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5 Simple Steps For A More Sustainable Easter

The Easter season, a time of renewal, represents an excellent opportunity to reflect on our habits and make conscious choices that can help us reduce the impact of our Easter celebrations on the environment.
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5 Ted Talks on plastics: from the origins to the latest innovative recycling solutions

Inventors, scientists, popularisers... Ted Talks are short, knowledge-packed presentations from experts in various fields
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Meaningful resolutions for the New Year: Embracing sustainability through plastic recycling

Here are some sustainable New Year's resolutions that focus on recycling and can be easily incorporated into our daily lives!
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Meaningful resolutions for the New Year: Embracing sustainability through plastic recycling

Here are some sustainable New Year's resolutions that focus on recycling and can be easily incorporated into our daily lives!
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Eco-friendly Christmas: the importance of recycling during the holiday season

Some creative and eco-friendly ideas for the holiday season, including recycling tips.
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Sustainable Winter: A guide to recycled plastic products for the cold season that help the Planet

A small guide to some recycled plastic products that can make a real difference in promoting a sustainable future during the winter season.
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Eco-friendly Halloween: recycling games and activities

Activities and games to turn Halloween, one of the most eagerly awaited holidays, into an opportunity to teach kids about recycling and sustainability!
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TECNOVA, a leading company on the plastics recycling scene in Italy and across the globe.

In Italy, a country with a long tradition in the craft and industrial sectors, there is a company that has made sustainability its primary mission: TECNOVA, which specializes in the production of complete plastic recycling plants.
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Plastic bottles: from waste to valuable resource through recycling

Recycling plastic bottles is an excellent opportunity to create new useful products. Check out some of the projects related to this topic!
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Recycling practices should never take a holiday!

Some useful tips to be a more conscious traveler
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How Artificial Intelligence can help improve plastic recycling

Some remarkable projects using AI to improve the collection, sorting, and processing of plastic waste
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CMG Granulators: High Capacity Granulators for Post-Consumer Plastics

CMG is introducing a brand new cutting chamber design for its Evoluzione series granulators. The new rotor configuration allows the rotor blades to cut the plastic feedstock perpendicularly against the bed blades, obtaining the highest degree of cutting penetration and precision.
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Pathways towards circular plastics

The European Environment Agency briefing towards more sustainable plastics, with examples of good practices from countries, businesses, and citizens.
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The importance of filtration systems in the extrusion process of recycled plastic material

A crucial phase in the recycling process is the extrusion of recycled plastic material, where filtration systems, such as screen changers, play a key role.
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BINOVA SRL: AFFIRMATION ON THE NATIONAL AND THE EUROPEAN MARKET

With its proven experience in designing and building plants for the recycling and compounding of thermoplastic materials, Binova has recently achieved excellent commercial and technological results in the branch of ABS and PS scrap containing high percentages of polluting materials.
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5 innovative plastic recycling projects

Let's start the New Year with a collection of the latest plastic waste recovery and recycling projects
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How to celebrate a more sustainable Christmas

Some simple and useful tips to make the most beautiful holiday of the year eco-friendly
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Sort, reuse, recycle – waste operators’ dictionary

Find out the meaning of the most commonly used terms by people working in the recycling industry.
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Sustainable Fashion – it’s getting real

In this article, we have collected the projects of some international brands that have made environmental sustainability a concrete goal.
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Educating children to respect the environment – some useful tips

All of us are committed to imparting respect for the environment and the importance of recycling to young children from an early age. In this article, we’ll give you some tips on how to do it effectively!
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Books on recycling, sustainability, ecology

Are you R's literary suggestions to explore topics that are more relevant today than ever, such as recycling, environment, sustainability, ecology.
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When plastic recycling helps the sea

Recovering marine plastics through recycling is now a fact! We'll tell you about some of the most amazing projects in our article.
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A summer packed with recycling!

Are you R tells you about recycled plastic products that are ideal for summer.
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rPET – all about recycled PET

Learn about the story, use, and advantages of recycled PET with Are you R.
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10 Interior Design Products Made of Recycled Plastic

Choosing recycled materials for furnishing items is a great opportunity, both for buyers and designers & companies operating in this sector.
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Europe is in the lead for plastic recycling patents

30% – that’s the share of patents filed by Europe in the plastic recycling industry.
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8 companies investing in recycled plastic

The choice of some companies who want to make a difference by taking concrete action through recycled plastic materials
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6 plastic collecting initiatives setting a good example

Loving and respecting the environment does not merely mean taking care of it, but also raising awareness among other people to make them do the same. We will never stop saying how important the contribution of us all can be. That is why we decided to collect six plastic recycling and collecting awareness-raising initiatives that have been precisely created to
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Creative recycling – Christmas decorations from plastic bottles!

A bunch of DIY ideas to make simple Christmas decorations by reusing plastic caps and bottles.
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Plastic packaging and recycling – a necessary choice

Today there are several companies investing in packaging from recycled plastic. But what role do you play as consumer? Find out more in our article!
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Let’s find out about the most recycled plastic products and materials

We’ll tell you about the most recycled plastic materials and products
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Even recycled plastic goes back to school in September!

5 school-related plastic recycling projects.
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5 plastic recycling projects for this summer!

We gathered information about some plastic recycling initiatives – in the name of the hottest season of the year!
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All about recycled plastic roads

Are you R tells you about some of the features of recycled plastic roads and takes you to discover where they already exist!
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A journey through creative plastic recycling!

We’ll tell you about some international plastic recycling projects – in the name of imagination and creativity!
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What is greenwashing and how do you spot it?

Learn about the greenwashing phenomenon – just-for-show ecologism adopted by (some) companies for marketing purposes.
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Plastic recycling in the world

Get to know how much plastic is recycled in the world and which benefits are brought to the environment and all of us!
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The key role of consumers in circular economy

All of us play an important role in circular economy - in this article we’ll explain to you how!
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How is recycled plastic wrap made?

Find out how plastic wrap is made for recycled plastic bags!
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Granulation in plastic waste recycling

Find out everything about granulation in the plastic recycling process!
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Filtration in plastic waste recycling

Find out about the plastic recycling filtration!
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All about the plastic grinding process

It is now easy to think that plastic is one of the most polluting and complex materials to be disposed of as solid waste, but in reality, this belief is only partially true. Thanks to appropriate environmental protection policies, we have seen that plastic waste can effectively be transformed from a problem into a valuable resource. How? By properly managing
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Extrusion in plastic waste recycling

Learn about the extrusion process in plastic recycling!
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Cleaning and decontamination of plastic waste

Plastic waste also needs to be cleaned and washed to remove impurities and go through the next recycling stage
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Plastic collection and sorting

How does the plastic recycling process start? Get to know everything about the collection and sorting of plastic materials! September is coming – let’s go back to class with Are you R! All of us as consumers commit every day to collecting waste properly and help make the environment a better place. But how does the plastic recycling process start?
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Summer 2020: let’s clean the beaches!

Some plastic materials collection and recycling initiatives in these summer months.
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Turning plastic recycling into art

Increasing awareness of plastic recycling through the creation of extraordinary works of art
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Beneficial plastic recycling

Circular economy initiatives contributing to improve social well-being and people’s welfare
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Protection from Coronavirus by recycling plastic

A series of plastic recycling projects helping to fight Covid-19
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Recycled plastic to build infrastructures

Recycling plastic material to create important infrastructures such as roads, cycle lanes, and houses
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Sustainable fashion with plastic recycling: some Italian projects

Are you R talks about several Italian initiatives for sustainable fashion made possible by recycling plastic materials
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Plastic: from waste to resource

Some important plastic material recycling projects
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What is the circular economy?

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The 10 most polluting rivers in the world

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Shopping vouchers in exchange for plastic bottles

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Guide to plastics and their recycling

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SOS: save our seas and waterways from plastic! Some of the cleanup schemes

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