Sabine Hatzfeld

Responding to member concerns and discussions Recoup have expanded their annual Conference to include a further breakout session on Films, Pouches and Flexibles.

Ben Weitsman of Albany, a division of the East Coast's largest privately held scrap metal processor, has begun work on a multi-million-dollar project to add a 3,000 horsepower Riverside Engineering scrap metal shredder at the facility located at 300 Smith Boulevard in the Port of Albany.

Andusia will once again be exhibiting at the leading industry event, RWM. Andusia will be on stand 4C70-D71 in the Energy from Waste Hall. The show will be taking place on the 12th - 13th September 2018, at the NEC in Birmingham.

Local authorities across the UK should embrace London's Environment Strategy if Britain is to meet heightened recycling targets set out in the recently ratified circular economy package.

An assessment of the performance of the Bulgarian Presidency of the EU has found that it failed to prioritise and protect nature in the EU and at home but did perform well on energy, circular economy and chemicals.

The vehicle parts wholesaler Wessels+Müller AG from Osnabrück (Germany) is convinced of the BaleTainer.

Following on from the group's announcement of the substantial equipment investment with Germany's Kroll Fahrzeugbau- Umwelttechnik GmbH that took place in May 2018 at iFAT, the directors of CountyClean Group are proud to unveil that the contract has now been signed for their third investment at the industry event.

Plastic Recyclers Europe and VKC-CENTEXBEL collaborated on the elaboration characterisation of recycled PE-LD pellets, which provides a framework for the quality assessment of the pellets.

Recycling of steel packaging in Europe has reached a new high of 79,5% and is well on track to reach the industry's self-imposed target of 80% by 2020, according to figures issued by APEAL, the Association of European Producers of Steel for Packaging.

Reuse accounts for 60% of collected volumes of textiles and represents the industry's "strength". It is therefore essential that the hierarchy of material treatment is respected - with reuse firmly at the top. So said BIR Textiles Division President Mehdi Zerroug of France-based Framimex in his opening comments to the meeting in Barcelona on May 30.