Michael Brunn

APEAL regrets a lack of ambition regarding recyclability measures in the European Council's General Approach to Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR).

The EU 8th Environment Action Programme (EAP) builds on the European Green Deal and sets the framework for EU environmental policy until 2030.

Main findings show that after a period of stagnation, the overall plastic production is picking up again.

Cirplus has developed a new standard for the use of recycled plastics together with the IKK — Institute of Plastics and Circular Economy and the Kunststoff-Institut Luedenscheid.

EuCertPlast and RecyClass have reached an agreement for the future development of the certification for plastics recyclers. Going forward, the expertise and know-how of the two audit schemes will be combined under the RecyClass Recycling Process Certification.

New independently verified figures published by APEAL, the Association of European Producers of Steel for Packaging, show that steel packaging has already met its new EU recycling rate target for 2025, four years ahead of schedule.

Metales Bolueta is a family-run business, founded in 1980 and is based near Bilbao, Spain.

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 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.

While the lithium-ion batteries in disposable electronic cigarettes are discarded after a single use, they can continue to perform at high capacity for hundreds of cycles, according to new research from UCL and the University of Oxford, supported by The Faraday Institution.