Euric has published a factsheet on Metal Recycling highlighting the importance of both ferrous and non-ferrous metal recycling and their substantial benefits for the environment and the economy in Europe.

Countries are employing rules and regulations to control and recycle huge amounts of packaging waste. Research company Trends Market Research expects an outstanding Growth for the packaging waste recycling market during 2018 and 2026.

Details of how Mondi is tackling plastic waste have been set out side-by-side with other brands, businesses and governments for the first time in the Ellen MacArthur Foundation's inaugural New Plastics Economy Global Commitment report.

Following the European Parliament's plenary session on September 13, FEAD, the European Federation representing the European waste management industry, welcomes the positive vote on the draft own-initiative report on a European strategy for plastics in a circular economy by rapporteur MEP Mark Demesmaeker.

The Danish Environmental Protection Agency has published a study that analyses the life cycle environmental impacts of production, use and disposal of grocery carrier bags currently available in Danish supermarkets.

Free online registration has now opened for the Plastics Recycling World Exhibition 2018, which will take place on 27-28 June 2018 at Messe Essen in Germany.

A global Manifesto has been launched today, just under 100 days before the world's first Global Recycling Day on 18 March 2018, by the Bureau of International Recycling (BIR) to demonstrate how the items we discard and the goods society recycles have the power to combat climate change and - potentially - change the world in which we live.

The European plastics industries are reaffirming their support to the Circular Economy Package.

BIR has been informed that China has officially notified the WTO of its intent to adopt the GB 16487 Environmental Protection Control standards for a certain number of wastes.

FEAD President Jean-Marc Boursier delivered a speech at the European Commission Reinventing Plastics, Closing the Circle Conference.

The EEB publishes its environmental assessment of the Maltese Presidency of the EU.

On its journey from one truck to the next, confidential documents pass through a Lindner single-shaft shredder, type Micromat 2000, on the premises of Russell Richardson. Its owner appreciates above all the combination of high throughput, long uninterrupted running times, and easy accessibility for maintenance work.

Professionals from the plastics recycling sector and its value chain have gathered at the Annual Meeting 2017 in Barcelona on the 15th of June at the conference that featured high-level speakers including European Commission, Waste Agency of Catalonia and brand owners.

Pulp and paper mills as well as wood panel producers in Brazil use eucalyptus bark to generate RDF to supply their own energy. To shred the material, they use Lindner's Urraco 75.

MSS, Inc., the optical sorter division of the CP Group, is introducing its next generation fiber sorting technology, the Cirrus FiberMax. It delivers ultra-fast belt speeds, intuitive learning software, and a more marketable fiber product

According to CEPI, the most important outcome from today's vote is that MEPs moved in favour of one single calculation method that enshrines real and comparable recycling rates both in and for Europe.

Bollegraaf Recycling Solutions has been commissioned by the MAG Group in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, to build a Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) Recycling Facility to process the equivalent of 60 tonnes per hour.

Responding to pressure to recycle more plastics and to add value to reclaimed materials, leading experts and professionals fgather in Cologne for the Plastics Recycling Technology conference.

The EU steel industry requests that the provision on final recycling is retained in the revision of the Waste Framework Directive in order to measure real recycling.

The results of European Bioplastics' annual market data update, presented at the 11th European Bioplastics Conference, confirm a stable growth of the global bioplastics industry. "The market is predicted to grow by 50 percent over the coming years despite the low oil price," says François de Bie, Chairman of European Bioplastics.