Plastics

A new report commissioned by the European Environmental Bureau says that only a radical rethink of its economic model can curb the fashion industry’s sustainability problem.

Mattia Pellegrini, Head of Unit, Directorate-General for Environment at the European Commission is to be the keynote speaker at the Plastics Recycling Show Europe’s conference, taking place at RAI Amsterdam, the Netherlands on 22-23 June 2022.

The results of the NEOREC Project, funded by IVACE and ERDF, will provide a viable alternative to landfilling of complex waste.

With this series, RecyClass aims to bring the audience back to the basics of what RecyClass is and its different activities.

Transforming hard-to-recycle plastics into school benches is precisely the sort of topic destined to pique a school child’s curiosity.

The Spanish recycling company Anviplas has been involved in plastics recycling for more than 30 years, during which time it has built up extensive know-how that now benefits customers throughout Europe, in Africa and in Asia.

Jim Roberts, product manager at Beaverswood, says easy-to-use waste collection, segregation and management systems should be adopted as space increasingly becomes a premium for warehouse and logistics operations.

A great number of hygienic shields, commonly known as sneeze guards, is being used in industrial and trade facilities, as well as in the catering trade and restaurant business.

Based in Giza, Egypt, the biggest PET bottle-to-bottle recycler in MENA region is expanding and upgrading its existing plant with another Starlinger PET recycling system and an additional solid-state-polycondensation (SSP) reactor.

The waste plastics value chain is a complex and dynamic sector, with an evolving operating environment.

New research produced for Zero Waste Europe by sustainability consultancy Eunomia Research & Consulting shows that most Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic recovered from bottles in Europe does not make its way back into new PET bottles. Significant Improvements in PET design, collection and recycling will be needed to improve circularity.