Plastics

Production of recycled plastic content is far from meeting demand, posing major industry challenges.

Sorema has announced that a new recycling plant for post-consumer PET bottles has been installed in the Democratic Republic of Congo at OK Plast factory, in cooperation with Starlinger.

Installed plastic recycling capacity has grown by 17% in 2021 in EU27+3, boosted by an estimated €1.75 billion investment.

T3 (EPZ) Limited, a member of Megh Group, ordered a Starlinger Recostar PET bottle-to-bottle recycling line for its new plant in Athi River, Kenya.

Shortlisted finalists in the Plastics Recycling Awards Europe 2023 were announced today in a livestream event.

A new PNNL-developed process produces fuel quickly at mild temperature, with few by-products.

The REMEDIES project, funded by the European Union with almost eight million euros, seeks to create a new sustainable model to curb the impact of microplastics in 8 Mediterranean areas, through the design of advanced systems to monitor, collect, recycle and transform the extracted waste into new products.

The ÑCostas Project will make it possible to reuse plastic material recovered from the sea and waste from the aquaculture industry to make walkways and platforms for fish farms, port protection products, flotation tubes, and nets and mesh for reinforcement, among other products.

Plastics have many useful applications, but the global production and consumption trends of these materials are currently unsustainable.

Istanbul-based Engin Grup has built up various group companies over the past decades that are active in the marketing and distribution of cosmetic and household products for Turkey and the Caucasus region.

The 4th Go Circular Business Summit will take place in Rotterdam on 19 and 20 April 2023, with the support of Braskem as leading partner and the Port of Rotterdam as site visit partner.