| In July 2019, the recycling company Calex S.R.L. installed a Starlinger recycling line for post-consumer film in Satu Nou de Jos in the Romanian municipality Groși - already the seventh line supplied by Starlinger recycling technology.

| Coca-Cola Sweden has announced today that, from 2020, it will make all of its plastic bottles from 100% recycled material, becoming the first country worldwide to do so.

| Consumption of clothing, footwear and household textiles in the European Union (EU) uses annually about 1.3 tonnes of raw materials and more than 100 cubic metres of water per person, according to a European Environment Agency briefing.

| The Global Recycling Foundation has revealed that the theme for the third Global Recycling Day, taking place on 18th March 2020, will be ‘Recycling Heroes’.

| That’s the general consensus among some of Europe’s leading plastic industry commentators – the very people working to re-shape the industry.

| At the IERC 2020, Mr Surendra Borad Patawari, Gemini Corporation N.V., Belgium will provide an overview of developments worldwide on the plastics recycling market. ICM talked to him in advance.

| Plastic film manufacturer RKW relies on Vecoplan’s shredding technology to recycle its production waste.

| In spite of recent progress, Europe is far from being circular.

| The State of Recycling, hosted by the Congressional Recycling Caucus, is held every year in conjunction with America Recycles Day, November 15.

| AMP Robotics Corp. (“AMP”), working in artificial intelligence and robotics for the recycling industry, has announced that it has raised $16 million in Series A funding, led by Sequoia Capital with participation from previous investors.

| Høje-Taastrup and Roskilde (Denmark), Mikkeli (Finland), Apeldoorn (the Netherlands), Bodø (Norway), Porto (Portugal) and Seville (Spain) are the seven European cities that will pilot a series of demonstration actions on construction and demolition waste (CDW) and organic waste (OW) with the aim of achieving material circularity.

| 2LIFES is part of the fourth call of the Interreg Europe programme in which 170 applications were submitted and only 74 selected. The project...

| Since September, Marijo Zeljko is responsible for the overall management of all European locations as well as purchasing and sales in this region.

| Monitoring Recyclates for Europe, a unified online tool to monitor the uptake of recycled polymers into products, is now available for use by converters in the United Kingdom.

| Neste and Ravago start collaboration to enable chemical recycling of over 200,000 tons of plastic waste annually. The oil refiner has set a target to process annually more than one million tons of plastic waste from 2030 onwards.