Recycling
Partners in the Enval Ltd. plant aim to process 6,000 metric tons of flexible packaging in the plant's first year of operations.
A collaboration between Bausano, the Italy-based manufacturer and supplier of customised extrusion lines for plastics processing, and Wintech, a plastics machinery company producing, amongst other products, rotary injection moulding machines, has resulted in the development of a new solution for the processing and moulding of WEEE waste into new products.
ML Polyolefins, a major central and eastern European producer of polypropylene regranulate, and German distributor Brenntag have entered into a collaboration agreement that is said to be the first of its kind in the region.
While PRSE 2023 saw the return of many exhibitors who were participating for the second or third time, bolstering the hard core of veterans who had elected to support the event from the very first edition in 2017, there was also a multitude of new names.
A new report from Greenpeace USA claims that recycling increases the toxicity of plastics.
The Federal Trade Commission is hearing calls from some state governments and the EPA to limit the chasing arrows on plastic resin ID codes and take a skeptical view on green marketing for chemical recycling.
CCEP Ventures, the investment arm of Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) has announced that it is making a further investment in recycling start-up CuRe Technology, in Emmen, Netherlands.
According to the Federal Environment Agency, around 3.33 million tonnes of plastic waste were recycled or reused as raw materials in Germany in 2019. More than 38 per cent of this was polypropylene (PP).
This year, the 11th VinylPlus Sustainability Forum (VSF2023) held in Florence, Italy was attended by more than 160 delegates from 21 countries.
Veolia PET Germany has announced plans to close its PET recycling plant in Rostock, in the northeast of Germany, on 31 December 2023 as the rPET market in Europe continues to be characterised by uncertainty and volatility.
A joint project representing an investment of over €35 million in the development and construction of a new PET recycling plant in Olaine, Latvia has been announced.
Ambienta SGR SpA, a large asset manager in Europe that focuses on environmental sustainability, has acquired a majority stake in plastics recycling machinery specialist Previero N srl.
Wholly-owned BASF subsidiary trinamiX GmbH, a provider of mobile spectroscopy solutions and chemicals company BASF have teamed up with two other businesses to raise awareness about the value of recycling used materials into new products.
Amsterdam, 11 May 2023 - The second day of the Plastics Recycling Show Europe is traditionally marked by an event high point: the announcement of the winners of the annual Plastics Recycling Awards Europe.