Collaboration in Vietnam to boost recycling efforts / Japan's Suntory sets targets for more sustainable PET packaging

Resorts ban single-use items / Rome metro trials bottle recycling system

Aimplas project to probe wastewater treatment technology in Valencia / Standardised methodology is needed

Launch of "RecyClass" tool for rigid HDPE containers / Next focus is on PP containers

"Plastic needs to be part of the solution and not part of the problem" / Vassilis Gounaris is next president of AHPI / Consumer perceptions need changing

More than 5,000 t of plastics enter the environment each year / Discharges into the soil are 40 times greater than those into freshwater / Lake Geneva heavily contaminated with macroplastics

Chemours sues DuPont over PFOA liability / ECHA proposes SVHC listing for “GenX” / Moody's downgrades spin-off

Expansion of freight transport on Danube river planned / Viadonau initiative for chemical and petrochemical products

UK government commits to spending millions to combat disposable plastics / Support for bio-based polymers / Firms including Unilever sign up to challenge

Coca-Cola and PepsiCo leave Plastics Industry Association following pressure from Greenpeace

Ban on plastic bags passed / First national “circularity gap” report / Education project for the packaging industry

Alliance to End Plastic Waste adds 12 new members / Sinopec first Chinese supporter

Austrian firms in non-bottle waste recycling plan / "RePETitio" initiative

ECHA adds four new substances to SVHC list / Two labelled as endocrine disruptors

Petcore Europe launches chemical recycling group