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ISRI announced the recent hiring of Scott Wiggins as vice president of environmental, health & safety.
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Recycled Elastomers Market size will surpass USD 6 billion by 2025; according to a new research report by Global Market Insights, Inc.
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Following the European Parliament’s plenary session on September 13, FEAD, the European Federation representing the European waste management industry, welcomes the positive vote on the draft own-initiative report on a European strategy for plastics in a circular economy by rapporteur MEP Mark Demesmaeker.
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Incentives to collect marine litter at sea, new EU-wide standards and definitions for biodegradability and compostability, and a complete EU ban on oxo-degradable plastic by 2020 are among the proposals set out in the non-binding draft resolution, adopted on Thursday with 597 votes to 15 and 25 abstentions.
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Andritz has received an order from Saker to supply a Universal Rotary Shear UC and a Universal Granulator UG to their recycling plant in Zilina, Slovakia. Start-up for the new equipment is scheduled for December 2018.
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This morning a fire broke out at a scrubber installation (gas cleaning unit) in Umicore’s Precious Metals Refining operations in Hoboken, Belgium. The local fire department attended immediately on site …
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Clearly Clean Officially Launches World’s Only Patented 100% Recyclable, Smooth-Edge Overwrap Tray for Food Packaging
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Herbold Meckesheim GmbH was hit by a devastating fire during the night to Monday 10/09/2018. Affected are the central warehouse and the shipping department. The damage is estimated to run into the millions. The office space, the test centre and the production halls are not affected. The production will continue with certain restrictions and compensated by existing structures. The company together with the insurance company has already started the repair work. Herbold will try to avoid serious delivery bottlenecks. The low in-house production depth and a high quantity of supplies from subcontractors will enable a quick restart of machine and spare parts deliveries as soon as logistics have been put back on track. Luckily, there were no casualties.
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Fact.MR published a market research report. It has a detailed analysis of the past outcomes of the market, and opportunity assessment of the year 2018-2028.
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Setting minimum targets for recycled content in food packaging could lead to overall less efficient use of resources if material types and their applications are not carefully considered, cautions Richard McKinlay, Axion.
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After almost four years of development, Mondi and Werner & Mertz will introduce a new, patented innovation in 2019: a 100-percent recyclable pouch with detachable decorative panels. The pouch replaces conventional flexible packaging for Frosch products. The pioneering design overcomes many shortcomings of the recycling process and is the result of a joint effort by Werner & Mertz, Mondi, EPEA Switzerland, Der Grüne Punkt and Institut cyclos-HTP.
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RecyClass released a procedure to assess the recyclability of plastics film in Europe with an aim of increasing circularity of packaging.
