Plastics

The world’s biggest plant for sorting plastic packaging was inaugurated on the 15th of November, in Motala, Sweden.

Its enhanced features enable simultaneous flake sorting by polymer, colour and transparency, achieving unmatched quality even from highly contaminated inputs.

Croatia’s accession to the European Union has also given a significant boost to the topic of recycling, among other things.

Circularity claims on PET beverage bottles such as ‘100% recyclable’ or ‘100% recycled’ are likely to be misleading consumers, according to a new report by ClientEarth, ECOS (Environmental Coalition on Standards), Eunomia Research & Consulting and Zero Waste Europe.

The fully automated sorting plant with a capacity of up to 260,000 tonnes per year is to be built in Walldürn.

In March 2023, Zeppelin Systems launched the Zeppelin Sustainable Tire Alliance to cooperate with international partners on shaping the future of tire production and tire recycling in a more environmentally friendly manner.

Lindner Washtech and Bulgarian plastics recycling company Vadias Recycling are looking back on a 10-year anniversary and, together with Erema, on a partnership that has lasted just as long.

Yesterday, the EU Parliament’s Environment Committee adopted a contradictory position that endangers packaging waste circularity and Europe’s recycling industry.

Alongside access to sufficient high-quality waste, legislation is the most commonly cited potential barrier to growth in the chemical recycling sector, particularly given the ongoing uncertainty over the acceptance of chemical recycling under EU legislative targets, and the EU’s approach to mass balance.

FEAD supports the adoption by the ENVI Committee of the position on the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation.

Today the European Parliament Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) voted on the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR).