With the assistance of IVACE, the Plastics Technology Centre is adding more than 2,000 m2 to its facilities, which will be used for R&D&I in polymer synthesis, medicine, and the circular economy.

Powerfil, a business unit of recycling machine manufacturer Erema, is presenting the new Erema 2/406 laserfilter at the Plastics Recycling Show Europe in Amsterdam.

The LIFE CIRC-ELV Project has developed a new process to manage end-of-life vehicles to recover bumpers and fuel tanks, recycle the materials and use them to manufacture pipes and new parts for vehicles.

The construction industry generates paramount quantities of waste. While recycling rates of construction and demolition waste (CDW) vary around the world, in all regions most of the material recovered is downcycled into low-quality materials or sent to landfill.

After installing the first waste-sorting robots of their kind in material recovery facilities across UK, France and Italy, Recycleye is now bringing its AI-powered computer vision system and robotic picking technology to the German waste management industry.

The recently opened Circular Plastics Australia PET recycling facility in Albury-Wodonga, New South Wales, is equipped with a Recostar PET 215 HC iV+ PET bottle-to-bottle recycling line from Starlinger that produces 2.5 tons of rPET per hour.

Researchers from universities in the Netherlands, Nigeria and the United Kingdom find that many circular economy policies and practices focus on local and national levels, while ignoring the international dimension.

The European Union (EU) circular economy action plan aims to halve the amount of municipal waste in the EU that is not recycled by 2030.

Extensive technological developments, a ban on fossil fuels, less construction, fewer flights, fewer car journeys and lower levels of beef and dairy consumption: Only by taking all these measures in combination can Sweden get closer to emission levels in line with the Paris Agreement, according to a new research report commissioned by the Swedish Parliament.

Tomra, a global provider of collection and sorting systems, celebrates its 50th anniversary.

The quickest and most cost-effective action which governments can take to cut methane emissions and deliver on the Global Methane Pledge are set out in a new report released by environmental groups.

Jim Roberts, product manager at Beaverswood, says easy-to-use waste collection, segregation and management systems should be adopted as space increasingly becomes a premium for warehouse and logistics operations.

In 2020, the amount of municipal waste generated per person in the EU amounted to 505 kg, 4 kg per person more than in 2019 and 38 kg more than in 1995.

RecycleMe GmbH successfully established its brand in Germany last year and expanded to Austria only a few months later, the international management consultancy will now also operate from its Slovakian location in Bratislava.

The throwaway global economy is fuelling the climate crisis with more than half a trillion tonnes of virgin materials consumed since the 2015 Paris Agreement, reveals a report from impact organisation Circle Economy launched today.

The proposal for a new Waste Shipment Regulation (WSR), which was recently published by the EU Commission, puts tougher requirements on the transfrontier shipment of waste.

A new report by Metal Packaging Europe and European Aluminium shows that the overall recycling rate for aluminium beverage cans in the European Union, Switzerland, Norway and Iceland remained stable in 2019 at 76% (75.8%).

In most European countries and in the EU as a whole, waste generation is growing but at a slower pace than the economy. However, there are no signs that the overall objective of reducing the total generation of waste is close to being achieved, according to a European Environment Agency report published.

Today Eurostat releases for the first time estimates of the EU quarterly greenhouse gas emissions, including a breakdown of emissions by economic activity.

The EROS Project, with the participation of Aimplas and ITC, is working to develop new recycling processes to recover composite materials from the aeronautics and wind turbine sectors to manufacture new products for the transport and ceramics industries.