In the global move to replace plastic packaging, seaweed represents an untapped opportunity. Bioplastic made from this material eschews the...

The new EU single-use plastic ban limits may restrict companies from developing sustainable innovations.

Industrial wastewater is facing tougher regulation, and tighter limits on nutrient discharge are being imposed to secure the quality of...

In the design of new products, the circularity and recyclability at the end of the product life cycle has hardly been considered so far. A...

A new publication from the Circular Economy Initiative Germany sheds light on the entire product life cycle of plastic packaging: from...

ESWET has welcomed the EU Commission’s initiative to carry out a revision of the Waste Shipment Regulation as a right step in the path of...

When WMW started writing about robots, we could count the number of active companies on one hand – a human hand at that. Tom Freyberg...

In a bid to tackle waste crime the UK’s waste and resource sector has called for tighter controls tougher controls and a new regime for...

Located around 20 km from the Esplanade of the Ministries, the heart of the Brazilian national government, the Estrutural Dumpsite is next...

With the potential to lower monitoring costs and provide increase frequency of monitoring, what do drones mean for landfill operators?

Finnish robotic waste sorting technology firm, ZenRobotics, has signed an exclusive partnership for the distribution of its ZenRobotics...

Rainer Rehn explains that with increasingly intelligent multitasking robotic systems next year, 2016, will be the Year of Robotic Waste...

Automated arms that can learn and get hurt. Is this something out of a science fiction novel? Nope, but a Finnish solution currently on...

An annual survey completed by Brazilian NGO CEMPRE shows that rates have been rising since 2008, showing that the country is on its way to...