Robert ter Kuile, the Global Director of Environmental Affairs at Amazon, will speak at the IERC about the European Green Deal and how recycling can be promoted.

The prize is awarded each year to a personality who has rendered outstanding services to the recycling industry and environmental protection.

Following Wednesday's plenary vote at the European Parliament, FEAD greatly welcomes the resolution of the European Parliament on the European Green Deal.

At the IERC 2020, Mr Surendra Borad Patawari, Gemini Corporation N.V., Belgium will provide an overview of developments worldwide on the plastics recycling market. ICM talked to him in advance.

In spite of recent progress, Europe is far from being circular.

Finland celebrated its 102 years of independence on December 6 and Maria Ohisalo, the countries' Interior Minister, was walking the red carpet wearing a dress made from recycled textiles.

The Erema Group's assessment of K 2019 is positive all round. All seven companies and business units were at the show in Düsseldorf and the group of companies presented its entire range of products and services.

BASF and Greentown Labs have selected five startups for their Circularity Challenge, a six-month accelerator program designed to advance innovative solutions to enable a circular economy.

San Francisco-based Recology has added four Max-AI units and one VIS to the Recycle Central, a 200,000-square-foot materials recovery facility (MRF) the company operates on San Francisco's Pier 96.

Heading up his first meeting as Chairman of BIR's Tyres & Rubber Committee, Max Craipeau of China-based Greencore Resources Ltd confirmed that he wanted to use his new position to promote closer co-operation between the industry in the West and that in Asia "where very innovative solutions to recycle tyres and rubber scrap are also being used and developed".