Marius Schaub
Redakteur
Plastic Recyclers struggle to get enough Waste
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.
EU Environmental Protection Spending continues to rise
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.
Sewage Sludge Processing at Arcelor Mittal
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.
Securing Europe's Raw Material Supply
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: 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.
Is Waste-To-Energy compatible with Net-Zero?
On Tuesday 21 June, an event in Brussels to present the potential of CCUS technologies in Waste-to-Energy and the evolution from non-recyclable waste treatment to integrated resource recovery facilities.
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.
Innovation Program for Packaging Recycling
Sociedade Ponto Verde and Beta-i seek solutions to innovate waste recycling: Re-Source is a collaborative innovation program for packaging recovery and recycling challenges startups from around the world. Proposals for solutions are open until June 27th.
Increase in Production of Pro-Environment Polyols
Perstorp is converting polyols produced at their largest production plant in Perstorp (Sweden) to so-called Pro-Environment products. By doing this, the company aims to enable reduced greenhouse gas emissions for its polyol customers and downstream value chains.
Biogas from Cargo Ship Wastewater
The greywater and sewage generated on cargo ships can be legally discharged into the Baltic Sea. Gasum aims to determine the volume of wastewater ending up in the Baltic Sea and to study the potential to use it in biogas production.