Waste Oils and Biodiesel: A Cycle Worth Exploiting
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano In Italy, the National Consortium for the Collection and Treatment of Used Oils and Fats (CONOE) i...
Haiki+ strengthens integrated lead-acid battery recycling chain
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano On the 1st of July, Haiki+ S.p.A. acquired 100% of the capital of Ecobat Resources Italy S.r.l., o...
Aluminium in Packaging Means Prevention and Technological Innovation
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano In December 2024, the EU Council formally adopted the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PP...
Huge potential for a global circular economy going unleveraged
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Beginning to write this year’s Circularity Gap Report, we were driven by a simple question: ...
More Varied and United Supply Chains: A New Era for Cobat Consortiums
An efficient waste collection and disposal process necessitates oversight over individual supply chains; however, teamwork between different sectors is equally important, to exploit differences, opt...
Italy Leads the Way in The Sustainable Management of Plastic Packaging Waste
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano In 2022, according to Eurostat data, 36.1 kg of plastic packaging waste per capita was generated i...
Roasting chestnuts, recycling walnuts: turning festive treats into sustainable new materials
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Dr Notburga Gierlinger, an Austrian researcher specialising in the study of the structure and...
Textile waste, the industry on alert: "Without aid, only incineration is left"
Unless adequate incentives and policies are put in place, companies that collect and sort used clothing risk collapse. This is the warning issued by EuRIC, the European association of recyclers...
Tomra separates food-grade plastic from non-food-grade plastic with deep learning
* from Koblenz An intelligence capable of making decisions within milliseconds, based on information learned gradually over time, improving day by day the ability to distinguish a waste. Th...
Startup: umbrellas and eyeglasses, a second life for cigarette butts
Re-Cig is a company that operates in seventeen of Italy’s twenty regions for the collection and recovery of cigarette stubs. Based in Rovereto (Trento), at the Progetto Manifattura hub, Re-Cig...
Startup, Kubik: plastic recycling for low-cost and low-carbon construction
Kenyan startup Kubik transforms difficult-to-recycle plastic waste into low-cost and low-carbon-emission construction materials for building long-lasting and less polluting structures. From sch...