27-04-2022 Business Will deposit scheme boost Austria’s recycling rates? Austrian recyclers are happy that a new bill by Environment Minister Leonore Gewessler, calling for a nationwide deposit scheme for…
20-04-2021 Plastics Technology New sorting line to boost Ibiza’s recycling rates Worldwide, islands struggle with waste management and Ibiza is no exception. At the height of the coronavirus crisis, the Spanish…
14-01-2021 CORONA VIRUS Non-Ferrous Metals UK aluminium packaging recycling rates rocket during pandemic Aluminium packaging collected for recycling in the UK reached its highest ever level in 2020, according to the Environment Agency….
25-12-2020 Paper Carton sector acknowledges reported EU recycling rates will fall The claimed ‘recyclability’ of the beverage carton in the EU is challenged in a report from the Brussels NGO Zero…
09-09-2020 Business Paper South African fibre recycling rate plateaus The latest data on paper recycling in South Africa shows a fall in both the recycling rate and the volume…
30-01-2020 Business Australia eyes investors to help boost recycling rates Australia has launched a A$ 100 million (EUR 61 million) fund to help boost the country’s recycling rates and encourage…
24-09-2019 Business Paper Separation at home boosts South Africa’s paper recycling rate South Africa recovered almost 1.3 million tonnes of recyclable paper products, putting its paper recovery rate at 71.7%, according to…
23-01-2019 Business E-scrap ICM conference Zonneveld warns: recycling rates are going down ‘The gap in trust between authorities, policy makers, politicians and the electronics recycling industry is too wide. We need to…
19-12-2018 Business Plastics Can innovative partnerships salvage America’s slumping bottle recycling rates? The US recycled a total of 2.8 billion pounds of plastic bottles in 2017. This is a decrease of 3.6%…
18-07-2018 Batteries Can Australia’s low li-ion battery recycling rates be overcome? Only 2% of litihium-ion batteries are currently being recycled in Australia, so reveals a new report published by the Commonwealth…
29-03-2018 Technology Malta turns to hi-tech incineration to boost recycling rates Europe – Plans to construct a state-of-the-art waste-to-energy facility at Maghtab in Malta have been announced by the country’s environment…
