Marius Schaub

BIR has published latest statistics on recovered paper. A new report by the Bureau of International Recycling corroborates the fundamental importance of recovered fiber and free trade.

Recoup have called on packaging designers and specifiers not to forget the basics when it comes to plastic packaging recyclability. Although current trends may seek to explore new innovations in packaging, often the fundamentals for designing for recyclability are forgotten.

Today the Governments of Rwanda and Norway launch The High Ambition Coalition to End Plastic Pollution together with Canada, Peru, Germany, Senegal, Georgia, Republic of Korea, UK, Switzerland, Portugal, Chile, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Costa Rica, Iceland, Ecuador, France and the Dominican Republic.

As a recycling company specialising in styrene-based thermoplastics, Sysplast uses and develops pioneering technologies. For this, the company uses melt filters from Ettlinger, whose operation enables high production efficiency and consistent product quality.

World crude steel production for the 64 countries reporting to the World Steel Association (Worldsteel) was 158.1 million tonnes (Mt) in June 2022, a 5.9% decrease compared to June 2021.

According to Plastics Recyclers Europe, low available volumes of sorted plastic waste are negatively impacting the operations of plastics recyclers across Europe, creating an obstacle to achieving the EU targets.

In 2021, the EU expenditure on environmental protection amounted to €292 billion. Rising on average by over 3% each year, the expenditure on environmental protection increased by 54% since 2006.

Water treatment company Aquafin is to build a sewage sludge processing installation on the Arcelor Mittal site in the port of Ghent, to be operational by 2026. Both companies will apply the green energy produced there to further reduce their CO2 impact.

The Future Availability of Secondary Raw Materials (Futuram) project commenced on 1st June 2022 and plans to play a key role in ensuring a secure supply of secondary and critical raw materials from within the European Union.

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.