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Waste management company WCRS Ltd has welcomed the Government’s consultation on a bottle and can return scheme, which could see consumers paying a deposit in a bid to cut waste and boost recycling.

On 26 March 2018, the EWWR Awards Jury met in Brussels to select the finalists and winners of the EWWR 2017 Awards. The most outstanding actions about waste reduction will be rewarded during the 9th EWWR Awards Ceremony.

Küttner and Martin pool their expertise in the thermal treatment of sewage sludge to take on the global market.

World crude steel production for the 64 countries reporting to the World Steel Association (worldsteel) was 131.8 million tonnes (Mt) in February 2018, a 3.5% increase compared to February 2017.

For the past three years an ERF 200 filter built by Ettlinger of Königsbrunn (Bavaria, Germany), installed at Candi Plastic Recycling, an Austrian materials recycler, has been producing high quality regrind nonstop from contaminated plastic waste with high aluminum or paper fractions.

The topic of electric mobility is having a major impact – not only on the automotive industry, but on the automotive recycling industry, too. This fact was made abundantly clear at the International Automobile Recycling Congress IARC 2018

After disposable coffee cups and plastic bottles, pouches could be the next target in the waste reduction landscape, due to the difficulty of recycling these packs, says GlobalData.

The first-ever Global Recycling Day has finally arrived – cities across the globe are joining together to encourage people to think of recycling in a new way. The initiative from the Bureau for International Recycling (BIR) calls on the world to think “resource” not “waste” when it comes to recycling.

Official, and unofficial, celebrations are popping up across the world for the first ever Global Recycling Day.

In February, Soex, recycler of used textiles, has opened its new sorting centre in the United Arab Emirates.