| Tomra, a global provider of collection and sorting systems, celebrates its 50th anniversary.

| Globally, 360 million tons of plastic are produced annually - 40% is consumed by the food packaging sector and 3.5% by agriculture; just over 30% of the plastic waste generated in the EU is recycled, the rest is incinerated, landfilled, or released into the environment.

| The quickest and most cost-effective action which governments can take to cut methane emissions and deliver on the Global Methane Pledge are set out in a new report released by environmental groups.

| The biggest pandemic in modern times is barely over when Europe experiences a new crisis. The conflict in Ukraine poses challenges for the waste and recycling industry in several areas.

| The “New proposals to make sustainable products the norm and boost Europe's resource independence”, stemming from the European Green Deal and presented by the European Commission today, contain a set of promising initiatives to save resources, advance the implementation of the waste hierarchy whilst taking into account social impacts.

| Several associations representing both public and private operators of the entire waste management value chain ask for the inclusion of Waste-to-Energy in the taxonomy. They propose criteria under which this inclusion is possible, in line with the Taxonomy Regulation.

| Euric welcomes the Circular Economy Package that was published by the European Commission on 30 March and aims at making products more sustainable in the European Union.

| The package is a fundamental step forward but still lacks teeth to make sustainable products the norm, the EEB warns.

| Today, the Commission has proposed to update the EU consumer rules to empower consumers for the green transition.

| The Commission is presenting today a package of European Green Deal proposals to make sustainable products the norm in the EU, boost circular business models and empower consumers for the green transition.

| Environmental services provider PreZero is driven by the ultimate goal of reducing the consumption of natural resources in a world where they are no longer wasted through closed loops.

| Proceeding on the target of commercializing chemical recycling of waste plastic, Neste is conducting a feasibility study to examine investing in capacity for processing liquefied waste plastic at its refinery in Porvoo, Finland.

| Joseph Doherty, Managing Director at Re-Gen Waste and Committee Member of Defra’s Advisory Committee on Packaging, says that the proposed plastic packaging tax has not gone far enough.

| A new report commissioned by the European Environmental Bureau says that only a radical rethink of its economic model can curb the fashion industry’s sustainability problem.

| Mattia Pellegrini, Head of Unit, Directorate-General for Environment at the European Commission is to be the keynote speaker at the Plastics Recycling Show Europe’s conference, taking place at RAI Amsterdam, the Netherlands on 22-23 June 2022.