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Gervasi Ecologica has designed its first semitrailer specifically to transport metal scrap up to 86 m3.

The strategy was announced as “a part of the transition towards a more circular economy”. According to the commission, it “will protect the environment from plastic pollution whilst fostering growth and innovation”.

While much of the media focus on China’s impending Plastic import ban is geared towards authorities, industry professionals, and recycling companies, it will inevitably have a consequence on all waste handlers further down the line, commercial and residential – according to a statement of Mick George Ltd.

In response to the publishing of the final Environmental Protection Control Standards for Imports of Solid Wastes as Raw Materials (GB 16487.2-13) – the quality standards for imported scrap by China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP), the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) has released the following statement.

In light of the preliminary agreement reached between the European Parliament and the Council on the Circular Economy Package in December 2017 CEWEP appeals to the Member States not to see landfill diversion as a burden, but as an opportunity to improve their waste management systems, with the support of the EU, and to divert waste that can be recycled and recovered from landfills as soon and as much as possible.

The new CarbonLITE recycling facility, located in Dallas – Texas, started operations in September 2017, as per the schedule.

The compounding industry continues to play a key role in the European plastics economy. The improving European economy and continued penetration of plastic components in sectors such as the automotive industry and domestic appliances has helped to drive growth and investment in the compounding industry.

Waste Cost Reduction Services (WCRS) Ltd views China’s announcement to ban a range of imported waste paper and plastic materials as an opportunity which over time will have a positive effect of increasing investment in the country’s recycling infrastructure.

The A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon improvement scheme recently marked its first anniversary, and great progress has been made to date, along the 21-mile route of this £1.5 billion Highways England scheme. Mick George Ltd has been contracted to complete a significant proportion of work on the project.

Tomra Sorting Recycling has announced its newest partnership with SKM Recycling (SKM), headquartered in Laverton North, Victoria, Australia.

Steinert Elektromagnetbau GmbH will be renamed Steinert GmbH on 20 December 2017.