Italy’s Garbo set to build country’s first plastic chemical recycling plant with Saipem
Italian chemical recovery company Garbo has signed a deal with engineering firm Saipem to built the first plastic chemical recycling plant in...
Fost Plus to build new PP and HDPE recycling plant in Belgium
Belgian packaging recycling scheme Fost Plus has announced that it is building a new plastic recycling plant in Belgium that will specialise...
Recycling prices and commentary: 17 March 2023
Markets were generally pretty flat this week, and where there was movement tended to be because of changes in the PRN/PERN market...
Recycled plastic export report: January 2023
Please note this report just focuses on the waste polymers of ethylene commodity code (391510), as exports of other plastics are relatively...
Recycling prices and market commentary: 10 March 2023
Frosty winds are blowing across the market at the moment, with trading volumes reported as low again across most materials.
German scientists develop HDPE-like polyester that is also biodegradable
Scientists at Germany's University of Konstantz have developed a biodegradable polyester that has HDPE-like properties.
In a paper in...
Cloughwater Plastics avoids winding up order
Ireland's Cloughwater Plastics has avoided being wound up after the application was withdrawn.
In February, creditors from Netherlands-based Van...
RECOUP opens its own lab to help with RecyClass certification of plastics
Plastics charity RECOUP has opened up its own laboratory to help it give companies RecyClass certification of plastics.
It...
Recycling prices and market commentary: 3 March 2023
There were strange things happening in the PRN/PERN market this week, with unexplainable price changes occurring.
Well, possibly the...
Soft plastics recycling plant co-owned by Morrisons opens in Scotland
A soft plastics recycling plant that is co-owned by Morrisons and Yes Recycling has been opened in Fife, Scotland.