Plastic recycling

This report serves as a basis on the findings about the knowledge, services, products and especially the interests and objectives of the identified SME members of POLREC consortium partners and the materials that could be exchanged between value chains, within and across sectors. In the POLREC...

The POLREC Innovation open call has received a total of 52 applications. Following an intense period of evaluation, the results were sent out to all applicants on the 21 rst of December. 25 projects have been awarded : 13 for the mechanical recycling sub-grant, 8 for the chemical recycling sub-grant...

The goal of POLREC (Supporting a green and resilient Europe through POLymer RECycling) Euroclusters Innovation Open call is to financially support SMEs from plastics, rubbers and composites industries in recycling their polymer waste through 3 sub-topics : Mechanical Recycling, Mechanical Recycling...

The meeting organised by the Galician Food Cluster and the Packaging Cluster of Catalonia was attended by more than 60 professionals from the packaging and food sectors DS Smith, Buergofol and Karibou offered three sustainable alternatives to reduce the production of non-reusable plastic packaging...

The project involves 6 companies from different parts of the packaging industry value chain, under the coordination of the Packaging Cluster, BertIA, Industrias Plásticas Triana, KUKA, Molmasa, Tepsis and VM Systems The objective of this collaborative initiative is the development of a system that...

This initiative aims to respond to the growing concern of part of the sector, which from 2023 will have to pay €0.45 for every kilo of virgin plastic they put on the market The Packaging Cluster will accompany companies in the industry in the process of adapting to the new law, in order to maintain...

Compact results City market identifies a high percentage of unrecycled plastic The results encouraged the store to invest in a compactor for plastic waste In four months, several tonnes of plastic bales were generated, boosting recycling significantly K-Citymarket Easton is a large grocery store in...