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A planned legally binding global agreement covering the lifecycle of plastics should hasten the regulation, proliferation and uptake of steps in the personal care product industry to eliminate plastic pollution, sector associations and experts.

Even before the decision in March (2022) by the United Nations Environment Assembly to conclude negotiations by 2024 on a pact to eliminate plastic pollution, cosmetics manufacturers of all sizes have been moving towards a more circular economy approach.…

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has caused major disruption to the textile sector in the region and beyond, with Ukraine manufacturers suffering from being within a war zone, and Russia textile companies suffering from the major sanctions imposed by European, north American and some Asian governments.…

The invasion of Ukraine by Russia risks undermining AML/CFT, said FATF in its post-plenary communiqué issued in March. (1) But how this unprovoked military action will disrupt the policing and detection of dirty money remains to be seen, noted Carol Van Cleef, chair of the blockchain and digital assets practice, at Bradley Arant Boult Cummings, Washington DC.…

The Russian invasion of Ukraine is having an impact in other countries bordering Russia. Take Latvia – Alexei Nechayev, a Russian MP who has been hit by EU sanctions, owns cosmetics company Faberlic which has its subsidiary in Latvia, Faberlic Baltija.…

The Ukrainian cosmetics industry has been hit hard by Russia’s invasion, forcing many producers to halt production and close their businesses. The country’s personal care products market had been projected to generate USD2. 9 billion in sales during 2022 by data service Statista (1) and has been steadily growing year on year.…

CRIMINALS are using the war in Ukraine for criminal gain, exploiting financial vulnerability and an overstretched national police to profit from human misery. While the smoke has yet to clear, Ukrainian officials are already beginning to report increases in smuggling, scams, and fraud. …

The Russian government’s bloody and destructive invasion of Ukraine has harmed operations of the metal packaging sector and their aluminium and steel suppliers in both Ukraine and Russia, having an international impact on the can manufacturing and filling industry. New records are being set for the international price of aluminium, up 28% in 2022, reaching USD3,849 per tonne (1) on March 4, then settling back to USD3,398, approximately level with the price following a spike that occurred on February 24, right after the invasion began.…

Transport coatings innovators have been increasingly integrating graphene into their products, as researchers continue to leverage the functionality delivered by a sustainable material whose honeycomb lattice nanostructure offers major durability without adding bulk.

Researchers from Poland’s Gdańsk University of Technology have highlighted graphene’s flexibility and ability to adapt to the “roughness and curvature of the substrate surface” as a boon within paint and coatings design, especially for hard wear and tear uses, such as transport.…

Bulgaria’s new government has promised to fight corruption and challenge the country’s reputation as the European Union’s (EU) worst blackspot for graft. The new Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov defeated former PM Boyko Borissov last November amidst demonstrations against government corruption.…

The complexity of the European Union (EU) and its institutions has long a honeypot for fraudsters, but 2021 saw an unprecedented increase in EU anti-crime capacity building. Will this deliver results? There is evidence it may. Keith Nuthall reports.

If the EU’s anti-fraud unit OLAF is to be believed, financial scams impacting EU expenditure and revenue generation are already on the decline.…