Luxembourg-based Ardagh Group has signed a 15-year agreement with West Yorkshire-based Reuse to expand glass recycling in the UK. The company has joined forces with the Australian recycling and waste management company United Resource ...
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Multi-Material British Columbia (MMBC) is set to expand recycling services to an additional five communities through its industry-funded program. On 2 July curbside collections were launched in the city of Coquitlam and plans are in ...
A month ago, Tetra Pak began a campaign to force packaging companies to increase supply chain sustainability. Resource efficiency means looking at packaging's entire life cycle, the company emphasized. "You need to understand your supply ...
The Association of European Producers of Steel for Packaging (APEAL) has welcomed the new waste and recycling targets adopted by the European Commission last week. The Commission announced a 70 percent recycling objective for steel, rising ...
Tags: Steel Packaging, Steel
Villacero, Mexico's largest steel distributor, announced this week that it has signed an agreement with Finnish steelmaker Ruukki to distribute special steel products in Mexico, marking the 30th country in which the European firm has a ...
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The Alliance for Beverage Cartons & the Environment (ACE) UK has welcomed the latest figures, which it said was equivalent to approximately 425,000 tonnes of cartons recycled, and also showed the total recovery rate was now 71% across the ...
Yuchai Internatioanl Company declared that their subsidy Guangxi Yuchai Machine Company has made agreement with Caterpillar that they will purchase 49% of their shares on Yuchai Power so that they can completely control of Yuchai Power. ...
Tags: Transportation, Auto Parts, Yuchai Power
The recycling of beverage cartons in Europe has reached 42% in 2013, according to new data provided by the Alliance for Beverage Cartons and the Environment (ACE). Compared to 2012, it represents a 3% rise, while the total recovery rate, ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, beverage cartons
Recycling and preparing for reuse of packaging waste is to be increased to 80% (by weight) by 2030 with individual materials? required to recycle more. Paper, ferrous metal, aluminium and glass have been set a 90% target while plastic ...
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The UK Government’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has provided funding for a consortium to improve recycling and the remanufacture of aluminum. LRS Consultancy will lead the recycling project in ...
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The UK government has excluded small retailers from the proposed 5p carrier bag charge, which will come into force in England in October 2015. Government noted that its proposals for England only apply to plastic bags. The cross-party ...
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Consolidated Container (CCC), an investment arm of Bain Capital in the plastic packaging sector, has acquired plastic recycling companies Envision Plastics and Ecoplast from their founders Massoud Rad and Parham Yedidsion. Both the ...
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UK-based vehicle manufacturer and a subsidiary of General Motors, Vauxhall Motors has inked a long term agreement with the vehicle recycling company Autogreen. As per the deal, the manufacturer will see that all its vehicles handled by ...
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The European Union Committee of the House of Lords has recently published a report, 'Counting the cost of food waste: EU food waste prevention', which looks at the issue of food waste and what steps can be taken to reduce it. The report ...
Tags: Food Packaging, Packaging
Novelis, a subsidiary of India-based Aditya Birla Group, has cast the first production-sized ingot at its €200m aluminum recycling and casting center in Nachterstedt, Germany. According to the company, the first production-sized ...
Tags: Aluminum Recycling, Novelis