Sarah Storck

French enzymatic recycling technology developer Carbios has delayed the start-up of its planned PET biorecycling plant in China, citing additional technical work required to adapt its process to local conditions. To be located in Haining, Zhejiang province, the project is being developed as part of a joint venture with...

High costs, volatile recyclate prices and uncertain regulatory frameworks have been putting pressure on the European plastics recycling market for some time. At the same time, expanding circular structures requires substantial investment – particularly in new, capital-intensive technologies for processing waste that...

Benoît Grenot is to take over as chief executive officer of French biorecycling technology company Carbios in June. Mr Grenot has served as deputy CEO alongside chief executive Vincent Kamel since the spring and is now set to succeed him at the helm of the company. Mr Kamel will step down at the end of May at the age...

The British waste management companies Biffa and FCC Environment have for the first time integrated data from AI-based analysis systems into their reporting to the Environment Agency. The technology supplied by Greyparrot provides continuous information on the composition of outbound material streams at sorting...

German specialty chemicals group Evonik is planning a chemical recycling demonstration plant in Singapore together with the Chinese companies Vary Tech and Supe ZET. Vary Tech announced the project at the IFAT trade fair in Munich last week and said that the plant is to process post-consumer plastics from low-value...

The European Commission is pressing ahead with work on the long-awaited Circular Economy Act (CEA). Speaking during a panel discussion at the IFAT trade fair in Munich last week, Aurel Ciobanu-Dordea of the Commission’s Directorate-General for Environment said the package would likely comprise several Regulations with...

The latest edition of the annual Circularity Gap Report has for the first time quantified the avoidable economic loss by taking place in the linear economic model: this "value gap" is estimated at around €25.4tn each year, or approximately 30 per cent of global GDP, according to the study published by Circle Economy...

French enzymatic recycling company Carbios cut operating expenses sharply in the 2025, in part through a substantial reduction in headcount. As a result, its operating loss narrowed to about €25m from roughly €32m a year earlier, according to the company, which markets a recycling process for PET and polyester. Revenue...

Waste Plastic Upcycling (WPU), a subsidiary of oil and energy trading company Vitol, is planning to build a new chemical recycling plant for end-of-life plastics at the Port of Rotterdam. The facility is to be built alongside Vitol’s refinery, VPR, and is to be designed to process 80,000 tonnes of post-consumer waste...

India has tightened its recycled content requirements for rigid plastic packaging. An amendment to the Plastic Waste Management Rules was published in the Gazette of India on 31 March and entered into force immediately. The new rules amend India's binding minimum targets for recycled plastic content in packaging. There...