Michael Brunn

Around 120 representatives from 19 countries attended the 2nd International Forum "Agricultural Plastics - Potential for Recycling", organised by RIGK.

Waste management machinery designer and manufacturer Whitham Mills has marked a 35 per cent increase in year-on-year in revenue with a move to a new 33,000 sq ft headquarters at the Stakehill Industrial Estate, on the outskirts of Manchester.

The PVC industry is making real progress towards sustainability and a positive contribution to the circular economy through a united industry approach, delegates heard at the 5th VinylPlus Sustainability Forum 2017 in Berlin, Germany.

Zero Waste Europe's People's Design Lab project has launched a new campaign. The Redesign Europe Challenge offers participants the ability to nominate badly designed products and vote for their 'most hated' products to be improved or phased out. 

TO-SYN-FUEL is a project funded by Horizon 2020 EU's new research and innovation programme, with the aim to build-up, operate and demonstrate the production of Synthetic Fuels and Green Hydrogen from waste biomass.

Important efforts are underway to incorporate grassroots recyclers into integrated waste management systems in Latin America, according to a new report from The Economist Intelligence Unit (The EIU).

Amut Ecotech, Recycling Division of Amut Group, has supplied for Minya Governorate (Egypt) a municipal solid waste recycling facility for the best management of recyclable materials. The plant is planned to go into operation by June 2017.

Upstate Shredding - Weitsman Recycling has announced that they have hired a long-time financial industry veteran to lead the company into its next phases of growth and expansion.

BRT Hartner is the expert for development and sales of equipment for sorting and recycling plants. In April 2017, the 500th Bag Opener was installed and commissioned at AGR-DAR in Herten, Germany. Ibbenbüren / Herten.

To align with its new "Declaration on Paper Recycling" the European Recovered Paper Council (ERPC) has been renamed the European Paper Recycling Council (EPRC).