During the extraordinary meeting of the European Council ended last week, it was reached an agreement regarding the new EU Plastics Tax, which aims to damage non-recycled plastic packaging waste and whose application is expected to start on January the 1st, 2021, as a part...
AIPE, the Italian Association of Expanded Polystyrene, has decided to support and promote the qualities of EPS (Expanded Polystyrene) with a short movie on YouTube (in Italian language), where a polystyrene ball explains the EPS qualities with an easy speaking, able to capture the interest...
The world of recycling is enriched with a new experience. In Italy, the city of Verona experiences the recycling of used diapers (baby diapers, sanitary napkins and adult diapers), placing smart bins outside the kindergartens and supermarkets, suitable containers for the separate collection of this...
The plastic is definitely in the foreground in the European context with various initiatives to achieve the goal of eliminating environmental pollution induced by plastic waste abandoned on the coasts and in the seas, promoting new plastic materials friends of nature, as well as forms of...
The IAL Consultants has prepared a report on the use of materials for building insulation in the European market; AIPE, the Italian Association of Expanded Polystyrene, has also collaborated, sending data about the Italian market. The European market has been divided into three areas, Western Europe,...
A group of Greek researchers from the University of Thessaloniki conducted a conservation study that can be obtained using EPS boxes and corrugated cardboard boxes for vegetables, using broccoli, tomatoes and leaves of baby spinach. The EPS boxes have proven to be better than corrugated cardboard...
AIPE (Italian Association of Expanded Polystyrene) has published an article published in the British magazine Global Gypsum Magazine, written by Martin Wiesweg, regarding the prospects for the development of the EPS market. The article considers the moment to be decidedly good, with a growth prospect of...
We spoke in the previous news of the European Directive, approved on June the 5th , aimed to drastically reduce plastic from marine litter. Once published, Member States must translate it into concrete initiatives that, within the reasonable time of two years, will lead to...
The last European directive, of which we have spoken in our previous news, highlights in an ever more marked way the European desire to build a future in which plastic waste is no longer dispersed in the environment but entirely collected and recycled. The EPS packaging...
On June the 5th , the European Parliament approved Directive 2019/904 concerning the reduction of certain plastic products, which are mostly present among the waste abandoned along the Union coasts and polluting sea. The rule comes into force 20 days after publication, ie by the...
