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A new Australian research hub has embarked on a mission to address the environmental challenges posed by the textile industry with funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC). The sector is one of the world’s largest polluters: textile finishing and dyeing processes alone account for a staggering one-fifth of industrial water pollution worldwide and contribute 3% of global carbon emissions, according to a European Parliament report.…

The global snus market is facing change, with consumers switching within the segment from traditional moist snuff products to non-tobacco nicotine pouches while key consumer markets in Europe are being impacted by regulatory uncertainty.

“Moist snuff sales have been declining since 2018.…

A new FATF survey has suggested significant advances are being made in imposing AML/CFT on the use of virtual assets (VA) and on virtual asset service providers (VASPs), with 49 out of 58 countries surveyed establishing controls. The survey assessed all FATF members plus 20 jurisdictions with materially important VASP activity, including Russia, which remains suspended from FATF because of its ongoing invasion of Ukraine.…

THE MANDATORY rollout of deposit and return systems (DRS) within the European Union (EU) and an obligatory 90% collection of metal beverage containers (of up to three litres) target by 2029 should boost packaging collection and reduce litter across Europe. These principles have now been enshrined, after much debate – in the EU’s packaging and packaging waste regulation (PPWR), first proposed in November 2022 (1), which is close to securing formal approval.…

The number of companies producing spent bleaching earth oil (SBEO) as a biofuel feedstock has been increasing, but despite the opportunities that new regulations and technologies offer, logistics, the lack of feedstock and costs remain major challenges.

That utilising bleaching earths and clays is a good idea is clear.…

The European Union (EU) Council of Ministers has given its final approval to an EU directive insisting that EU member states criminalise and impose dissuasive punishments on the deliberate evasion of sanctions (1).

This law has been drafted amidst rising concern that Russia and Russians are effectively bypassing the slew of sanctions ordered following their country’s ongoing full-scale invasion of Ukraine (2).…

Accountants and their clients within the European Union (EU) have had to avoid trading with an increasing number of sanctioned individuals and companies, especially in Russia, following its invasion of Ukraine. Now, with sanctions evasion being criminalised across the EU under a new proposed law, the risk of exposure to sanctions for EU companies and their accountants and auditors has risen further – both when dealing with actors subverting these measures and when undermining sanctions themselves, of course.…

Business schools worldwide are increasingly using diversity to help teach environmental, social, and (corporate) governance (ESG), as these sustainability issues grow in importance commercially and for regulatory compliance.

These strategies are underpinned by the UN’s 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda and its associated 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), of which SDG 4 aims to ensure that by 2030, “all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including, among others, through education for sustainable development (…) and appreciation of cultural diversity” (https://sdgs.un.org/2030agenda…

While the Baltic States’ metal can industry relies largely on imported packaging, the two industries which routinely utilise local production are the beverage (specifically beer), and canned fish industry. While there were far more production facilities today within independent Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania than when these countries were part of the Soviet Union until 1991, the sector has been declining.…

AMBITIOUS recycling measures in a proposed European Union (EU) packaging and packaging waste regulation (PPWR) are essential to boost packaging waste collection and achieve a true circular economy for packaging, EU can industry experts have told CanTech International.

Indeed, as EU ministers and MEPs negotiate the final legal text of these planned reforms, the CEO of industry association Metal Packaging Europe (MPE), Krassimira Kazashka, said her group wants “EU legislators to provide for stronger recyclability measures and more pragmatic reuse requirements”.…