Plastics

In its efforts to scale-up chemical recycling, Neste has successfully concluded another series of industrial-scale processing runs with increasing volumes of liquefied waste plastic at its refinery in Porvoo, Finland.

The circular economy has been one of the most powerful megatrends affecting the plastics industry over the last few years and is widely anticipated to keep building momentum in the future.

Austrian recycling experts have joined forces for the consistent recycling of PET.

Main findings show that after a period of stagnation, the overall plastic production is picking up again.

Cirplus has developed a new standard for the use of recycled plastics together with the IKK — Institute of Plastics and Circular Economy and the Kunststoff-Institut Luedenscheid.

EuCertPlast and RecyClass have reached an agreement for the future development of the certification for plastics recyclers. Going forward, the expertise and know-how of the two audit schemes will be combined under the RecyClass Recycling Process Certification.

The entry deadline for the Plastics Recycling Awards Europe 2024 has been extended until 18.00 CET, Friday 12 January 2024. The judging panel for the 2024 awards has also been announced.

Plastics Recyclers Europe calls upon the EU to maintain the ambition to achieve a genuine circularity for plastics by driving the competitiveness and innovation of the EU plastics industry.

A recently study by KPMG, Plastic feedstock for recycling in the Netherlands, highlights the Netherlands’ leading position in Europe in the reuse of raw materials.

Companies placing non-recycled, non-reusable plastic packaging onto the Spanish market must pay a tax outlined in the Spanish Law 7/2022.

In the past, when recycling electronic waste, cars and many other “end-of-life products”, it was important to recover the valuable metal fractions as completely as possible.