Out of over 4,600 tons of plastics waste collected, almost half was found to be polyethylene, approximately 2,300 tons, which represents a small "treasure" made up of a 100% recyclable material that, if properly sorted, can be turned into new products. This is the result of the experimental project carried out...

The European Council and Parliament provisionally agreed on a regulation on preventing the loss of plastic pellets into the environment. The new rules will help improve the handling of plastic pellets at all stages of the supply chain, both on land and sea...

Aquafil launched in Slovenia the first demonstration plant for the chemical separation of elastic fibre from polyamide, an innovative technology that opens new perspectives in the textile fibre sector, allowing the company to take a step forward in research and development, consolidating...

All Basf's European production sites for engineering plastics, polystyrene, expandable polystyrene, polyurethane, thermoplastics polyurethanes, polyamides and specialty polymers are now certified by independent third parties according to the Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) standard...

Basf Corporation and Braven Environmental, a market leader in advanced recycling, have signed a supply agreement for Braven PyChem. This advanced recycled feedstock, derived from mixed plastic waste, will partially replace fossil resources at the Basf TotalEnergies Petrochemical (BTP) facility in...

Tray Circularity Evaluation Platform (TCEP) ha emanato nuove linee guida per la progettazione in funzione del riciclo di vaschette multistrato in PET, che vanno ad aggiungersi a quelle già previste per i vassoi monostrato in PET. L’iniziativa è in linea con il lavoro che il team Thermoform sta...

Sorema, the recycling systems division of Previero, announces the achievement of quality and quantity targets for the printed film washing plant installed at Coveris – ReCover in Lincolnshire (United Kingdom), equipped with deinking technology. “The international market has long been asking for...

Axens, a technology licensor in the field of plastics circular economy for plastics, and Sorema, an international supplier of plants and technology for sorting, cleaning and mechanical processing plastic wastes, have announced a collaboration to provide integrated solutions for advanced...

Plastics Europe strongly supports the EU’s competitiveness and decarbonisation agenda and welcomes the Clean Industrial Deal. It outlines very important and much-needed measures, including initiatives to lower energy costs, reduce red tape, and create the market demand necessary to...

Marine litter in Europe is decreasing. This is the conclusion of the study “European Coastline Macro Litter Trends 2015-2021”, published by the European Commission, which looks at trends in macro litter (i.e. litter larger than 2.5 cm) along the coastline of the Old Continent between 2015 and 2021...