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Detecting wear on key components at an early stage minimises the risk of unscheduled downtime in plastics recycling. Erema’s PredictOn solutions enable predictive maintenance based on current process data in real time.

A new study by CE Delft, commissioned by Zero Waste Europe and Reloop, confirms that including waste incineration in the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) would deliver powerful climate and employment benefits.

FEAD welcomes the Council’s adoption of a General Approach on the proposed End-of-Life Vehicles Regulation (ELVR), but underlines several problematic clauses that need to be remedied during the Trilogue. While acknowledging the importance of progress in the legislative process, FEAD warns that diluting minimum recycled content targets and timelines undermines the Regulation’s ability to deliver true circularity in the automotive sector.

Cellulose-based textile materials can make the clothing sector more sustainable. Currently, cellulose-based textiles are mainly made from wood, but a study headed by researchers from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden points to the possibility of using agricultural waste from wheat and oat. The method is easier and requires fewer chemicals than manufacturing forest-based cellulose, and can enhance the value of waste products from agriculture.

Eurostat estimates that in 2024, EU countries invested about €76 billion in assets essential for providing environmental protection services. These services include wastewater treatment plants, vehicles for transporting waste, acquisitions of land to create natural reserves, and cleaner equipment for production.

Bernhard is the first of four new recycling furnaces with which Speira is upgrading the plants in Grevenbroich and Töging, replacing ageing units with state-of-the-art systems.

Today, Europe’s Environment Ministers bowed to pressure from the automotive industry by voting to weaken a crucial regulation to make the sector more circular, warn environmental NGOs.

Legal requirements, above all the EU packaging and packaging waste directive (PPWR), and the sustainability goals of global brands are increasing the demand for post-consumer recycled pellets to be used in sensitive applications such as food or cosmetics packaging, as well as in secondary packaging. These specifications increase the demands on the production capacity and process stability of recycling plants in order to guarantee high output volumes with a consistently high quality.

A joint initiative of EuPC, EXPRA, EPRO, NMWE, PETCORE Europe, and UNESDA has led to the publication of a comprehensive guidance document to support waste management operators and sorters in setting up third-party certification of quality assurance systems for recycled materials and articles.

In the Swiss canton of St. Gallen, the Verein für Abfallentsorgung (VfA for short) and Terre Suisse process green waste from the surrounding region to create high-quality fresh compost and potting soil. In the municipality of Buchs, the VfA shreds and mixes organic waste and places it on compost heaps.

European Plastics Converters (EuPC) has announced the appointment of Federica Gallicchio as new Managing Director.

Stuttgart, June 2025 – The University of Utrecht has chosen a Coperion STS 25 Mc11 twin screw extruder for a chemical plastics recycling research project. A research group headed by Assistant Professor Dr. Ina Vollmer will undertake comprehensive investigations of the mechanical-chemical conversion of mixed plastic waste using catalysts. Thanks to its intensive mixing effect and efficient energy intake, the Coperion STS twin screw extruder will assume a central function in this promising and relatively unexplored area.