IFAT 2024

Around 7 mio. t of textiles are disposed of in Europe every year – only a small proportion of these are actually reused, recycled, or recovered as raw materials. A new EU directive will require member states to collect and dispose of old clothes and textiles separately from 2025 onwards, rather than disposing of them with residual waste as has been the case up to now.

OMV and Borealis have entered into long-term feedstock supply agreements for their recycling facilities with TOMRA Feedstock, a subsidiary of leading sorting technology producer TOMRA. These...

This year it was not only the pandemic that had an impact on the conference taking place on March 07 and 08, 2022, but it was also overshadowed by the Ukraine war. Thus, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Goldmann, TU...

Before the pandemic really broke out, hardly any company expected the impact of Covid-19 to be as serious as it turned out to be – and a manufacturer of refuse-derived fuels (RDF) from Slovakia and a...

Despite all efforts and best intentions to offer a “physical” World Recycling Convention this October in Brussels, the organizating team of BIR  World Recycling Convention in October must now confirm...

Back in 2025 PETCORE EUROPE launched a call for Papers on Innovation within the ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2026: “The PET Value Chain vs. Full Circularity”.Due to a large number of well-grounded papers from...

Shortly before Christmas 2017, Saubermacher Dienstleistungs AG placed an order with REDWAVE for the planning and construction of the expansion and renewal of the plastic packaging sorting plant in...

BIR has made “impressive and encouraging” progress across finance, membership, advocacy, communications and global engagement since its previous gathering in Singapore last October, President...

Less than two years have passed since the groundbreaking ceremony in December 2020. Now, the Hagedorn Group of Companies opened the Hanover Recyclables Center (HWG) at the end of April. In the three...

Nord Pal Plast (NPP), a France-based subsidiary of the European group Dentis that specializes in producing recycled PET flakes derived from post-consumer plastic bottles, was the first to test TOMRA’s...