Michael Brunn

Twenty innovation projects have joined forces to boost European Union efforts towards a circular economy for plastics.

With the aim of making used PET bottles and other plastic waste a valuable resource, Krones AG and Stadler Anlagenbau GmbH have joined forces in a partnership.

The Government of Ghana formally joined the Global Plastic Action Partnership (GPAP) today, becoming the first African nation to combine forces with this new initiative dedicated to eradicating plastic waste and pollution worldwide.

Newly adopted EU laws will make several products easier to repair and more energy efficient, saving people money while reducing pollution, NGOs in the Coolproducts campaign said.

Increasing the aluminium purity and handling the specifically defined alloy concentrations in a targeted manner are becoming increasingly important when processing varied scrap aluminium.

Chemical Recycling Europe (ChemRecEurope) welcomes Zero Waste Europe (ZWE) assessment of the potential of chemical recycling to complement mechanical recycling and to overcome its limitations, as much in the plastic waste treated as well as in the high-quality of the output.

PureCycle Technologies has announced that it has successfully completed purified waste carpet from its Feedstock Evaluation Unit (FEU), transforming discarded carpet into clear, odorless, ultra-pure polypropylene (UPRP) resin through its proprietary plastics recycling technology, developed and invented by Procter & Gamble.

Metso has been awarded with an order to deliver a Texas Shredder PS for Tata Steel's upcoming steel scrap recycling plant. The order marks the first steel scrap shredding facility in India.

Over 320 participants attended this year's International Congress for Battery Recycling in Lyon, France - more than ever before in the 24-year history of the event.

Enva, one the UK's largest producers of recycled, extruded plastic compounds, has significantly increased the availability of recycled plastic compounds in the UK following a £1.8 million investment to double its output capacity.