Rumours of dumping of substandard plastics waste into India after Chinese ban on such items are making the life of plastics recyclers and reprocessors miserable and stuck up at work.

20,000 tons of virgin PET is imported to New Zealand annually. New Zealand government's Waste Minimization Fund supports the project to reduce that environmental harm.

Under the theme "EU Plastics Strategy 2.0 - Taking the PET industry to the next step", the complete PET industry sector shared perspectives and strategies for a succesful and even more circular future.

The board of waste robot company ZenRobotics has appointed Wolfgang Schiller as the new CEO of ZenRobotics, effective immediately.

Andusia Recovered Fuels Ltd is pleased to welcome Fraser Cutting to their team as new Hazardous Waste Manager. This announcement comes at a busy and exciting time for Andusia, having recently announced their move into the Hazardous Waste market.

World crude steel production for the 64 countries reporting to the World Steel Association (Worldsteel) was 148.6 million tonnes (Mt) in November 2018, a 5.8% increase compared to November 2017.

On 15 November 2018 the European Parliament voted in favour of a very low threshold for a frequently used brominated flame retardant Deca-BDE in plastics that have been used in electronic and electrical products and waste.

The EU Single Use Plastics Directive Proposal is currently under the assessment of the European Parliament. The proposal foresees the consumption reduction of PET trays - a circular packaging product with a high amount of recycled content.

Steinert spoke to Stena's Outbound Sales Manager Jesper Fournaise about how exactly dry density separation using x-ray transmission fits with the issue of sustainability.

Targets set by brand-owners and regulators have been contributing to a growing demand for recycled plastics globally, particularly for use in food and beverage packaging.

The Indian recycler Srichakra Polyplast commissioned a PET bottle-to-bottle and a post-consumer polyolefin recycling line from Starlinger by mid of September.

The definition of a circular economy is unclear and lacks substance, according to a team of researchers from Lancaster University Management School, Lund University and the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden.

'Sorting Evaluation Protocol for Plastic Packaging' is a Standard Practice that is geared at evaluating the behaviour of a plastic product during the sorting process in Europe.

As part of a new effort to advance the use of recycled ocean plastic, Sabic and Microsoft have collaborated to create Microsoft's first consumer electronic product - The Microsoft Ocean Plastic Mouse - with an exterior shell containing 20% recycled ocean plastic.

In the first half of 2018, the Cronimet Holding Group, headquartered in Karlsruhe, was able to continue the positive development of 2017 and increase sales by approx. 8% to Euro 1.3 billion compared to the previous year.

As tensions escalate amid an ongoing trade war between the U.S. and China that is having a damaging effect on the recycling industry, the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) this week requested the U.S. government make every effort to negotiate a path forward with China.

The Wacker Neuson Group reported a marked rise in revenue and earnings during the first six months of 2018.

Aluminium's recycling cycle begins and ends in melting plants. In between, this light metal is machined in many different industrial operations of diverse branches and ideally is then pressed into a compact briquette using a briquetting system from RUF. But where exactly are chips produced and why does briquetting usually make economic sense?

According to a recently published study by industry consultants Applied Market Information Ltd. (AMI Consulting), the plastics recycling industry will have to develop and grow considerably to meet 2030 EU plastics packaging recycling targets, along with the effect of the Chinese waste import ban.

The Recylex Group has released its financial information for the first half year of 2018 and for the second quarter of 2018. Consolidated sales for the six-month period to June 30th 2018 totaled €194.6 million, down 11% on the first six months of 2017.