Pollution, over-use and climate change threaten water resilience in Europe
| Pollution, habitat degradation, impacts of climate change, and the over-use of freshwater resources are putting pressure on Europe’s lakes, rivers, coastal waters and groundwaters like never before.
Understanding waste is the key to understanding recycling chain volatility
| Imagine you sold a product with no control over how much of it was produced at any one time; that you had to sell it within weeks of it being produced regardless of what the demand for it was like; and that the demand was constantly changing.
The undiscussed step In tire pyrolysis (ELT Preparation)
| For too long, end-of-life tires (ELTs) have been treated as trash and discarded.
Future of waste: What businesses should be expecting
| In the UK all four nations have its own devolved parliament with authority over its waste policy and regulation, also known as ‘Devolved Waste Regulations’.
New EAF for Saarstahl
| The SMS group was awarded a contract to supply one of the world’s strongest Alternate Current-Electric Arc Furnaces (AC-EAF) and its auxiliaries to Saarstahl in Völklingen, Germany.
Sustainability of Europe’s mobility systems
| According to a report by the European Environment Agency (EEA), published today, the transport sector’s transition towards sustainability is made difficult by the increasing...
Stop trashing electronic products with ordinary garbage
| To mark the upcoming International E-Waste Day, Oct. 14, consumers worldwide are urged to collect dead and / or unused electronics and electrical products and give them a second life through reuse or repair, or recycle them properly.
Lindemann launches new modular mid-size shredder
| Lindemann Metal Recycling has announced the launch of a mid-size shredder, the TXS 69x90, aimed at customers in Asia, the Middle East and South America looking for efficient solutions with a strong performance-to-cost ratio.
Novelis and TSR enter into strategic partnership
| A new contract will provide Novelis approximately 75,000 tonnes of presorted end-of-life material to be processed at Europe’s largest recycling center, Novelis Nachterstedt, and fed into low-carbon aluminium sheet for the automotive industry.
From data to decisions: material footprints in European policy making
| What is the material footprint of key European consumption sectors?
Second-hand clothes stimulating billions of dollars for economies
| Second-hand clothing (SHC) is stimulating billions of dollars in GDP contributions and supporting hundreds of thousands of green jobs across Europe and Africa, a new report from Oxford Economics reveals today.
Nextloopp Americas poised to launch
| Nextloopp Americas appoints Marcio Amazonas as Vice President to lead the recycling initiative in the Americas
Life cycle assessments for flexible packaging solutions
| Ecotrace enables Südpack to analyse the entire life cycle of its products, as well as customer concepts, in terms of their environmental impact. ...
LCA report on composites waste through co-processing
| Nine industry associations have commissioned SGS INTRON to prepare a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) report exploring the environmental impacts of treating End-of-Life composites by co-processing in a cement facility.
Robust recycled content for plastics in vehicles essential
| In light of the ongoing discussions on the End-of-Life Vehicles Regulation (ELVR), EuRIC calls on the legislators to maintain a high level of ambition and bring forward recycled content targets for plastics in vehicles.
