Plastics
BIR: Strong criticism of EU plans on waste shipments
| At the annual convention of the Bureau of International Recycling, all divisions criticized the EU Commission's plans for greater regulation of waste shipments: Restricting trade would endanger businesses and recycling.
VinylPlus exceeds 810,000 tonnes of PVC recycling
| VinylPlus announced today the results of the first year of its 2030 Commitment at the 10th VinylPlus Sustainability Forum (#VSF2022).
France setting the pace for PET chemical recycling in Europe
| France is continuing to lead the way in the development of the polyethylene terephthalate chemical recycling industry in Europe, with a spate of new facility announcements set to build out capacity in the country.
Project reduces CO2 emissions in the manufacture of new plastic products
| The LIFE CIRC-ELV Project has developed a new process to manage end-of-life vehicles to recover bumpers and fuel tanks, recycle the materials and use them to manufacture pipes and new parts for vehicles.
TotalEnergies and New Hope Energy partner on plastics recycling
| TotalEnergies and New Hope Energy today announced a commercial agreement under which New Hope Energy will build an advanced recycling plant in Texas to transform end-of-life plastic waste into a recycled feedstock that TotalEnergies will partly purchase and convert into virgin-quality polymers, which can be used for food-grade packaging.
Plastic recycling industry continues fast-paced efforts towards EU targets
| New figures for installed plastics recycling capacities reveal a 13% growth .
Heraeus invests for a majority share in PET recycler
| Heraeus Holding GmbH announced it has invested substantial equity to take a majority stake in perPETual Technologies, based in Kleinostheim/Germany.
Starlinger recycling technology for Australia’s largest PET recycling plant
| The recently opened Circular Plastics Australia PET recycling facility in Albury-Wodonga, New South Wales, is equipped with a Recostar PET 215 HC iV+ PET bottle-to-bottle recycling line from Starlinger that produces 2.5 tons of rPET per hour.
Finalists Announced for Plastics Recycling Awards Europe 2022
| The winners of the seven award categories will be announced on 23 June, the second day of the Plastics Recycling Show Europe at the RAI Amsterdam, where all 45 finalists will be showcased.
IFAT: Metal and waste sorting solutions
| Steinert wants to present the new performance app, processing of non-ferrous metals including separation of heavy metals, wood sorting and recycling of steel in Munich.
Breaking the bottlenecks of recycled plastic content
| Brand owners and packaging converters in the plastics industry are facing major bottlenecks in recycled content availability.
Stadler and Krose close loop at Kunststoff Recycling Grünstadt plant
| Stadler and Krones have collaborated in the design and installation of a new sorting and washing plant for Kunststoff Recycling Grünstadt GmbH (KRG), a German recycling company serving the plastics processing industry.
Recycled PP resins from PCR food packaging
| Nextek’s Nextloopp, the 43-strong multi-participant global project that is closing the loop on post-consumer food-grade recycled Polypropylene (FgrPP), has reached a new pivotal point in its two year project.
Tomra Recycling delivers equipment for new sorting plant in Abu Dhabi
| DGrade opened its first sorting facility situated in Abu Dhabi to produce high-quality recycled plastic content for the industries with the help of Tomra’s Autosort and Autosort flake.
