Philips PDS helping hotels reduce e-waste
| Philips Professional Display Solutions is offering a complimentary Android (P) upgrade across its range of HFL5014 and 6014 Google-certified MediaSuite hospitality TVs, helping hotels and hospitals (among others), to reduce their e-waste, by extending the lifetime of their existing products.
Sustainable watches from Joago
| Joago produces sustainable watches by incorporating solar technology, sustainable materials, and providing circular economic initiatives such as the retrieval of 1 lb of ocean waste per purchase.
Results of updated PackFlow materials reports announced
| Packaging compliance specialist Valpak, together with WRAP and the Industry Council for Packaging and the Environment (INCPEN), has published updated PackFlow reports which estimate the impact of Covid-19 on UK packaging compliance for 2020 and through to 2022.
Crude steel production increases in September
| World crude steel production for the 64 countries reporting to the World Steel Association (Worldsteel) was 156.4 million tonnes (Mt) in September 2020, a 2.9% increase compared to September 2019.
ZWE: Keep Waste-To-Energy out of the the EU Taxonomy Regulation
| In a Statement published today, Zero Waste Europe welcomed the launch of the European Sustainable Finance Platform, and commended the European Union for driving the transition to a low carbon, more resource efficient and sustainable economy.
REstepIT launched to boost circular economy offer
| 3stepIT has announced the launch of REstepIT, a service that helps businesses recover monetary value from unused or obsolete IT assets, and reduce electronic waste (e-waste).
1,000th ballistic separator from Stadler
| The machine was purchased by Vaersa, a company providing waste management and remediation activities in the Valencia region, in Spain. The STT5000_6_1 ballistic separator was delivered to the Vaersa light packaging sorting plant in Castellón on September 28th, where it just started operation.
New polystyrene recycling project
| Ineos Styrolution has announced it will be contributing to the research project “Remove2Reclaim – Recycling of plastics and titanium dioxide via advanced dissolution and separation techniques for plastic additive removal”.
Excessive restrictions can obstruct path to increased circularity
| The growing volume of regulation surrounding e-scrap was creating the unintended consequence of erecting barriers to recycling, claimed several contributors to the BIR E-Scrap Committee webinar on October 16.
Stakes are high for recyclers in Basel Convention’s Annex IV review
| The webinar hosted by the BIR International Environment Council (IEC) on October 15 demonstrated once again the breadth of issues constantly appearing on the world recycling association’s radar.
NextLap seeks for innovation for end-of-life tire market
| A Portuguese used tire manager and a multinational recycler are looking for startups to create innovative projects that will reuse end-of-life tires and their components.
Michelin hails potential “game-changer” for end-of-life tyre market
| There was tangible excitement at the BIR Tyres & Rubber Committee webinar on October 15 following a guest presentation on the recycling of end-of-life tyres (ELTs) into secondary raw materials for tyres and other product applications.
Private waste management sector welcomes new EU Methane Strategy
| On Wednesday, 14 October, the European Commission adopted the new EU Methane Strategy, as part of the European Green Deal and the EU zero-pollution ambition.
Joint statement on the role of waste-to-energy in the EU Taxonomy
| Nine trade associations across various sectors published a joint-statement to positively consider Waste-to-Energy in the EU Taxonomy.
New rubber bitumen plant for recycling tire waste completed
| The rubber bitumen plant at MOL’s Zala Site, representing an investment of around USD 10 million has been completed.
