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Starlinger: Bottle-to-bottle plant for Turkey
| The food-grade PET recycling system will be supplied to rPET flake producer Başatlı in April 2022.
Denmark’s first autonomous robot sorting plant for C&D and C&I waste
| Danish environmental services company Solum A/S will open one of Scandinavia's most modern and advanced sorting plants based on AI and robotic technologies by ZenRobotics.
New Waste Shipment Regulation brings radical changes to international waste management
| The proposal for a new Waste Shipment Regulation (WSR), which was recently published by the EU Commission, puts tougher requirements on the transfrontier shipment of waste.
Aluminium beverage can recycling remains at a high 76% in 2019
| A new report by Metal Packaging Europe and European Aluminium shows that the overall recycling rate for aluminium beverage cans in the European Union, Switzerland, Norway and Iceland remained stable in 2019 at 76% (75.8%).
Erema: Large-scale recycling plant with 40,000 tonnes capacity
| As the demand for recycled plastics grows, so does the size of the machines. This applies to the processing of polyolefins as well as to PET recycling.
Clear opportunities to decouple Europe’s waste generation from economic
| In most European countries and in the EU as a whole, waste generation is growing but at a slower pace than the economy. However, there are no signs that the overall objective of reducing the total generation of waste is close to being achieved, according to a European Environment Agency report published.
Lindner part of world’s largest energy from waste facility
| Lindner has been chosen by the Swiss waste-to-energy technology firm Hitachi Zosen Inova, its joint venture partner, the BESIX Group, and the Dubai Municipality for bulk shredding at the world’s largest energy-from-waste
plant. The facility is currently being built in Warsan, Dubai.
Stadler: New sorting plants in Asti and Parma
| Stadler was commissioned by G.A.I.A. Spa and Iren Ambiente to design and build new recycling plants in Asti and Parma.
From PET bottles straight to food contact grade r-PET packaging
| In summer 2021, Erema in collaboration with AMUT has finalized the installation and commissioning of ALTO packaging´s first extrusion line for food grade PET sheets in New Zealand market.
Export of German plastic waste to Vietnam has been blocked
| Waste shipment authorities and COSCO shipping lines responded swiftly to a letter sent to them in the Greek port of Piraeus, early this morning by the Basel Action Network (BAN) as part of a coalition effort to prevent European wastes from being exported.
Regulatory issues in chemical recycling of end-of-life tires
| Weibold Academy article series discusses periodically the practical developments and scientific research findings in the end-of-life tire (ELT) recycling and pyrolysis industry.
Mixed waste sorting changing the game
| Tomra and a Norwegian waste sorting plant have demonstrated that mixed waste sorting prior to disposal is a superior solution to separate collection.
Axion: Plastic recycling does work
| Recycling end-of-life plastic is still the best route for recovering this versatile and long-life material, according to resource recovery specialist Axion.
Test of first modular CO2-capture service
| A full-scale carbon capture facility will shortly be assembled at the district heating plant of Rakkestad in Eastern Norway.
