The electronics recycling community, which was unable to meet last year, returned to its traditional venue in Salzburg on 18-21 January for its annual congress.

According to the company, their newcycling technology has proven to succesfully recycle household plastic waste on an industrial scale and that all goals for scaling and decolourisation were achieved.

The European Parliament Committee on 'the Internal Market and Consumer Protection' (IMCO) voted today on the draft opinion for a proposed regulation concerning batteries and waste batteries, repealing the Directive 2006/66/EC and amending Regulation (EU) No 2019/1020.

Recycling end-of-life plastic is still the best route for recovering this versatile and long-life material, according to resource recovery specialist Axion.

In 2020, the EU's circular material use rate (referred to as the circularity rate) reached 12.8%.

The Waste Shipment Regulation (WSR) is a key piece of legislation in the move towards circular value chains.

The winners of the Plastics Recycling Awards Europe 2021 were announced last at the Plastics Recycling Show Europe in Amsterdam.

For this reason, ARC is now taking the next step towards environmentally harmless waste disposal: After more than 200 electric refuse collection vehicles, the wheel loader fleet has been electrified - consisting of eight new battery-electric wheel loaders L 507 E from Liebherr.

To inform policy development and infrastructure planning the European Composites Industry Association (EuCIA) has estimated the volume of thermoset composites waste accessible for recycling. This data will also support the activities of the new European Circular Composites Alliance (ECCA).

As policymakers around the world define what constitutes "green steel," the BIR is urging a fair and science-based approach - one that accurately reflects emissions performance and ensures that the full benefits of recycling are recognised in the transition to a decarbonised steel sector.

The Core Line complements the existing portfolio of the established Smart Line and the MMPC brand and rounds off the Doppstadt range in a targeted manner. The new line starts with the Core Shredder Line, which has been developed for universal use in a wide range of applications.

The symptoms of a failure to control fugitive materials include unplanned downtime, excessive cleaning costs, premature equipment failure, regulatory violations, and safety incidents. Addressing these symptoms with workable, long-term solutions will enhance performance, housekeeping and safety, and boost profitability.

The machine processes film rejects with high levels of fluctuating moisture from sorting systems on a large scale to produce agglomerates with a high bulk density that are an ideal feedstock for chemical recycling, among other applications.

While recent growth in these two markets has been strong, the EU has not yet matched the pace of establishing major commercial-scale hydrometallurgical or refining capacity to produce battery-grade metals salts from LIB recycling. Meanwhile, in the US, industry stakeholders are seeking clarity on how the tariff war will impact Li-ion battery recycling market growth in the US.

FEAD strongly supports the Council's continued recognition that pre-consumer and biobased plastics must not count towards the recycled content targets. Including such materials would divert attention from real recycling efforts and create a false sense of progress. Post-consumer plastic waste must remain the baseline to support meaningful investment in ELV recycling and ensure measurable circularity.

Making clothing from water-intensive cotton has a major impact on the climate. That's why cellulose from other raw materials has come into focus in recent years as a more resource-smart method of textile production. Up to now, the efforts have concentrated on wood-based cellulose. But in a recently published study, researchers investigated a different path for cellulose fibre manufacture, by using waste products from agriculture, which Sweden has a lot of.

Large plastics recycling plants need more than simply upscaling the individual components. The larger the size of the extruder screw, the greater the technological challenges. The start-up last summer of the largest Intarema system to date, with a throughput of over four tonnes per hour, confirms that EREMA offers reliable solutions for high throughputs. The next smaller size 2021 has now been further developed. At the K show, Erema will launch the Intarema 2021 TVEplus with a diameter of 2 metres for the preconditioning unit (PCU) and 212 millimetres for the extruder screw, which for the first time features a single end-to-end extrusion unit. With a throughput of up to 3.5 tonnes per hour and a footprint of just 15.1 x 3 metres, this recycling system is over two metres shorter than the previous cascade design, in which two extruders were connected by a melt pipe. The new design also reduces the melt temperature, lowers energy consumption and minimises maintenance requirements.

After about two months, the decomposition results in the finest fresh compost, which is used as a fertiliser by agricultural establishments. Some of the compost is further processed by the soil specialist Terre Suisse, which refines it using additives such as wood fibres, bark humus and sand to create high-quality substrates and potting soil.

Federica joined EuPC in 2019 and has since built an impressive track record within the organisation. Initially working within the Packaging Division, she soon took on a leadership role in the Automotive Division, while also promoting innovation across the European plastics value chain through her involvement in several EU-funded initiatives in close cooperation with the major European R&D centres active in the plastics and composites sectors.

Recycling polyolefins—a common type of thermoplastics—in Europe costs more than twice as much as producing virgin polyolefins today. Market forces alone are insufficient to drive change, as customer demand is highly price sensitive and volumes are too limited to generate substantial cost benefits.