Posts from Martijn Reintjes

29-11-2022

‘Now it’s our daughters’ turn’

In the middle of these turbulent times, Heiner Gröger is retiring from the successful recycling business he built up with…

25-11-2022

Business

From Tucson, Arizona it’s a 45-minute drive north to Marana, a town stretched out along interstate highway 10 and home…

23-11-2022

Column

‘As an industry, how do we appeal the next generation?’ EMR Group ceo Chris Sheppard asked himself (and a panel)…

22-11-2022

Recycling International regularly spotlights individual scrap traders from around the globe. Here we give the floor to Rom Patel, senior…

21-11-2022

Plastics Technology

In the slipstream of the G-20 economic summit on Bali, the governments of Indonesia and the Netherlands have expanded a…

16-11-2022

John Sacco of California-based recycling firm Sierra is on a personal mission to change what he calls ‘the narrative of…

03-11-2022

Business Plastics

An environmental clean-up of communities hit by devastating floods in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province earlier this year has yielded positive…

03-11-2022

Business

Ever-stricter scrap trade rules and corporate sustainability goals for recovered paper and plastics flows within and from Europe will be…

21-10-2022

In the next five to ten years the Gulf region will witness a major and broad recycling capacity boost, not…

21-10-2022

Ferrous markets have seen major shifts in the past year with EU steel production declining, Turkish production and steel scrap…

19-10-2022

Inflation, logistic issues, increased scrap trade hurdles and, most of all, widespread concerns over sky-high energy costs dominated the BIR…