Posts from Martijn Reintjes

07-04-2020

New tech hub to bring recycling in southern Africa to a higher level

Sorting technology specialist Tomra has opened a new regional headquarters in Johannesburg to what it calls ‘strengthen its commitment’ to…

02-04-2020

CORONA VIRUS

Tom Bird: ‘Devastating impact on supply, logistics and sales’

The coronavirus crisis is affecting the lives and businesses of many in the global recycling scene. ‘Who, when sitting around…

31-03-2020

Business CORONA VIRUS

Gabriele Merlo: ‘No workers are infected’

The coronavirus crisis is affecting the lives and businesses of many in the global recycling scene. ‘Fortunately, we are still…

30-03-2020

CORONA VIRUS Plastics

How a plastics recycler helps combat coronavirus

The recycling sector worldwide is considered an ‘essential industry’ during the current coronavirus crisis and Swedish plastics recycler and producer…

25-03-2020

CORONA VIRUS

Doug Kramer: ‘Uncharted territory for all of us’

The coronavirus crisis is affecting the lives and businesses of recyclers around the globe. ‘There is no free movement of…

25-03-2020

CORONA VIRUS

‘Essential work’ of battered recycling sector recognised around the globe

As the world adopts draconian and wide-ranging measures in a bid to arrest the coronavirus pandemic, the global scrap recycling…

24-03-2020

Plastics Technology

Stadler’s ‘biggest ever line’ to handle half of Denmark’s PET bottles

Recycling technology provider Stadler has completed the commissioning of a beverage packaging sorting plant it designed and built for Dansk…

20-03-2020

CORONA VIRUS

‘We all need each other in these trying times’

‘The situation across the planet has unfolded in an unprecedented way, affecting our daily lives, our interaction with our friends…

20-03-2020

CORONA VIRUS

Rescheduling ISRI2020 convention & expo ‘impossible’

The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries has decided to completely cancel ISRI2020, initially scheduled for next month in Las Vegas….

20-03-2020

Business CORONA VIRUS

New quarantine measures may delay scrap shipments

The global recycling industry is beginning to experience the effects of a ‘new normal’ created by the coronavirus pandemic, reports…

17-03-2020

CORONA VIRUS Paper

Coronavirus causing ‘huge difficulty’ for UK recovered paper

The coronavirus outbreak is hitting the recovered paper sector hard, according to the UK’s Recycling Association. ‘Container availability has become…