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Pilot Project to Close Materials Cycle for Beverage Cartons
Komunala Novo mesto d.o.o. was the first municipal services company in Slovenia to take part in a pilot project to close the materials cycle for waste milk, juice and other beverage cartons (used beverage cartons or UBCs). Through a series of specially designed activities, they were encouraging schools and households to collect UBCs separately and […]
Europe: Project to Realize a Circular Economy for Flexible Packaging
A new project called “Ceflex” is organized by a consortium of European companies representing the entire value chain of flexible packaging. The project mission is to make flexible packaging even more relevant to the circular economy by advancing better system design solutions which result from the collaboration of the companies represented in the consortium. As […]
APK Intends to Build Plastic Recycling Plants in Asia and Europe
German-based company APK Aluminium und Kunststoffe AG plans to set up recycling plants by 2025 together with strategic partners in Europe and South-East Asia in order to strengthen plastics recycling. According to a study by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation earlier this year, world-wide plastics production has reached more than 300 million tons per year and […]
The Plastic Bottle Recycling Market is Growing
Global Plastic Bottle Recycling Market Research Report – Forecast to 2022. According to a market report, published by the Indian company Market Research Future, the global plastic bottle recycling market is growing rapidly owing to factors such as positive prospects for recycled products, and growing environmental concerns among others. “Currently North America is dominating the […]
USA: New Joint Venture to Commercialize Innovative Technologies
The new business – a joint venture of the investment company Wasson Enterprise and the company Innventure – employs a strategic value creation model to repeatedly create new businesses, including those from proprietary Procter & Gamble technologies. The original Innventure had created a plastics recycling company called PureCycle Technologies. In April, Wasson Enterprise (WE), a […]
USA: New Online Marketplace to Trade Recovered Paper
German-based technology provider Voith has joined forces with the Boston Consulting Group Digital Ventures – a subsidiary of the Boston Consulting Group – to establish a digital marketplace for paper industry. The joint venture has been named “merQbiz” after Mercury, the Roman god of trade. The new company has its headquarters in Manhattan Beach, California. […]
Converting Old Fibers into Composite Panels
Since spring this year the Netherlands-based paper manufacturer Van Houtum produces composite panels, made from recycled waste resources ranging from paper and agricultural waste, to textiles and even beverage cups as a raw material feedstock. As of 2018, the planned large scale production facility is scheduled to enter into operation – alongside the current paper […]
Maine Woods Pellet Co. Chose ORC Technology Instead of Traditional Steam
Italian company supplied its largest biomass solution – a biomass ORC unit to produce 8 MWe – to the largest pellet manufacturer in Maine (USA). Turboden – a group company of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) – has delivered an ORC system to Maine Woods Pellet, a leading pellet manufacturer based in Athens, Maine (USA). According […]
BIR warns of the devastating effect of Chinese ban on the Global Recycling Industry
BIR expresses serious concerns over news on China’s intention to implement an import ban on a number of scrap materials, including certain types of scrap plastics, mixed paper, slags and drosses, waste wool, ash, cotton and yarn. Yesterday 18 July, China has notified the World Trade Organisation (WTO) that it will stop accepting certain imports […]
Apple Intends to Use Only Recycled Materials for Products
One day, Apple’s products could be manufactured entirely from recycled materials. The US-based concern released this aim in its Environmental Responsibility Report 2017, covering 2016. According to the information, the company is working on a “closed-loop supply chain“ that would allow it to stop mining the earth for rare minerals and metals. “To preserve precious […]
Qatar Opened Tire Recycling Plant
Qatar’s Modern Recycling Factory (MRF), based in Mesaieed Industrial City, came on stream in February. The development is part of Qatar’s aim to develop sustainability and support green technology under its National Vision 2030 campaign. At 20,000 square meters, MRF is one of the largest Greenfield recycling projects in the country. The plant, supplied by […]
South Africa: PET Recycling Rate Increased
PETCO, the organization responsible for fulfilling the South African PET plastic industry’s role of Extended Producer Responsibility, has announced their 2016 recycling figures which indicate an increase in their annual PET recycling rate from 52 percent of post-consumer bottles PET in 2015 to 55 percent in 2016. The organization recycled 90,749 tons of post-consumer bottles […]
USA: Paper Recovery Rate Reached 67.2 Percent in 2016
According to the American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA), a record 67.2 percent of paper consumed in the U.S. was recovered for recycling in 2016. As reported, the annual paper recovery rate has doubled since 1990 and U.S. paper recovery has met or exceeded 63 percent for the past eight years. The industry has a […]
In and Out: ISRI Unveils International Scrap Trade Database
The US-based Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) has launched a new International Scrap Trade Database providing information on international scrap trade flows. The data tables illustrate the trade of recyclables across the globe by major commodity and importing/exporting economies, and show the total amount of scrap traded globally. The initial offering of international scrap […]
Circular Economy Is a Window of Opportunity
According to a new report by Morgan Stanley’s Sustainability Equity Research team, new technology and increasing climate-based legislation around the world is creating new business opportunities based on the circular economy. As the New York based investment research firm stated, pioneering companies in a number of sectors were already shifting in that direction. “The advantages […]