Sonoco buys French paper can business
Major packaging firm Sonoco has acquired French paper can company Can Packaging.
The company has been bought for €41.7...
Indorama Ventures to buy Polish PET plastic recycler
Thailand's Indorama Ventures has announced it has agreed to purchase Polish PET plastic recycler Industrie Maurizio Peruzzo Polowat spółka z ograniczoną odpowiedzialnością...
Recycling prices and market commentary: 31 July 2020
The summer recycling market truly kicked in this week with many taking time off, even if they were not venturing too far...
Ireland’s Shabra Plastics to increase PET recycling capacity to 35,000 tonnes
Investment of €4 million (£3.6 million) will lead to Shabra Plastics increasing its PET recycling capacity to 35,000 tonnes per year.
More than half of global paper production is made from recovered fibre BIR study...
A study by BIR has discovered that more than half of global paper production includes recovered fibre.
In 2018,...
Reckitt Benckiser to trial direct collection of Vanish and other HDPE bottles for recycling
British cleaning products company Reckitt Benckiser is to trial a system where its Vanish and other HDPE bottles will be collected from...
China issues small paper quota
Just 56,650 tonnes of paper quota has been issued by the Chinese Government in its latest batch.
This small...
Recycling prices and market commentary: 24 July 2020
For the plastics market, the NPWD Q2 data was eagerly awaited and its publication this week is likely to have a bearing...
Recycled plastic export report: May 2020
Please note this report just focuses on the waste polymers of ethylene commodity code (391510), as exports of other plastics are relatively...
Recycled paper export report: May 2020
The weakest paper exports we have recorded occurred in May 2020, according to the latest data from HMRC.
In...