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Waste Cost Reduction Services (WCRS) Ltd views China’s announcement to ban a range of imported waste paper and plastic materials as an opportunity which over time will have a positive effect of increasing investment in the country’s recycling infrastructure.

Tomra Sorting Recycling has announced its newest partnership with SKM Recycling (SKM), headquartered in Laverton North, Victoria, Australia.

Out of 3.147.000 tonnes of PET bottles and containers placed in the European market in 2016, 59.8% – in total 1.880.900 tonnes – were collected and thereof 1.773.200 tonnes mechanically recycled.

After an 18-hour-long last negotiating meeting between the Council and the European Parliament an agreement to review the Waste Framework Directive, the Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive and the Landfill Directive has been found.

44.7 million metric tonnes of e-Waste were generated in 2016 with just 20% recycled according to a new report jointly authored by ISWA.

There is an increasing shift from Government, media and the public around the leakage of used packaging into the natural environment. Reducing litter, disposal ‘On the Go’ i.e. in public spaces such as high streets and parks, and use of Deposit Return Schemes are all being debated.

A global Manifesto has been launched today, just under 100 days before the world’s first Global Recycling Day on 18 March 2018, by the Bureau of International Recycling (BIR) to demonstrate how the items we discard and the goods society recycles have the power to combat climate change and – potentially – change the world in which we live.

A new report published by environmental consultancy Eunomia Research & Consulting Ltd with the support of the European Environmental Bureau (EEB) reveals that the world’s leading recycling nations may be overstating the level of real recycling they are achieving.

The Bureau of International Recycling (BIR)today asks clarification about and suggests changes to the GB Standards that accompanied the Chinese WTO notifications on 15 November 2017.

The set of bales quality guidelines is intended to drive market transformation towards circularity.

A new survey commissioned by PlasticsEurope and RECOUP with over 4,100 participants from the UK, Germany and Poland, reveals that there is a lack of awareness about recycling amongst young citizens (18-24 age group).