News summary January
2 minutes
Circular Plastics NL maintains a news overview. Below is this month's selection of mainstream media coverage on plastics and circularity.
For more depth and knowledge, the CPNL knowledge desk is available online which includes studies, background information, reports, presentations on plastics.
- Seventh bankruptcy in disaster year of plastic recycling, but industry is not gone (yet) - NRC
- In 2025, some hope shines again for Dutch industry - FD
- Alternative plan for phased-out National Growth Fund desirable - Top Sector T&U
- Dow Chemical builds new production site in Terneuzen - FD
- Cabinet extends protection for knowledge-intensive business - Engineers Online
- Combination of standardizing, incentivizing and pricing in deployment of ciruclar plastics - Food Holland
- How safe is recycled plastic for food packaging? - Packagingmanagement.co.uk
- Parent company Ikea invests a billion in recycling - Plastics & Rubber
- Promising research into reuse of dyes: 'Still totally virgin territory' - The Telegraph
- Productivity growth Netherlands lags sharply: 'Don't even meet the norm ' - BNR News Radio
- NRW Minister Neubaur visits Brightlands Chemelot Campus - Düsseldorf border post
- Netherlands at risk of losing plastic recyclers, but Koekkoek motion offers hope - ChangeInc
- Many old clothes are barely recyclable, so this Dutch company turns them into plastic - De Volkskrant
- Avantium finds key solution for recycling polycotton textile waste - VNCI
- Rotterdam and Antwerp set aside rivalry to pull chemical sector out of slump - FD
- Consultation process for draft Circular Materials Plan has begun - I&W