Recycling waste and using more secondary raw materials holds the key to transitioning from a linear to a circular economy and driving the progress necessary to halting climate change

Coolrec, a subsidiary of Renewi and European market leader in WEEE (waste from electrical and electronic equipment) recycling, has invested €0.5 million in an electrostatic separator in order to generate more kinds of high-value secondary raw materials.

Standard & Poor Global Ratings (S&P) has increased Renewi’s ESG evaluation score to 83. The updated environmental, social and governance (ESG) evaluation recognises our best in class position.

Last year, in addition to a brand new plastics sorting line, a new building was constructed for a state-of-the-art processing line for hard plastics on the Moervaartkaai site in the port of Ghent.