Site Zero, the large-scale packaging waste sorting facility operated by Svensk Plaståtervinning (Swedish Plastic Recycling) in Motala in southern Sweden, became the first plant in Europe to receive ...

Sportswear giant Nike has signed two multi-year offtake agreements for circular polyester recovered from waste textiles. Both Swedish recycler Syre and Canadian technology company Loop Industries ...

The Belgian-Turkish company Synpet Technologies intends to build its first commercial-scale recycling plant at the Port of Antwerp-Bruges, investing €300m in the project. Once completed, the facility, ...

FCC’s waste management and municipal services business achieved solid revenue growth in the first nine months of 2025, supported by acquisitions completed in 2024 and by new service contracts in its ...

After the dipping at the start of the month, copper prices have started to rise again. The LME price increased by $200 per tonne in the week commenced 10 November and was edging back towards the ...

The German market for recovered paper and board is clearly a buyers’ market in November, with prices for mixed paper and board (1.02) and supermarket paper and board (1.04) falling this month. After ...

Europe’s waste-to-energy (wte) plants continue to have high levels of capacity utilisation even though waste volumes remain relatively low due to the continent’s weak economic activity. Nearly half of ...

The UK waste wood sector remains under significant pressure, according to the Wood Recyclers’ Association (WRA). Stockpiles have built up across the country as recyclers struggle to move material ...

More than 40 European trade associations and companies representing extended producer responsibility (EPR) systems and actors across the packaging value chain have urged Slovak lawmakers to reject a p ...

The consumption of lightweight plastic carrier bags continued to decline in the European Union in 2023. According to data recently published by the EU’s statistics office Eurostat, average per capita ...

Stijn Jennissen now leads the Dutch refuse derived fuel (RDF) producer N+P group. The son of company founder Karel Jennissen, has stepped into the role of CEO, succeeding Geoffroy de Myttenaere, who ...

Recycling Europe has launched a new policy manifesto urging European Union policymakers to strengthen the recycling of recovered paper and board through harmonised regulation, open markets and ...