EUWID Recycling and Waste Management
5 days ago · We report on major companies in the circular economy, cover EU policy developments, and research prices and trends in numerous markets for secondary raw materials and waste management services, with a focus on Germany and other key European markets. We belong to a team of experienced business journalists gathering this information through our ...
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Viridor to close recycling site for plastic packaging in Avonmouth
3 hours ago · The British waste management company Viridor has decided to close down its recycling plant for plastic packaging waste in Avonmouth following "a detailed strategic review". A separate review of the company's Rochester plastics sorting facility is still ongoing. The Avonmouth site was to produce up to 60,000 tonnes a year of recycled PET, HDPE and PP from post-consumer rigid plastic packaging ...
Markets - euwid-recycling.com
Oct 25, 2024 · Stable copper LME price boosts scrap metal prices in Germany. After rallying in the second half of September, the LME copper price maintained its high level at the beginning of October, even though it failed to break the $10,000-mark last week. On the German non-ferrous scrap metal market, prices for copper scrap rose significantly again in the ...
Market value of plastic recycling value chain to grow more than 12 …
Jul 2, 2024 · The size of the plastics recycling market– from collection to sorting and recycling and encompassing the entire plastic waste value chain – will grow more than 12-fold by 2050 to around €370bn, forecasts the study "Plastic waste (r)evolution – dynamic sector with growth opportunities" published by consulting firm Roland Berger. The findings of the recently released study were presented ...
Policy - EUWID Recycling
Oct 30, 2024 · The recycling rate for household waste in the UK fell from 2021 to 2022, according to a data set released by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) in late September. Of the almost 25.7 million tonnes of waste collected from British households in 2022, 11.33 million tonnes were recycled.
CCS projects at two wte plants to receive financial support from ...
1 day ago · The European Commission has chosen 85 projects to receive a total of €4.8bn in support from the EU's Innovation Fund. Selected from among the 337 submissions to the Commission's 2023 Call for Net-Zero Technologies, the projects are set to be up and running by 2030 at the latest, and could together reduce emissions by around 476 million tonnes of CO 2 e in their first ten years of operation.
EU Parliament has approved new Waste Shipments Regulation
Feb 28, 2024 · The new EU Regulation on Shipments of Waste (WSR) is on the home straight. At its plenary session in Strasbourg on Tuesday, the European Parliament approved the text negotiated at the end of last year. It prohibits the export of plastic waste from the EU to non-OECD states and tightens the rules for other waste shipments to …
European Commission unveils new circular economy and …
Apr 5, 2022 · "We want sustainable products to become the norm on the European market." Product policy is at the heart of a new package of measures presented by the European Commission on 30 March and designed to advance the transition to a circular economy and enhance resource and energy efficiency in the EU.
The future of the European plastics recycling industry is at stake
Oct 30, 2024 · The industry association Plastics Recyclers Europe (PRE) is appealing to the EU to urgently address the situation in order to prevent the closure of recycling companies, the majority of which are small and medium-sized. Many companies were already driven out of business in 2023, with further closures happening or planned in 2024, PRE said.