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Biomethane facility scaled back to boost performance
| Since 2015, ZASE, the organisation in charge of managing wastewater in the Solothurn-Emme area, has been operating a gas treatment plant from Hitachi Zosen Inova (HZI) on the site of the wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) in Zuchwil.
Plastic contributes more emissions than aviation and shipping Industries
| A new report from plastic waste prevention startup CleanHub analyses how plastic and the surrounding industry directly contributes to climate change — finding that it produces more greenhouse gasses than the Aviation and Shipping industries.
Austria is preparing for Deposit Return System
| Austria will soon introduce the Deposit Return System (DRS) for single-use beverage containers, starting on January 1, 2025.
Five innovative future recycling strategies that could save our earth
| The climate crisis is becoming even more of a talking point among businesses and consumers, with recent data from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) showing that around 64% of adults in Great Britain have been worried about how climate change is impacting the planet.
Tanrıkulu enters PET bottle-to-bottle market
| The plastics recycling company based near Istanbul, Türkiye, commissioned its new Starlinger Recostar PET 215 iV+ bottle-to-bottle recycling system in the last quarter of 2023.
SA Recycling relies on Steinert sensor sorting technology
| SA Recycling processes 6 million metric tons of residential and commercial scrap metal every year at more than 140 sites.
EU exported 32 million tonnes of waste in 2022
| This was a slight decrease of 3% compared with 2021. Imports of waste from non-EU countries decreased by 5% since 2021, amounting to 18.7 million tonnes.
Efficient cable recycling at Loacker
| Loacker Recycling based in Wonfurt, Germany, is part of the Loacker Recycling GmbH family business headquartered in Götzis, Austria, and specialises in waste cable recycling.
Heraeus Precious Metals enters hydrogen business
| Heraeus Precious Metals has announced the establishment of a new dedicated Business Line, Hydrogen Systems, effective 1 January 2024.
Geminor launches new waste treatment company for the offshore industry
| Geminor and its partners are now establishing Risavika Gjenvinning, a company that will develop new technology solutions for the treatment and recovery of waste from the petroleum industry.
EU economy emissions in 2022: down 22% since 2008
| In 2022, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions generated by economic activities of EU resident units stood at 3.6 billion tonnes of CO2 equivalents (CO2-eq), indicating a 22% decrease compared with 2008.
Neste doubled the amount of waste plastic processed during 2023
| In its efforts to scale-up chemical recycling, Neste has successfully concluded another series of industrial-scale processing runs with increasing volumes of liquefied waste plastic at its refinery in Porvoo, Finland.
Geminor France sends first shipment of RDF to Germany
| Germinor’s first stream of Refuse-derived Fuel from France to Germany opened this month.
ICIS: Cautiously optimistic future for plastics circularity
| The circular economy has been one of the most powerful megatrends affecting the plastics industry over the last few years and is widely anticipated to keep building momentum in the future.
