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PRE calls for waste ‘overhaul’
Europe needs to over- haul old practices in plastics waste manage- ment to deal with high contamination levels in recycling streams resulting from poor collection and sorting systems, says Plastics Recyclers Europe (PRE). While the export of plastics waste may have been common practice in the past, China’s ban on waste imports has thrown the spotlight on European countries to create viable schemes to properly treat their waste domestically. PRE called the Chinese ban an “opportunity” to retain the waste in the EU and help towards the creation of a Circular Economy. But separate collection and high-quali- ty sorting schemes are needed in order to make valuable raw materials for recyclers, it said. They would also
generate a significant number of new green jobs in Europe, said PRE. �
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Improved collection and recycling is targeted in India and Indonesia
Veolia partnership with Unilever to start in Asia
Brand owner Unilever and waste and recycling group Veolia have signed a collaboration agreement on sustainable packaging. The three-year partnership deal between the two companies aims to improve waste collection and recycling infrastructures in various global regions and geogra- phies, starting in India and Indonesia.
Unilever and Veolia said
the agreement is an acknowl- edgement that “the issue of plastic waste is a shared responsibility that requires bold action across the value chain to develop and scale up collection and reprocess- ing infrastructure, which is critical in the transition towards a circular economy”.
Under the agreement,
Veolia will work with Unilever to implement used packaging collection initiatives, develop new processes and business models, and add recycling capacity. Marc Engel, Unilever’s
Chief Supply Chain Officer, said: “The scale of the plastic waste issue is getting worse, not better, with the production of plastics expected to double over the next two decades. We all have a lot more to do to address this critical issue and we hope that by partnering with Veolia, a world leader in waste management, we can take meaningful strides towards a circular economy.”
Laurent Auguste, Senior
Executive Vice-President of Veolia for Development, Innovation and Markets, said: “There is an undeni- able need to transform the current way plastic packag- ing end of life is managed in order to reduce significantly its environmental footprint. It will take a collaboration of a new kind between all the actors of the value chain. With this global partnership, Veolia and Unilever join forces in various geogra- phies around the globe and, from the collection to the recycling, take a leadership role to redefine a responsi- ble and sustainable future for packaging.” �
www.veolia.com �
www.unilever.com
NGR shows LSP at open house event
Next Generation Recycling Machines (NGR) says it received 117 visitors from 24 countries at an open day it held at its facility in Feldkirchen an der Donau, Austria, in November. The company demonstrated its Liquid State Polycon- densation (LSP) PET recycling process in connection with a Kuhne extrusion line producing food grade rPET sheet. The advantage of LSP, sad NGR, is
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that different types of PET waste can be mixed and recycled, ranging from bottle flake to lower value scrap such as fibre, sheet, thermoform waste and strapping. In LSP, PET waste can be recycled to higher intrinsic viscosity levels. The melt which has passed the LSP
reactor can be granulated or processed to FDA-approved film and sheet. �
www.ngr.at
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