News - Circular Economy

Advanced recycling processes: a key alternative for packaging waste

The growing volume of packaging waste is one of the main environmental and social problems today. The complexity of these materials, as well as their degradation or contamination when it comes to post-consumer materials, often limits the efficiency of conventional mechanical recycling processes, leaving large flows of waste without added value ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: Circular Economy BRAND: ITENE

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For a sustainable urban logistics

The ‘last mile’ - the final leg of a product’s journey from a logistics hub to the end user – has become one of the biggest challenges in urban logistics. ( Read more... )

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From recent national legislation to the European Regulation

Packaging and packaging waste issues have historically been the focus of national and EU legislation. As is well known, at European level we had the Packaging Directive 94/62/EC (1), which has been a stable reference framework in this area for several decades and has allowed the consolidation of extended producer responsibility schemes for improving the collection and management of household packaging waste throughout Europe. ( Read more... )

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Guidelines for complying with the European Directive on single-use plastics

Over the last few months, in Spain there has been a change in the design of beverage containers, with the attachment of the cap to the neck of the bottle, motivated by a legislative obligation ( Read more... )

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Pineapple, orange and rice for new biodegradable packaging materials

59 million tons of food are wasted annually in the EU. About 30% of this waste is generated during cultivation and processing, resulting in the accumulation of losses, residues and by-products (post-harvest plant biomass, pulps, peels, manure, whey, etc.). These types of feedstocks, due to their high potential, could be reused or recycled as substrates in new value chains ( Read more... )

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Challenges and opportunities for the future: Introducing recycled content in your packaging

Plastic production has experienced a remarkable increase in the last two decades, doubling its output worldwide. ( Read more... )

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