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Stadler completes Switzerland’s largest electronic waste sorting plant
| Immark AG, part of the Thommen Group, is a pioneer and market leader in the recycling and disposal of electronic waste in Switzerland with a recycling rate of up to 95% that far exceeds the requirements of the European Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive (WEEE).
Cronimet and CNGR join forces to close the loop in battery recycling
| Cronimet and CNGR Advanced Material have signed a Heads of Agreement (HoA) to expand Cronimet’s recycling capacity at its newly founded competence center for battery materials and battery recycling, Revomet Bitterfeld GmbH.
Andritz textile recycling line starts operating at Italian recycling specialist
| Andritz recently started up a new textile recycling line at Sfilacciatura Negro’s plant in Biella, Italy. Designed for processing post-consumer textile waste with automatic removal of hard parts, the tearing line supports the company’s expansion into new recycling segments.
Collaboration across the value chain is key to achieving a circular economy
| Stadler sees a functioning circular economy as a roadmap to address the global issue of waste and depletion of natural resources.
Aimplas attracts 160 professionals to the second edition of Plasrec
| During the two-day conference, 160 specialists in the plastic recycling sector from all over the world analysed new findings and discussed the challenges faced by the plastic industry.
Efficient Waste Management with Lidar Technology
| The Scottish waste management and recycling company, Levenseat Renewable Energy, now has real-time access to material inventory figures and, as a result, efficiently manages its logistics and processing operations after implementing a Lidar-based solution for inventory tracking.
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).
