India | Packaging company Essel Propack, based in Mumbai, India, has introduced the first recycled and recyclable plastic packaging tube Etain, which will be followed by a family of other similar gree ...
Germany | ISR Interseroh Rohstoffe GmbH is acquiring a majority share in the internationally operating waste plastic trader and processor RDB GmbH. The firm with headquarters in the northern German to ...
United States | In order to reclaim post-industrial plastic materials for use in the company's building products, Advanced Environmental Recycling Technologies, Inc (AERT) has opened a plastics recyc ...
China | The Chinese government has clarified that a plastic waste import ban will be restricted to used agricultural film and to plastic bags, films and net collected from households or municipal wast ...
Germany / Switzerland | Machinery manufacturer Rieter is selling its activities in machinery and systems for manufacturing plastics granulates to CGS Management of Pfäffikon, Switzerland, with retroa ...
Hungary | Power of the Dream Ventures (PDV), one of Hungary’s premier technology acquisition companies, has filed a Hungarian patent application for a process designed easily to recycle PVC shielded ...
France | Tyre manufacturing giant Michelin and industrial waste management company Suez will open a recycling centre at Michelin's former tyre plant at Toul in France as part of the tyre-maker's pledg ...
United States | The US National Recycling Coalition (NRC) has honored The Coca-Cola Company with its annual "Recycling Works!" Award for the Company's unparalleled commitment to sustainable packaging ...
United States | According to scrap tyre recycler CBp Carbon Industries Inc., its largest investor has upped its initial investment by US$ 20 million (Euro 13.6 million) to enable the company to explo ...
European Union | The EU's 25 member states plus Norway and Switzerland recovered half of all plastics waste in 2006, up three percentage points on the previous year, reports industry body PlasticsEuro ...