Even before its new electric arc furnace (EAF) at Donawitz in Leoben, Styria, has entered service, Austrian steelmaker Voestalpine is planning a further expansion. The company said in late June that, ...

Insolvency proceedings were opened against German chemical recycler company Carboliq in early June. The published insolvency notice cites the company's inability to pay its debts and its ...

EU member states last week agreed their negotiating position on parts of the "Omnibus VIII" legislative package to streamline ...

Municipal Waste Europe (MWE) has elected a new board, with Tony Clark, managing director and chief executive of Sweden's ...

The European Commission has officially adopted an Implementing Decision laying down harmonised rules for calculating, ...

Fost Plus, Belgium's packaging producer responsibility organisation (PRO), is leading a large-scale trial of a sorting ...

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has withdrawn a $375m (€330m) grant awarded to Eastman for a chemical recycling project. The "molecular recycling" plant is to be built at the company's site in ...

In the coming weeks, the European Commission plans to adopt rules for calculating recycled content in plastics in an implementing decision of the Single-Use Plastics Directive (SUPD). Specifically, ...

The Brazilian plastics group Braskem is planning to build a pyrolysis plant for plastic waste near Chicago in partnership with the US firm Nexus Circular. The two companies signed a memorandum of ...

The US recycler Purecycle currently expects to start construction on a chemical recycling plant for polypropylene (PP) in Antwerp next year. The project is subject to the completion of ongoing ...

The British market for recovered paper and board was predominately characterised by stability in June. While collection ...

The design of extended producer responsibility (EPR) schemes for packaging will play a decisive role in determining whether ...