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A major increase in PET imports threatens the competitiveness of the EU’s industry, along with its objective to improve the waste management of plastics.

Veolia’s digital recycling solution Recapp has launched a new recycling deposit initiative and rewards scheme for implementing reverse vending machines (RVMs) and smart deposit machines (RSDMs) in the UAE.

The Cronimet Group reports record sales of EUR 4.1 billion for the fiscal year 2022 and has again exceeded its operating profit of 2021 by approximately 10%.

Tomra and Plastretur, the Norwegian producer responsibility organization responsible for recycling plastic packaging, plan to invest in the construction of a joint sorting plant for plastics in Norway.

Packaging manufacturer Coveris has opened a new ReCover plant, located at Coveris’ site in Louth, Lincolnshire (UK), that uses ground-breaking technology to recycle printed polyethylene (PE) films.

European recyclers warn of a plethora of poorly justified proposed amendments found in ITRE’s draft report on the EU COM proposal on Critical Raw Materials (CRMs) published on 26 and 30 May 2023.

A “huge quantity of metals” – including many designated as “critical” – would be required to meet energy transition objectives and, as a result, security of supply had become a hot topic, explained BIR International Environment Council (IEC) Chairman Olivier François (Galloo) the body’s latest meeting.

With the introduction of Trinamix Mobile NIR Spectroscopy Solution at first sorting centres in the Netherlands, Boer Group wants to further enhance the efficiency of identifying and sorting textile material streams.

Sorema has announced the achievement of all qualitative and quantitative parameters at the start-up of the PET post-consumer bottle washing and recycling plant at Commercial Plastics in Yangon, Myanmar (Burma).

Rubber recycling from tyres had been rendered difficult in the past because of competition from virgin, but technological advances now meant that “the momentum is really changing”, insisted BIR Tyres & Rubber Committee Chairman Max Craipeau (Greencore) in his introductory remarks in Amsterdam on May 24.

Emerson is helping HaloSep to optimise its process that turns hazardous incinerator flue gas residue from waste-to-energy plants into usable materials.