by Plastics.com Staff | May 24, 2018 | Business, Daily News, Environmental, Europe
The step by step process to create high performance and sustainable bio-based alternatives to plastics has moved forward again thanks to a new product from Stora Enso, a wood-based biocomposite – DuraSense. This innovation, enables the use of renewable fibres, such as...
by Plastics.com Staff | May 23, 2018 | Business, Commodity Polymers, Consumer, Daily News, Environmental, Europe
The EU has confirmed that it aims to ban straws, cutlery, plates and balloon sticks made of plastic as part of a purge on the use of plastics. The European Commission is seeking to reduce plastics polluting the environment, especially in oceans and on beaches....
by Plastics.com Staff | May 20, 2018 | Business, Daily News, Environmental, Europe, Global, Polymer Science, Recycling
The Port of Amsterdam will soon be home to a chemical plant designed to convert non-recyclable plastics into usable diesel fuel using pyrolysis. The Port of Amsterdam and the facility’s operator, Dutch startup Bin2Barrel, believe that its operation will reduce...
by Plastics.com Staff | May 9, 2018 | Business, Daily News, Environmental, Europe, Global, Packaging, Recycling
UK – Sustainability, the marine plastics crisis, microplastics and carbon wastage are all important factors for consumers, politicians and the plastics industry alike, and out of all of these groups, it is the plastics industry that is left screaming into the...
by Plastics.com Staff | May 8, 2018 | Business, Daily News, Environmental, Europe, Recycling
Announced at the Plastics Recycling Show Europe in Amsterdam, the five winners were as follows: Plastics Recycling Ambassador of the Year: Willemijn Peeters, founder of Netherlands-based Searious Business Building & Construction Product: Beaulex stormwater buffer...
by Plastics.com Staff | May 3, 2018 | Daily News, Environmental, Europe, Global
The Netherlands: Almost 200 000 tonnes of plastics are produced in Europe every day, according to Ton Emans, president of Plastics Recyclers Europe (PRE). Recyclers across the continent need to boost their processing capacity in order to keep up with the ‘booming’...
