Mattia Pellegrini, Head of Unit, Directorate-General for Environment at the European Commission is to be the keynote speaker at the Plastics Recycling Show Europe's conference, taking place at RAI Amsterdam, the Netherlands on 22-23 June 2022.
Stadler and ZenRobotics have built the pioneering new sorting plant with Remeo Oy, a Finnish company specializing in environmental management.
Swiss-based family business Spross AG has reinvested into ZenRobotics robot technologies to recover more valuable fractions at their Spross Recyclingwerk Zurich RWZ site.
PreScouter, a Chicago-based research intelligence company, has compiled a new Intelligence Brief that looks at the potential impact of recycling thermosets on reducing fossil-based plastic waste.
In 2021, Geminor handled over 1.73 million tonnes of waste in Europe.
A collaborative project to test the usage of recycled phosphorus produced by EasyMining's Ash2Phos process has successfully shown that the phosphorus recovered from incinerated sewage sludge works as a feed phosphate for livestock.
Yesterday, the European Commission revealed the proposed changes to its 2013 EU Waste Shipment Regulation.
A new report by the industry association European Aluminium shows that the European aluminium refining industry is an excellent example of a modern circular economy business model thanks to its ability to recycle aluminium from multiple scrap streams efficiently.
A new European study to be published in December 2021 will show that the achievement of EU recycling and landfill diversion targets by 2035 will result in a major contribution from the UK and EU Member States towards the Paris Climate Agreement.
The region now accounts for almost one-third of global plastics use, with annual per capita use ranging from 32 kg in lower middle-income countries to over 100 kg in many upper middle- and high-income countries in the APT region. In 2022, the region leaked 8.4 Mt of plastics into the environment - over one-third of the global total, including 3.5 Mt from ASEAN Member States and 4.9 Mt from China. Plastic leakage refers to any plastic that enters the terrestrial or aquatic environment, resulting from inadequate collection and disposal. This includes plastic waste, such as packaging or beverage cups, that is littered or openly dumped.
Vanheede is setting the course for even more efficient recycling with a state-of-the-art sorting plant at the Rumbeke site. The plant processes up to 100,000 tons of residual waste annually and can separate eight waste streams.
Although e-waste is the fastest growing waste stream in the world, it still receives too little attention in management. However, tackling the problem requires more than just technical solutions. According to researchers at the University of Nevada, a combination of cost-effective chemical recycling technologies and forward-looking policy reforms for the effective management and reduction of e-waste is the solution. In the report "Exploring the e-waste crisis: strategies for sustainable recycling and circular economy integration", which has been published in Recycling, they present their approach.
In the EU, about half of all scrap tires are incinerated. This is not only to change as quickly as possible, according to the European Commission. The European recycling association Euric already has concrete proposals on how this can be achieved.
The textile sector plays an important role in the European Commission's circular economy plans. The European Environment Agency (EEA) provides an overview of the current state of the industry.
When the Bureau of International Recycling invites you to the conference, the focus is on the global trade in secondary raw materials. Unsurprisingly, US President Trump's customs chaos was the biggest topic at the BIR conference in Valencia. But there were also other topics - and new figures on the importance of recycling for the environment and climate.
Under the theme 'For a Future-Proof Value Chain', the 13th VinylPlus Sustainability Forum 2025 (VSF2025) took place in Paris, France, on 21-22 May 2025. More than 200 delegates from 23 countries attended the event, including representatives from the City of Paris, French public agencies and eco-organisations, politicians and decision-makers, recyclers, retailers, associations, media, and the PVC value chain.
This approach for the sector was essential as cross-border trade pressures were putting sustainability under threat, declared keynote speaker Brian Henesey, Past Chair of ReMA and Vice President of Rocky Mountain Recycling Inc. (USA) at the BIR Paper Division plenary session.
Protecting workers should be the top priority for any employer, especially those on the front line of materials processing. Beyond the substantial financial consequences of a workplace injury or fatality, the impacts are felt profoundly by an employee's family, their coworkers, and the wider community.
By combining Pellenc ST's expertise in sensor-based sorting with Polytag's data management, the partnership aims to enable real-time tracking and optimization of packaging waste through the recycling process from MRF to Recyclers. Each packaging item is embedded with invisible printed UV watermarks, in the form of a GS1 open standard data matrices. As it enters the recycling stream, a detection unit instantly captures its associated data. The system executes precise sorting actions based on near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy and UV watermark.
As an expert in the field, I have been involved in metallurgical waste recycling and the sale of recycled products for 18 years around the world. During this time, I've seen first-hand that approaches to the disposal and reuse of metallurgical residues vary greatly from country to country. In some places, recycling has reached an industrial scale and is supported by government initiatives, while in others even basic sorting of slags and dusts is absent. The goal of this article is to highlight the opportunities that are opening up for European — especially German — companies with experience and technologies in this field beyond their domestic markets.
