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...
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...
Polystyrene is defined as an “earth care” material throughout its life cycle. It consists of polystyrene granules, a thermoplastic resin obtained from three consecutive processes: • The synthesis of ethylene and benzene which produces ethylbenzene; • The hydrogenation of ethylbenzene that produces styrene; • • The polymerization of...
