Plastics

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.

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.  

Plastics Europe’s latest data on the health of the European plastics system highlights a steeper-than-expected downturn in the production of plastics and, for the first time, in mechanically recycled plastics production in 2023 in Europe.

There are just over 70 days to go before all EU countries must include 25% recycled content in polyethylene terephthalate (PET) beverage bottles, yet the market was described as being in ‘chaos’ due to huge levels of uncertainty around the single-use plastics directive.

The Cabka Group is a recycling company specialised in producing pallets and large containers made from recycled plastic.

The entry deadline for the Plastics Recycling Awards Europe 2025 has been extended until 18.00 CET, Monday 04 November 2024. The judging panel for the 2025 awards has also been announced.

The TARPAULIFE Project is looking for more sustainable recyclable materials to replace the PVC-coated polyester tarpaulins commonly used in lorries and coverings.

On October 23, the new factory of AS “ITERUM” (formerly “PET Baltija”) was opened in Latvia — one of the largest in Northern Europe with a planned processing capacity of 80,000 tons per year, or about 30% more than it was possible to provide at the company’s previous production facility in Jelgava.

In 2022, a total of 83.4 million tonnes of packaging waste was produced in the EU, or 186.5 kg per inhabitant.

Imagine you sold a product with no control over how much of it was produced at any one time; that you had to sell it within weeks of it being produced regardless of what the demand for it was like; and that the demand was constantly changing.

Nextloopp Americas appoints Marcio Amazonas as Vice President to lead the recycling initiative in the Americas