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Expert strategist Dr Gabrielle Walker addresses climate change, corporate social responsibility, capital structures and future consumer behaviour.
Following the successful first presentation of the Alternative Fuel Award to companies from Egypt, Portugal and South Africa in 2018, MVW Lechtenberg & Partner is now announcing the "Alternative Fuel Award" for the second time.

Swedish scrap processing company Skrotfrag installs a robotic sorting line for scrap metal.
The most comprehensive and rigorous assessment on the state of the environment completed by the UN in the last five years was published yesterday, warning that damage to the planet is so dire that people's health will be increasingly threatened unless urgent action is taken.

American company PureCycle Technologies has announced a partnership with Milliken & Company and as it moves forward with plans to open its first plant to restore used polypropylene (PP) plastic to 'virgin-like' quality with a new recycling method.
Total and several partners along the construction value chain have decided to associate to form the Clean Site Circular Project which aims at recycling natural shrink hoods wastes from the construction sector in closed system without film performances degradation.

The downloadable document shows that it is technically possible and economically worthwhile to produce goods from 100% recycled plastic.

ICM spoke to Klaus Hauschulte, CEO of Scholz Recycling GmbH, and asked him what he intends to report on at the IARC 2019.

Global Recycling Foundation has announced that Tomra Sorting RecyclingShas become a 'Friend of the Foundation', as well as a sponsor for Global Recycling Day.
IK, Industrievereinignung Kunststoffverpackungen, the German association for plastic packaging, and EuPC, European Plastics Converters, are organising together the 2019 edition of the conference A Circular Future with Plastics.