Michael Brunn

Veolia's digital recycling solution Recapp has launched a new recycling deposit initiative and rewards scheme for implementing reverse vending machines (RVMs) and smart deposit machines (RSDMs) in the UAE.

The Cronimet Group reports record sales of EUR 4.1 billion for the fiscal year 2022 and has again exceeded its operating profit of 2021 by approximately 10%.

Tomra and Plastretur, the Norwegian producer responsibility organization responsible for recycling plastic packaging, plan to invest in the construction of a joint sorting plant for plastics in Norway.

Packaging manufacturer Coveris has opened a new ReCover plant, located at Coveris' site in Louth, Lincolnshire (UK), that uses ground-breaking technology to recycle printed polyethylene (PE) films.

European recyclers warn of a plethora of poorly justified proposed amendments found in ITRE's draft report on the EU COM proposal on Critical Raw Materials (CRMs) published on 26 and 30 May 2023.

EIT RawMaterials and the European Raw Materials Alliance (ERMA) have released a roadmap that, if followed and given an investment of at least €15bn, could supply many of the EU's raw materials needs by 2030 and beyond.

A "huge quantity of metals" - including many designated as "critical" - would be required to meet energy transition objectives and, as a result, security of supply had become a hot topic, explained BIR International Environment Council (IEC) Chairman Olivier François (Galloo) the body's latest meeting.

With the introduction of Trinamix Mobile NIR Spectroscopy Solution at first sorting centres in the Netherlands, Boer Group wants to further enhance the efficiency of identifying and sorting textile material streams.

Go Champlast is a circular economy project that will produce advanced char from the waste substrate of mushroom cultivation and compostable films to replace current fossil products.

Sorema has announced the achievement of all qualitative and quantitative parameters at the start-up of the PET post-consumer bottle washing and recycling plant at Commercial Plastics in Yangon, Myanmar (Burma).