Avainsana: recycling

Plans to include fuels made from non-renewable materials in the EU’s renewable energy plans could undermine recycling progress, according to a new policy briefing. The…

Released by the Environment Agency on 10 June, the data is compiled using monthly submissions to the National Packaging Waste Database, which are optional. The…

Concerns about the potential for spreading the new coronavirus spurred at least four (US) states and many more municipalities to stall or suspend plastic bag…

Mondelez International intends to start incorporating recycled plastic into the European packaging for its Philadelphia cream cheese brand beginning in 2022. The move is part…

A recycling plant in Tanzania’s port city of Dar es Salaam has traded paper for plastic bottles and started making anti-coronavirus face shields that are…

Norsk Hydro and Northvolt have set up a joint venture that will focus on the recycling of both battery materials and aluminum from Norway’s electric…

Portugal’s largest recycling centre has a problem. Too many people are throwing coronavirus masks and gloves into recycling bins, posing a threat to the workers…

Dow Polyurethanes, a business division of chemical giant Dow has announced plans to create an industrial-scale recycling facility in France to treat discarded mattress foam…

US chemicals firm Dow has developed and commercialized a formulated post-consumer recycled (PCR) plastic resin in Asia-Pacific. Such initiatives threaten virgin plastic demand, but it…

The innovative R&D project Circ-Pack has successfully developed solutions covering the full plastics value chain. Industry partners from over 22 European countries say their work…

Scientists at the Universities of Birmingham and Bath in the United Kingdom say they have developed a “faster, more efficient way” of recycling plant-based biopolymers…

People living in Denmark will soon be required to sort their waste into ten different types, according to the government. One of the biggest goals…

Portugal, which recycles around 28% of its urban refuse, below the European average of 46%, EU figures show, has long been a laggard. It had…

Portugal, which recycles around 28% of its urban refuse, below the European average of 46%, EU figures show, has long been a laggard. It had…

Indonesia has been in hot water over its contribution to marine waste since 2015, when a report by researcher Jenna Jambeck ranked Indonesia as the…

The new approach offers a way of separating out different components of nuclear waste. The one-step chemical reaction, which appears in the journal Industrial &…

A typical nuclear reactor uses only a small fraction of its fuel rod to produce power before the energy-generating reaction naturally terminates. What is left…

Meeting recycling targets will be more challenging than ever during the coronavirus pandemic, a number of Welsh councils have said. There has been a huge…

Polyurethanes (PUs) are used in many products, such as mattresses, insulation, footwear and construction materials. Wear and replacement of these products generates lots of waste…

Recycling of steel packaging hit a new all-time high of 82.5 percent in Europe in 2018, according to figures issued by APEAL, the Association of…