Michael Brunn

Under current and planned measures, EU Member States project that ETS emissions will continue to decrease in the coming decades albeit at a slower pace than historically, according to the latest annual European Environment Agency (EEA) briefing 'Trends and projections in the EU ETS'.

The European mixed plastic waste market is expected to further tighten in 2022 amid growing use of mixed-polyolefins grades by mechanical recyclers and increased use of refuse derived fuel (RDF)-suitable reject bales by pyrolysis-based chemical recyclers.

Metso Outotec has signed an agreement to divest its Metal Recycling business line to an affiliate of Mimir, an investment company based in Stockholm, Sweden.

The food-grade PET recycling system will be supplied to rPET flake producer Başatlı in April 2022.

FEAD welcomes the Guidelines on State aid for climate, environmental protection and energy 2022 ('CEEAG') endorsed yesterday by the European Commission, that provide the necessary framework to align public support with the Green Deal objectives.

According to the company, their newcycling technology has proven to succesfully recycle household plastic waste on an industrial scale and that all goals for scaling and decolourisation were achieved.

Danish environmental services company Solum A/S will open one of Scandinavia's most modern and advanced sorting plants based on AI and robotic technologies by ZenRobotics.

The proposal for a new Waste Shipment Regulation (WSR), which was recently published by the EU Commission, puts tougher requirements on the transfrontier shipment of waste.

At the end of November 2021, the members of the European Electronics Recyclers Association (EERA) were told that Lida Dik, their Executive Secretariat, was leaving.

A new report by Metal Packaging Europe and European Aluminium shows that the overall recycling rate for aluminium beverage cans in the European Union, Switzerland, Norway and Iceland remained stable in 2019 at 76% (75.8%).