Recycling news: 2022

Global Welcome to our latest Gold Member – Naue ISWA (International Solid Waste Association) · 30 Aug 2022 Global Register now – “The climate impact of pyrolysis of plastic packaging and alternatives – strategies to lower it” webinar on 27/09/2022 14:00 CEST The overall production of packaging and generation of packaging waste has been steadily growing over the past 20 years, The most recent data shows that Europe reached the record level of 174 kg of packaging waste per person in 2018, and is now one of the main sources of waste. Recycling has an important role to […] Zero Waste Europe · 30 Aug 2022 Global Plastics Amidst Bamboos Srijita Patra, Zero Waste Media Advocacy Fellow Uttarakhand, also known as Devbhoomi, the land of Gods, is one of the most noted Himalayan states and considered an abode of tourist […] GAIA (Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives) · 30 Aug 2022 Global Vyncke is our new member! In total, ESWET has now 35 members: 22 Full Members and 13 Associate Members! Click here for the full list. VYNCKE... ESWET (European Suppliers of Waste-to-Energy Technology) · 26 Aug 2022 Global Waste Management & Research: Impact Factor ISWA (International Solid Waste Association) · 23 Aug 2022 Global CFEW holds capacity-building training for young volunteers By Zamawela Shamase Center For Earth Works (CFEW), a research-driven youth-led non-governmental organisation that is passionate about securing the Earth, held a two-day training for young volunteers on the 9th […] GAIA (Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives) · 23 Aug 2022 Global End Plastic Pollution’s Plastic Free Campus Program By Zamawela Shamase To celebrate Plastic Free July, End Plastic Pollution, a youth lead Ugandan environmental organisation, welcomed Kkan High School into their Plastic Free Campus Program. The organisation’s Plastic […] GAIA (Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives) · 23 Aug 2022 Global Women of Waste (WOW!) celebrates South Africa’s Women’s Month ISWA (International Solid Waste Association) · 22 Aug 2022 Global Suprema Corte de Justicia se manifiesta en contra de los avances en la prohibición de plásticos en Oaxaca protegiendo los intereses de FEMSA Coca-Cola En menos de 10 minutos y con 4 votos a favor, la Segunda Sala de la SCJN exenta de cumplir las prohibiciones de PET y unicel en Oaxaca a dos […] GAIA (Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives) · 19 Aug 2022 Global CEFLEX ‘Quality Recycling Process’ Task team develop mono-material duplex laminated pouches using PP recyclates CEFLEX (Circular Economy for Flexible Packaging) · 19 Aug 2022 Global Global 1.5˚C Target will Not Be Possible Unless More Countries Commit to Reducing Plastic and Other Waste, Study Find Glasgow, United Kingdom– An analysis published today by the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) finds that more than a quarter of countries’ climate plans are neglecting an essential climate strategy: reducing waste, despite the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) identifying waste management as one of three sectors with the greatest potential to reduce temperature … GAIA (Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives) · 18 Aug 2022 Global ESWET at the IRRC Conference, 2022 The next 5-6 September will be celebrated the IRRC Conference in Vienna. The speakers at this venue are usually experts... ESWET (European Suppliers of Waste-to-Energy Technology) · 16 Aug 2022 Global Break Free From Plastic welcomes a new batch of youth ambassadors this 2022! The BFFP Youth Ambassador Program is a platform where youth leaders from all around the world come together to represent their generation’s stance on plastic pollution. Break Free From Plastic · 15 Aug 2022 Global Member in the Spotlight: CIEL My name is Rachel Radvany and I work for the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL). CIEL uses the power of law to protect the environment, promote human rights, and ensure a just and sustainable society. We are an international organisation, but I am personally based in Washington, DC in the US. I am 22, […] Break Free From Plastic · 12 Aug 2022 Global Repair and EU policy: what’s happening in 2022? 2022 promised to be a big year for repair. While we wait for draft regulation on repairability of smartphones and tablets - due any day now, let's take a look at all key legislative processes currently progressing at EU-level. Right to Repair Europe · 11 Aug 2022 Global Krill, Baby, Krill: The corporations profiting from plundering Antarctica The post Krill, Baby, Krill: The corporations profiting from plundering Antarctica appeared first on Changing Markets . Changing Markets Foundation · 11 Aug 2022 Global Journalists under attack for their investigative work on global plastic waste trade On July 27, 2022, independent freelance journalists Vedat Örüç and Elif Kurttaş, were attacked while visiting an industrial area with dozens of recycling facilities in Adana, Türkiye. According to a post on Twitter by Vedat Örüç, the journalists entered a plastic recycling facility with permission from a facility’s employee. They were working on a story, interviewing […] Break Free From Plastic · 9 Aug 2022 Global Plastics Waste Plastics Infromation Europe – 04 August 2022 Europe’s waste management sector has called for greater public support for efforts to boost recovery and recycling markets across the region as part of a campaign to highlight the industry’s energy-from-waste efforts. FEAD (European Waste Management Association) · 5 Aug 2022 Global Waste management sector can help Europe lower gas consumption BALKAN GREEN ENERGY NEWS – 04 August 2022 – The waste management sector can help the EU cut natural gas consumption by 15% and implement its REPowerEU plan, the European Waste Management Association – FEAD said. According to FEAD, the waste management sector is not totally (yet) at its full capacity for producing and saving […] FEAD (European Waste Management Association) · 4 Aug 2022 Global SAWPA Biennial 2022: The Waste Picker Revolution The biggest national waste pickers’ movement goes through an open and democratic process of electing its leadership structure, review past SAWPA activities from 2019 and plan for a way forward. The South African Waste […] GAIA (Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives) · 4 Aug 2022 Global NGO Capacity Building Network meeting – 2-3 September- Bucharest NGO Capacity Building Network meeting 2-3 September, Bucharest – Romania The NGO Capacity Building project on chemical policies will have its first face-to-face meeting in September […] European Environmental Bureau · 3 Aug 2022 Global Winter School 2022: Summer Edition ISWA (International Solid Waste Association) · 2 Aug 2022 Global Maria Jäppinen at the ISWA-SWIS Winter School 2022: Summer Edition! ISWA (International Solid Waste Association) · 2 Aug 2022 Global Contractual Guidelines for the Waste-to-Energy Sector Download the document here! Between 2020 and 2022, ESWET members and other stakeholders from the Waste-to-Energy sector gathered to identify common contractual... ESWET (European Suppliers of Waste-to-Energy Technology) · 2 Aug 2022 Global More worrying results from biomonitoring of waste incineration emissions – ToxicoWatch research on the Beringen incinerator 2022 is bringing us plenty of updates and developments on the harmful effects of waste incineration on both the environment and the health of living organisms (including human health). After starting the year with the publication of Zero Waste Europe’s “The True Toxic Toll: biomonitoring of waste incineration” reports detailing findings in Lithuania, Czechia, and […] Zero Waste Europe · 2 Aug 2022 Global Plastic Bag Free July By Zamawela Shamase & Merrisa Naidoo “It’s all around us, in our homes, offices, social gatherings – you can’t help but notice the presence of plastic bags everywhere. The #BagIsStillHere […] GAIA (Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives) · 1 Aug 2022 Global Waste sector says it is ready to help EU tackle energy crisis ENDS EUROPE 28 July 2022 – The EU risks overlooking recycling and energy-from-waste in its plans to slash gas consumption in light of Russia’s war in Ukraine, the sector’s main industry group has said. FEAD (European Waste Management Association) · 1 Aug 2022 Global Kwankamol Chittrakul at the ISWA-SWIS Winter School 2022: Summer Edition ISWA (International Solid Waste Association) · 29 Jul 2022 Global Martijn Eerland at the ISWA-SWIS Winter School: Summer Edition ISWA (International Solid Waste Association) · 29 Jul 2022 Global FEAD: Waste sector needs support for role in climate and energy crises EUWID – 29 July 2022 – Against the backdrop of the global energy market disruption, FEAD, the European waste management association, highlighted the “fundamental role” the sector has to play in ending the EU’s dependence on Russian fossil fuels and tackling the climate crisis. Waste incineration, like anaerobic digestion, was a local, reliable and secure […] FEAD (European Waste Management Association) · 29 Jul 2022 Global Packaging: why Europe must set the stage for reuse this fall A proposal for the revision of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive expected this autumn will put waste firmly back on the political agenda. The EU must seize this opportunity to take on the single-use packaging crisis, writes Sarah Abou Chleih. However, Europe is faced with a dilemma: although the Green Deal made a bold political commitment to make all packaging reusable and recyclable … META (European Environmental Bureau) · 28 Jul 2022 Global Waste sector can ease EU’s energy crisis, FEAD says letsrecycle – 28 July 2022 The waste management sector could help end the EU’s “dependence” on Russian fossil fuels as it has the potential to produce more energy than it currently does, European trade association FEAD claims. FEAD (European Waste Management Association) · 28 Jul 2022 Global FEAD points to recycling, WTE role in energy market recycling today – 28 July 2022 European association says investments in recycling, waste-to-energy and anaerobic digestion directly address the continent’s energy shortage. FEAD (European Waste Management Association) · 28 Jul 2022 Global What can and cannot be sorted for recycling? Major testing programme advances A comprehensive experimental study of how more than 200 different flexible packaging samples behave in the most common optical sorting process generated concrete insights and will drive design recommendations for the flexible packaging sector – with CEFLEX stakeholders getting first access to insights from September 2022 CEFLEX (Circular Economy for Flexible Packaging) · 28 Jul 2022 Global New report: Decarbonise heat, save gas beyond next winter The EU is tightening its gas belt to survive winter, but it has yet to put a countdown on one of the most gas-guzzling source of consumption: heating. The new Coolproducts national study underlines how, for many member states, a phase-out of fossil heating technologies can easily be a triple score for independence, climate, and energy security, writes Bich Dao. Amidst one of Europe’s hottest we… META (European Environmental Bureau) · 27 Jul 2022 Global Meet our new Board members! In June, during our Network-Wide Gathering, our members unanimously elected three new members to join the ZWE Board. Our Board offers vision and expertise to the Zero Waste Europe network and organisation, and are an integral and invaluable part of our structure. As such, we are excited to welcome Juliette Franquet from Zero Waste France, […] Zero Waste Europe · 27 Jul 2022 Global EU’s decade-long bureaucratic journey to stop dangerous use of chemicals A recent EEB examination of the chemicals control in Europe reveals that at the current pace the EU would need hundreds of years to adequately control all potentially harmful chemicals on its market. The EU needs to listen to experts and speed up chemicals regulatory processes without delay. Andreea Anca reports. The Need for Speed report – Why it takes the EU more than a decade to control harm… META (European Environmental Bureau) · 27 Jul 2022 Global Plastics Europe position on complementarity of chemical and mechanical recycling To meet the plastic circularity objectives and optimize the availability of resources for future generations, the contribution of all recycling… Plastics Europe · 27 Jul 2022 Global A materials war: Ukraine and the race for resources Wars are both political and material. Hidden underneath Ukraine’s fertile land are vast amounts of resources that global powers desperately want. The risk of a resource grab sold to the public as “rebuilding Ukraine” is very real, write Robin Roels, Diego Marin and Nick Meynen. Wars have been fought and lost for access to energy, be it in the form of resources such as fossil fuels, or control o… META (European Environmental Bureau) · 27 Jul 2022 Global Plastics Europe’s Position on Commission proposal for a Regulation on Shipments of Waste (COM/2021/709 final) The Commission is updating the 2006 legislation (EC 1013/2006) on Shipments of Waste with one of its aims being to… Plastics Europe · 26 Jul 2022