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Tenova to Deliver a New Consteel System

Tenova Inc. (USA) has been contracted by Charter Steel – one of the leading American suppliers of carbon and alloy steel bar, rod and wire products – to design and supply a Consteel system to integrate with their existing EAF (Electric Arc Furnace) at its Saukville, Wisconsin works. According to the provider, the system increases […]

USA: Recycled Plastics Can Be Used in Packaging for Foods

The US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has no objection regarding the suitability of Envision’s product – made from US sourced recycled food packaging – when used at levels up to 100 percent in packaging for fatty foods and spirits. According to the company, the authority’s permit makes EcoPrime “the only post-consumer recycled HDPE resin […]

Constellium Extended Recycling Capacities

The Netherlands-based provider of aluminum products and solutions, Constellium N.V., has installed a new recycling furnace at its Muscle Shoals (Alabama) facility in an effort to expand recycling capabilities in North America. According to the company, the furnace is expected to increase the total recycling output by 170 million pounds, or about 5.2 billion additional […]

Armenia Will Realize an EU-Compliant Facility for Solid Waste

Supporting Armenia’s effort to become greener, the Eastern Europe Energy Efficiency and Environment Partnership fund (E5P) is co-financing the construction of a new landfill for solid waste for municipalities in the Kotayk and the Gegharkunik regions with a 2 million Euro grant. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), which manages this fund, and […]

Invitation to Collaborate

US-based Healthcare Plastics Recycling Council (HPRC) invites organizations which recycle plastics or manufacture healthcare products or packaging materials to join the consortium and to work with industry-leading peers and develop real-world tools and projects to explore various approaches to healthcare plastics recycling across the full value chain. According to HPRC, membership brings the obvious benefit […]

Future Market Opportunities for Problematic PET Bottles

According to a report by Plastic Technologies, Inc., (PTI) an opportunity to create a market for non-colored problematic PET bottles may be available that does not exist today. “However, rigorous performance testing would need to be done to understand how the incorporation of these PET bottles might impact an amber recycle stream,” Plastic Technologies, Inc.*) […]

India and European Union to Strengthen Cooperation

End of June this year, India and The European Union (EU) agreed to strengthen the cooperation in the areas of environment, resource efficiency and circular economy under the Resource Efficiency Initiative (EU-REI) for India. “The necessity of moving to a resource efficient ‘circular economy’ wherein waste is reduced or becomes useful inputs in others, or […]

Straw Gives More Biogas

Researchers at the University of Borås have investigated the possibility to use straw products in the production of biogas. For two years, Ilona Sárvári Horváth, associate professor at the University of Borås, together with other researchers from RISE and Sweden’s agricultural university (SLU) in Uppsala have investigated how straw can be used in the production […]

Biological Waste Treatment in Estonia – First Steps Are Taken

Estonia shows great advancement in complying with EU waste legislation. In 2002 the national waste treatment was composed of 97 percent landfilling and 3 percent recycling. According to latest OECD figures, the recycling rate including recycling and composting reached 31 percent. 150 former non-EU-conform landfill sites were reduced to 5 sanitary landfills under operation. Since […]

Renewable Methanol Market Is Expected to Expand

According to an analysis, provided by US-based Future Market Insights, global sales of renewable methanol is estimated to be valued at 133.3 million US-Dollar by the end of 2016. Renewable methanol is a second generation biofuel and is derived from renewable sources such as biomass, industrial waste, municipal waste and industrial CO2. It is used […]

Ukraine‘s Economic Growth Encourages Investment

The World Bank has improved its forecast for the growth of Ukraine‘s gross domestic product (GDP) in 2018 to 3.5 percent from 3 percent, the news agency interfax-Ukraine reported in June this year. The forecast for 2019 has been revised upwards to 4 percent from 3 percent. “In Ukraine, government stabilization efforts, supported by international […]

Avery Dennison pioneers first-of-its kind Labelexpo booth made from label waste

Oegstgeest, the Netherlands — To drive home its Labelexpo theme of “Pioneering Change,” Avery Dennison decided showing was better than telling: The global label-maker will present at the industry-leading trade show with a booth made in part from recycled label waste – the first ever at Labelexpo. Renae Kezar, Avery Dennison’s global senior director of […]

Canadian Company Updates Lithium Ion Battery Recycling

Vancouver-based American Manganese Inc. (AMI) has reported that Kemetco has now completed the production of rechargeable lithium ion batteries from recycled materials, produced with AMI’s hydrometallurgical process technology. According to the company, AMI’s research work is on schedule and on budget for the completion and filing of its patent application by November 2017. The technology […]

Fredrik Olofsson new Sales Manager for Enviro

Enviro’s new Sales Manager Fredrik Olofsson first caught sight of the Gothenburg company through the partnership with Volvo Cars. With over 20 years of experience in sales of polymer products, his aim is to increase the number of industries and applications in which Enviro’s circular material can be an alternative to fossil raw materials. I’ve […]

New Sorting System Uses Artificial Intelligence

Technology provider Bulk Handling Systems (BHS) has announced the arrival of Max-AI technology, an artificial intelligence that identifies recyclables and other items for recovery. “Through deep learning technology, Max-AI employs both multi-layered neural networks and a vision system to see and identify objects similar to the way a person does”, BHS assures. “The technology will […]