transposed" the European directive on plastics into law. However, the issue came to the fore once again last year, with Italy and Finland threatening to soften EU rules on plastic packaging. In December, Italy was the only country among the 2

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River Buriganga Pollution - Dhaka

Wastage plastic material dumped on the River Buriganga, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, April 23, 2024. Plastic is being found just by digging into the soil on the banks of Buriganga. Plastic is showing up even seven feet under the ground. These plastics from the banks later sink to the river bed. It has been found that some of these plastics are even older than a decade. And these remained almost the same, unaltered. Such images surfaced in an ongoing study about the presence of plastic in the soil on Buriganga banks. There is much discussion on plastic accumulated on the river beds as well as floating on the rivers Buriganga, Balu, Turag, Dhaleshwari and Shitalakhya, the five rivers surrounding Dhaka. Photo by Suvra Kanti Das/ABACAPRESS.COM

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River Buriganga Pollution - Dhaka

Wastage plastic material dumped on the River Buriganga, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, April 23, 2024. Plastic is being found just by digging into the soil on the banks of Buriganga. Plastic is showing up even seven feet under the ground. These plastics from the banks later sink to the river bed. It has been found that some of these plastics are even older than a decade. And these remained almost the same, unaltered. Such images surfaced in an ongoing study about the presence of plastic in the soil on Buriganga banks. There is much discussion on plastic accumulated on the river beds as well as floating on the rivers Buriganga, Balu, Turag, Dhaleshwari and Shitalakhya, the five rivers surrounding Dhaka. Photo by Suvra Kanti Das/ABACAPRESS.COM

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River Buriganga Pollution - Dhaka

Wastage plastic material dumped on the River Buriganga, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, April 23, 2024. Plastic is being found just by digging into the soil on the banks of Buriganga. Plastic is showing up even seven feet under the ground. These plastics from the banks later sink to the river bed. It has been found that some of these plastics are even older than a decade. And these remained almost the same, unaltered. Such images surfaced in an ongoing study about the presence of plastic in the soil on Buriganga banks. There is much discussion on plastic accumulated on the river beds as well as floating on the rivers Buriganga, Balu, Turag, Dhaleshwari and Shitalakhya, the five rivers surrounding Dhaka. Photo by Suvra Kanti Das/ABACAPRESS.COM

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River Buriganga Pollution - Dhaka

Wastage plastic material dumped on the River Buriganga, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, April 23, 2024. Plastic is being found just by digging into the soil on the banks of Buriganga. Plastic is showing up even seven feet under the ground. These plastics from the banks later sink to the river bed. It has been found that some of these plastics are even older than a decade. And these remained almost the same, unaltered. Such images surfaced in an ongoing study about the presence of plastic in the soil on Buriganga banks. There is much discussion on plastic accumulated on the river beds as well as floating on the rivers Buriganga, Balu, Turag, Dhaleshwari and Shitalakhya, the five rivers surrounding Dhaka. Photo by Suvra Kanti Das/ABACAPRESS.COM

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River Buriganga Pollution - Dhaka

Wastage plastic material dumped on the River Buriganga, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, April 23, 2024. Plastic is being found just by digging into the soil on the banks of Buriganga. Plastic is showing up even seven feet under the ground. These plastics from the banks later sink to the river bed. It has been found that some of these plastics are even older than a decade. And these remained almost the same, unaltered. Such images surfaced in an ongoing study about the presence of plastic in the soil on Buriganga banks. There is much discussion on plastic accumulated on the river beds as well as floating on the rivers Buriganga, Balu, Turag, Dhaleshwari and Shitalakhya, the five rivers surrounding Dhaka. Photo by Suvra Kanti Das/ABACAPRESS.COM

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River Buriganga Pollution - Dhaka

Wastage plastic material dumped on the River Buriganga, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, April 23, 2024. Plastic is being found just by digging into the soil on the banks of Buriganga. Plastic is showing up even seven feet under the ground. These plastics from the banks later sink to the river bed. It has been found that some of these plastics are even older than a decade. And these remained almost the same, unaltered. Such images surfaced in an ongoing study about the presence of plastic in the soil on Buriganga banks. There is much discussion on plastic accumulated on the river beds as well as floating on the rivers Buriganga, Balu, Turag, Dhaleshwari and Shitalakhya, the five rivers surrounding Dhaka. Photo by Suvra Kanti Das/ABACAPRESS.COM

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River Buriganga Pollution - Dhaka

Wastage plastic material dumped on the River Buriganga, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, April 23, 2024. Plastic is being found just by digging into the soil on the banks of Buriganga. Plastic is showing up even seven feet under the ground. These plastics from the banks later sink to the river bed. It has been found that some of these plastics are even older than a decade. And these remained almost the same, unaltered. Such images surfaced in an ongoing study about the presence of plastic in the soil on Buriganga banks. There is much discussion on plastic accumulated on the river beds as well as floating on the rivers Buriganga, Balu, Turag, Dhaleshwari and Shitalakhya, the five rivers surrounding Dhaka. Photo by Suvra Kanti Das/ABACAPRESS.COM

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River Buriganga Pollution - Dhaka

Wastage plastic material dumped on the River Buriganga, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, April 23, 2024. Plastic is being found just by digging into the soil on the banks of Buriganga. Plastic is showing up even seven feet under the ground. These plastics from the banks later sink to the river bed. It has been found that some of these plastics are even older than a decade. And these remained almost the same, unaltered. Such images surfaced in an ongoing study about the presence of plastic in the soil on Buriganga banks. There is much discussion on plastic accumulated on the river beds as well as floating on the rivers Buriganga, Balu, Turag, Dhaleshwari and Shitalakhya, the five rivers surrounding Dhaka. Photo by Suvra Kanti Das/ABACAPRESS.COM

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GERMANY-HANNOVER-HANNOVER MESSE

(240423) -- HANNOVER (GERMANY), April 23, 2024 (Xinhua) -- A visitor looks at a bicycle made of recycled plastics at Hannover Messe in Hannover, Germany, on April 22, 2024. Hannover Messe 2024, Germany's leading industrial trade fair, kicked off on Monday with a clear emphasis on carbon-neutral production and hydrogen fuel cells. (Xinhua/Ren Pengfei)

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Australian roadmap charts path to reducing India's plastic waste

STORY: Australian roadmap charts path to reducing India's plastic waste SHOOTING TIME: Dec. 7, 2023 DATELINE: Dec. 8, 2023 LENGTH: 00:00:40 LOCATION: Canberra CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT SHOTLIST: 1. various of CSIRO 2. various of plastic waste in the bin 3. various of waste on India's beach STORYLINE: Australia's national science agency has released a roadmap to significantly reduce plastic waste in India. Published by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) in collaboration with India's National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) on Thursday, the roadmap projects that by 2035 single-use plastics could be phased out in India and two-thirds of all plastics could be recycled. According to the report, which is based on three years of collaborative research between Indian and Australian partners, India produces almost 26,000 tons of plastic waste every day, only 8 percent of which is recycled with a large portion going to landfill or into the environment.

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KENYA-NAIROBI-BREAK FREE FROM PLASTIC MOVEMENT-MARCH

(231111) -- NAIROBI, Nov. 11, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Green campaigners organized by the "BreakFreeFromPlastic movement" march through the streets in Nairobi, Kenya, Nov. 11, 2023. Hundreds of green campaigners drawn from the Global South marched through the streets in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi on Saturday, calling for a binding treaty to accelerate the phasing out of plastic production and use. TO GO WITH "Roundup: Global South campaigners march in Kenya amid calls to phase out plastics" (Xinhua/Han Xu)

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KENYA-NAIROBI-BREAK FREE FROM PLASTIC MOVEMENT-MARCH

(231111) -- NAIROBI, Nov. 11, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Green campaigners organized by the "BreakFreeFromPlastic movement" march through the streets in Nairobi, Kenya, Nov. 11, 2023. Hundreds of green campaigners drawn from the Global South marched through the streets in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi on Saturday, calling for a binding treaty to accelerate the phasing out of plastic production and use. TO GO WITH "Roundup: Global South campaigners march in Kenya amid calls to phase out plastics" (Xinhua/Han Xu)

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KENYA-NAIROBI-BREAK FREE FROM PLASTIC MOVEMENT-MARCH

(231111) -- NAIROBI, Nov. 11, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Green campaigners organized by the "BreakFreeFromPlastic movement" march through the streets in Nairobi, Kenya, Nov. 11, 2023. Hundreds of green campaigners drawn from the Global South marched through the streets in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi on Saturday, calling for a binding treaty to accelerate the phasing out of plastic production and use. TO GO WITH "Roundup: Global South campaigners march in Kenya amid calls to phase out plastics" (Xinhua/Han Xu)

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Int'l plastics, rubber, machinery exhibition kicks off in Iran

STORY: Int'l plastics, rubber, machinery exhibition kicks off in Iran DATELINE: Sept. 22, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:30 LOCATION: Tehran CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the exhibition STORYLINE: The 17th International Exhibition of Plastics, Rubber, Machinery and Equipment kicked off in the Iranian capital of Tehran on Sunday. The opening ceremony was attended by Oil Minister Javad Owji and his deputies, lawmakers as well as foreign ambassadors in Tehran. A total of 560 domestic firms as well as 210 foreign companies have taken part in the event, according to a report published on the exhibition's website. Speaking at the opening ceremony, the oil minister said the petrochemical sector is a key industry of the country, which generated 16 billion U.S. dollars in export revenues in the previous Iranian calendar year which ended on March 20. He stressed that "the petrochemical sector "cannot be sanctioned" owing to the rising global demand for the industry's upstream and downstream products. Iran's pet

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IRAN-TEHRAN-INT'L-PLASTICS-RUBBER-MACHINERY-EXHIBITION

(230918) -- TEHRAN, Sept. 18, 2023 (Xinhua) -- People visit the 17th International Exhibition of Plastics, Rubber, Machinery and Equipment in Tehran, Iran on Sept. 17, 2023. The exhibition kicked off here on Sunday. A total of 560 domestic firms as well as 210 foreign companies have taken part in the event, according to a report published on the exhibition's website. (Xinhua/Shadati)

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IRAN-TEHRAN-INT'L-PLASTICS-RUBBER-MACHINERY-EXHIBITION

(230918) -- TEHRAN, Sept. 18, 2023 (Xinhua) -- People visit the 17th International Exhibition of Plastics, Rubber, Machinery and Equipment in Tehran, Iran on Sept. 17, 2023. The exhibition kicked off here on Sunday. A total of 560 domestic firms as well as 210 foreign companies have taken part in the event, according to a report published on the exhibition's website. (Xinhua/Shadati)

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IRAN-TEHRAN-INT'L-PLASTICS-RUBBER-MACHINERY-EXHIBITION

(230918) -- TEHRAN, Sept. 18, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Plastic products are displayed at the 17th International Exhibition of Plastics, Rubber, Machinery and Equipment in Tehran, Iran on Sept. 17, 2023. The exhibition kicked off here on Sunday. A total of 560 domestic firms as well as 210 foreign companies have taken part in the event, according to a report published on the exhibition's website. (Xinhua/Shadati)

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INDONESIA-JAKARTA-PLASTIC FREE PARADE

(230730) -- JAKARTA, July 30, 2023 (Xinhua) -- People take part in the plastic free parade at Sudirman Street in Jakarta, Indonesia on July 30, 2023. The plastic free parade is a collective campaign movement that aims to reduce the use of single-use plastics and encourage better handling of waste, especially plastic waste. (Xinhua/Veri Sanovri)

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INDONESIA-JAKARTA-PLASTIC FREE PARADE

(230730) -- JAKARTA, July 30, 2023 (Xinhua) -- People take part in the plastic free parade at Sudirman Street in Jakarta, Indonesia on July 30, 2023. The plastic free parade is a collective campaign movement that aims to reduce the use of single-use plastics and encourage better handling of waste, especially plastic waste. (Xinhua/Veri Sanovri)

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INDONESIA-JAKARTA-PLASTIC FREE PARADE

(230730) -- JAKARTA, July 30, 2023 (Xinhua) -- People take part in the plastic free parade at Sudirman Street in Jakarta, Indonesia on July 30, 2023. The plastic free parade is a collective campaign movement that aims to reduce the use of single-use plastics and encourage better handling of waste, especially plastic waste. (Xinhua/Veri Sanovri)

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Demand for recycled plastic decreasing in France

STORY: Demand for recycled plastic decreasing in France DATELINE: July 24, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:06 LOCATION: ANNECY, France CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT/SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of plastic waste recycling bins 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (French): FRANCOIS EXCOFFIER, President of the professional federation of recycling companies (FEDEREC) 3. various of plastic recycling labels on a bottle 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (French): FRANCOIS EXCOFFIER, President of the professional federation of recycling companies (FEDEREC) STORYLINE: By 2030, packaging in France will have to incorporate 30 percent of recycled materials for all plastic bottles, and yet the plastics industry is not celebrating: the results at the start of this year are not good and the outlook for the end of 2023 remains bleak. In the context of falling oil prices and rising energy costs, recycled plastic is becoming less attractive. Between May 2022 and May 2023, the main petro-sourced virgin plastics recorded a price drop of around 25 percent to 40 percent (depending on t

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Containers For Glasses, Plastics Facing Mont Blanc

Mountains of containers for glasses, plastics, etc., facing Mont Blanc, Les Arcs 1800, Le Chantel, France on July 11, 2023. Photo by Helder Januario/Abacapress

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Containers For Glasses, Plastics Facing Mont Blanc

Mountains of containers for glasses, plastics, etc., facing Mont Blanc, Les Arcs 1800, Le Chantel, France on July 11, 2023. Photo by Helder Januario/Abacapress

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Containers For Glasses, Plastics Facing Mont Blanc

Mountains of containers for glasses, plastics, etc., facing Mont Blanc, Les Arcs 1800, Le Chantel, France on July 11, 2023. Photo by Helder Januario/Abacapress

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Containers For Glasses, Plastics Facing Mont Blanc

Mountains of containers for glasses, plastics, etc., facing Mont Blanc, Les Arcs 1800, Le Chantel, France on July 11, 2023. Photo by Helder Januario/Abacapress