Mid-market pan-European investor Aurelius has acquired Europe's leading ethical plastic bottle recycler Eco Plastics for an undisclosed amount. With this investment, Aurelius will supply its highly specialised operational improvement ...
Tags: Plastic Bottle, Eco Plastics, Agriculture
The manifesto focuses on enabling the plastics recycling sector to meet the government’s low carbon manufacturing ambitions, which are central to meeting aspirations of a circular economy and resource efficiency. A series of ...
Tags: BPF Recycling, Packaging
The Confederation of European Paper Industries (CEPI) said the vote in Strasbourg will save more than 20,000 direct green jobs in the paper industry and an estimated additional 140,000 indirect jobs in Europe. “We are glad to see ...
Tags: Waste Paper Legislation, Packaging
On November 15, Hubei Province-based Chinese steelmaker Wuhan Iron and Steel (Group) Corp. (WISCO) stated that it has received financial subsidies worth RMB 6.93 million ($1.14 million) from the Chinese central government for its work on a ...
Tags: Auto Recycler, Mineral
SHABEER Jhetam is a passionate advocate of recycling. The CEO of The Glass Recycling Company talks to Margaret Harris about reducing our carbon footprint and creating jobs What does your job involve? Take me through your typical work day, ...
Tags: Glass, Construction
According to PAFA, the variable quality of recyclate has long acted as "a damper on the recycling sector in the UK". The association added that it will be working with other members of the recycling supply chain to ensure that action is ...
Tags: recyclate quality, recycling sector, materials recovery facility
Ruggero Alocci,vice president of the ferrous metal division of the Bureau of International Recycling(BIR)has expressed his views to SteelOrbis regarding the issue of ferrous scrap exports from the European Union.Antonio Gozzi,new president ...
Tags: Alocci, scrap, EU, BIR, ferrous scrap, European steel supply chain
Some major gains on the Chinese stock market this week trickled through to the ship-recycling sector to boost both sentiment and price. Several weeks ago, levels in China rocketed up to excess those of the Indian sub¬continent (with ...
Tags: Ship Breaking Industry, Chinese stock market, ship-recycling
A UK-based recyclers group BPF (British Plastics Federation) that includes Jayplas, Eco Plastics and CK Polymers has called for splitting the recycling target for plastics, as it has made the UK heavily dependent on export markets for its ...
Tags: Responsibility System, plastic waste, plastic recycling
Enval, which has developed a method for recycling laminated plastic and aluminum packaging, is opening its first processing facility at Alconbury. The company, backed by Nestlé, Kraft Foods and Mondelez International, will install ...
Tags: Recycling Packaging, recycling laminated plastic, aluminum packaging
UK-based Recycling technology developer Enval announced that it has secured new premises in the designated Enterprise Zone at Alconbury. The buildings will be home to the company's patented process for the recycling of laminated plastic ...
Tags: Recycling technology, aluminum packaging, environmental life cycle
UK-based Pyrolytic recycling specialist Enval has procured premises to build its first commercial scale microwave induced pyrolysis system for recovering energy and materials from foil-containing flexible packaging. The new premises in ...
Tags: Pyrolysis Packaging Recycling Plant, foil-containing flexible packaging
New research from Waste and Resources Action Programme(WRAP)suggests it's time to unlock the potential economic value of discarded textiles thrown out by consumers for waste collection. The new report reveals that consumers are throwing ...
Tags: WRAP, Textile Recycling, waste collection
According to a study conducted by the United Nations Commission for Economic and Social Affairs in Asia and the Pacific, revenues from the plastics industry in Bangladesh should reach 2 billion dollars by the end of 2015 and 4 billion ...
Tags: market view, plastic machine