Plastics

Veolia’s digital recycling solution Recapp has launched a new recycling deposit initiative and rewards scheme for implementing reverse vending machines (RVMs) and smart deposit machines (RSDMs) in the UAE.

Tomra and Plastretur, the Norwegian producer responsibility organization responsible for recycling plastic packaging, plan to invest in the construction of a joint sorting plant for plastics in Norway.

Packaging manufacturer Coveris has opened a new ReCover plant, located at Coveris’ site in Louth, Lincolnshire (UK), that uses ground-breaking technology to recycle printed polyethylene (PE) films.

With the introduction of Trinamix Mobile NIR Spectroscopy Solution at first sorting centres in the Netherlands, Boer Group wants to further enhance the efficiency of identifying and sorting textile material streams.

Sorema has announced the achievement of all qualitative and quantitative parameters at the start-up of the PET post-consumer bottle washing and recycling plant at Commercial Plastics in Yangon, Myanmar (Burma).

Rubber recycling from tyres had been rendered difficult in the past because of competition from virgin, but technological advances now meant that “the momentum is really changing”, insisted BIR Tyres & Rubber Committee Chairman Max Craipeau (Greencore) in his introductory remarks in Amsterdam on May 24.

Regulation is required not only to create stability in supply and demand for recycled raw materials but also to assist the further development of the recycling industry, insisted BIR Plastics Committee Chairman Henk Alssema (Vita Plastics) in Amsterdam on May 24.

Some 73% of used textiles are still destined for energy recovery or for landfilling, whereas only 1% are recycled in a closed loop.

The Plastics Recycling Show Europe (PRSE) 2023 exhibition and conference, held recently in Amsterdam, attracted a record number of visitors and exhibitors from across Europe and more than 80 different countries internationally.

The European Topic Centre on Circular Economy and Resource Use (ETC CE) has investigated the quantity of used textiles exported from the EU.

The RECICAUTXU Project will promote the circular economy by reusing rubber waste from end-of-life tyres to make new industrial products.