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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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25. 2. 2025

How to determine the recyclate content of chemical recycling in plastics?

As of this year, plastic beverage bottles must contain at least 25% recycled content. The percentages increase in subsequent years. The draft methodology for calculating the recycled content from chemical recycling in plastic beverage bottles, which is now being addressed, will also become the basis for calculating the recycled content for all plastic packaging or synthetic textiles. Under the current Packaging Act, which has taken over part of the transposition [...]

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16. 2. 2025

Preparation of the content of the implementing rules for the new Packaging Regulation must not be underestimated

The new Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) will be complemented by delegated and implementing acts in the coming months. Their content will be important to clarify or even repeal some of the provisions of the new Regulation. The PPWR entered into force on 11 February 2025 and is effective from 12 August 2026, when it is binding on obliged entities. Already now industry stakeholders are addressing the future draft content [...]

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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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3. 11. 2024

The new packaging regulation will not solve the current recession in the plastics recycling industry

The ever increasing demand for cheaper plastic recyclate from Asia is influencing the gradual closure of recycling plants in the EU. The critical situation and the urgent need to address it are being highlighted by Plastics Recyclers Europe. Plastics Recyclers Europe President Ton Emans said: "This situation undermines progress and investment in improving recycling processes. Many recyclers are struggling to survive in a market flooded with uncontrolled imports that [...]

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