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A new report from plastic waste prevention startup CleanHub analyses how plastic and the surrounding industry directly contributes to climate change — finding that it produces more greenhouse gasses than the Aviation and Shipping industries.

Austria will soon introduce the Deposit Return System (DRS) for single-use beverage containers, starting on January 1, 2025.

The climate crisis is becoming even more of a talking point among businesses and consumers, with recent data from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) showing that around 64% of adults in Great Britain have been worried about how climate change is impacting the planet. 

The plastics recycling company based near Istanbul, Türkiye, commissioned its new Starlinger Recostar PET 215 iV+ bottle-to-bottle recycling system in the last quarter of 2023.

SA Recycling processes 6 million metric tons of residential and commercial scrap metal every year at more than 140 sites.

This was a slight decrease of 3% compared with 2021. Imports of waste from non-EU countries decreased by 5% since 2021, amounting to 18.7 million tonnes.

Loacker Recycling based in Wonfurt, Germany, is part of the Loacker Recycling GmbH family business headquartered in Götzis, Austria, and specialises in waste cable recycling.

Heraeus Precious Metals has announced the establishment of a new dedicated Business Line, Hydrogen Systems, effective 1 January 2024.

Geminor and its partners are now establishing Risavika Gjenvinning, a company that will develop new technology solutions for the treatment and recovery of waste from the petroleum industry.

In 2022, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions generated by economic activities of EU resident units stood at 3.6 billion tonnes of CO2 equivalents (CO2-eq), indicating a 22% decrease compared with 2008.

In its efforts to scale-up chemical recycling, Neste has successfully concluded another series of industrial-scale processing runs with increasing volumes of liquefied waste plastic at its refinery in Porvoo, Finland.