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First European List of Safe and Environmentally Sound Ship Recycling Facilities Published
The European Commission has adopted the first version of the “European List of ship recycling facilities“. This can be seen as an important step to help ensure that ships are recycled in facilities that are safe for workers and environmentally sound. From a date to fall at the latest on 31 December 2018, the 2013 […]
Positive Verdict from Global Tire Producer
Swedish-based company Scandinavian Enviro Systems AB has received a positive response from an international tire manufacturer which has carried out extensive quality tests on Enviro’s recycled carbon black, EnviroCB. As reported, the test result confirms that Enviro’s material performs on parity with virgin carbon black in terms of the characteristics of rubber intended for certain […]
Two Specialists Partner to Commercialize a Technology for Iron Ore Fines Recovery
In December last year, Tenova HYL and Diproinduca Canada Ltd. have entered into a commercial alliance agreement. Tenova is a part of the Techint Group and a worldwide partner for solutions in metals and mining, while Diproinduca acts as an international company with experience in processing, recycling, briquetting and commercializing by-products in the iron and […]
Valdi Has Finished First Battery Recycling Run
From the end of 2017, Valdi (a subsidiary of Eramet Group) will offer Europe’s biggest processing capacity based on pyrometallurgy: It will have an annual processing capacity of 20,000 tons of batteries, 10,000 tons of spent oil catalysts and 8,000 tons of metal oxides. According to the company, pyrometallurgy is “the only technology that guarantees […]
Sustainability is Increasingly Core to Business Strategy
State of Green Business 2017: New assessment of the progress by companies around the world in addressing their energy, waste, water, greenhouse gas and other impacts. According to British company Trucost, enterprises and investors increasingly understand the fundamental importance of sustainable business and are taking action to reduce their environmental impacts. This is the message […]
China to Recycle 350 Million Tons of Waste by 2020
According to the State Council of the People’s Republic, China is expected to recycle 350 million tons of waste resources including steel, nonferrous metals, plastic and paper annually by 2020, according to an official guideline. By 2020, the country plans to develop a sophisticated system for renewable resources: It intends to use 150 million tons […]
Unilever Commits to Recyclable Plastic Packaging
The international company invites collective action from fast-moving consumer goods industry to be fully circular on plastic packaging. In January, the Dutch-British concern Unilever has committed to ensure that all of its plastic packaging is fully reusable, recyclable or compostable by 2025. As part of this, it will publish the full range of plastics materials […]
Industry Backs Plan to Recycle 70 Percent of Plastic Packaging Waste Globally
More than 40 industry leaders have endorsed a new action plan to tackle global plastic issues, and have begun working together to create a more effective global system for plastics. The action plan is presented in “The New Plastics Economy: Catalysing Action”, a new study by the World Economic Forum and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation […]
BIR announces 18-3-2018 as the date of the first Global Recycling Day!
Ranjit Baxi, President of the Bureau of International Recycling world body, announces today that the first Global Recycling Day will take place on March 18th 2018. The day also marks the 70th anniversary of the creation of BIR. “I am delighted to be announcing this very important date,” said Mr Baxi. “We want to use […]
USA: Public Company Boosts Recycling
According to market research of Arizona-based Republic Services, Inc., nine out of ten Americans want recycling services, and they are willing to pay for it. For this reason, the public company has grown its recycling capabilities in several markets across the USA. As reported by special interest media, Republic Services collects and processes roughly 5 […]
Germany Offers Know How for Environmental Protection
In order to encourage projects of German companies and institutions and for the purpose of spreading environmental knowledge, environmental awareness as well as technical know-how in other countries, the German environmental department presented the “export initiative environmental technology“. Furthermore, this initiative plays an important part in encouraging the mediation and application of globally uniform environmental […]
Malaysian Ministry Intends to Promote Recycled Products
The Malaysian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI) intends to promote locally-made recycled or green products for the local market. As reported, not many locals appreciate recycled materials produced by local companies. “People often talk about pollution and plastic waste impact, but when we mention recycled products, they do not really value them […]
China-based Steel Producer Invests in Nigeria
According to media reports, Chinese HongXing Steel Company Limited has invested 100 million Dollar to establish two manufacturing plants, located in Aba, Abia State capital (Nigeria). It was intended that the projects are completed by the end of the first quarter of 2017. End of December last year, the project had achieved 70 percent completion, […]
Spanish Company Expands Its Biomass Power Plants
The Spanish firm Ence – Energía y Celulosa intends to purchase the stake of Endesa – a leading operator in the Spanish electricity sector – in the renewable energy generation plants with biomass of Enemasa (Ciudad Real) and La Loma (Jaén), in which the company held 68.4 percent and 64.1 percent, respectively. According to the […]
British Company is Looking for Investors
MacRebur Limited is a company that holds the United Kingdom and European patent on the method and recipe of mixing waste plastics with bitumen, and a “magic formula”, to produce a new asphalt road material. Its first creation is called Plasmac. According to the company’s homepage, compared to current British standard asphalt (sometimes called tar) […]