This years annual meeting of "Plastics Recyclers Europe" (PRE) on 21st of November 2014 in Brussels showed broad support for the planned Circular Economy Package of the European Commission, regulating the evolution of Europes waste and recycling markets. The referring p
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Plastics Recycling in “Der Standard”
The Austrian plastics mechanical recycling was part of an enclosure in Austrias daily newspaper "Der Standard" which was running in 100.000 pieces on Thursday September 18th. Our main goal with this press release is to clarify the fact that recycling in Austria generall
ISO and EUCertplast successfully audited
Within August 2014 both ISO9001 and ISO14001 as well as EUCertplast audits took place at Ecoplast. All three were successfully completed and therefore Ecoplast will be equipped with all certificates for another year.
Ecoplast participates at the 17th International Altkunststofftag in Bad Neuenahr
Being Austrias leading PE-Recycler, Ecoplast and several more companies from plastics branch showed their participation at bvse's "17. International Altkunststofftag", taking place in Bad Neuenahr from June 3rd to June 4th 2014. The main question of the event dealt with
Ecoplast joins the 23rd Event “Kunststoffrecycling Sachsen” in Dresden
On the 13th of May 2014 Ecoplasts Mag. Günter Zotter, Member of the Board, presented our way of Recycling at the 23rd Conference for "Kunststoffrecycling in Sachsen" in Dresden. Main points were the challenges which recyclers are facing, especially due to multilayer-fil
Lukas Intemann takes over the helm at Ecoplast
On 1 September 2013, Lukas Intemann will become a managing director of Ecoplast alongside current managing director Reinhard Intemann. Lukas Intemann has been involved with the company since 2009, during which time he has reorganised project and process management and e
Ecoplast contradicts metastudy by European Bioplastics
In a press release, Ecoplast has contradicted a metastudy commissioned by European Bioplastics according to which a level of up to 10% compostable plastics in post-consumer recycling streams does not affect the mechanical performance of recyclates. Full press release: B
Discovering technology – pupils learn about plastics recycling
As part of the ‘Discovering Technology’ project, school pupils are given the opportunity to work with industrial companies to develop and present projects based on the company’s core activity. In 2013, Ecoplast helped school pupils from Leibnitz to manually produce plas
Visit of the ISWA-World-Convention
Following the annual World-Convention of the International Solid Waster Assocation taking place in Vienna from Oct 7th to Oct 11th, a group of 30 specialists in waste removal and recycling visited Ecoplast on Oct 11th. After a short introduction presenting the company a
Ecoplast the first recycler to be recertified by EUCertPlast
On 9 July 2013 Ecoplast became the first recycling company to be recertified by EUCertPlast. This not only documents the consistently high quality of our recyclates but also enables the continued use of our recycled granules in plastic products with the ‘Blauer Engel’ e