A regional collaboration in California's Napa and Sonoma wine regions has established a closed-loop stretch film recycling system. The initiative creates a structured recovery pathway for used plastic stretch film. This material is typically excluded from municipal recycling systems due to limited infrastructure and processing constraints.

A research project funded by Innosuisse at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts is investigating the conditions under which workwear can nevertheless be integrated into textile cycles and where existing limits lie.

Building C is the final phase of the new main hospital building under the OYS2030 development programme. The project aims to consolidate outpatient specialist care and teaching functions within one facility and is planned to support shared use of space and efficient logistics. The building will include specialist outpatient clinics and day hospital activities, pathology laboratories, teaching and training facilities, and a teaching-focused social and health centre.

Lisbon is the first European capital to roll out a city-wide reusable cup system backed by a local deposit-return model. The initiative - driven by a collaboration between the City of Lisbon, Tomra, and AHRESP (Associação da Hotelaria, Restauração e Similares de Portugal) - is designed to tackle plastic waste, slash emissions, and bring a smarter reuse model to the city's bustling nightlife and hospitality sector.

Ahead of its second Global Recycling Day, 18 March 2019, the Global Recycling Foundation is asking children across the world to make better recycling practices one of their 2019 New Year's resolutions. 

Prodem has launched their new range - the PSB Rotary Screening Buckets to the construction industry.

After a very brief negotiation process, EU politicians have transformed what could have been a great opportunity to implement the Waste Directives' rationale and to achieve efficient waste management into a superficial legislative text.