Geminor upgrades waste processing technology at Hull hub
| Geminor has upgraded its British processing plant with a new RDF baling and wrapping production line.
EuRIC Textiles, FEAD & Decathlon urge effective EPR schemes in WFD revision
| EuRIC Textiles, FEAD & Decathlon have published a joint position paper calling for effective EPR schemes and a level playing field in the revised Waste Framework Directive (WFD) to strengthen Europe’s circular textile economy.
Revolutionising sustainable innovation from agricultural waste
| RAW Materials is a company focused on addressing one of the most pressing environmental challenges of our time: rice paddy stubble burning.
Valdeau’Mat’s wash plant drives forward the circular economy in the Lille region
| The urban quarry is set to divert up to 400,000 tonnes from landfill annually with the new CDE solution.
CIMPA project concludes with promising findings on multilayer plastic film recycling
| On 20 November, the EU-funded H2020 CIMPA project concluded its 3.5-year journey with a final event showcasing its innovative solutions for recycling multilayer plastic films from packaging and agricultural applications.
Grupo Ecological opts for Lindner recycling technology
| The Brazilian recycling company Grupo Ecological, based in Limeira, has two plastic recycling lines dedicated to processing challenging post-consumer and post-industrial plastics into high-quality regranulate.
Aimplas participates in the European BIO4EEB Project
| Buildings are responsible for about 40% of energy consumption and 36% of CO2 emissions in Europe.
Still fifty years to commercially scale pyrolysis technologies
| While the petrochemical industry touts chemical recycling as a solution to the plastic waste crisis, insiders acknowledge the technology won’t be commercially viable for another fifty years, a new paper reveals.
“Transparent” melting furnace increases production output and energy efficiency
| Speira’s new “transparent” melting furnace delivers more capacity, more recycling, precise insights and data collection in all process steps with 15 percent less energy.
Using worms to recycle used coffee grounds into fertiliser
| Veolia, working in partnership with Starbucks, has launched a new trial using worms to recycle coffee grounds and turn them into fertiliser, returning valuable resources to the food chain.
Circular steel for a low-carbon, competitive European steel industry
| EuRIC has published its position on the future of the European steel industry, calling for measures that promote the use of recycled steel to achieve both environmental and economic resilience.
Plastics Europe urges negotiators to reach ambitious agreement to end plastic pollution
| With the final scheduled Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC5) meeting due to begin in Busan, South Korea on Monday 25th November, negotiations on an internationally legally binding agreement to end plastics pollution by 2040 have reached a pivotal moment.
By-products as raw materials
| The biotech and material science company Bioweg transforms low-value waste from the food and agriculture industries, such as molasses and vegetable peelings, into high-value, bio-based ingredients
Falling EU competitiveness threatens circular plastics transition
| Plastics Europe’s latest data on the health of the European plastics system highlights a steeper-than-expected downturn in the production of plastics and, for the first time, in mechanically recycled plastics production in 2023 in Europe.
EU economy greenhouse gas emissions: -2.6% in Q2 2024
| In the second quarter of 2024, the EU economy greenhouse gas emissions were estimated at 790 million tonnes of CO2-equivalents (CO2-eq), a 2.6% decrease compared with the same quarter of 2023 (812 million tonnes of CO2-eq).
