United Kingdom | The UK Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) confirms that plastic recycling company WES Greenstar will add 20,000 tonnes per year of re-processing capacity for non-bottle househo ...
United Kingdom | Provider of plastic recycling solutions Enval has opened a new engineering site in Luton, United Kingdom. The new site will allow Enval to expand operations from its headquarters in C ...
Brazil / Switzerland | Tetra Pak, the world leader in food processing and packaging solutions, has reached agreement with the largest Brazilian petrochemical company, Braskem SA, to purchase limited v ...
One of America’s most prominent plastics recycling innovators, ECO2 Plastics, Inc., has filed a voluntary petition under Chapter 11 of the US Bankruptcy Code after failing to identify new sources of l ...
United States | US-based plastics recycler Advanced Environmental Recycling Technologies, Inc. (AERT) says the first phase of its world-class plastics recycling facility is almost completed.
Europe | Figures released by the European Tyre & Rubber Manufacturers’ Association (ETRMA) show that the continent’s end-of-life tyre recycling and recovery rates exceeded 95% last year.
Germany | Newly-formed plastics recycling company Stricker PolyRec of Germany has started operations at a large-scale plant for size-reducing, agglomerating and refining engineering plastics.
United States | The waterless cleaning process of US plastics processor ECO2 Plastics, Inc. has been recognised by Popular Science magazine as one of the Top 100 innovations of the year, winning the c ...
BIR | As recently as 1994, Europe was achieving a used tyre recovery rate of just 38%. However, this figure had soared to 91% by 2008 with the result that only 9% of scrap tyres were consigned to land ...
BIR | 'There will be a substantial increase in trade in recyclables' and, therefore, 'we must be prepared for a lot of opportunities and challenges', the BIR Plastics Round-Table in Amsterdam was assu ...
