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Geminor has upgraded its British processing plant with a new RDF baling and wrapping production line.

EuRIC Textiles, FEAD & Decathlon have published a joint position paper calling for effective EPR schemes and a level playing field in the revised Waste Framework Directive (WFD) to strengthen Europe’s circular textile economy.

RAW Materials is a company focused on addressing one of the most pressing environmental challenges of our time: rice paddy stubble burning.

The urban quarry is set to divert up to 400,000 tonnes from landfill annually with the new CDE solution.

On 20 November, the EU-funded H2020 CIMPA project concluded its 3.5-year journey with a final event showcasing its innovative solutions for recycling multilayer plastic films from packaging and agricultural applications.

The Brazilian recycling company Grupo Ecological, based in Limeira, has two plastic recycling lines dedicated to processing challenging post-consumer and post-industrial plastics into high-quality regranulate.

Buildings are responsible for about 40% of energy consumption and 36% of CO2 emissions in Europe.

While the petrochemical industry touts chemical recycling as a solution to the plastic waste crisis, insiders acknowledge the technology won’t be commercially viable for another fifty years, a new paper reveals.

Speira’s new “transparent” melting furnace delivers more capacity, more recycling, precise insights and data collection in all process steps with 15 percent less energy. 

Veolia, working in partnership with Starbucks, has launched a new trial using worms to recycle coffee grounds and turn them into fertiliser, returning valuable resources to the food chain.

EuRIC has published its position on the future of the European steel industry, calling for measures that promote the use of recycled steel to achieve both environmental and economic resilience.

With the final scheduled Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC5) meeting due to begin in Busan, South Korea on Monday 25th November, negotiations on an internationally legally binding agreement to end plastics pollution by 2040 have reached a pivotal moment.