| The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) has announced the release of its sixth annual ISRI Scrap Yearbook, providing up-to-date information and statistics about the U.S. scrap industry and global scrap marketplace.

| Europe’s largest energy-from-waste plant for municipal solid waste is to be built in Istanbul. The turnkey contract, together with one-year operation has been awarded to the Swiss company Hitachi Zosen Inova together with its Turkish partner Makyol.

| At the plenary meeting of the BIR Plastics Committee on Monday, 16 October 2017 at 09.30 chaired by Mr Surendra Borad Patawari at the Taj Diplomatic Enclave Hotel, New Delhi, attendees of the Round-Table will have the opportunity to listen to representatives from two iconic Indian companies: Reliance Industries Ltd and Banyan Nation

| The 2017 model of Höcker Polytechnik’s PHSS shredders was constructed on a completely new basis and is now even more powerful and flexibly applicable.

| At its annual election, the federation has elected Paul De Bruycker, who represents CEWEP’s Belgian member, Belgian Waste-to-Energy (BW2E).

| In 2016, the European Union recycled 47 percent of all beverage cartons placed on the market, or some 430.000 tonnes, according to the latest industry figures gathered by ACE, the Alliance for Beverage Cartons and the Environment.

| The Recycling Industry Operating Standard (RIOS) recently announced the release of the RIOS:2016 Implementation Guide (RIG) which includes a new, more effective, easy to develop Footprint Tool.

| Greater Manchester-headquartered waste management machinery designer and manufacturer, Whitham Mills, has completed the installation of a fully-automatic baling system for Bradford Council following a competitive tender.

| The waste management and recycling company in North West England has purchased its 30th vehicle within its fleet.

| Consolidated sales in the first six months of 2017 came to €218.3 million, up 30% on the level posted in the same period of 2016, chiefly as a result of higher lead and zinc prices.

| ESWET welcomes the Commission’s initiative to create an EU Strategy on Plastics, but claims that in certain cases energy recovery is a better solution due to several recycling constraints.

| At the ICBR 2017, Professor Vera Susanne Rotter will provide a summary of the various materials that play a role in a circular economy and also take a more in-depth look at battery recycling in this context.

| At a seminar on 13 September 2017 in Brussels, the WEEE Forum and EucoLight, two European trade associations that speak for e-waste producer responsibility organisations, will facilitate a high-level debate around the compliance of online retail platforms with EU e-waste (WEEE) legislation and ways to address free-riding behaviour among online sellers.

| The Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced this afternoon her commitment to introduce a deposit in all beverage containers sold in Scotland, in an effort to cut down marine and street litter.

| MSS, Inc., the optical sorter division of CP Group, introduces MetalMiner, the next generation of induction-based true all-metal detectors.