Three of the top five sustainability commitments by businesses involve plastic reduction and 77% of them express a willingness to accept the cost of implementing sustainable practices.1 All in a bid to address consumers’ demand for sustainability - the key driving force for tackling ...

Over 300 members of the polyethylene terephthalate (PET) industry gathered in Brussels at the annual Petcore Europe conference in February, looking for clarity on the wide-ranging, market-changing packaging and waste legislation currently under discussion in the EU, but many left ...

A new analysis released systems change company Systemiq identifies over 100 plastic recycling installations outside Europe that are now registered for imports into Europe. The Circular PET and Polyester issue brief highlights the risk that large-scale imports of recycled PET could ...

Avantium secures funding for the completion, commissioning and start-up of the FDCA Flagship Plant and the acceleration of its commercial deployment The gross proceeds from the rights offering is €50.5 million, resulting in the issue of 27,018,772 new ordinary shares ...

Latest figures show that the total European installed plastics recycling capacity1 stands at 12.5 million tonnes in 2022. Due to heavy market disruptions2, the growth rate went down from 17% to 10%, year-on-year.

Plastic resource efficiency and recycling charity, RECOUP, has launched its annual UK Household Plastic Packaging Collection Survey, which estimates that year-on-year plastic packaging use and plastic packaging collection quantities have dropped for the first time.

The waste plastics value chain is a complex and dynamic sector, with an evolving operating environment. The general negative image of plastics is becoming increasingly global, driving the need for new legislation to increase recycling levels and the development of higher value ...

Petainer are delighted to release their first ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) report.

Pharma and recycling expansion, new markets and products: ALPLA invested in further ...

Imports of PET to the US have experienced price increases of 30-40% due to the global ocean freight disruptions and delays, according to market participants.