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The WEEE Forum, which represents e-waste Producer Responsibility Organisations throughout the world, is continuing to grow its global membership with the recent addition of new members from Colombia, South Africa, Spain and Lithuania.

Interview with Chris Davy, the owner of UK recycling company Envirocraft.

The project, led by Dubai Municipality, consists of a Waste-to-Energy plant, located at the former Warsan landfill site.

ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability is launching the ICLEI Circulars platform, which works across regions to facilitate the circular economy transition at the local level.

The UK’s largest packaging compliance scheme, Valpak, has welcomed the opening of the government consultation on packaging extended producer responsibility and deposit return schemes, calling it a once in a generation chance to create a system designed for the world we live in today.

Lindner’s new 1500 model from the Micromat series was delivered to Chilean plastics recycler and circular economy pioneer Comberplast at the beginning of last year and has been successfully shredding old fishing nets and ropes collected from the Patagonian coasts for the past year.

The Hampshire based Collard Group Ltd has procured 3 new Kiverco recycling plants for their depots in Nursling (Hampshire), Chilton (Oxfordshire), and Ewshot (Surrey).

India-based social enterprise, Plastics For Change has become one of the first companies in the world to be certified by the OBP certification.

Governments are beginning to react to recent warnings issued by the Basel Action Network (BAN) of likely illegal exports of plastic waste from the US.

For a whole two weeks, the waste disposal company of the city of Ulm (EBU) was in continuous operation with the Q-Econic, a fully electric waste collection vehicle from the e-mobility specialist Quantron AG.

The industry calls for Digital DRS to be included in the Deposit Return Scheme.