Recycling

October was a month of no change in the situation facing Germany’s PET recyclers compared with September. Flake and recycled pellet sales remained disappointing. Most recyclers reported unchanged selling prices for flakes and regranulate in October. They feel that prices have now bottomed out....

The German recycled PET market appears to have bottomed out. Additional, minor markdowns did surface for bottles and flakes in August, but insiders now largely expect prices to hold steady at a low level. The rising price of primary PET in Europe and the fact that flakes from Asia were more expensive than those from...

February was another disappointing month for PET recyclers in Germany. Some market players are now beginning to describe this as the biggest crisis the industry has ever seen. Cheap primary PET from European producers and even cheaper imports of virgin material from Asia are weighing into sales of regranulate and...

The infringement proceedings have been launched in connection with the country's national rules governing waste sorting labelling...

The Confederation of the European Paper Industry has issued a response to the European Commission’s legislative proposal for packaging and packaging waste. Cepi feels that the targets set out in the proposed revision are right, but has identified shortcomings in the way that they are implemented. The Commission calls...

Recoup, the British organisation that promotes plastics recycling, is critical of the growing trend towards material substitution in packaging. In some cases, plastics were substituted – for example with paper – without considering the impact on recyclability, the organisation said....

PET recyclate and post-consumer single-use PET bottles from deposit systems became more expensive again in May....

According to the cross-industry initiative, the document constitutes a crucial step in building a circular future for fibre-based packaging....

The declaration promotes voluntary actions for a well-functioning EU market in recycled plastics....

The next and final step necessary for the new Directive to be officially adopted is approval from the European Council....

Commitment to find sustainable solutions for recycling all black plastic packaging bottles, pots, tubs and trays by the end of 2018....