| EuRIC has published its position on the future of the European steel industry, calling for measures that promote the use of recycled steel to achieve both environmental and economic resilience.
Using worms to recycle used coffee grounds into fertiliser
| Veolia, working in partnership with Starbucks, has launched a new trial using worms to recycle coffee grounds and turn them into fertiliser, returning valuable resources to the food chain.
Plastics Europe urges negotiators to reach ambitious agreement to end plastic...
| With the final scheduled Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC5) meeting due to begin in Busan, South Korea on Monday 25th November, negotiations on an internationally legally binding agreement to end plastics pollution by 2040 have reached a pivotal moment.
By-products as raw materials
| The biotech and material science company Bioweg transforms low-value waste from the food and agriculture industries, such as molasses and vegetable peelings, into high-value, bio-based ingredients
Falling EU competitiveness threatens circular plastics transition
| Plastics Europe’s latest data on the health of the European plastics system highlights a steeper-than-expected downturn in the production of plastics and, for the first time, in mechanically recycled plastics production in 2023 in Europe.
EU economy greenhouse gas emissions: -2.6% in Q2 2024
| In the second quarter of 2024, the EU economy greenhouse gas emissions were estimated at 790 million tonnes of CO2-equivalents (CO2-eq), a 2.6% decrease compared with the same quarter of 2023 (812 million tonnes of CO2-eq).
Circular construction and decarbonisation at the heart of EuRIC’s event at...
| At Ecomondo 2024 in Rimini, stakeholders from across the construction and recycling sectors gathered for an event organised by EuRIC, Anparand Ecomondo to discuss the road to circularity and decarbonisation in the construction industry.