The latest plastics and recovered paper recycling developments will take centre stage at the annual conference organised by Recycling Today Media Group from 20-22 October. The 2020 Paper & Plastics Recycling Conference International (PPRCi) event starts today and will feature representatives from several Europe- and Asia-based companies during its three [...]
Following China’s announcement that it is striving for ‘zero waste imports’ by the end of the year, its annual purchase of recovered fibre from overseas has fallen from 26-29 million tonnes in the three years to 2017 to just 11 million tonnes in 2019. And the nation will import only [...]
Hyundai has launched the Re:Style 2020 collection, which is made from upcycled, repurposed car parts that would have otherwise ended up in landfill. The recycled items, which range from clothing and accessories to jewellery, are available starting this week at London’s Selfridges pop-up store and the Selfridges online store. Discarded [...]
The Turkish government is limiting the import of recycled paper and plastic to a maximum of 50% of a recycler’s production capacity, requiring them to source the rest of their feedstock from domestic collections, the Turkish recycling industry body Tüdam reports. This quota, as agreed by the recycling industry and the [...]
The latest data on paper recycling in South Africa shows a fall in both the recycling rate and the volume processed at the end of a decade which has largely seen sustained growth. RecyclePaperZA says the nation recovered 1.2 million tonnes of recycled paper products in 2019, giving a recycling [...]
The UK’s Recycling Association (RA) has welcomed a potential redesign of the iconic – but fundamentally unrecyclable – Pringles can for potato crisps as ‘a step in the right direction’. It has been reported that Kellogg’s is testing out new packaging at a limited number of Tesco stores in eastern [...]
Finland is closing its Kaipola paper mill, which is the country’s largest user of recycled fibre, by the end of this year. To move is meant to help ensure future competitiveness of UPM Communication Papers. The mill in Jämsä processes almost half of all paper scrap collected from Finland’s consumers: [...]
US start-up Natural Fiber Welding (NFW) has received a multi-million investment from fashion label Ralph Lauren. The funds will benefit its new solution, which can recycle cotton and other types of textile scrap into ‘high-performance new materials’. As a part of the investment, said to be around EUR 11 million [...]
Textile recyclers have welcomed a new protocol from the Kenyan government that allows the resumption of imports of used clothing and shoes. Restrictions on imports of used clothing (known locally as ‘mitumba’) were put in place in March amid ministers’ concerns over the spread of Covid-19. That prompted lobbying from [...]
European paper recyclers have had a rollercoaster six months with high stocks and low prices being reversed and then switching back again as markets adjusted to the challenging Covid-19 crisis. That view has been set out by Jean-Luc Petithuguenin, who chairs the paper division of the Bureau of International Recycling, [...]