Ahead of the plenary votes in the European Parliament next week, CEOs of the steel industry has written an open letter to address concerns in relation to amendments introduced by the Environment Committee of the European Parliament on the EU’s Emissions Trading System (ETS) and...... Read more
APEAL Secretary General Alexis Van Maercke will be releasing the 2020 recycling rates for steel packaging at the forthcoming Can Tech The Grand Tour event taking place online this coming 8th June. With the new EU recycling rate calculation methodology applying to recycling data reported...... Read more
APEAL is delighted to join the International Solid Waste Association (ISWA) European members on 9th May from 1pm to discuss the harmonisation of waste collection across municipalities and regions within Europe. In 2018, EU governments and institutions struck a historic agreement introducing what many hailed...... Read more
APEAL will be supporting the Netherlands Packaging Centre’s conference entitled Design for Intended Use (DIU) in food packaging on Thursday 28th April (13.40 – 15.10) at the forthcoming Anuga FoodTec (26-29th April in Cologne) When it comes to food packaging, and in line with the...... Read more
Optimising separate collection is the best guarantee of high-quality input into steel recycling operations. Read the full blog here... Read more
“From vision to reality – closing the loop on steel packaging recycling” – 35 participants live in Brussels, together with 150 online engaged in a lively debate on how the steel packaging industry can help this vision become reality. Watch the highlights in this short...... Read more
APEAL Secretary General Alexis Van Maercke will join industry speakers at this annual Brussels event taking place live 3-5th May. Speaking on the morning of Thursday 5th May he will discuss how to reach APEAL’s vision of zero steel packaging to landfill by 2025 whilst...... Read more
Our Circular economy agenda is all about keeping products and materials for as long as possible in the economy,” said European Commissioner for the Environment, Virginijus Sinkevičius who opened and endorsed our 1st February event organised in partnership with Parliament Magazine. Read the full blog here...... Read more
APEAL has announced the launch of its new report: How to recycle steel – Why steel packaging recycles forever. It follows the Association’s first report, launched in 2018: Good Practices on Separate Collection, Sorting and Recycling of Steel for Packaging, which was well received across...... Read more
That all packaging on the EU market be reusable or recyclable in an economically viable way by 2030 is a key objective of the New Circular Economy Action Plan, one of the main building blocks of the European Green Deal. Endorsed by Commissioner the European...... Read more