14 April 202311 April 2023 LyondellBasell and EEW sign LOI for potential advanced waste sorting This collaboration would close the loop on plastics that are today sent for incineration, by sorting them out for use as feedstock in mechanical and advance recycling processes
LyondellBasell: Kooperation mit EEW in Planung – Gewinnung und Verwertung von Kunststoffen aus gemischten Verbrennungsabfällen Die geplante Kooperation ermöglicht eine Kreislaufwirtschaft sowie einen Fortschritt für das nachhaltige Kunststoffrecycling, da die Standorte und das technische Know-how von LyondellBasell und EEW genutzt werden
Rohstoffunabhängig und klimaneutral – Innovationen für die Kreislaufwirtschaft Innovations-Pressekonferenz Plastics Europe Deutschland 2023
13 April 20236 April 2023 Why coffee capsules should be compostable European Bioplastics sides with specific EU Commission proposal
12 April 20236 April 2023 Carbios licensing documentation ready for worldwide industrial and commercial deployment of its PET biorecycling technology The advanced engineering study for its first commercial plant define the engineering basis and operational guidelines for units to be operated under license agreements
Banning greenwashing: new EU rules to ReSet the Trend in the fashion sector Greenwashing is particularly prevalent in the fashion industry: a recent screening of green claims in the textile, garment and shoe sector suggested that 39% could be false or deceptive
External thermal insulation composite system (ETICS) demolition material Highly promising sorting experiments with styrofoam waste from dismantled buildings. Air sorting table IFE-SORT generates clean fractions of EPS
Wärmedämmverbundsystem (WDVS)-Abbruchmaterial Vielversprechende Sortierversuche mit Styroporabfällen aus dem Gebäuderückbau. Lufttrenntisch IFE-SORT erzeugt saubere EPS-Fraktionen
11 April 20236 April 2023 Progress with scaling up liquefied waste plastic processing – Neste completed second series of runs at its Porvoo refinery Since Neste’s first processing run in 2020, the company has concluded a total of six successful runs, processing close to 3,000 tons of liquefied waste plastic in total
Fortschritte bei der Verarbeitung von verflüssigtem Kunststoffabfall: Neste schließt zweite Testreihe in Raffinerie in Porvoo ab Seit dem ersten Testlauf von Neste im Jahr 2020 hat das Unternehmen insgesamt sechs Läufe erfolgreich abgeschlossen und dabei eine Gesamtmenge von fast 3.000 Tonnen verflüssigtem Kunststoffabfall verarbeitet
Covestro erweitert sein Portfolio für die Kreislaufwirtschaft in allen großen Regionen Mit der Zertifizierung seines Produktionsstandorts Baytown, Texas, USA, erweitert Covestro nochmals deutlich sein Produktportfolio für die Kreislaufwirtschaft
Covestro expands its circular economy portfolio to all major regions The company's production site in Baytown, Texas (USA) is significantly expanding the reach of its product portfolio for the circular economy
HBS Trash Services & TerraCycle Launch Innovative Home Recycling Pilot for Hard-to-Recycle Items New Partnership Positions HBS Trash Services as a Leader in Circular Economy Solutions for Consumers
6 April 20233 April 2023 Advancing PLA recycling The mechanically and advanced recycling of Luminy® will allow PLA to become a material of choice for bottles, containers, and other food service and packaging products
Schweiz: Bundesrat befasst sich mit der Entsorgung brennbarer Abfälle und Recycling Anfang März wurde der Bericht «Abfallwirtschaft, Abfallvermeidung, Abfallplanung, Messung» verabschiedet
EU exports of used textiles in Europe’s circular economy The common public perception of used clothing donations as generous gifts to people in need does not fully match reality
5 April 20233 April 2023 Agilyx and INEOS Styrolution advance development of large scale TruStyrenyx™ plant TruStyrenyx is a partnership between Agilyx and Technip Energies and provides an all-in-one solution for the chemical recycling of polystyrene back into high purity styrene monomer
Encina and Shaw Industries Announce Carpet Waste Recycling Partnership The agreement calls for Shaw to supply Encina with more than 2 million pounds of carpet manufacturing waste per year, reinforcing Shaw’s ongoing commitment to sustainability which includes its Cradle to Cradle Certified® commitment to product circularity
4 April 202330 March 2023 BOLD biomanufacturing and biotech goals in the USA New goals will be grouped into four themes where biotechnology can play a critical role in reducing GHG emissions and removing carbon from the atmosphere
Many bioplastics can be mechanically recycled together with their conventional counterparts "The alleged contamination of recycling streams by compostable plastics is based on misconceptions and false information and concerns, if at all, all kinds of polymers, not only compostable ones." Oliver Buchholz, European Bioplastics
30 March 202327 March 2023 Poll shows eco-conscious consumers prefer compostables to recycled plastic A new survey of consumers across the UK has found that eco-conscious consumers are more likely to prefer compostable materials over recycled plastics
29 March 202324 March 2023 Plastic-eating microbes hit the market The promise – and limits – of plastic guzzling bacteria
28 March 202323 March 2023 Net-Zero Industry Act: Making the EU the home of clean technologies manufacturing and green jobs Together with the proposal for a European Critical Raw Materials Act and the reform of the electricity market design, the Net-Zero Industry Act sets out a clear European framework to reduce the EU's reliance on highly concentrated imports
Net Zero Industry Act: Kommission will bessere Bedingungen und mehr Investitionen für saubere Technologien in Europa Zusammen mit der Initiative zu kritischen Rohstoffen und der Reform des Strommarktdesigns schaffen die Vorschläge zur Netto-Null-Industrie einen klaren Rahmen, um die Abhängigkeit der EU von Importen zu verringern
Researchers Separate Cotton From Polyester in Blended Fabric The North-Carolina-State-University scientists use a “cocktail” of enzymes in a mildly acidic solution to chop up cellulose in cotton so it will “fall out” of the blended woven structure
US-Gesetz wertet Recycling als Herstellung Verband der US-Kunststoffindustrie begrüßt Utahs neue Recycling-Gesetzgebung, die Recycling als Herstellung wertet und die Kreislaufwirtschaft vorantreibt
24 March 202321 March 2023 Klimaneutralität mit Kunststoff wird funktionieren Beim 28. Stuttgarter Kunststoffkolloquium wurde deutlich, dass die Kunststoffbranche durchaus bis 2050 klimaneutral und unabhängig vom Rohöl sein kann
23 March 202320 March 2023 SK Chemicals Enters 7.57 Billion Dollars Recycled PET Market to Take the Lead Company has secured the world's first commercially available polyester chemically recycled raw materials and production facility, which can be sold separately from Shuye Environmental Solutions in China
SK Chemicals steigt in den 7,6-Milliarden-Dollar-Recycling-PET-Markt ein und strebt eine führende Position an Unternehmen sicherte sich durch Shuye Environmental Solutions aus China die weltweit ersten kommerziell verfügbaren chemisch recycelten Polyester-Rohstoffe und Produktionsanlagen, die separat verkauft werden können
“Vollwertiges Recycling”: Enzyme sollen Plastikmüll verdauen Inzwischen wurden allein drei Enzyme gefunden, die Polyurethan in seine Bestandteile zerlegen können - auch PVA in Verpackungen oder PET können mittels Enzymen recycelt werden
22 March 202317 March 2023 FKuR: New dishwasher-safe bioplastics and natural-colored recyclates from FKuR Distribution of EuCertPlast certified PE and PP recyclates from Kaskada Ltd.
FKuR: Neue spülmaschinenfeste Biokunststoffe und naturfarbene Rezyklate Distribution von EuCertPlast-zertifizierten PE- und PP-Rezyklaten von Kaskada Ltd.
21 March 202316 March 2023 Umweltschonendes Plastikrecycling: Das Schweizer Technologieunternehmen enespa ag, Anbieter einer einzigartigen Recycling-Kreislauflösung, fordert einheitliches Plastik-Sammelsystem Zum 3. Global Recycling Day erinnert die enespa ag an die Notwendigkeit einer Gesetzesänderung, damit mehr Sortiermaschinen für das Chemische Recycling gebaut werden
20 March 202315 March 2023 Massenbilanzen anerkennen, dringende Investitionen anstoßen Gemeinsames Positionspapier von PED und VCI zur Anerkennung von Massenbilanzansätzen
Carbios joins Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s circular economy network and aims to “make plastic waste and pollution a thing of the past” Carbios fully adheres to Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s vision for a circular economy for plastic. Its revolutionary biorecycling and biodegradation technologies already match the actions defined by the Foundation
17 March 202314 March 2023 Sustainable, low carbon circular plastic economy enabled by advanced plastic recycling process University of Warwick researchers publication shows, that advanced recycling technologies can replace the virgin fossil feedstocks used by the chemicals industry to create new plastics and other industrial products
Continued investments lead to exceptional 17% growth in EU plastic recycling capacity European installed plastics recycling capacity grew a robust 17 percent in 2021, reports Plastic Recyclers Europe, the pan-European organization for plastics recyclers
16 March 202313 March 2023 Plastic Pollution: New study finds at least €6.7 billion investment gap to meet Europe’s plastics recycling targets Recent European Investment Bank study shows that the solution to reinforcing the circular, sustainable plastics economy lies in the combination of new policy measures, increased capacity and transformative innovation in the design, collection, sorting and recycling of plastics
Neue Studie: „Investitionslücke für EU-Recycling-Ziele beträgt 6,7 Mrd. Euro“ Report der Europäischen Investitionsbank (EIB) zeigt große noch zu schließende Löcher auf
Circa enables sustainable textile recycling with Textile Change With Cyrene™, Textile Change is expecting to achieve a safe, low carbon, less energy intense process, while ensuring a high yield that will address increasing market demand for recycled textiles
15 March 202310 March 2023 Shellmet: Schutzhelm aus Muschelschalen und recyceltem Kunststoff 36.000 Tonnen Muschelschalen jährlich sind für den japanischen Kunststoffhersteller Koushi Chemical Industry Co. eine nutzbare Ressource, aus der jetzt ein neuartiges Material namens „Shellstic“ entstand
ALBIS distributes chemically recycled plastics ECOTRIA® CR and SKYPET® CR from SK Chemicals As of the beginning of the year, the ECOTRIA® CR and SKYPET® CR product ranges have been certified according to REACH and are distributed by ALBIS throughout Europe
14 March 20239 March 2023 Zweites Testzentrum für Abfallsortierung in Deutschland Tomra Recycling Sorting erweitert seine Testkapazitäten für Sortieranwendungen in Deutschland mit einem zweiten Testzentrum
13 March 202314 March 2023 nova-experts introduced: Vanessa Kleinpeter Office and Conference Management
A wholly sustainable plastics economy is feasible It is also the image of plastics that need to change
Eine absolut nachhaltige Kunststoffwirtschaft ist möglich Ändern müsste sich ausserdem das Image von Plastik
9 March 20236 March 2023 Gucci, supported by Kering, invests in first Circular Hub to power a “Circular Made in Italy” The Hub will foster breakthrough innovation to accelerate the circular transformation of luxury fashion
8 March 20233 March 2023 Pathways towards circular plastics in Europe — good practice examples from countries, business and citizens Plastics play an essential role in modern society. However, their value chain is currently unsustainable, contributing to the generation of climate changing emissions and increasing waste and pollution. Reducing such impacts while retaining plastics’ usefulness requires a shift towards a more circular and sustainable plastics system. This shift can be accelerated by scaling up good practice examples and making improvements across the plastics value chain
Can clothes ever be fully recycled? The world's first commercial-scale textile recycling mill is a milestone in tackling fashion's colossal waste problem
7 March 20232 March 2023 Neuer Katalysator erleichtert das Upcycling, das Recycling und den biologischen Abbau von Einwegkunststoffen Revolutionärer Durchbruch: Der Katalysator verwandelt Motoröl, Plastik und Erdgas in nachhaltige Materialien