New design guidelines for flexible packaging
| Produced by the Circular Economy for Flexible Packaging (CEFLEX) initiative - a partnership of over 160 European companies, associations, and organisations - the Designing for a Circular Economy (D4ACE) guidelines have been developed collaboratively with the entire flexible packaging value chain.
Carbonlite expands capacity at Dallas Plant
| CarbonLITE, the world’s largest recycler of plastic beverage bottles, has expanded capacity at its Dallas plant in order to provide more recycled PET to its customers.
Color-based optical sorter with Artificial Intelligence
| The NRT ColorPlus with Max-AI from National Recovery Technologies (NRT) integrates artificial intelligence (AI) into the company’s ColorPlus sorter.
New cable recycling plant for East Bohemia
| THM Recycling Solutions has delivered acable recycling plant to the Czech Republic.
New sorting system for waste plastics by Sesotec
| Sesotec has developed a new sorting system for recycling plastic bottles and trays: Varisort+.
Reconditioned recycling plants and components from Erema subsidiary
| Umac, a subsidiary of the Erema Group, specialises in trading used recycling plants and components.
Improvement of output quality in film washing systems
| The latest in a series of developments for PE film recycling from Lindner Washtech is the Film Examiner. It is placed directly in front of the extrusion phase as a final process to improve the product quality.
Andritz: New shredder for secondary shredding
| Andritz presents its new secondary shredder ADuro S – the latest member of the recently introduced ADuro product line for recycling shredders.
How will waste paper recycling market incur growth?
| The waste paper recycling market is expected to experience an uptrend in the growth statistics across the forecast period of 2019-2027 mainly due to the rising awareness among the global populace about environmental conservation.
European fedarations demand bootsting of technical plastic recycling
| As Euric and EERA point out, the plastics recycling industry has been severely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Technical plastics recycled from ELVs and WEEE are no exception.
ICBR: A bridge between old and new mobilities
| ICBR 2020, the 25th International Congress for Battery Recycling is holding its 25th anniversary edition in Salzburg, Austria, from 16 – 18 September 2020.
Global e-waste still increases
| According to the current Global E-Waste Monitor by United Nations University, United Nations Institute for training and research, International Telecommunication Union, ISWA, in 2019 approximately 53,6 million tonnes of e-waste were generated, this corresponds to 7.3 kilogram per capita.
New business models for electrical and electronic sector
| Eco-leasing, product customization, better waste management and ICT tools for bidirectional communication between manufacturers, consumers and waste managers will help reduce the 12 million tonnes of waste produced by this sector each year.
Fight against plastic bag pollution at risk
| EU Member States measures, which aim to cut the number of plastic bags used nationally, are granting too many exemptions, warned the Rethink Plastic alliance on the 11th International Plastic Bag Free Day.
BMRA: Construction companies should be required to use recycled content
| The UK metal recyclers’ association welcomes PM’s build plans and sees it as opportunity for circular economy objectives to be met.
