EEF calls for stronger UK response over 'essential materials'
Top-News: No Teaser-PicsTeaser-Bild 4z3: Teaser Text: Manufacturers' organisation EEF has warned the UK government to act over escalating risks to the country's supply of essential materials. And...
View ArticleAvis expands baler portfolio
Top-News: No Teaser Text: Avis Industrial Corporation, a privately-held company with 10 subsidiaries throughout the USA, Canada and Mexico, has acquired IPS Balers. Based in the US state of Georgia,...
View ArticleJaguar sets new standard with 'most sustainable' car
Top-News: No Teaser-PicsTeaser-Bild 16z9: Teaser-Bild 4z3: Teaser Text: Luxury car manufacturer Jaguar's new model, the XE, generated a real buzz following its London launch owing to an 'advanced...
View ArticleE-flood due to shorter life cycle of electronics?
Top-News: No Teaser Text: E-scrap recyclers could be even busier in future than they expected, researchers at Germany's Öko-Institut believe - not just thanks to the fashion for replacing electrical...
View ArticleCar makers 'responsible body' under China's EV recycling law
Top-News: No Teaser-PicsTeaser-Bild 4z3: Teaser Text: China’s latest Electric Vehicle Power Battery Recycling Technology Policy (2015 edition) identifies car manufacturers as the ‘responsible body’...
View ArticleRedflow kicks off 'fully recyclable' solar battery system
Top-News: No Teaser-PicsTeaser-Bild 4z3: Teaser Text: Australian battery manufacturer Redflow has launched a home solar battery storage system that is said to rival products from major brands like...
View ArticleApple creates iRobot to tackle unwanted phones
Top-News: No Teaser-PicsTeaser-Bild 4z3: Teaser Text: Apple has unveiled a robotic system called Liam to take apart post-consumer iPhones and recover valuable materials like silver and tungsten for...
View ArticlePlastics sector 'must go above and beyond' to cure itself of target fever
Top-News: No Teaser-PicsTeaser-Bild 4z3: Teaser Text: If entrepreneurs want to maximise innovation in the recycling sector then they should not leave the ‘boring work’ to a specially selected team of...
View ArticleAlpla proves HDPE may yet yield recycled content products
Plastic newsletter: Yes Top-News: No Teaser-PicsTeaser-Bild 4z3: Teaser Text: Plastic bottle producer Alpla partnered-up with consumer goods company Henkel to create a line of detergent bottles with...
View ArticleUSA back on top of plastics machinery market
Plastic newsletter: Yes Top-News: No Teaser-PicsTeaser-Bild 4z3: Teaser Text: 'The US market for plastics and rubber machinery has grown appreciably since 2009,' according to the German machinery...
View ArticleMore and more plastics in modern-day cars
Plastic newsletter: Yes Top-News: No Teaser-PicsTeaser-Bild 4z3: Teaser Text: The average car will incorporate nearly 350 kilograms of plastics by 2020, claim chemical researchers at IHS Markit....
View ArticleGreenpeace urges Samsung not to burn Note 7
Top-News: No Teaser-PicsTeaser-Bild 4z3: Teaser Text: Greenpeace is urging Samsung to reuse and recycle the parts of the 1.8 million Galaxy Note 7 phones that were recently recalled due to safety...
View ArticleCoca-Cola and partners invest heavily in label waste recycling
Plastic newsletter: Yes Top-News: No Teaser-PicsTeaser-Bild 4z3: Teaser Text: Coca-Cola European Partners (CCEP) says a new initiative will recycle some 70 tonnes of waste each year from the...
View ArticleIKEA to buy 150-plus balers for its growing scrap volumes
Top-News: No Teaser-PicsTeaser-Bild 4z3: Teaser Text: Homeware giant IKEA aims to recycle over 90% of the waste from its own operations by 2020, according to the company’s latest sustainability...
View ArticlePollutec's roadmap to innovative technology
Top-News: No Teaser-PicsTeaser-Bild 4z3: Teaser Text: This year's edition of the French trade show Pollutec attracted 60 800 visitors and more than 2200 exhibitors. Around 9000 visitors (15% of the...
View ArticleDigging into the US polypropylene market
Plastic newsletter: Yes Top-News: No Teaser-PicsTeaser-Bild 4z3: Teaser Text: 'Americans generate an estimated 30 million tons of plastic waste every year. Approximately 10% of that is recycled,'...
View ArticleEuPC backs high priority for plastics recycling strategy
Plastic newsletter: Yes Top-News: No Teaser-PicsTeaser-Bild 4z3: Teaser Text: The European Commission has released its Roadmap on the Strategy for Plastics, which is part of the Circular Economy...
View ArticleThe dawn of the eco-nomy: Prince Charles says 'seeing is believing '
Plastic newsletter: Yes Top-News: No Teaser-PicsTeaser-Bild 4z3: Teaser Text: 'It is impossible not to state how urgent it is that we move towards a circular economy – particularly when addressing...
View ArticleAnother 20%-plus profit surge at Lee & Man
Top-News: No Teaser-PicsTeaser-Bild 4z3: Teaser Text: Lee & Man Paper Manufacturing, one of China's leading containerboard producers and a huge consumer of recovered fibre sourced from around the...
View ArticleBig surge in recycled plastics usage at Electrolux
Plastic newsletter: Yes Top-News: No Teaser-PicsTeaser-Bild 4z3: Teaser Text: Consumer goods manufacturer Electrolux used twice as much recycled plastics last year as it did in 2014 by incorporating...
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