Michael Brunn

Indorama Ventures has announced that it has recycled 100 billion post-consumer PET bottles since February 2011.

For two days, Aimplas will analyse the challenges and opportunities facing the plastics recycling sector at the second edition of its international meeting with the support of nearly twenty sponsors, media partners and collaborating companies.

The inclusion of opaque white PET beverage bottles in the targets set by the European Commission demonstrates the commitment of the industry towards a more sustainable future.

Improvements to beverage can recycling practices in six countries around the world could help to reduce global CO2 emissions by up to 60 million metric tons by 2030, according to a new study commissioned by Crown Holdings and the International Aluminium Institute (IAI).

Following its successful premiere in 2022, the Advanced Recycling Conference 2023 will present the broad range of advanced recycling solutions from extrusion, dissolution, solvolysis, enzymolysis, pyrolysis, thermal depolymerisation, gasification, to pre- and post-treatment, upgrading, and reactive extrusion on November 28 and 29 in Cologne.

CDE has commissioned a waste recycling plant in the UK for NRE Aggregates part of regeneration business Peel L&P.

The company has inaugurated Europe's first hydrometallurgical battery recycling pilot plant on the company's one-year anniversary.

The paper industry increasingly employs wastepaper recycling and more sustainable processes in line with the principles of the closed-loop economy.

In 2014, Landbell Group started the first Green Alley Award with the vision to invest and innovate for the future. 

Some of the most regressive actors in the packaging value chain, such as single-use paper packaging producers and McDonald's, have been conducting a massive lobbying campaign to greenwash single user paper as a sustainable alternative to single-use plastics.