Technology

Tomra Recycling is hosting a free webinar “Maximizing plastic packaging recovery – how data upgrades plastics performance” on July 14, 4 pm CEST.

Styrenics Circular Solutions (SCS), the value chain initiative to increase the circularity of styrenic polymers, has unveiled the results of a comprehensive life cycle analysis (LCA) for polystyrene.

On 16 and 17 June 2021, the Project Partners of CIMPA – A CIrcular Multilayer Plastic Approach for value retention of end-of-life multilayer films – gathered to officially kick-off this HORIZON 2020 project. 


Experts from the German nova-Institute present a tool for elegantly pricing the true cause of global warming.

The LIFE4FILM project, financed by the LIFE programme of the European Union, has the objective of preventing the disposal of plastic film in landfill sites, and recovering this material.

In 2021 Hammel Recyclingtechnik GmbH launches a new generation of shredders: the Hammel primary shredder type VB 750 DK “Long Version”, which is the successor of the shredder type VB 750 DK.

Two Untha XR waste shredders are now in operation in Russia, following a collaboration between the Austrian-headquartered engineering firm and Kaluzhskiy Zavod Kommunalnih Mashin (KZKM).

Fraunhofer Institute Umsicht, Sabic and Procter & Gamble (P&G) today announced their collaboration in an innovative circular economy pilot project which aimed to demonstrate the feasibility of closed-loop recycling of single-use facemasks.

Hasler Ventures LLC plans to scale up to commercial levels a Purdue University patented technology that may accelerate the volume of waste plastic recycling.

Weibold Academy article series discusses periodically the practical developments and scientific research findings in the end-of-life tire (ELT) recycling and pyrolysis industry.

Fortum Oslo Varme’s carbon capture and storage (CCS) project has made it through to the shortlist of candidates for financing from the EU’s €1 billion Innovation Fund.