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Czech project PolyEnvi21 addresses rapid detection of plastic recyclate quality
10. 3. 2025

Czech project PolyEnvi21 addresses rapid detection of plastic recyclate quality

Controlling recyclates from suppliers and protecting the production process from contamination by degraded plastics is the goal of the PolyEnvi21 project. The new technology will have a wide range of applications not only for packaging, but also for textiles or in the automotive industry. Recycling, the basis of the circular economy, is a complex discipline, especially for plastics. This is why the Single Use Plastics (SUP) Directive has focused on [...]

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press conference 6.2.2025 sorting of metals also into yellow bins
7. 2. 2025

Metal packaging can now also be sorted into yellow bins together with plastics

From 2025, Czechs will also be able to sort metal packaging into all yellow collection bins where grey bins are not available. The largest trade unions of collection and sorting companies have agreed to extend and simplify the metal packaging sorting system. The Czech municipal sorting system has already expanded to one million coloured [...]

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29. 1. 2025

New packaging regulation will increase food prices, possibly also mandatory backup

Sustainability is not free, the PPWR regulation will have an economic impact. An expert seminar in the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic opened the important topic of the impact of the new legislation on the prices of food, packaging and packaging waste. The changes will affect not only end consumers but also the wider industry of manufacturers, retailers or even recyclers. The seminar took place on Monday 27 January 2025 with speakers representing [...]

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23. 1. 2025

How will the new legislation affect the prices of packaging, waste or food?

On Monday 27 January 2025, a seminar on "New legislation and food prices" will be held in the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic. Specifically, the impact of the new Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) and the draft law on mandatory backup. The seminar is organized under the auspices of the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Food, Veterinary Activities and Animal Production of the Chamber of Deputies of the [...]

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16. 1. 2025

The Czech Republic is planning mandatory sorting of gastro waste. The decree should be in force in the first months of 2025 

Promoting the sorting of municipal waste and the efficient treatment of kitchen waste with an animal component, which still largely ends up without any use in landfills, is one of the objectives of the forthcoming amendment to the Waste Act Decree. With its entry into force at the beginning of 2028, municipalities should be obliged to separate catering waste from mixed municipal waste. In more than twenty Czech cities and [...]

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9. 1. 2025

New labelling technologies for packaging materials or textiles will increase recycling efficiency

Accurate labelling of packaging material types aims to increase the level of recycling of packaging waste, and also to ensure validation of the mandatory high recycling rate in plastic packaging under the new legislation. However, it also serves to mark the types of textiles or to confirm authenticity. Optical sorting lines are currently state-of-the-art equipment that makes waste management easier and more efficient. They are used, for example, by SAKO Brno or OZO Ostrava. [...]

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16. 12. 2024

Five essential steps for competitiveness and innovation in the plastics recycling industry

The European plastics recycling industry is facing a recession mainly due to imports of cheap recyclates and virgin polymers from Asia. It therefore proposes 5 basic steps to improve the alarming situation. The circular economy is one of the key policy strategies of the European Union. The circular economy aims to maintain the value of products or materials for as long as possible in the economic cycle and then return them to the production [...].

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6. 12. 2024

Chemical recycling is still waiting for its legislative "timetable"

Last week, the European Parliament (EP) formally confirmed the new Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR), which requires a mandatory high recycling content in plastic packaging from 2030. However, without chemical recycling, it will be difficult to meet these conditions. The PPWR confirmed by the EP will also be formally approved by the Council in the coming weeks and will enter into force 20 days after its publication in the EU's Official Journal. The Regulation [...]

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15. 10. 2024

Language correction of the new Packaging Regulation significantly changes its substantive content

The Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation has been revised by legal-linguists before final confirmation by the European Parliament. However, after analysis of the resulting linguistic corrections, changes were also made to the substantive content, which go beyond the usual procedure. In April this year, the European Parliament (EP) confirmed the preliminary agreement of the text of the new Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation ([...]

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7. 10. 2024

Do not throw party gas bombs or any other large cylinders in the trash! Their explosions complicate waste processing in the capital

In Prague, such a mischief has spread. People throw large cylinders into black bins for mixed municipal waste, such as bombs from so-called party gases and sometimes others. However, their explosions complicate the energy processing of waste at the ZEVO Malešice incinerator. Prague services are therefore reminding citizens and visitors that this type of packaging cannot be disposed of [...]

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