| Clearly Clean Officially Launches World’s Only Patented 100% Recyclable, Smooth-Edge Overwrap Tray for Food Packaging

| Fact.MR published a market research report. It has a detailed analysis of the past outcomes of the market, and opportunity assessment of the year 2018-2028.

| Setting minimum targets for recycled content in food packaging could lead to overall less efficient use of resources if material types and their applications are not carefully considered, cautions Richard McKinlay, Axion.

| RecyClass released a procedure to assess the recyclability of plastics film in Europe with an aim of increasing circularity of packaging.

| Plastics Recyclers Annual Meeting will take place on 11 & 12 October 2018 in Cascais, Portugal. The event will feature PRE Working Group meetings (reserved to members) during the first day and the main conference (open to public) on second day.

| BIR and UNIDO up their efforts to have Global Recycling Day recognized as an official United Nations day.

| New layer of advanced detection revolutionizes NIR optical sorting.

| The italian company presents its first semitrailer in steel, with horizontal unloading system.

| Resource recovery experts Axion has joined forces with two other partners in a major initiative aimed at reusing and recycling the growing volume of batteries used in electric vehicles and light automotive applications.

| Ocean Polymers has announced that the Company has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”) with an undisclosed Saudi Arabian conglomerate which is a leading corporation within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia pursuant to which the Company intends to cooperate in the fields of new and renewable energy technologies such as, but not restricted to, waste-to-energy and efficient energy technologies.

| Dr.Ir Alain Vassart, General Secretary of the European Battery Recycling Association EBRA, will be a panel member at this year’s ICBR. He has already given some advance insights into how he assesses the current market situation.

| AMCS, a global supplier of integrated software and vehicle technology for the waste, recycling and logistical industries, has announced a new 5- year contract with Franzefoss, one of Norway’s largest waste management companies.

| So far this year, the development of business activity in the German aluminium sector has been mainly positive, says the German association of the aluminium industry (GDA).

| Pack2Go Europe has officially complained to the European Ombudsman, Emily O’Reilly, about the way the Commission prepared the EU Plastic Strategy (released 16 January 2018) and then drafted the proposal for a Directive on single use plastic items (released 28 May 2018).

| We spoke to Deepesh Patel at Trade Finance Global about the growth of trade finance in the recycling industry.