Market

In Finland, the market for waste products is turning upside down.

Renewcell has produced its first fiber material with the ADuro textile fiber preparation system from Andritz at its new site in Sundsvall, Sweden.

Aluminium beverage can recycling achieved a record level of 510,000 tonnes, saving 4.2 million tonnes of CO2eq.

Interview with Stephane Burban, trader copper and precious metals recycling, Glencore.

Stadler has designed the facility to automatically sort light plastic packaging and Limex, a limestone-based material developed and produced by TBM.

According to Eurostat, in 2021, the EU’s circular material use rate reached 11.7%. 

RecyOuest, France, has started up the world’s first recycling line for agricultural plastic waste nets at its mill in Argentan.

The Commission welcomes the provisional agreement between the European Parliament and the Council to make batteries more sustainable, circular and safe.

The new UK Household Plastic Packaging Collection Survey report by Recoup says that 750,000 tonnes of post-consumer plastic packaging are not currently collected for recycling.

Keycycle, a subsidiary of the Erema Group, has worked together for two years with the Spanish company Cadel Deinking to further develop the process of removing printing inks from the surface of plastic.

The Argentinian plant, with a surface area of more than 22,000 m2, features the latest generation of Tomra equipment.