Waste Management World

Glass collection rates are at an all-time high in Europe; the 2030 targets are within reach. But a closer look reveals that tonnage is not everything. More and more contaminants are making it to recycling plants. FERVER Secretary-General René Schroeder talks about the contamination costs, what recyclers need from municipalities, and why only 5 per cent of Europe's flat glass com...

Europe's metal recycling sector could lose access to key scrap metal export markets under the EU's revised Waste Shipment Regulation, while softer consumption in China and mounting logistical pressures add to an uncertain outlook, according to the October 2026 BIR World Mirror on Ferrous Metals.

When heavy rain hits Lake Constance, the volume of sewage reaching Friedrichshafen's sewage treatment plant can rise tenfold in a quarter of an hour. Coping with such surges of waste water calls for aeration that can be turned up and down across a very wide range. The city has spent more than two decades building its biological treatment around AEROSTRIP® strip diffusers – and h...

At UNTHA, the development floor is open to customers, salespeople and service technicians – an approach that has produced a patent, a raft of practical improvements and an award-winning shredder.

Italy now has its first plant to cover every treatment phase of textile recycling. In San Pietro Mosezzo, IGERS and technology partner STADLER have combined advanced sorting with mechanical regeneration to turn post-consumer and post-industrial textile waste into fibre fit for spinning – a concrete step towards textile circularity.