Recycling news: 2021

Global BioSupPack project will develop innovative bioplastic packaging from brewery by-products BioSupPack project supported by EUBP The EU-funded BioSupPack project, supported by European Bioplastics (EUBP), is geared towards contributing to the European bio-based circular economy by developing polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA)-based packaging solutions derived from residues. It is a viable recycling process for these bio-based plastic materials to make sure resources stay in the loop. [...] European Bioplastics News · 28 Jun 2021 Global News from the members: June 2021 EarthFirst Films by PSI produces first PHA home compostable packaging film EarthFirst Films by PSI, a global bioplastic film technology and manufacturing company, announced in an 18 May statement the successful completion of the first commercial run of PHA - polyhydroxyalkanoate - home compostable packaging film. Although the PHA materials have been certified, the film will go through [...] European Bioplastics News · 28 Jun 2021 Global News in brief: June 2021 SUP Directive Guidelines: a long list of inconsistencies and questions left unanswered With almost one year of delay on the timetable set by the Single-Use Plastics Directive, the long-awaited Guidelines have been finally published at the end of May 2021. From now on, the document will represent the vademecum for the activities of both the national [...] European Bioplastics News · 28 Jun 2021 Global The European Parliament calls on health, social and environmental justice for menstruators by supporting safe, fair, and sustainable menstrual products for all On 24 June 2021, the European Parliament adopted a resolution on the situation of sexual and reproductive health and rights in the EU, in the frame of women’s health. The adoption of this report shows that the European Parliament is fully committed to support and promote access to safe, fair, and circular menstrual products for […] Zero Waste Europe · 28 Jun 2021 Global EARTH call on the Thai government to Ratify the Basel Ban Amendment, End Toxic Waste Imports Environmental NGO Ecological Alert Recovery – Thailand (EARTH) submitted letters to the Minister of Natural Resources and Environment and the Minister of Industry, calling on the Thai government to ratify the Basel Convention Ban Amendment, which will end the imports of toxic plastic wastes and e-waste into the country and for government agencies to strictly […] Break Free From Plastic · 28 Jun 2021 Global Groups renew calls for stronger environmental protection amid Clean Air Act anniversary Quezon City, Philippines— Environmental organizations, civil-society groups, faith-based institutions, academe, and community-based organizations are calling on the government for effective and sustainable environmental protection during the anniversary of the passage of the Clean Air Act into law on June 23. The Act prohibits the use of incinerators for waste disposal. The Philippines is the f… Break Free From Plastic · 28 Jun 2021 Global Launch of the Waste Wise Partnership (WaP) ISWA (International Solid Waste Association) · 25 Jun 2021 Global The Magic Formula Highly promising chemical recycling needs a boost The magic formula Key for recycling plastics on a really big scale Plastics… Plastics Europe · 25 Jun 2021 Global New EU farm policy will worsen environmental crises for years Weak rules will maintain support for harmful farming practices 25 June 2021, Brussels – Europe will continue major funding of harmful intensive farming practices until […] European Environmental Bureau · 25 Jun 2021 Global LAB news – LAB part of the PROTOS project LAB will provide to its Customer STANDARDKESSEL BAUMGARTE GmbH, two Flue Gas Treatment units for a capacity of 400,000 tonnes... ESWET (European Suppliers of Waste-to-Energy Technology) · 25 Jun 2021 Global Cepi reaction to the Sustainable Products Initiative Download here. CEPI (Confederation of European Paper Industries) · 25 Jun 2021 Global Joint statement on the EU Forest Strategy: time to really consider the opinion of EU forest and forest-based sector Download here. CEPI (Confederation of European Paper Industries) · 25 Jun 2021 Global Zagreb’s new Zero Waste Mayor The recent election of a new Mayor in Zagreb, Croatia, brings with it new hope for the city to become a zero waste leader in Europe. After more than two decades of sending high volumes of waste for landfilling and increasing plans for waste incineration, opposed bitterly by local citizens and NGOs, the city of […] Zero Waste Europe · 25 Jun 2021 Global Cepi Chairman Ignazio Capuano speaks at the conference “Energy for the Transition” CEPI (Confederation of European Paper Industries) · 24 Jun 2021 Global Germany, stop therapeutic obstinacy on coal, NGOs demand The German government plans to spend billions of taxpayers’ money to prop up an industry in its endgame. Here is why the European Commission should stop this artificial life support, writes Roberta Arbinolo. As part of its coal phase-out, Germany promised €4,35 billion payouts to compensate coal operators for closing their plants by 2039 – almost a decade later than what required to keep the gl… META (European Environmental Bureau) · 24 Jun 2021 Global The link between forever growth and Belgium’s ‘forever chemicals’ scandal Toxic pollution is not an inevitable byproduct of prosperity. The choice between poisoning or poverty is a false one, writes the EEB’s Senior Policy Officer for Economic Transition Nick Meynen. The massive and growing ‘forever chemicals’ scandal in Belgium marks the culmination and possible endpoint of the endless growth logic, not to mention the privatising of profit and the socialising of cos… META (European Environmental Bureau) · 24 Jun 2021 Global Three new Associate Members for ESWET: Howden, Lisega and Meldgaard! ESWET is glad to announce that Lisega, Howden and Meldgaard decided to become new Associate Members. With this achievement, ESWET... ESWET (European Suppliers of Waste-to-Energy Technology) · 24 Jun 2021 Global Press Release: 4evergreen welcomes new chair to drive the alliance towards the completion of fibre-based packaging guidelines 4evergreen, the cross-industry alliance perfecting the circularity of fibre-based packaging from across the industry’s value chain, announced Hans Wortman as new Chair. Wepa’s Head of Paper for Recycling Sourcing, Hans Wortman, will be succeeding Eija Hietavuo as 4evergreen’s Chair. Tiina Pursula, having replaced Ms Hietavuo as Chair of the Cepi (Confederation of European Paper Industries) Envi… CEPI (Confederation of European Paper Industries) · 23 Jun 2021 Global Standardkessel Baumgarte Receives Order for a Rdf Plant at the Location Amsdorf SBG receives the third order from Romonta. The scope of supply includes the complete technical equipment for the combustion line... ESWET (European Suppliers of Waste-to-Energy Technology) · 23 Jun 2021 Global Press Release: 4evergreen welcomes new chair to drive the alliance towards the completion of fibre-based packaging guidelines BRUSSELS, 23 June 2021 – 4evergreen, the cross-industry alliance perfecting the circularity of fibre-based packaging from across the industry’s value chain, announced Hans Wortman as new Chair. Wepa’s Head of Paper for Recycling Sourcing, Hans Wortman, will be succeeding Eija Hietavuo as 4evergreen’s Chair. Tiina... 4evergreen (fibre packaging alliance) · 23 Jun 2021 Global Restoring the natural link between biodiversity and climate Ecosystem restoration is a golden opportunity to repair biodiversity, combat climate change and improve human health, a major UN report finds. This means that the Commission’s proposal for a new restoration law must be ambitious enough to create these synergies, argues the EEB’s Laura Hildt.* The defining crises of our time are mass extinction and global warming, both with immense consequences … META (European Environmental Bureau) · 22 Jun 2021 Global Toxic impact of widespread polymer pollution set to remain a mystery Europe’s first rules to investigate growing concerns of the toxic impacts from widespread polymer pollution are set to cover only a tiny fraction of the substances. Draft EU regulations will threat-test just 6% of polymers, with all the substances used in large volumes escaping oversight. Scientists have called on the EU to strengthen their plans. In October, the European Commission highlighted… META (European Environmental Bureau) · 22 Jun 2021 Global Report: Consumer goods companies are missing the mark with false solutions to the plastic pollution crisis June 22, 2021 - Top fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) companies are churning out plastic pollution ‘solution’ projects that do very little to solve the plastic pollution crisis. The Break Free From Plastic global movement has tracked and analysed projects that seven major companies and eight alliances claim are part of their response to plastic […] Break Free From Plastic · 22 Jun 2021 Global New leadership team elected at the European Container Glass Federation Brussels, 21 June 2021 FEVE – the European Container Glass Federation has elected its executive team for the 2021-2023 term of office at its Annual General Assembly last Friday 18th June. Vitaliano Torno, O-I Glass President Business Operations & O-I Europe – one of Europe’s leading glass packaging manufacturers for the food and beverage sector […] FEVE (European Container Glass Federation) · 21 Jun 2021 Global First laws to tackle serious polymer health threat being crippled Research shows widespread pollution and presence in vital organs But new rules to cover just 6% of polymers after industry lobbying 21 May 2021, […] European Environmental Bureau · 20 Jun 2021 Global Celebrating Black Community Leadership on Juneteenth Break Free From Plastic works to envision a future free from plastic pollution that advances environmental justice, social justice, and racial justice all together as part of a single, globally-connected Movement for Justice. The plastic pollution crisis disproportionately impacts communities of color, including particular harm that the petrochemical industry does to Black, Latinx, and Indigeno… Break Free From Plastic · 19 Jun 2021 Global ‘Green Deal Commission’ needs to walk the ‘zero pollution’ talk Air pollution prevention from chemical industries may enter into a deregulation mayhem under the EU Commission proposal for WGC BREF. Polluters-complacent countries would be rewarded with […] European Environmental Bureau · 17 Jun 2021 Global HZI news – Stuttgart Optimises Regional Resource Management and Climate Protection with Dry Anaerobic Digestion Plant Stuttgart, Germany. The awarding of the contract kicks off a project centred on a core feature of Hitachi Zosen Inova’s... ESWET (European Suppliers of Waste-to-Energy Technology) · 17 Jun 2021 Global Wiegand-Glas builds partnership to make ‘greener’ glass bottle 11 June 2021 Wiegand-Glas has partnered with biomethane producer bmp greengas to manufacture a ‘greener’ glass bottles for its customer soulproducts. After soulproducts expressed the wish to produce its glass drinking bottles with biomethane in the future, bmp greengas agreed to supply Wiegand-Glas in February 2021. The soulbottles are now produced exclusively with green gas, which reduces CO 2… FEVE (European Container Glass Federation) · 17 Jun 2021 Global Urgent break with fast fashion needed in upcoming EU textile laws NGOs rebuff voluntary agreements to clean up the fashion industry, calling for the EU’s upcoming textile legislation to hold brands accountable for their contribution to global pollution. Some of Europe’s largest networks of green groups are joining forces to demand an end to fast fashion in the textile industry, one of the world’s largest industrial polluters. As part of the Wardrobe Change ca… META (European Environmental Bureau) · 17 Jun 2021 Global Helping women climb the career ladder in the waste industry ISWA (International Solid Waste Association) · 16 Jun 2021 Global Heating our homes without heating up the planet A handful of leading manufacturers of heating systems are paving the way for clean heating, showing that ditching fossil fuel boilers is not only possible but also financially desirable, write Davide Sabbadin and Mélissa Zill. This opinion piece was originally published in Euractiv and co-signed by EEB, ECOS and leading heating manufacturers Abora Solar and Janus Energy. The rumbling sound of g… META (European Environmental Bureau) · 16 Jun 2021 Global Wardrobe Change The post Wardrobe Change appeared first on Changing Markets . Changing Markets Foundation · 16 Jun 2021 Global Countering gender invisibility in national recovery plans We urge finance ministers to avoid a return to austerity and to fundamentally reform the fiscal framework in such a way that it puts gender justice at the heart of the EU’s economic governance, writes Katy Wiese, the EEB’s economic transition policy officer. This Thursday, at the Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN) meeting, the EU’s finance ministers will discuss their national reco… META (European Environmental Bureau) · 16 Jun 2021 Global Urgent break with fast fashion needed in upcoming EU textile laws 25 NGOs rebuff voluntary agreements to clean up the fashion industry, calling for the EU’s upcoming textile legislation to hold brands accountable for their contribution to […] European Environmental Bureau · 16 Jun 2021 Global PR: EXPRA strongly welcomes the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s call for the implementation of EPR for packaging Brussels, 15 June 2021 – EXPRA is pleased that +150 leading businesses and organisations including many owners of EXPRAs members expressing their support for Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for packaging, […] EXPRA · 15 Jun 2021 Global It’s time for a serious discussion on EU waste exports Patrick Clerens, Secretary-General of ESWET, European Suppliers of Waste-to-Energy Technology. In 2018, Europe produced 2.32 billion tonnes of waste from all economic... ESWET (European Suppliers of Waste-to-Energy Technology) · 15 Jun 2021 Global Meet our members – Special Edition – Meet our Membership Coordination Officer: Iveta Cadrova! Zero Waste Europe is happy to introduce the blog series “Meet our members”. Through this series of monthly interviews, we want to give you a chance to get to know our members and the work they are doing. This month, for another special edition of our “Meet our members” series, we are thrilled to introduce […] Zero Waste Europe · 15 Jun 2021 Global In the media: How Reloop impacts European waste policy and its plans for the U.S. Wondering who Reloop is, what we've been up to, and what some of our plans are moving forward? The article below, shared from Waste360.com, offers a great summary. Reloop Platform · 15 Jun 2021 Global ISWA Welcomes Saaiqa Merali ISWA (International Solid Waste Association) · 11 Jun 2021