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A new industry study released today and developed by a technical working group co-led by The Chemours Company (Chemours) and Solstice Advanced Materials Inc., finds that refrigerant emissions from automotive air conditioning systems in Europe could be reduced by up to 60%+ annually by 2050, with an average of half of cumulative emissions avoided between 2030 and 2050, through coordinated measures implemented across the full automotive value chain.

The comprehensive research, conducted by a technical working group and informed by stakeholders involving the whole vehicle lifecycle, including leading automotive manufacturers, suppliers, and refrigerant experts, shows that significant reductions can be achieved. For the European market, the study provides detailed lifecycle-based assessments of refrigerant emissions.

The findings highlight the critical role of collaborative industry action and circular economy solutions, including reclamation and recycling, in accelerating Europe’s climate and sustainability goals.

Key Findings:

• 60%+ reduction in annual refrigerant emissions by 2050 compared with current baseline projections
• ≈ 50% cumulative emissions reduction between 2030 and 2050, supporting long term sustainability goals.
• Cost‑neutral outcomes for consumers, as investments are offset by longer component lifetimes and avoided repair costs
• Comparable effectiveness across internal combustion, hybrid, and battery electric vehicles, underscoring system relevance during the EV transition

“This analysis shows that a large share of automotive refrigerant emissions can potentially be avoided using technologies and practices that already exist across today’s value chain,” said Joseph Martinko, President, Thermal & Specialized Solutions at Chemours. “The data reinforces the importance of lifecycle‑based policy approaches that reduce emissions while preserving vehicle performance, affordability, serviceability and supporting the circularity of refrigerants.”

The study’s recommendations are ready for rapid adoption across both conventional combustion engine and electric vehicles, supporting the shift toward a circular economy including end-of-life management through reclamation and recycling programs. These actions are underpinned by broad collaboration across the automotive value chain, paving the way for measurable progress in environmental sustainability and industry best practices. Read the full study here.

This story originally appeared on Chemours.com.

Recycling programs continue to improve and become more accessible, increasing opportunities for everyone to do their part in giving materials a second life and reducing waste. In 2025 alone, nearly 2.5 million additional households gained the ability to recycle food and beverage cartons.

Learn how the simple act of carton recycling can reduce the amount of waste that ends up in landfills, plus creates valuable products. This helps to reduce the demand on limited resources as well as the environmental impact of extracting those resources.

Beginning with recyclable materials

To ensure recycling is possible, it’s vital for companies to start with materials that can be repurposed after their primary use is done. With this goal from the start, Tetra Pak^® designed their food and beverage packages with their second life already in mind. The average Tetra Pak carton is made from 70% paperboard, a renewable material derived from responsibly managed sources, such as from Forest Stewardship Council^® (FSC^®) certified forests and other controlled sources. This special packaging protects its contents and is recyclable for the majority of U.S. households.

Tetra Pak has worked to promote and encourage more effective widespread recycling programs. In 2009, the company joined with other carton manufacturers in the U.S. to establish the Carton Council, an organization committed to increasing the number of cartons that are collected, sorted, and recycled. The Carton Council aims to build a sustainable infrastructure and to continue advancing carton recycling throughout the country.

What happens to cartons in their second life

By recycling your cartons, you’re not just reducing what ends up in a landfill, you’re helping create new products, such as tissue products, writing paper and even green building materials.

Once cartons have been collected, they are taken to the local materials recovery facility (MRF). There they are sorted and baled, and those bales are sent to recyclers where they can follow one of two paths: being sent to a papermill or to a building materials producer.

The most common path leads cartons to papermills, where they are turned into pulp by a hydrapulper. The pulp is then rolled into thin sheets and is used to create tissues, toilet paper and writing paper.

Cartons that go to a building materials producer are shredded, then pressed under high heat into long-lasting, green building materials for roof systems.

You can see the entire process by watching this video.

What you can do

Food packaging plays an essential role in protecting food safety, food quality and extending shelf life to reduce food waste. But, once it is done protecting food, it needs your help to make it to the recycling bin. Learn more about carton recycling at Tetrapakusa.com. To find a carton recycling center near you, go to RecycleCartons.com/carton-recycling-locator.

Recycling programs continue to improve and become more accessible, increasing opportunities for everyone to do their part in giving materials a second life and reducing waste. In 2025 alone, nearly 2.5 million additional households gained the ability to recycle food and beverage cartons.

Learn how the simple act of carton recycling can reduce the amount of waste that ends up in landfills, plus creates valuable products. This helps to reduce the demand on limited resources as well as the environmental impact of extracting those resources.

Beginning with recyclable materials

To ensure recycling is possible, it’s vital for companies to start with materials that can be repurposed after their primary use is done. With this goal from the start, Tetra Pak^® designed their food and beverage packages with their second life already in mind. The average Tetra Pak carton is made from 70% paperboard, a renewable material derived from responsibly managed sources, such as from Forest Stewardship Council^® (FSC^®) certified forests and other controlled sources. This special packaging protects its contents and is recyclable for the majority of U.S. households.

Tetra Pak has worked to promote and encourage more effective widespread recycling programs. In 2009, the company joined with other carton manufacturers in the U.S. to establish the Carton Council, an organization committed to increasing the number of cartons that are collected, sorted, and recycled. The Carton Council aims to build a sustainable infrastructure and to continue advancing carton recycling throughout the country.

What happens to cartons in their second life

By recycling your cartons, you’re not just reducing what ends up in a landfill, you’re helping create new products, such as tissue products, writing paper and even green building materials.

Once cartons have been collected, they are taken to the local materials recovery facility (MRF). There they are sorted and baled, and those bales are sent to recyclers where they can follow one of two paths: being sent to a papermill or to a building materials producer.

The most common path leads cartons to papermills, where they are turned into pulp by a hydrapulper. The pulp is then rolled into thin sheets and is used to create tissues, toilet paper and writing paper.

Cartons that go to a building materials producer are shredded, then pressed under high heat into long-lasting, green building materials for roof systems.

You can see the entire process by watching this video.

What you can do

Food packaging plays an essential role in protecting food safety, food quality and extending shelf life to reduce food waste. But, once it is done protecting food, it needs your help to make it to the recycling bin. Learn more about carton recycling at Tetrapakusa.com. To find a carton recycling center near you, go to RecycleCartons.com/carton-recycling-locator.

Recycling programs continue to improve and become more accessible, increasing opportunities for everyone to do their part in giving materials a second life and reducing waste. In 2025 alone, nearly 2.5 million additional households gained the ability to recycle food and beverage cartons.

Learn how the simple act of carton recycling can reduce the amount of waste that ends up in landfills, plus creates valuable products. This helps to reduce the demand on limited resources as well as the environmental impact of extracting those resources.

Beginning with recyclable materials

To ensure recycling is possible, it’s vital for companies to start with materials that can be repurposed after their primary use is done. With this goal from the start, Tetra Pak^® designed their food and beverage packages with their second life already in mind. The average Tetra Pak carton is made from 70% paperboard, a renewable material derived from responsibly managed sources, such as from Forest Stewardship Council^® (FSC^®) certified forests and other controlled sources. This special packaging protects its contents and is recyclable for the majority of U.S. households.

Tetra Pak has worked to promote and encourage more effective widespread recycling programs. In 2009, the company joined with other carton manufacturers in the U.S. to establish the Carton Council, an organization committed to increasing the number of cartons that are collected, sorted, and recycled. The Carton Council aims to build a sustainable infrastructure and to continue advancing carton recycling throughout the country.

What happens to cartons in their second life

By recycling your cartons, you’re not just reducing what ends up in a landfill, you’re helping create new products, such as tissue products, writing paper and even green building materials.

Once cartons have been collected, they are taken to the local materials recovery facility (MRF). There they are sorted and baled, and those bales are sent to recyclers where they can follow one of two paths: being sent to a papermill or to a building materials producer.

The most common path leads cartons to papermills, where they are turned into pulp by a hydrapulper. The pulp is then rolled into thin sheets and is used to create tissues, toilet paper and writing paper.

Cartons that go to a building materials producer are shredded, then pressed under high heat into long-lasting, green building materials for roof systems.

You can see the entire process by watching this video.

What you can do

Food packaging plays an essential role in protecting food safety, food quality and extending shelf life to reduce food waste. But, once it is done protecting food, it needs your help to make it to the recycling bin. Learn more about carton recycling at Tetrapakusa.com. To find a carton recycling center near you, go to RecycleCartons.com/carton-recycling-locator.

Recycling programs continue to improve and become more accessible, increasing opportunities for everyone to do their part in giving materials a second life and reducing waste. In 2025 alone, nearly 2.5 million additional households gained the ability to recycle food and beverage cartons.

Learn how the simple act of carton recycling can reduce the amount of waste that ends up in landfills, plus creates valuable products. This helps to reduce the demand on limited resources as well as the environmental impact of extracting those resources.

Beginning with recyclable materials

To ensure recycling is possible, it’s vital for companies to start with materials that can be repurposed after their primary use is done. With this goal from the start, Tetra Pak^® designed their food and beverage packages with their second life already in mind. The average Tetra Pak carton is made from 70% paperboard, a renewable material derived from responsibly managed sources, such as from Forest Stewardship Council^® (FSC^®) certified forests and other controlled sources. This special packaging protects its contents and is recyclable for the majority of U.S. households.

Tetra Pak has worked to promote and encourage more effective widespread recycling programs. In 2009, the company joined with other carton manufacturers in the U.S. to establish the Carton Council, an organization committed to increasing the number of cartons that are collected, sorted, and recycled. The Carton Council aims to build a sustainable infrastructure and to continue advancing carton recycling throughout the country.

What happens to cartons in their second life

By recycling your cartons, you’re not just reducing what ends up in a landfill, you’re helping create new products, such as tissue products, writing paper and even green building materials.

Once cartons have been collected, they are taken to the local materials recovery facility (MRF). There they are sorted and baled, and those bales are sent to recyclers where they can follow one of two paths: being sent to a papermill or to a building materials producer.

The most common path leads cartons to papermills, where they are turned into pulp by a hydrapulper. The pulp is then rolled into thin sheets and is used to create tissues, toilet paper and writing paper.

Cartons that go to a building materials producer are shredded, then pressed under high heat into long-lasting, green building materials for roof systems.

You can see the entire process by watching this video.

What you can do

Food packaging plays an essential role in protecting food safety, food quality and extending shelf life to reduce food waste. But, once it is done protecting food, it needs your help to make it to the recycling bin. Learn more about carton recycling at Tetrapakusa.com. To find a carton recycling center near you, go to RecycleCartons.com/carton-recycling-locator.

NEW YORK, May 13, 2026 /3BL/ – With the UK’s adoption of new Sustainability Reporting Standards (SRS), sustainability consulting and research firm Governance & Accountability Institute (G&A) has issued a resource paper to help companies prepare.

The new SRS signal the UK Government’s support for International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) standards, which have now been adopted by more than 40 countries, while seeking to simplify its corporate disclosure landscape. The SRS, which are currently voluntary, aim to raise the quality and comparability of companies’ sustainability information for the benefit of investors, consumers, employees, and communities.

G&A’s resource paper, “The UK Now Has Sustainability Reporting Standards,” is designed to help companies with UK operations better understand the SRS. The paper is available through G&A’s research hub. An “Ask the Analyst” explainer is available here.

“Finalized earlier this year, the UK SRS mark the UK’s bid to become a global center for sustainable finance — and adds it to a growing list of jurisdictions adapting ISSB’s global baseline into local rules,” said Louis D. Coppola, CEO & Co-Founder at G&A Institute. “For multinational companies, that means another disclosure regime to navigate alongside CSRD, ISSB itself, other local and regional adaptations emerging in markets from California to Singapore, and the voluntary frameworks they’re already reporting against. This resource paper is designed to help global organizations understand what UK SRS actually require, how they connect to the broader international standards landscape, and where to focus first.”

Coppola added, “Companies are coming at this from very different starting points — some are building their first sustainability disclosure program, others have years of GRI, SASB, TCFD, and other reporting behind them. At G&A we meet clients where they are and help them either build new disclosures or translate existing work into what UK SRS, ISSB, CSRD, and other local and regional requirements now demand — using an interoperability-first approach that minimizes duplication of effort across overlapping frameworks. The companies that get this right will spend less on compliance and more on actually improving performance.”

The paper provides key reminders and recommendations covering:

• Overview of the UK’s new SRS including current implementation timelines
• How the SRS compares to other frameworks and aligns with IFRS S1 and S2 while having UK-specific adaptations
• Which companies are covered and details on eventual mandatory reporting for companies listed in the UK
• Recommendations for covered companies, like mapping current disclosures to SRS and building audit-ready documentation ahead of mandates

Designed for UK-listed companies anywhere in the world, the paper is essential reading to prepare for the evolving sustainability disclosure landscape and align with global reporting frameworks.

About G&A Institute, Inc.
Founded in 2006, Governance & Accountability Institute (G&A) is a New York–based sustainability consulting and research firm with deep advisory experience supporting corporate leaders and investors in integrating sustainability into governance, risk, enterprise performance, and evolving regulatory and stakeholder expectations.

Backed by rigorous disclosure research and one of the industry’s most comprehensive benchmarking databases, we deliver insight that strengthens transparency, enhances competitiveness, and drives measurable return on investment.

G&A has published numerous research papers, issue briefs, and quick reference guides covering global sustainability reporting regulations and frameworks, including the CSRD, ISSB standards, and other emerging mandates.

For more information, visit G&A Institute.com.

Media Contact:
Louis D. Coppola
Governance & Accountability Institute, Inc.
Tel 646.430.8230 ext 14
Email: lcoppola@ga-institute.com

During Earth Month 2026, Everpure deepened its commitment to sustainability as employees worldwide volunteered in initiatives focused on climate action, renewable energy education, ecosystem restoration, and circular economy projects.

In April, Everpure employees around the world came together to turn our sustainability values into action for Earth Month. In collaboration with the Everpure Foundation, teams hosted hands-on volunteer events, learning sessions, and local upcycling activities that made environmental stewardship tangible in offices and communities alike. Over 10% of our global employees participated in Earth Month activities, demonstrating our commitment to sustainability and a culture of purpose.

Renewable energy and climate education

Employees came together to provide tools for sustainable energy and empower the next generation with environmental knowledge.

• Solar energy stations: Employees in Singapore and Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, built stations to teach children about the mechanics and benefits of renewable energy for local nonprofit organizations Kampung Senang and El Futuro North Carolina.
• Solar lamp construction: Teams in Lehi, Utah, assembled solar lamps to help Community Action Services & Food Bank promote the practical use of solar energy.
• Climate action kits: In India, teammates created educational kits designed to engage local youth in climate advocacy, benefiting Bangalore-based Need Base India.
• Virtual design-thinking challenge: Across the US, employees participated in a virtual hackathon hosted by Team4Tech, brainstorming solutions to support climate advocate user communities and stakeholder engagement.
• Sustainability panel: Employees globally tuned in to hear from representatives throughout the company on how they’re embedding sustainability into their corporate strategies.

Biodiversity and ecosystem restoration

This theme covered “boots-on-the-ground” work to repair natural habitats and support local wildlife populations.

• Reforestation: In Prague, employees collaborated with longtime partner Sázíme Stromy, planting trees to restore biodiversity on deforested land.
• Seed ball creation: In Calgary, employees and customers worked together to create seed balls for CPAWS Southern Alberta, a nonprofit conservation organization working to promote thriving, healthy, and diverse lands and waters in Alberta.
• Wildlife habitat protection: The Santa Clara team collaborated with South Bay Clean Creeks Coalition to remove trash and debris from Los Gatos Creek, specifically to support the health of local salmon and beaver populations.
• Marine research: Employees throughout Europe analyzed images of the Great Barrier Reef, assisting Citizens of the Reef in their quest to deliver broad-scale data to reef managers globally.
• Community cleanups: Employees in Dublin, Ireland; Lehi, Utah; and Staines, UK, rolled up their sleeves to clean up trash from their local parks.

Circular economy and digital footprint

In addition to volunteering, employees focused on reducing waste and making conscious shifts in daily habits.

• Upcycling and composting: Employees in Prague and Santa Clara gave new life to old materials by upcycling clothing and backpacks.
• E-waste and digital trash cleanup: Team members around the world dropped off old electronics for recycling and reduced their environmental footprint by taking out digital trash.
• Sustainability panel: Subject matter experts from engineering, finance, supply chain, and more came together to discuss how they’re embedding sustainability into their business strategies.
   

Earth Month celebrations culminated in a fireside chat with professional climber and climate advocate Alex Honnold, who shared his journey and how the Honnold Foundation is using community-scale solar projects to advance climate resilience and energy equity around the world. Employees rallied around these efforts, raising $20,000 for the Honnold Foundation’s programs.

These efforts are part of a broader Everpure commitment to embed sustainability into how we work every day—from our people to our facilities to our products. By combining local volunteerism, listening sessions, and hands-on workshops, Everpure and the Everpure Foundation are helping employees turn climate concerns into concrete steps for people and the planet. As we close out Earth Month, one thing is clear: When our global community leans in together, small actions add up to meaningful, measurable impact.