New Stainless Steel Recycling Site in Thailand

In April, Oryx Stainless (Thailand) Co., Ltd., a market leader in stainless steel recycling in Thailand and South East Asia, celebrated the opening of its new site in Bangpakong (Chachoengsao province, Thailand). More than 200 guests from Thailand, all over Asia and Overseas traveled to Bangpakong to congratulate staff, management and shareholders of Oryx Stainless […]

Pacific Region: Programs for Waste Management and Climate Change Adaptation

Two programs amounting to almost 32 million Euro were signed by the European Union (EU) Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development, Neven Mimica, on the occasion of his visit to the Pacific. The goal is to promote sustainable waste management and support adaptation efforts to the effects of climate change. “They underline the EU’s strong […]

OECD: Raw Materials Will Double by 2060

The expansion of global economy and the rise of living standards is set to force the world’s consumption of raw material to nearly double by 2060. The global materials use will increase to 167 Gigatons (Gt) in 2060 from 90 Gt today, according to a new report preview on the Global Material Resources Outlook to […]

Potential Business Options through Recycling

Can an emerging asset class stem Indonesia’s tide of plastic waste? Ever since pictures and videos of a polluted ocean at Nusa Lembongan in Bali went viral across social media, Indonesia’s negative role as the world’s second largest ocean polluter has been in the global spotlight. In 2017 the government pledged as much as one […]

India’s Waste Treatment Market to 2025

Irish market research store Research and Markets is offering a new report on the “Waste to Energy and Waste Management Market in India – 2019”. According to the information, the Indian garbage will offer a business opportunity of 14 billion US-Dollar by 2025 for the waste treatment industry. The growing economies across the globe are […]

Indian Scrap Cars: “Rust in Peace”

End-of-Live Vehicle recycling in India is ripe for improvement. According to figures of the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers, the domestic sales increased between 2012/13 and 2017/18 from 17.7 to 24.9 million vehicles. However, the rising number of end-of-life vehicles does not correspondent to a quantitative or qualitative increase of scrap car treatment. Dr. Lakshmi […]

Global Tire Material Market Will Grow

According to USA-based Zion Market Research, the global tire material market is expected to generate revenue of around 98.56 billion US-Dollar by the end of 2024. In 2017, the market was valued at approximately 73.9 billion US-Dollar. The CAGR (compound annual growth rate) was projected to increase by about 4.2 percent between 2018 and 2024, […]

New Foreign Investment Screening Regulation in Europe

The new EU framework for the screening of foreign direct investments has officially entered into force on 10 April 2019. It is based on a proposal tabled by the European Commission in September 2017 and will be instrumental in safeguarding Europe’s security and public order in relation to foreign direct investments into the Union. “This […]

Tire Recycling Riding On

The materials of end-of-life tires are useful for nearly endless applications. The way these tires are collected (or disposed of), recycled (or burnt) and brought to market (or stored), are not endless, but differ widely from country to country. However, the global progress of recovering the material can hardly be stopped. European Union: Recycling increased […]

Thailand Investment Year 2019

The Kingdom of Thailand is stimulating big investments in targeted industries that will drive economic transformation and support investors’ success, the national Board of Investment (BOI) expects. At the annual seminar themed “Thailand Investment Year – What’s New?” which took place in March this year, Thailand’s Prime Minister, Prayut Chan-ocha, and five key government agencies […]

Trelleborg Lanka Places Serial Order for EnviroCB – Annual Value of Approximately 180,000 EUR

After successful production tests, Trelleborg Lanka (Pvt) Limited has today placed three initial orders for serial delivery of Enviro’s recovered carbon black (EnviroCB) for production of solid tires. The three orders consist of deliveries up until October 2019, forecast for the remainder of 2019 and 2020 is established by Trelleborg Lanka at a later stage. […]

The WEEE Forum Appoints Global Ambassador to Support its Worldwide Focus

In order to continue to share and enhance its e-waste operational know-how throughout the world, the WEEE Forum appoints Philip Morton, its former President, as ‘global ambassador’, tasked with encouraging start-up e-waste take back organisations across the globe to join the WEEE Forum family. In the past few years, many countries in the world adopted […]

Development of Technology to Regenerate Single-use Plastics into High Strength Reinforced Plastics

Furukawa Electric has announced a new technology to regenerate single-use plastics and waste paper into high strength reinforced plastics using a unique single process. Collected post-consumer plastic is often mixed with paper and various types of plastic, resulting in low mechanical strength, and is unsuitable for material recycling. Due to this, majority of the collected […]

Powerful Drive for Recycling: EMZ Modernizes Shredder Plant for Metal Scrap with Special Motor

Metal recycling is one of the most important raw materials sources in Europe. Specifically shredder plants at scrap yards that shred whole cars, white goods or metal profiles are operating in this field. They ultimately prepare these parts for further processing. Availability and a good performance are decisive factors: Decons SAS, a successful and privately […]

Entsorga Starting Production of High Quality Alternative Fuel with 120,000 Tons per Year Plant in Martinsburg

Completing a path initiated several years ago, the plant is demonstrating for the first time in North America  a new more sustainable circular model for the waste and recycling industry in the US. By allowing to maximize recycling and recovery of a substantial portion of the municipal and commercial / industrial waste produced in Berkeley […]