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UK-wide inhaler recycling scheme launched
| Grundon Waste Management has launched the UK’s first proven nationwide inhaler return and recycling scheme – a move expected to deliver significant carbon savings for the NHS.
Applications for 2024 Green Alley Award open
| In 2014, Landbell Group started the first Green Alley Award with the vision to invest and innovate for the future.
Making WEEE circular everywhere
| E-waste is one of the fastest growing waste streams. While many industrialised countries have developed appropriate systems for dealing with this waste, there is still a lot of catching up to do, especially in lower-income countries
ARC 2023: Call for Abstracts
| Taking place on 28-29 November 2023 in Cologne, Germany, and online, the Advanced Recycling Conference will introduce the diversity of advanced recycling solutions.
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Starlinger: New PET bottle-to-bottle recycling line reduces production costs
| According to Starling, the new machine concept of Starlinger’s Recostar PET art saves about 21 % production costs. The machine was presented for the first time at K 2022.
Report: The price of plastic pollution
| The costs to society from plastic pollution — including environmental clean-up, ecosystem degradation, shorter life expectancy and medical treatment — exceed US$100bn per year, according to new research which sheds light on the growing global plastics crisis.
Using recycled plastic in highly stressed components
| In cooperation with Robert Bosch GmbH and BSH Hausgeräte GmbH, the Fraunhofer Institute for Structural Durability and System Reliability LBF has been investigating the use of recycled plastics in high-stress applications.
ICBR 2022: Interview with Jean-François Nogret
| Interview with Jean-François Nogrette, Senior Executive Vice President, Veolia France & Special Waste Europe for the International Battery Recycling Congress (ICBR 2022).
TrueCircle launches recyclables trading platform
| TrueCircle has announced the public launch of TrueCircle Trade, a new online platform for recyclables trading, underpinned by Computer Vision AI quality data.
BASF: Multilayer recycling is possible
| BASF publishes a study by Cyclos-HTP, according to which coextruded PE/PA multilayer films are recyclable. The results and conclusions of the investigations are available in a publication.
Three Telehandlers for Waste Recycling in Poland
| The inter-municipal waste management organization ZZO Włodawa uses three Bobcat telehandlers for their waste recycling in East Poland.
Balancing the needs of the circular economy and a toxic-free world
| Growing pressure to transition to the circular economy and the desire to eliminate legacy additives is proving to be a conundrum for the plastics recycling sector.
New CIWM strategy leads way to ‘A World beyond Waste’
| Launching its new strategy,, CIWM has outlined the role it will play in shaping the future of waste, recycling and resource management.
New bio-recycling routes for food packaging and plastic waste
| The worldwide production of plastics is about 350 tonnes per year. The largest consuming sectors are agriculture and the food industry.
