Euric, the European Recycling Industries' Confederation, has released on 3rd December the strategic priorities of the recycling industry for the period 2019-2024.

Consumption of clothing, footwear and household textiles in the European Union (EU) uses annually about 1.3 tonnes of raw materials and more than 100 cubic metres of water per person, according to a European Environment Agency briefing.

Since September, Marijo Zeljko is responsible for the overall management of all European locations as well as purchasing and sales in this region.

Neste and Ravago start collaboration to enable chemical recycling of over 200,000 tons of plastic waste annually. The oil refiner has set a target to process annually more than one million tons of plastic waste from 2030 onwards.

Borealis announces that it will become a Core Partner of the New Plastics Economy, an important global initiative led by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. The New Plastics Economy unites a broad range of key stakeholders to bring about a circular economy for plastics, in which plastic never becomes waste or pollution.

More and more recyclers are considering mobile metals separation from their recycle materials. More and more depth is being sought in the recycling of these materials, which is why more and more metals, such as ferrous and non-ferrous metals, are being separated on location by mobile equipment.

Construction and demolition waste is by far the biggest waste stream within the EU - depending on calculations it is at somewhere around 50 per cent of all waste produced. On the other hand, a lot of the material is not recycled properly.

The global Industrial solid waste management market is estimated to be valued at US$1.1tn in 2026, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 2.3% between 2020 and 2026, according to Global Market Insights, Inc..

With its latest agreement on the new Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) and coronavirus recovery fund, the European Council has also approved the implementation of the so-called plastic tax as of the 1st of January 2021.

The British Metals Recycling Association (BMRA) has relaunched its Health and Safety Manual.