Michael Brunn

Speira's new "transparent" melting furnace delivers more capacity, more recycling, precise insights and data collection in all process steps with 15 percent less energy. 

Veolia, working in partnership with Starbucks, has launched a new trial using worms to recycle coffee grounds and turn them into fertiliser, returning valuable resources to the food chain.

EuRIC has published its position on the future of the European steel industry, calling for measures that promote the use of recycled steel to achieve both environmental and economic resilience.

With the final scheduled Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC5) meeting due to begin in Busan, South Korea on Monday 25th November, negotiations on an internationally legally binding agreement to end plastics pollution by 2040 have reached a pivotal moment.  

The biotech and material science company Bioweg transforms low-value waste from the food and agriculture industries, such as molasses and vegetable peelings, into high-value, bio-based ingredients

Plastics Europe's latest data on the health of the European plastics system highlights a steeper-than-expected downturn in the production of plastics and, for the first time, in mechanically recycled plastics production in 2023 in Europe.

In the second quarter of 2024, the EU economy greenhouse gas emissions were estimated at 790 million tonnes of CO2-equivalents (CO2-eq), a 2.6% decrease compared with the same quarter of 2023 (812 million tonnes of CO2-eq).

Stadler is transforming plant operations with its digital solutions developed specifically for sorting facilities. Its cloud-based platform Stadlerconnect provides a single access point for the company's digital solutions and harnesses machine and material data to optimise sorting plant performance. Stadler is transforming recycling plant efficiency with its digital solutions specifically tailored for sorting plants with

According to Eurostat, in 2023 11.8% of materials used in the EU came from recycled materials.

The new EU funded ReBioCycle project provides a portfolio of bioplastic sorting and recycling technologies within three complementary waste-processor-centric hubs.