| As part of the NextLap program, managed by the collaborative innovation consultancy Beta-i and promoted by the Portuguese management entity Valorpneu and the Danish-based recycler Genan, nine companies associated with the sector's value chain and five entrepreneurs have started to develop six projects focused on giving a second life to materials derived from the recycling of end-of-life tires and promoting a more circular market.

| The Circular Economy concept is an important element to reduce environmental impacts and raw material consumption. However, this concept alone, especially when it is reduced to recycling, will never be enough to achieve a sustainable society.

| The world is experiencing a profound energy transition. Industrial manufacturers across the globe are swapping combustion fuels for electricity in line with global ambitions to decarbonize energy supply and improve energy productivity.

| Shifting to a full circular clothing industry in the Netherlands won't just impact the environment—it can also bring employment benefits, boosting job creation by as much as 25%.

| With the title “Cosmic sustainability: the Universe is a Recycler”, BIR’s latest Keynote Address was delivered by Lucy Hawking - journalist, novelist, educator and, perhaps most famously, daughter of Stephen Hawking.

| In response to the EU’s zero-pollution ambition, FEAD has held an online debate on the role waste management can play in combining circular economy and zero-pollution objectives at EU level.

| Electronics recycling was in “a very complex environment” in which there was “an absolute need for a dramatic change”, commented Helmut Kolba of Germany-based Remondis Electrorecycling GmbH in hosting his first meeting of BIR’s E-Scrap Committee since becoming its Chairman.

| The European Green Deal can easily be considered as the European Commission’s main current project.

| The European Commission is considering changes to EU waste shipment regulations that could prove to be of “tremendous importance” and potentially highly damaging to export flows of many recycling materials, including ferrous and non-ferrous metals, recovered paper and plastics, the latest online meeting of the BIR’s International Environment Council (IEC) was warned yesterday by its Chairman, Olivier François of Galloo.

| The Amendment to the Biowaste Ordinance (BioAbfV) meets with a lot of criticism among experts and associations because they think the requirements are technically unfeasible.

| Taking example and several references from customers within the commercial waste and post-consumer package sectors, STEINERT will present the opportunities and challenges encountered when jointly developing an optimum sorting solution.

| The BIR today releases its 2020 Annual Report that highlights key recycling industry developments and data as well as the organization’s activities on behalf of its membership.

| Every year the average US consumer throws away 109kg of plastic, while their global counterparts may be a bit more responsible - on an average we’re looking at enough plastic to circle the world 40 times.

| In 2014, Indorama Ventures acquired the PET recycling Plant in Zapopan, Jal. (Mexico).

| With only a week for industry to respond to the consultation on Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for Packaging Waste, UK’s compliance scheme Valpak has released detailed modelling for a range of the proposed options.