As demand for compliant ship breaking facilities increases, updates to legislation will open several opportunities for compliant facilities outside of the European Union.

In a Statement published today, Zero Waste Europe welcomed the launch of the European Sustainable Finance Platform, and commended the European Union for driving the transition to a low carbon, more resource efficient and sustainable economy.

Global issues require global solutions. This is why PlasticsEurope, the Pan-European trade association representing plastics manufacturers, supports a global framework for plastics aiming at reducing plastic waste in any environment.

'PVC Upcycling' is a pilot project aimed at recovering the PVC component of electrical cables coming from the decommissioning of energy plants (de-manufacturing) and at recycling it into products with a low environmental impact (re-manufacturing).

Following the installation of seven of Tomra's recently launched latest generation Autosort units at its paper sorting plant in Knetzgau, Germany, Koppitz has not only increased the plant's capacity, but is also achieving higher purity levels of recovered paper fractions than ever before.

Four polystyrene producers and recyclers have initiated a Non-Disclosure Agreement to explore and optimize advanced recycling technologies for polystyrene, such as depolymerization. The agreement is intended accelerate steps by the industry to reduce plastic waste by creating a more circular economy for polystyrene.

The WEEE Forum has published a paper outlining the issues associated with the treatment of WEEE as metal scrap and has called on the competent authorities to take appropriate action.

The tech industry holds the trump card when it comes to innovation surrounding recycling —considering they are, in fact, the innovators.

Several speakers stressed the need to invest now into the Circular Economy, during the European Aluminium web workshop on investing in better collection and sorting of used aluminium packaging for recycling.

MORE - MOnitoring Recyclates for Europe has completed its first round of data collection in France and announces for the first time the monitored volumes of recycled polymers used by plastics converting companies.