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.
IARC 2019: A lot to talk about
| During this year's International Automobile Recycling Congress (IARC) , some 220 experts from 24 countries came together to discuss the latest trends in the world of automobile recycling.
Parliament seals ban on throwaway plastics by 2021
| On Wednesday, Parliament approved a new law banning single-use plastic items such as plates, cutlery, straws and cotton buds sticks.
FEAD Issues position paper on ecodesign
| One of the key factors in the transition to a circular economy lies in “ecodesign”.
EP votes to help Europe’s most needy regions go circular
| Yesterday the European Parliament’s plenary voted to boost the transition to the circular economy in Europe’s most needy regions, with a landmark decision on the main EU’s investment policy, the Cohesion Fund.
Cheating the Indian tax system
| The increasing number of fraud cases of bogus bills being unearthed by Goods and Services Tax (GST) Department within 2 years of introduction of the tax reform regime in India, indicate that it could only be the tip of the iceberg.
