Sudden ban strikes Indian plastics recyclers hard
| Rumours of dumping of substandard plastics waste into India after Chinese ban on such items are making the life of plastics recyclers and reprocessors miserable and stuck up at work.
New recycling partnership initiative for Circular Economy
| The Circular Economy Accelerator wants to bring together forward-thinking companies to proactively pursue policy solutions to catalyze the circular economy for good.
Mobile scrap shear for Loacker Swiss Recycling
| Copex has just started a Reflex mobile scrap shear with a cutting force of 650 tons on a customer’s site at which the Swiss recycler, a subsidiary of the Austrian Loacker Group has won a major contract for the processing of railway material.
ChemRec Europe publishes position paper on chemical recycling
| In its first position paper, the newly founded association Chemical Recycling Europe addresses some of the most urgent topics that are affecting the chemical recycling of polymers in Europe today.
Winners of the Plastics Recycling Awards Europe announce
| The winners of the Plastics Recycling Awards Europe 2019 were announced today at the Plastics Recycling Show Europe, held at the RAI Amsterdam in The Netherlands.
FEAD: recycling targets ambitious, but achievable
| In an interview with Mr. Jean-Marc Boursier, president of FEAD, and Group Senior Executive VP in charge of Finance and Northern Europe Recycling & Recovery activities at SUEZ, FEAD explores how he thinks recycling targets can be achieved.
Nestlé wins Design for Recycling Award
| According to ISRI, Nestlé Pure Life bottle is the only major nationally distributed bottled water
made using 100 percent recycled plastic.
Recycled carbon fuels puts circular economy at stake
| Member States´ rush to regulate ¨Recycled Carbon Fuels¨ within the transposition of the Renewable Energy Directive risks undermining their efforts towards climate change mitigation and the circular economy, warn Zero Waste Europe and Bellona with a joint briefing launched today.
Breakthrough in chemical recycling of polystyrene
| Styrenics producer Ineos Styrolution has announced today that it has completed the first successful test runs producing virgin polystyrene from previously depolymerised material.
Plans for UK’s first fully electric refuse fleet
| The City of London Corporation has awarded a new tech-driven waste collection, street cleansing and ancillary services contract to Veolia – with services beginning April 6.
Engineering plastics: a growing recycling market
| Plastics Recyclers Europe has published the strategy paper on the state of play of the technical plastic parts recycling.
BIR: New chairman for Plastics Committee
| BIR President Ranjit Baxi has appointed Henk Alssema, Chairman of Vita Plastics in the Netherlands, as new Chairman of the BIR Plastics Committee.
EERA: High energy batteries pose serious fire ristk to recyclers
| EERA (European Electronics Recyclers Association) calls on all stakeholders to implement ADR rules for the safe collection and transport of WEEE including batteries.
Five chemical recycling plants for Indonesia
| Plastic Energy Limited, has reached an agreement with the province of West Java (Indonesia) to build five chemical recycling plants.
New president for BIR Textiles Division
| The board of the BIR Textiles Division has appointed Martin Böschen as new divisional President.
