Viridor opens £317m Avonmouth plastics recycling and energy recovery plant

The facility near Bristol has the capacity to process 1.6 billion items of plastic and divert around 320,000 tonnes of non-recyclable waste from landfill every year

Eastman to invest $1bn in plastics recycling facility in France

The material-to-material molecular recycling plant would process up to 160,000 metric tonnes annually of hard-to-recycle plastic waste that is currently being incinerated

Fresh €100m investment for pan-European plastics recycling platform

Repeats Group uses a mechanical process to transform post-commercial plastic waste into resin suitable for commercial and industrial applications

Australia grants $16.5m for its ‘biggest’ PET plastics recycling facility

It will have the capacity to recycle the equivalent of an estimated one billion PET bottles a year

US announces $27m for advanced plastic recycling tech

The projects are expected to help improve existing recycling processes that break plastics into chemical building blocks, which can then be used to make new products

Total to convert refinery to zero-crude platform with €500m investment

The project will process animal fats from Europe and used cooking oil to produce sustainable aviation fuel and renewable diesel

France’s Total buys plastics recycling firm Synova

It produces around 20,000 tonnes of polypropylene a year, made from recycled plastics for car manufacturers