Erema claims its Recycling machines return used plastic products to the production cycle, helping customers develop a sustainable circular economy and reduce plastic waste. COPA-DATA’s zenon was deployed on the EREMA recycling machines with the aim..
MacRebur, the self-proclaimed ‘plastic roads company’ has undertaken a new project: developing plastic roads in New York City, via the supply of over 4,500 kilos of plastic waste additive to help construct the roads.
The question of whether (or what) the industry can do to reduce plastic and packaging waste is an everchanging debate with everchanging science and evidence pointing the industry in different directions.
The European parliament has given its support to a new law that would ban exports of plastic waste to non-OCED (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries and phase out the export of plastic waste to OCED countries...
A recent update from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation found that key targets on plastic recycling and reuse are likely to be missed. The foundation is behind the New Plastics Economy Global Commitment, signed by 80 corporate brand owners.
At the end of 2022, Sensoneo, a global provider of waste management solutions conducted research into trends and patterns that have been noticeable within the industry....
Joseph Doherty, Managing Director of Re-Gen Waste in Newry and member of Defra’s Advisory Committee on Packaging, urges caution around banning plastic exports.
Paul Empson, General Manager, Bakers Basco – a bakery equipment company managing the use of standard plastic baskets for the delivery of bread – takes a look at some of the lesser-known elements of the Plastic Packaging Tax.
The ROAF waste sorting plant, situated in Skedsmokorset, near Oslo, is a fully automated waste sorting plant featuring TOMRA’s optical sorters and ranks second in sorting municipal solid waste by volume in Norway.
Carla Eslava is the Collection Schemes Manager for Recofloor, a collection scheme for commercial waste vinyl flooring that can be recycled into new products. Here she discusses the scheme’s contribution to the circular economy in construction.
