Plastics
How to ensure compliance with the Spanish Plastic Tax?
| Companies placing non-recycled, non-reusable plastic packaging onto the Spanish market must pay a tax outlined in the Spanish Law 7/2022.
Recycling of automotive shredder residues
| In the past, when recycling electronic waste, cars and many other “end-of-life products”, it was important to recover the valuable metal fractions as completely as possible.
Coperion Recycling Innovation Center is up and running
| In this high-tech test center for plastics recycling applications, every recycling process step – from material handling and feeding to extrusion, compounding, pelletizing, material postprocessing and deodorization – can be tested.
Petcore Europe announces new executive director
| Petcore Europe has announced that Roberto Bertaggia has been appointed as Executive Director as of 23rd November 2023. He replaces Martin Stephan, who previously served in the role.
EuRIC Textiles Event gathers over 130 participants
| On 21 November, EuRIC connected the knots in textiles, bringing together EU legislators, environment experts, leading industry figures and NGO representatives for an in-depth discussion on the challenges and opportunities in the EU’s textile landscape.
Parliament adopts revamped rules to reduce, reuse and recycle packaging
| On Wednesday, Parliament adopted its position on new EU-wide rules on packaging, to tackle constantly growing waste and boost reuse and recycling.
15 interventions for change
| Plastic waste remains one of the biggest global problems. In an attempt to solve it,
Chromasens SWIR Camera sorts recyclable plastics based on spectral properties
| Today, there is an urgent need for innovative techniques to increase plastic recycling.
Sufficiency instead of fast fashion
| Textiles remain one of the major problems when it comes to recycling, and not just from an environmental perspective.
The next step in plastics recycling at Site Zero
| Svensk Plaståtervinning celebrated the opening of Site Zero, a state-of-the-art plastic sorting plant in Motala, Sweden.
Doubling plastic recycling with Site Zero
| The world's biggest plant for sorting plastic packaging was inaugurated on the 15th of November, in Motala, Sweden.
Tomra presents new Innosort Flake
| Its enhanced features enable simultaneous flake sorting by polymer, colour and transparency, achieving unmatched quality even from highly contaminated inputs.
High-purity rPET for new bottles
| Croatia’s accession to the European Union has also given a significant boost to the topic of recycling, among other things.
Green claims on PET beverage bottles likely to be misleading
| 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.
