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Hitachi Zosen Inova (HZI) has handed over the energy-from-waste (EfW) project in Poznan to the client SUEZ Zielona Energia, a joint venture between SUEZ Polska and the Marguerite Fund.

Weighing scales are an integral part of the waste and recycling industry. They help in achieving accuracy and reliability while measuring or weighing different materials, and they help in avoiding over weight fines as well. You use different types of weighing scales in recycling business and maintaining them is essential. Let’s see how you can do that.

At the International Automobile Recycling Congress IARC 2017 in Berlin, sector representatives came up with concrete proposals regarding what needs to be done to get more end-of-life vehicles into the official recycling chain.

In most countries in Europe, PVC windows have meanwhile reached high level of market penetration. They are impressive, with perfect design, universal adaptation to styling requirements, they are easy to maintain and – what is especially important – they can be 100% recycled.

Poly-Wood, based in Syracuse, IN/USA, a manufacturer of outdoor furniture made from recycled HDPE, is now also a highly efficient plastics recycler. At its production centre, Poly-Wood operates one of the most modern recycling plants for HDPE with systems from Lindner washTech.

The Parliament wants to establish higher goals than original proposed.

More than 80 companies and organisations will be showcasing the latest advances in plastics recycling in the Plastics Recycling Show Europe, taking place at the RAI Amsterdam on 29-30 March 2017.

According to CEPI’s preliminary statistics for 2016, the overall consumption of paper and board in CEPI countries in 2016 increased by 1% compared to 2015. Meanwhile, the use of paper for recycling has fallen by around 0.3%.

Following the recent closure of the Estrutural dumpsite serving 5 million people in Brazil’s capital city, a partnership between ISWA and ABRELPE, aims to ensure the closure of further dumpsites in the country.

The Plastics Industry Recycling Action Plan (PIRAP) aims to establish a range of joined-up actions across the plastics value chain aimed at boosting plastic packaging recycling.

The European Committee of the Regions and the European Parliament want to join forces to push the EU towards more ambitious waste management directives and a boosted circular economy action plan.