plastics recovery

recovery of plastics

Finalists Announced for Plastics Recycling Awards Europe 2023

Shortlisted finalists in the Plastics Recycling Awards Europe 2023 were announced in a livestream event. The winners of the seven awards will be announced on 11 May, the second day of...

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Issue 02/2023 Closes the gap between waste and new goods

STEINERT UniSort sorting technology for black plastics

Everyone involved in the plastics industry is concerned with strict legislation and a social sense of responsibility for recovering plastics. Black plastics represent a particular challenge because...

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Mechanical recycling is more climate-compatible than chemical recycling

In the context of the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive (PPWD), Eunomia, a British consulting firm, determined the recyclate quantities in packaging that must come as outputs from chemical or...

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Milliken / EREMA / PreZero

Technology for producing top-quality recycled polypropylene

Milliken & Company is partnering with EREMA and PreZero at the upcoming K 2022 show to highlight the use of our Hyperform® HPN® performance additives in recycled polypropylene (rPP) compounds. The...

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Issue 05/2022 A great opportunity to actively shape change

Vecoplan helps processors to implement the circular economy

Europe wants to be climate-neutral by 2050 – and the circular economy for plastics will make a telling contribution. The core element of the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive is the recycling...

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ENGEL AUSTRIA GmbH

High recycling quality directly from plastic flakes

With a new process, ENGEL makes it possible to process plastic waste as flakes in injection moulding directly after grinding. Since pelletising as a separate process step is eliminated, the innovation...

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Plastics Recycling Show Europe Attendance Tops 5000

The Plastics Recycling Show Europe (PRSE) 2022 exhibition and conference held recently in Amsterdam, The Netherlands attracted a record number of visitors and exhibitors from across Europe and 80 diff...

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European project on increased use of recycled plastics in electronics has started

Increasing the share of recycled plastics in new products is a central aspect of the European Strategy for Plastics, adopted by the European Commission in 2018 as a part of the first Circular Economy...

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Aquapak calls for an accelerated investment in sorting and separation technologies to help unlock plastics recycling

Dr John Williams, Chief Technology Officer, Aquapak, the speciality polymers business which develops innovative materials enabling the circular economy, comments that for many years the waste industry...

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Winners of The Plastics Recycling Awards Europe 2022

Launched in 2017, the Plastics Recycling Awards Europe have witnessed a dramatic and inspirational rise in the circular use of plastics through increased recycling and recyclability over the last the...

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