With the acquisition of Mepol, LyondellBasell aims to expand its range of products with recycled content.

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LyondellBasell Acquires Mepol

Neste, Uponor, Wastewise and Borealis enable chemical recycling of hard-to-recycle plastic waste into new high-quality plastic pipes.

The project demonstrates that plastic waste that is difficult to recycle can be turned into high-quality plastic products through chemical recycling.

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A Danish manufacturer of wind turbines has found a way to completely recycle the turbines‘ rotor blades.

A new process should make it possible to completely recycle wind turbine rotor blades in the future.

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New Technology Disassembles Rotor Blades

Looper Textile Co.intends to collect, sort and sell used and unwanted garments and textiles and thereby extend the highest use of these valuable resources.

The waste management company Remondis and the Swedish fashion retailer H&M are pulling together to recycle clothes.

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H&M and Remondis Create Joint Venture

LyondellBasell and Nexus Circular sign long-term supply agreement. Nexus will supply LyondellBasell with 24,000 tons of recycled feedstock per year.

Bales of waste plastic film ready to be processed.

LyondellBasell Secures Recycled Feedstock from Nexus Circular

Amazon is looking for early-stage start-ups with a focus on recycling: the second Amazon Sustainability Accelerator is starting, and European companies can still apply until March 17.

Amazon Sustainability Accelerator 2023: the deadline for applications is 17 March 2023 and successful applicants will be announced in the Spring.

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Amazon Looks for Innovative Recycling-Start-ups

Südpack sees it as its responsibility to contribute towards the circular economy and aims to develop into a zero-waste company.

Sustainability can have many faces: mechanical and chemical recycling, design for recycling, reduction of the CO2 footprint, etc.

Recyclable Materials Management Is the Way to the Goal

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Zero Waste – Utopia or Reality?

Dr. Norbert Niessner “Recycling of Plastics”: An in-depth guide to the very latest global plastics recycling insights.

Dr. Norbert Niessner: .“The problem isn‘t plastics, but collection systems and recycling initiatives that are not fit for purpose.“

All Your Questions Answered

Tomra opened a second test facility at its headquarters in Germany to meet growing demand for material trials.

F.l.t.r.: Volker Rehrmann (EVP and Head of Tomra Recycling), Fabrizio Radice (VP and Head of Global Sales and Marketing), Tove Andersen (CEO), Tom Eng (SVP and Head of Tomra Recycling Sorting), André Lehmann (Test Center Manager)

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The winners of the seven awards will be announced on 11 May, the second day of the Plastics Recycling Show Europe at the RAI Amsterdam, where all 47 finalists will be showcased.

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Finalists Announced for Plastics Recycling Awards Europe 2023

Each year, more than one million tons of plastic waste are generated in Kenya – so far unused. T3 wants to change this and invests in a bottle-to-bottle recycling plant from Starlinger.

Around 1,334,000 tons of plastic become waste in Kenya each year.

Polyethylenterephthalat

Starlinger Installs First Plant in Kenya

Recycling as a business model: the start-up HolyPoly wants to bring more high-quality products made from recycled plastic onto the market.

Johanna Bialek, co-foundeer of the start-up and head of human resources and organizational development , and Fridolin Pflüger, founding member.

Ehrhardt, Melanie

“Recycling Is More than a  Trendy Topic“

Demand for recyclates is still rising, and many processors are therefore relying on their own recycling processes. Zeppelin supports them.

Material handling: the right conveying method is also crucial for product quality.

Zeppelin Systems Supports the Industrialization of Recycling Processes

Designed for the Specific Application

The goal of the processing runs is to further increase the company’s understanding of how different types of waste plastics behave during chemical recycling in the refinery processes.

Tanks at the refinery in Porvoo, Finland.

Neste Completed Second Series of Runs at Its Porvoo Refinery

The Canadian packaging manufacturer has been a customer of the Austrian machine manufacturer since 2007. The four installed Erema lines currently produce more than 10,000 tons of regranulate per year.

Polykar Expands Recycling Capacities in Canada

Thanks to a shredder-extruder combination from Pure Loop: high-strength synthetic nonwoven now made with a recycled content of 10 percent

In-house recycling is nothing new and presents companies with challenges again and again. This was also the case for TenCate Geosynthetics. The company produces PP nonwovens. In order to return rejects to production, those responsible turned to Pure Loops – with success.

It is impossible to imagine the construction industry without geosynthetics. PP nonwovens, for example – mechanically bonded continuous fibers made from specially UV-stabilised polypropylenes – are often used in blanket form as barriers, screens and filters, and their strength extends the service life of construction projects. Whether for road construction, or as barrier on glaciers or against weeds – there are myriad applications.

This type of PP nonwoven can now be recycled using Pure Loop ISEC evo technology. The customer is TenCate Geosynthetics, part of the Canadian company Solmax. The European company with locations in Austria, France and the Netherlands is specialised in the development and production of geotextiles for modern civil engineering applications.

The edge trimmings and production rejects generated during manufacturing used to be recycled at the Linz site, but not fed back into the company‘s own production process. „It wasn‘t an issue at the time because the recyclate was sold. But in the meantime, it has become clear that reselling our valuable production waste is not an ideal solution, especially in view of the rising raw material prices. That is why we investigated the market to see which recycling technology would make it possible to produce recylate that meets our production quality,“ says Jürgen Gruber, Head of Marketing (Europe/Middle-East/Africa) at TenCate Geosynthetics.

„The demands on us were high,“ recalls Patrick Wiesinger, project manager at Pure Loop. „The PP nonwoven is highly tear resistant, which means its a very challenging recycling process. Our ISEC evo machine conserves the quality of the production waste really well during recycling, so we were able to achieve the specified increase in quality for the recyclates.“

Another advantage of the technology is the wide range of shapes in which the production scrap can be delivered for processing. „At TenCate, one of the ways production scrap is delivered is on huge rolls. I‘m talking about a width of up to 5 metres,“ emphasizes Patrick Wiesinger. „Our ifeed technology with double feed ram system and singleshaft shredder offers the ideal conditions for direct processing of these large rolls – and without the need for prior preparation of the input material by employees before the material is fed into the recycling process.“ With the ISEC evo recycling machine TenCate can now manufacture its high-strength PP nonwoven product with a recyclate content of up to 10 percent.

„Thanks to the Pure Loop, it is now possible to return the high-quality recyclates directly to production. It makes sense in terms of cost effectiveness and it is an important step for us within the company in view of the circular economy that the industry is striving for,“ explains Jürgen Gruber. Currently, production waste from the sister site in France is being repelletised for production, while waste from the subsidiary in the Netherlands is being processed at a plant in Linz for test purposes. „We produce many other special plastics in addition to this PP nonwoven. If we achieve the same high quality of recycled pellets, then we are open to using the Pure Loop technology for other materials as well,“ says Jürgen Gruber.

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TenCate Geosynthetics Austria manufactures the high-strength PP nonwoven fabric shown here. The edge trimmings and production waste are processed in an ISEC evo recycling plant to produce recyclate material.

From the left: Günther Sebera (Head of Purchasing, TenCate Geosynthetics Austria), Gundolf Sabathiel (Plant Manager Linz, TenCate Geosynthetics), Patrick Wiesinger (Project Manager, Pure Loop) and Jürgen Gruber (Marketing Director EMEA, TenCate Geosynthetics).

2022-09-15 - Pure Loop

Pure Loop, ein Tochterunternehmen der Erema Group GmbH, ist auf Shredder-Extruder-Technologie für das hocheffiziente Recycling sauberer Produktionsabfälle spezialisiert. Der Firmensitz ist in Ansfelden/Linz. Optimale Anpassung an die bestehende Ausschusslogistik sowie ein größtmöglicher Rückführungsgrad von Regranulat in den Produktionsprozess kennzeichnen laut eigener Aussage die Recycling-Lösungen des Unternehmens. Kunden profitieren darüber hinaus auch von der Erfahrung, dem Technologie-Know-how sowie der Innnovationskraft der gesamten Unternehmensgruppe. <a href="https://www.pureloop.com/de" target="_blank">www.pureloop.com</a>

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