In line with its commitment to environmental responsibility, Lapita, Dubai Parks and Resorts, has unveiled a series of sustainability initiatives that includes its recently-introduced advanced hydroponic farming system within the resort.
This partnership will help address the global plastics waste problem Umar Rafique, CEO, Emeraude, and Kris Barber, CEO, DGrade Image Credit: Supplied
Emeraude International SAS, headquartered in Paris, made a strategic long-term investment in DGrade, a unique UAE-based company that manages the full cycle from collecting and recycling plastic bottles to manufacturing sustainable clothing and plastic flake for consumer packaging. The partnership will expand DGrade’s global reach and facilitate Emeraude’s entry into the recycled plastic market.
Emeraude Green, the legal entity and brand of Emeraude, centralizes a focused mission on preventing and managing plastic pollution on a global basis with our local presence in developed and underdeveloped areas where we operate such as Africa and the Indian sub-continent. Its main strategy is focused on Awareness, Recycled Materials and Investment.
Dubai-based DGrade recycles PET bottles into high-quality sustainable clothing
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Dubai-based DGrade recycles PET bottles into high-quality sustainable clothing
Its Greenspun technology uses a process whereby plastic bottles are washed, shredded, melted into fibre and then spun into its trademarked Greenspun yarn
by Gulf Business
April 8, 2021
The sheer statistics around plastic pollution are staggering. According to National Geographic, half the total amount of plastic ever manufactured was done so over roughly the last decade-and-a-half. The global production of plastic has risen from 2.3 million tons in 1950 to 448 million tons in 2015, though worryingly it is projected to double that figure by 2050.