The European Environment Agency (EEA) recently published a briefing on EU trends on exports of used textiles.
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Discarded textiles in Europe, including used clothing and footwear, are an increasing waste and export problem.
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A new PNNL-developed process produces fuel quickly at mild temperature, with few by-products.
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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.
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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.
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Scaling up good practices can boost sustainability of plastics
Plastics have many useful applications, but the global production and consumption trends of these materials are currently unsustainable.
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Redwave has launched the new sensor based Redwave CX Coin Sorter, a sorting system for recovering coins from industrial waste incineration (IWI) slag and automotive scrap.
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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.
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Neste, Uponor, Wastewise and Borealis have successfully produced cross-linked polyethylene (PEX) pipes using feedstock derived from chemically recycled post-industrial plastic waste from PEX pipe production.
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Vivianne Heijnen, Minister for the Environment in the Dutch Government, will be the keynote speaker at the Plastics Recycling Show Europe conference, which takes place on 10-11 May 2023 at the RAI Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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According to a European Environment Agency (EEA) assessment published today, from the eight most common recyclables, only aluminium, paper and glass have well-functioning secondary markets.
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