Michael Brunn
Editor-in-Chief

Editor-in-Chief

Rumours of dumping of substandard plastics waste into India after Chinese ban on such items are making the life of plastics recyclers and reprocessors miserable and stuck up at work.
The Circular Economy Accelerator wants to bring together forward-thinking companies to proactively pursue policy solutions to catalyze the circular economy for good.

Copex has just started a Reflex mobile scrap shear with a cutting force of 650 tons on a customer's site at which the Swiss recycler, a subsidiary of the Austrian Loacker Group has won a major contract for the processing of railway material.
In its first position paper, the newly founded association Chemical Recycling Europe addresses some of the most urgent topics that are affecting the chemical recycling of polymers in Europe today.

The winners of the Plastics Recycling Awards Europe 2019 were announced today at the Plastics Recycling Show Europe, held at the RAI Amsterdam in The Netherlands.

In an interview with Mr. Jean-Marc Boursier, president of FEAD, and Group Senior Executive VP in charge of Finance and Northern Europe Recycling & Recovery activities at SUEZ, FEAD explores how he thinks recycling targets can be achieved.

According to ISRI, Nestlé Pure Life bottle is the only major nationally distributed bottled water made using 100 percent recycled plastic.
Member States´ rush to regulate ¨Recycled Carbon Fuels¨ within the transposition of the Renewable Energy Directive risks undermining their efforts towards climate change mitigation and the circular economy, warn Zero Waste Europe and Bellona with a joint briefing launched today.

Styrenics producer Ineos Styrolution has announced today that it has completed the first successful test runs producing virgin polystyrene from previously depolymerised material.
The City of London Corporation has awarded a new tech-driven waste collection, street cleansing and ancillary services contract to Veolia - with services beginning April 6.