In China, the National People’s Congress approved the 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-2030) in March. It outlines – inter alia – the country’s targets regarding its green transformation, meaning circular economy and decarbonization. Regarding circular economy and urban municipal waste, which accumulated to 260 million tons nationwide in 2024, the People’s Republic of China plans to […]
From 3 to 6 November, the 29th edition of Ecomondo, the Italian Exhibition Group’s (IEG) international event on the green, blue, and circular economy, is scheduled to take place at Rimini Expo Centre. As European policies driving the ecological transition continue to gain momentum, Ecomondo confirms its role as the leading ecosystem where industry, institutions, […]
The companies PACKLIANCE GmbH and cyclos-HTP GmbH (CHI) will jointly launch a digital tool for preparing the declaration of conformity required under Article 39 PPWR. As reported, the solution enables companies to organize relevant packaging data in a structured manner and use it to generate both the technical documentation and the declaration of conformity in […]
Bonfiglioli, a family-run Italian company with a global presence, conceives, designs and produces custom solutions for collecting, downsizing and sorting waste materials with the aim of maximizing recycling efficiency. In Munich, the company presented its complete solutions for recycling processing, biogas generation and wastewater treatment. Drive technologies for the biogas value chain The Italian company […]
Eriez, a global leader in separation technologies, has expanded its European sales network as part of a broader regional growth initiative to strengthen customer support and accelerate responsiveness across key industrial markets. As underscored, this enhanced structure would enable Eriez-Europe to deliver deeper technical expertise and more direct engagement with customers. These local insights in […]
The countdown has begun for ArabPlast 2027, the Middle East’s largest and most influential exhibition for the plastics, petrochemicals, packaging, polymers, recycling, rubber and chemicals industries. The upcoming edition which is scheduled for 24-26 March, 2027 at Dubai World Trade Centre is set to be the biggest in the event’s history, bringing together more than […]
At IFAT Munich 2026, DEScycle has won the “Knorr-Bremse AG Circular Technology Award”, Europe’s largest award for circular technology innovation, in collaboration with CIRCULAR REPUBLIC (an implementation platform for the circular economy). Selected from 50+ companies alongside some of the most advanced industrial technology startups in Europe, DEScycle was recognized in the Critical Raw Material […]
In May 2026, Australian company EPOC Enviro’s “Surface-Active Foam Fractionation” (SAFF) technology has commenced a full‑scale remediation trial of PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) at an Australian wastewater treatment facility. As reported, the “bench‑scale testing demonstrated exceptional PFAS removal across both the liquid and solids phases of sewage wastewaters. The results, which show >97 percent […]
Three partners – Axens, IFPEN and JEPLAN – were successful to produce the base monomer of a 100 percent recycled polyester. For this purpose, several tens of tons of post-consumer, polyester-rich, European textile wastes, sorted and prepared in France, have been processed in the companies’ semi-industrial demonstration unit, located in Japan. As underlined, this step […]
Norway-based company Statkraft, Europe’s largest renewable energy producer, has completed the first phase of the Montes de Cierzo wind repowering project in Navarra. It replaced 44 old turbines with ten new ones, increasing the capacity to produce clean energy while reducing visual impacts and achieving almost full recycling and reuse of the old components. “I […]