Kenya: Collaboration to Manage Plastic Waste

After the launch of the Kenya Plastic Action Plan, which aims at enabling a circular economy for environmentally sustainable use and recycling of plastics in the country, the Kenya Association of Manufacturers (KAM) has partnered with Clever Green Kenya (CGK). The goal is to manage post-consumer plastic waste in the country through the formation and […]

Substantial Investments in New Projects Spur Growth

The South African waste management industry is depicting continual growth, the market research store Research and Markets (www.researchandmarkets.com) informed as it introduced its new report “Middle East And Africa Waste-To-Energy (WTE) Market 2019-2027”. According to the information, the industry in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region would grow with a CAGR (compound annual growth […]

“Circulytics”: A New Circularity Measurement Tool

Since January the Ellen MacArthur Foundation offers “Circulytics”, the “digital measuring tool which gives companies a fully comprehensive picture of their circularity across all operations”. The new tool permits companies to track their progress. “Developed and tested by more than 30 companies from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s network, ‘Circulytics’ informs strategy, allows users to see […]

Ghost Nets: What Happens to the Spirits the Fishery Invoked?

The number of abandoned, lost or otherwise discarded fishing gear (ALDFG) left in the oceans is unknown. The most mentioned figure is 640.000 tons each year, deriving from a joint report by FAO (United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation) and UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme). Other estimations indicate that 46 to 70 percent of microplastic […]

Initiatives to Intensify Recycling

In November last year, politicians introduced two legislation acts. As reported, the United States Senators Rob Portman and Debbie Stabenow introduced a new legislation – the Recycling Enhancements to Collection and Yield through Consumer Learning and Education Act (RECYCLE Act) – to create a new federal grant program through the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to […]

COVID-19 Update : BIR Contacts Governments and Shipping Lines to Alleviate Impact of Port Shutdowns

BIR has officially contacted governments, shipping lines and their international organizations, as well as port authorities, so that they support the recycling industries’ request to waive costs and fees on containers stuck in ports due to government shutdowns, as well as ground charge for stuck containers. BIR is also promoting the implementation of ‘green lanes’ […]

USA: National Framework for Advancing the Recycling System

The National Framework for Advancing the U.S. Recycling System, released in November 2019, is the product of a multi-stakeholder collaborative effort that began one year earlier. As reported, in November 2018 the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hosted the first America Recycles Day Summit, which brought together stakeholders from across the U.S. recycling system to join […]

Russia: Plans to Intensify Recycling Activities

The country intends to increase the volume of domestic waste recycling during the next years. Russia plans to significantly increase the volume of waste recycling during the next several years and to raise the level of profitability of this business, according to recent statements of the Russian Minister of Natural Resources, Dmitry Kobylkin, who is […]

Report: The Future of Plastic Recycling

Lux Research analyzed in a report the economic forces driving growth across the four main plastic recycling technologies. Titled “The Future of Plastic Recycling,” the report looks at four of the main plastic waste recycling processes – mechanical recycling, depolymerization, pyrolysis, and solvent-based recycling – and analyzes the factors impacting the economic viability of each. […]

Seven European Cities Pilot Solutions to Be more Circular

“CityLoops” is a new EU-funded project focusing on organic as well as construction and demolition waste. Høje-Taastrup and Roskilde (Denmark), Mikkeli (Finland), Apeldoorn (the Netherlands), Bodø (Norway), Porto (Portugal) and Seville (Spain) are the seven European cities that will pilot a series of demonstration actions on these types of waste to achieve material circularity. According […]

Saudi Arabia: New Integrated Waste Management Plan with Eastern Province Municipality

The goal is to recycle 81 percent of municipal solid waste and 60 percent of construction and demolition waste by 2035. In January, the Saudi Arabian National Waste Management Center, Eastern Province Municipality and the Saudi Investment Recycling Company (SIRC) – a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Public Investment Fund (PIF) – signed a tripartite memorandum […]

India’s Sewage Treatment Policy: Between Dysfunctionality and Multi-Billion Dollar Opportunity

India’s expanding agriculture, industry and modern communities require increasingly large amounts of water. For the country facing a most serious water scarcity, polluted rivers as well as contaminated ground water, the cleaning and recycling of water seems the only solution. But the era of commonly functioning sewage treatment plants has just begun. According to the […]

Tehnix: Planet Earth Is our Common Home

Ecology is a science that deals with the protection of the planet. Sustainable development is achieved by the application of circular economy. European Union policy combines theory and practice to the fullest possible extent to develop and apply technologies and practical solutions that, in stopping climate change, can produce the best results in achieving circular […]

Planned: Recycling Facility for Polystyrene in USA

Ineos Styrolution, the styrenics branch of the multinational chemicals group Ineos headquartered in London, will cooperate with the American company Agilyx to realize a polystyrene (PS) chemical recycling plant in Channahon (Illinois). In 2018, the two companies had signed a memorandum of understanding for deploying Agilyx’s de-polymerization technology at or near to an Ineos Styrolution […]

Ljubljana’s Wastewater Treatment System to Be Updated with Exelys

In January 2020, Danish environmental group Krüger A/S announced plans for the installation of a new factory-built wastewater treatment plant in Slovenia’s capital Ljubljana. The technology and capacity of the existing wastewater treatment plant in Ljubljana are no longer sufficient. The new facility will combine wastewater sludge treatment with the production of biogas for electricity […]