The world’s largest event dedicated to plastics recycling, the Plastics Recycling Show Europe, takes place next week at RAI Amsterdam, the Netherlands, from 19-20 June 2024. Visitors can still register for free at: www.prseventeurope.com The PRS Europe exhibition and conference attracts thousands of professional stakeholders of the entire plastics recycling value
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Borealis announces the installation of a semi-commercial demonstration recyclate-based polyolefins (rPO) compounding line in Beringen, Belgium. Set for construction during 2024, it is expected to be fully operational in the first half of 2025. The state-of-the-art line will use Borealis’ proprietary technology to transform mechanically recycled post-consumer waste into high-quality rigid
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The Erema Group, based in Ansfelden near Linz, Austria, closes the financial year 2023/24 with total revenues of EUR 380 million. A joint venture with the Lindner Group sees the group of companies expand its portfolio to include washing technology. Erema Group GmbH now has eight subsidiaries: Erema, Pure Loop, Plasmac,
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Carbios and the cosmetics brand L’Occitane en Provence present a bottle in transparent PET made entirely from enzymatic recycling for a shower oil from the Amande range. In collaboration with converter Pinard Beauty Pack, this bottle exemplifies a shared desire to build en efficient European recycling sector to accelerate the transition
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Aldi has introduced 100% recycled plastic (rPet) in some of its own-brand washing up liquid bottles. The move, which applies to its standard Magnum washing up liquid, as well as its Antibacterial and 1 litre Magnum Classic variants – excluding the caps and labels – is rolling out into stores nationwide.
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The Alpla Group and Re-Purpose have announced a strategic partnership that will advance sustainable packaging solutions and strengthen the feedstock value chain of Alpla’s very first PET recycling facility in Africa. Alpla is investing 60 million euros in the construction of a state-of-the-art recycling plant in Ballito in the South African
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Cooperation between Lindner Washtech and Erema delivers consistent quality in post-consumer recycling. How to achieve consistent recycled pellet quality in plastics recycling by exchanging data between the extruder and washing system, and how intelligent energy management reduces costs, was revealed at IFAT in Munich by the Erema Group and Lindner. This
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The market for recycled plastics is booming. The Republic Services Polymer Center in Las Vegas is to contrib-ute to meeting this demand with an expected annual output of more than 50,000 tons of recycled plastics. To achieve these ambitious goals, Republic Services is relying on the technology and expertise of Krones.
Read moreA N$24 million (over US$1.2million) investment through a partnership between Coca-Cola Beverages Africa (CCBA) in Namibia and Plastic Packaging has culminated in the opening of a new PET flaking plant in Okahandja which will double the capacity of the only mechanical recycler of plastic waste in the country. The plant was
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Carbios celebrated the groundbreaking ceremony for the world’s first PET biorecycling plant on April 25, in the presence of representatives of local authorities, partner brands and industrial partners. Located in Longlaville, in the Grand-Est region of France, Carbios’ first commercial plant is intended to play a key role in the fight
Read moreBy Ruth Comerford, BBC News. As BBC News reports the UK’s bottle deposit and return scheme (DRS) will be delayed until 2027, four years later than planned. Ministers blamed the Welsh government for wanting to include glass in the scheme – which the UK government opposes. Charities said the delay “makes
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