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The focus on finding solutions to solve the growing issue of textile waste is growing at both European and global level.

An alliance of companies and associations from the plastics, packaging, consumer goods and recycling industries, has called on the European Commission to urgently implement existing as well as introduce legal mechanisms to control and certify imports of recycled plastics.

FEAD has announced that ARI, a Danish organization representing 13 private waste management companies, has officially joined the association.

Through its subsidiary Remex Minerals Singapore Pte. Ltd., 51 % of the shares in Singapore-based NEO Hardware Pte. Ltd. have now been acquired as part of a share deal. The transaction will take retroactive economic effect from November 1, 2023.

The plastic value chain is hit by a strong recession caused by persisting issues such as increased imports of non-EU recycled plastics, reduced investments in domestic raw materials production and recycling, as well as a lack of demand for EU-virgin and recycled plastics.

EuRIC’s Ship Recycling Group (ESRG) has published a manifesto calling for measures to strengthen the EU’s ship recycling sector, ensuring that more vessels are recycled within the EU in compliance with stringent environmental and safety standards, rather than being exported to third countries whose facilities do not meet similar criteria.

European Bioplastics presented its 2024 edition of the market development update during the EBC24 in Berlin.

NTU researchers construct a model to find out how to make waste incineration more environmentally friendly.

A method to remove a toxic compound from electronic waste plastic could make recycling such plastics safer.

Bakcycle Recycling successfully produces high-quality granules from post-consumer LDPE packaging waste using Tomra’s sensor-based sorting technologies.

FEAD hosted its conference on ‘Circular Economy Priorities’, which united key stakeholders, policymakers, and industry leaders to address the potential and challenges of the EU waste management sector.

Ambitious recycled plastic content targets are essential to increase the circularity of the automotive sector by bridging design and end-of-life vehicle treatment and driving demand for circular and low-carbon materials.