Stefan Lang

The chemicals and plastics group Borealis has signed an agreement to fully take over the Bulgarian recycling company Integra Plastics AD. "The investment will strengthen Borealis’ advanced mechanical recycling portfolio, adding more than 20,000 tonnes of recycling capacity and supporting growing customer demand for...

Plastics recycler and packaging manufacturer Aloxe aims to be the largest independent PET recycling business in Europe by 2024 with a total annual production capacity of 120,000 tonnes at its sites in France, Poland and Italy. This month, the company announced that it had inaugurated a new PET recycling facility in...

The waste management group Prezero is to supply refuse derived fuel (RDF) to the cement company Cemex in Spain. Last week, Cemex announced that the two firms had concluded a framework agreement to this effect. The partnership would allow Cemex to boost its use of alternative fuels which currently make up around half of...

Global demand for plastics continues to strengthen, and more and more plastic is made from recycled content, according to a report published by the association representing European plastics manufacturers. In "Plastics the fast Facts 2023", the organisation Plastics Europe reports that 400.3 million tonnes of plastic...

Plastics Europe, the European umbrella association of plastics manufacturers, has unveiled a plan to reimagine the European plastic sector. Its "Plastics Transition" roadmap aims to cut greenhouse gas emissions from the overall plastics system by 28 per cent by 2030, putting the industry on a pathway towards reaching...

The German compliance scheme operator Landbell and the chemical group Sabic announced in late October that they had signed a long-term chemical recycling partnership agreement "to further combine the specific expertise of each partner to drive toward more close loops systems for plastic packaging". The new cooperation...

The German waste management company Interzero and the Austrian oil, gas and chemicals group OMV will jointly build a secondary sorting plant for mixed plastic packaging waste from households in Walldürn in the Southwest of Germany. The new joint venture, Circular Feedstock Walldürn GmbH, is sort up to 260,000 tonnes of...

The European umbrella association Plastics Europe has "significant concerns" about the outcome of the vote on the EU Packaging Regulation (PPWR) proposal in the EU Parliament's Environment Committee. "This is a missed opportunity to encourage the necessary investment and will undermine the development of the market for...

Plastics producer Covestro has started up its first dedicated mechanical recycling (MCR) compounding line for polycarbonates at its site in Shanghai, China. The line is expected to produce more than 25,000 tpa of "premium-quality polycarbonates and blends containing mechanically recycled materials," the company said....

The discount grocery chain Aldi is trialling a blister pack recycling scheme for its own-label medicines in the UK. The pilot project is a cooperation between Britain’s fourth-largest supermarket and recycling firm TerraCcycle. According to Aldi, Terracycle will recycle the plastic and aluminium foil from the packaging...