| BariQ for Techno and Advanced Industries celebrates the signing for constructing a new PET bottle-to-bottle recycling plant that will feature the latest plastic sorting systems from Tomra Recycling in Giza Governorate, Egypt.

| In the third quarter of 2021, EU economy greenhouse gas emissions totalled 881 million tonnes of CO2-equivalents (CO2-eq) which is slightly below pre-pandemic levels.

| The European Recycling Industries’ Confederation (Euric) endorses the ambitious measures adopted by the ENVI Committee of the European Parliament which will govern the entire battery life cycle.

| The Recyclability Evaluation Protocol for Polystyrene (PS) Containers is destined for companies who want to assess if their rigid PS packaging, like pots destined for yogurt and other types of food and beverage products.

| In 2020, the amount of municipal waste generated per person in the EU amounted to 505 kg, 4 kg per person more than in 2019 and 38 kg more than in 1995.

| A traditional family-owned company proves that data-driven sorting increases throughput, improves product quality, and boosts profitability

| PreScouter, a Chicago-based research intelligence company, has compiled a new Intelligence Brief that looks at the potential impact of recycling thermosets on reducing fossil-based plastic waste.

| After weeks of negotiation, he European Parliament ENVI Committee has voted on a series of compromise amendments regarding the new Regulation on batteries.

| The University of Birmingham has licensed the rights to a ‘supercritical water’ technology to Stopford, to develop a novel process for recycling mixed plastic packaging, that delivers a greater proportion of high value recycled plastic with less emissions, fewer processing steps than current recycling methods, and no solvent residues.

| Textile consumption in Europe has on average the fourth highest impacts on the environment and climate, following consumption of food, housing and mobility.

| Manchester-based UBU Environmental has outlined its plans to achieve 100% landfill diversion from its incoming road sweepings and inert gully waste with the support of CDE technology.

| RecycleMe GmbH successfully established its brand in Germany last year and expanded to Austria only a few months later, the international management consultancy will now also operate from its Slovakian location in Bratislava.

| With funding from CaixaBank and the Bancaja Foundation, Aimplas has completed a project to recover end-of-life fishing nets and other marine litter to manufacture furniture made of 100% recycled plastic.

| The European Green Deal acknowledges the crucial role of taxation in Europe’s sustainability transition.

| Film and flexible packaging are excellent products from a performance point of view, which accounts for their stubbornly extensive use, but they present a difficult end-of-life issue.