| The three plastics industry organisations EuPC, PRE and PE have launched a new Polyolefin Circular Economy Platform (PCEP) through which the industry calls on all actors to join them in driving towards this goal and play their part.

| SCS Engineer’s Michelle Leonard has been appointed to Federal Environmental Technologies Trade Advisory Committee to serve through the term of the Committee’s current charter which expires on August 18, 2018.

| An E-Trash Transparency Project report from Basel Action Network (BAN) that GPS-tracked 200 electronic waste products cites a printer that was exported from the United States and disposed of at a non-certified facility in New Territories, Hong Kong. In this report, Good Point Recycling, a US-based electronics recycler, claims this device was provided to Li Tong Group for processing through its downstream partner, ARCOA Group.

| In Venice, the Italian waste management company Ecoprogetto Venezia SRL shreds waste wood and green cuttings using a mobile Lindner Urraco 75 powerline two-shaft shredder. The waste wood is subsequently converted into wood panels and the waste green into compost.

| In order for plastic waste to be reintroduced into the production cycle it is often necessary, that it is cleaned before further processing. For this purpose Pallmann offers the mechanical dryer PMD 9-30. It is used for the mechanical dewatering of thin-walled plastic particles with a particle size between 6 and 30 mm.

| The Erema subsidiary Umac, the specialist for used recycling systems and components, was represented for the first time at this year's K.

| At K, size-reduction specialist Rapid Granulator has introduced the Raptor series, a new family of shredders for plastics.

| As the demand for plastic sorting solutions continues to soar, Buhler Sortex and US-based National Recovery Technologies (NRT) are entering a strategic commercial agreement to offer plastics recyclers a complete solution for plastic bottle and flake sorting.

| Film edge trimmings occur during the production of HDPE- and LDPE film which, in extruded form, can be directly reintroduced into the production cycle. The Pallmann Recycling Extruder ECO 70 is mainly used for processing this type of waste. The film material can be fed into the machine either as endless edge trimmings, as bales or as tangled film.

| Revenues were up 7% compared to the third quarter last year, reflecting solid growth across the business groups.

| Coupled with its X-TRACT, Tomra Sorting will launch its LIBS technology, at ALUMINIUM 2016, in Düsseldorf, Germany, between 29 November and 01 December, 2016.

| According to preliminary ICSG data, the refined copper market for July 2016 showed an apparent production surplus of around 133,000 metric tonnes (t) mainly due to weaker Chinese apparent refined copper demand.

| World crude steel production for the 66 countries reporting to the World Steel Association (Worldsteel) was 132.9 million tonnes (Mt) in September 2016, 2.0% up on September 2015.

| The paper recycling rate in Europe reached 71.5% as announced by the European Recovered Paper Council (ERPC) in their final monitoring report for 2015. Compared to 2010, collection and recycling has increased by almost one million tonnes of paper.

| The two systems will capture recyclables and produce refuse derived fuel.