Organic retailer Abel & Cole abandoning compostable plastics for more sustainable paper bags
Organic food delivery company Abel & Cole has said it will stop using compostable plastics after seeing evidence that they do not...
Cirplus develops new standard for the use of recycled plastics to ensure higher quality...
Cirplus, a European digital procurement platform for recycled plastics, has developed a new standard to improve the quality of polyamide-based recyclates.
Veolia sells Suez recycling assets as part of completing merger deal
Certain recycling assets belonging to Suez have been sold by Veolia to a new Suez as part of the merger deal of...
Turkey implements new quota regulations with immediate effect
The Government of Turkey has implemented its new quota regulations on imports of recycled materials with immediate effect.
As...
Project working on standard for recycled plastic content
Funding has been awarded to a new project to determine a standard for recycled plastic content.
With a new...
Recycling prices and market commentary: 8 January 2021
January 2021 so far has brought rising prices for many grades, albeit within difficult trading conditions.
As has been...
Recycling prices and market commentary: 21 February 2020
It was steady as she goes for the recycling market this week, but there are fears that shipping container availability will lead...
Trial assesses print qualities of PP flexible packaging that contains recycled content
Luxembourg-based Flint Group Packaging has been working on a project with the European CEFLEX Quality Recycling Project (QRP) to test whether recycled...
China bans waste industrial plastics too
After banning almost all plastics at the beginning of this year, the Chinese Government has now announced it will ban the remaining ones that...
Recycled plastic export report: September 2023
These are the latest HMRC export figures for September 2023 for PE-based plastics – commodity code 391510. Only destinations of more than...