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Tomra Recycling, has launched Finder Color, a new high-throughput solution designed to meet the needs of the scrap metal recycling and e-scrap processing industries.
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Nextloopp has announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a Letter of No Objection (LNO) confirming that its proprietary recycling process for recycled polypropylene (rPP) meets the requirements for direct food contact.
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The European Parliament gave its final green light to new measures to prevent and reduce waste from food and textiles across the EU.
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A European consortium led by CIRCE has officially launched BIOS MATER, a Horizon Europe project co-funded by the Circular Bio-Based Europe Joint Undertaking and the European Union.
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PlasticsTechnologyVehicles
Dow and Gruppo Fiori develop recycling process for automotive polyurethane waste
Dow, in partnership with Gruppo Fiori, has announced the latest advancements in a jointly-developed, novel process that enables recovery of polyurethane waste from end-of-life vehicles without disassembly.
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Last week, MEPs adopted their proposals on new EU circularity rules to cover the entire vehicle lifecycle, from design to final end-of-life treatment.
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The recycled polyethylene terephthalate (R-PET) market has seen its least volatile year since pre-COVID times, with seasonal trends replacing the extreme spikes and troughs experienced in recent years.
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Plastics
Aimplas expands RecyClass recognition to cover the automotive and electrical-electronic sectors
Aimplas has expanded its RecyClass recognition to include its laboratories for evaluating the recyclability of plastic materials used in the automotive and electrical and electronic sectors.
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Commission President Ursula von der Leyen struck strong notes on unity, freedom, democracy and the rule of law in today’s State of the Union. But despite invoking “the power of the Green Deal” and the need to “stay on course”, her relentless deregulation drive serving mainly short-term industry interests exposes a hollow approach to the climate, nature and pollution crises.
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The European Parliament’s plenary vote on its position on the proposed End-of-Life Vehicles Regulation (ELVR) marks an important step in advancing the circularity of the automotive sector. However, FEAD warns that certain requirements risk undermining the Regulation’s ability to deliver on its objectives.
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PoliticsTextilesVehicles
EEB: Parliament votes on key waste and vehicle laws, but falls short of real solutions
Today the European Parliament voted on two crucial laws: one to tackle food and textile waste, and another to reduce the environmental footprint of vehicles from design to disposal.
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Every day, large quantities of post-consumer plastic waste are generated from packaging, household applications, and more. Despite the costly processing of this waste through sorting stations and wet washing, the output from these material flows often cannot be reused for high-quality applications due to remaining unpleasant and pungent odours in the granulate.
