Plastics
Beverage Carton Industry releases ten year roadmap
| ACE, The Alliance for Beverage Cartons and the Environment, has set the industry’s vision for the future: we will deliver the most sustainable packaging for resilient food supply systems which is renewable, climate positive and circular.
Environmental organisations demand strong policy for reuse systems
| For World Consumer’s Day, an alliance of environmental organisations has released an open letter demanding that ambitious policy be put in place to enable...
Reduced odour is becoming indispensable quality criterion in post-consumer plastics recycling
| There has been a noticeable increase in demand for Erema recycling machine combinations featuring ReFresher technology that reduces odour downstream of the extrusion process.
Study of plastic packaging waste helps to deliver a circular economy
| Ceflex and partners PCEP, Petcore Europe, Styrenics Circular Solutions and MORE Recycling team up to understand the reality of today’s collected household packaging waste.
Sabic turns PET bottles into PBT materials
| Since the introduction of LNP ELCRIN IQ materials in late 2019, Sabic has helped divert more than 100 million single-use PET water bottles from landfills and incinerators.
Shortages impact production of plastic products
| The European market for polymers has been under pressure for several months and the negative consequences of raw material shortages and price increases are seriously impacting the production of plastic products in the EU.
The best recycled pellets for irrigation pipes
| The shredder-extruder combination from recycling technology provider Pure Loop is the ideal solution for recycling challenging production waste.
M&K Plastik invests in Untha shredder for remanufacturing operation
| M&K Plastik has invested in an UNTHA RS40 four shaft shredder to transform its recycling operation.
US plastic waste exports in violation of new UN rules
| Recent customs data obtained by the Basel Action Network (BAN) reveals that US exporters, global shipping lines, and the US government are all violating the new 2021global rules established by the Basel Convention to prevent indiscriminate dumping and pollution arising from the plastic waste trade in developing countries.
Centre of competence for the sustainable use of resources in HDPE products
| The European manufacturer of plastic containers, drums and bottles, AST, has set a long-term target to increase the amount of recyclates used in its products and aims to supply their own ‘raw materials’.
Chemcycling of waste to hydrogen
| Chemical recycling, or chemcycling, using thermochemical processes such as gasification, reforming and pyrolysis can convert hydrocarbon-rich solid wastes to hydrogen. These thermochemical processes yield syngas which can be further processed to hydrogen, a clean, emission-free energy vector.
FEAD participates in the European Parliament hearing on plastics
| Today, FEAD, the European Waste Management Association, represented by its President, Mr. Peter Kurth, participated in the European Parliament ENVI and PETI Committees' Joint Public Hearing entitled “Plastics and waste management in the circular economy”.
RepescaPlas wants to achieve products frommarine litte
| After closing its third year with the collection of 4.2 tonnes of marine litter and excellent results in terms of recovery of this litter through chemical recycling, the RepescaPlas project has entered its fourth phase, in which it is expected to strengthen the industrial-scale management and treatment of marine litter.
EU microplastic ban just got a step closer, but has major loopholes
| EU plans to stop firms adding microplastic to almost all products have major loopholes that would keep pollution flooding into the environment for nearly a decade and reward unproven biodegradable plastics, environmental groups are warning.
