Science & technology

Project turns marine litter into furniture for the Marina of Valencia

| With funding from CaixaBank and the Bancaja Foundation, Aimplas has completed a project to recover end-of-life fishing nets and other marine litter to manufacture furniture made of 100% recycled plastic.

Film and flexible packaging recycling

| Film and flexible packaging are excellent products from a performance point of view, which accounts for their stubbornly extensive use, but they present a difficult end-of-life issue.
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Tomra Recycling with dedicated team for wood recycling segment

| Advancing the recycling industry with its state-of-the-art sensor-based sorting technologies and well-established partnerships with manufacturers of wood-based panels, TOMRA again taps into new opportunities by maximizing the use and recycling of waste wood.

Global e-scrap scene reunites in Salzburg

| The electronics recycling community, which was unable to meet last year, returned to its traditional venue in Salzburg on 18-21 January for its annual congress.
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Incinerator research finds environment contaminated with highly toxic substances

| New research published today by Zero Waste Europe (ZWE) about incinerators in three countries - Spain, Czechia, and Lithuania - finds a high level of contamination in the vicinity of incinerators, posing a significant risk to the environment and to the health of people living nearby.

CO2 reduction potential by the European Waste Management Sector

| In a joint study, FEAD; CEWEP; the RDF Industry Group; and the Dutch Waste Management Association (DWMA), publish their findings for the potential for CO2 reductions within the waste management sector.

RecyClass recycled plastics traceability certification ready for accreditation

| The RecyClass Conformity Assessment Scheme has been positively evaluated by the European co-operation for Accreditation

Recycled phosphorus effective as a feed phosphate

| A collaborative project to test the usage of recycled phosphorus produced by EasyMining’s Ash2Phos process has successfully shown that the phosphorus recovered from incinerated sewage sludge works as a feed phosphate for livestock.

EU ETS emissions continued to decline during the Covid-19 pandemic

| Under current and planned measures, EU Member States project that ETS emissions will continue to decrease in the coming decades albeit at a slower pace than historically, according to the latest annual European Environment Agency (EEA) briefing 'Trends and projections in the EU ETS'.

Starlinger: Bottle-to-bottle plant for Turkey

| The food-grade PET recycling system will be supplied to rPET flake producer Başatlı in April 2022.

APK presents fully decolourised plastic recyclates

| According to the company, their newcycling technology has proven to succesfully recycle household plastic waste on an industrial scale and that all goals for scaling and decolourisation were achieved.

Waste-to-Hydrogen valid tool to help decarbonise the EU industry

| ESWET expresses its support to the draft gas package presented within the second batch of the “Fit for 55 package”, since it recognises the important decarbonisation potential of low-carbon hydrogen which can be generated by Waste-to-Hydrogen technologies.

Erema: Large-scale recycling plant with 40,000 tonnes capacity

| As the demand for recycled plastics grows, so does the size of the machines. This applies to the processing of polyolefins as well as to PET recycling.

Lindner part of world’s largest energy from waste facility

| Lindner has been chosen by the Swiss waste-to-energy technology firm Hitachi Zosen Inova, its joint venture partner, the BESIX Group, and the Dubai Municipality for bulk shredding at the world’s largest energy-from-waste plant. The facility is currently being built in Warsan, Dubai.
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