The labelling industry's first-ever facestock made from recycled polyethylene (rPE) has been introduced by Avery Dennison.

VinylPlus, the Voluntary Commitment to sustainable development of the European PVC industry, recycled 739,525 tonnes of PVC within its framework in 2018 - a 15.6% increase on the previous year.

Andritz has received an order from slovakian WEEE recycler Elektro Recycling to supply a Universal Cross-Flow Shredder QZ for their refrigerator recycling plant in Slovenská Lupča, Slovakia. Start-up for the new equipment is planned for the third quarter of 2019.

Extrupet Group (Pty) Ltd, South Africa's first and largest recycling operation for post- consumer PET bottles, has ordered a second Starlinger PET recycling line to meet the country's growing demand for rPET.

Sesotec Canada Ltd. is a subsidiary of Sesotec GmbH, a manufacturer of metal detectors, x-ray inspection systems and sorting systems based in Germany.

According to ISRI, Nestlé Pure Life bottle is the only major nationally distributed bottled water made using 100 percent recycled plastic.

Early April, a new report by the European Commission warned again that half of the EU countries were at risk of missing the recycling target of 50% by 2020. FEAD's April 9 brainstorming workshop: From Setting Recycling Targets to Achieving Them revealed how circular economy's stakeholders think the EU can succeed.

Apple has announced a major expansion of its recycling programs, quadrupling the number of locations US customers can send their iPhone to be disassembled by Daisy, its recycling robot.

Eriez Europe has provided a one-stop custom solution to St. Margarets Metal Recycling and Transfer Centre Ltd. metal recovery problem within their scrapping process.

The winners of the Plastics Recycling Awards Europe 2019 were announced today at the Plastics Recycling Show Europe, held at the RAI Amsterdam in The Netherlands.