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Van Dyk to Build $30M Recycling Facility for JLT in Maryland
🇺🇸 US recycling systems supplier VAN DYK Recycling Solutions has been selected by JLT Recycling Inc. (JLT Trucking) to design and build a new 50,000-square-foot materials recovery facility (MRF) in Up...

Biffa to Acquire Enva Recycling Businesses in UK in Major Expansion
UK waste management group Biffa has agreed to acquire Enva’s general recycling businesses in England and Scotland, taking over operations that handle approximately 800,000 tonnes of material annually,...

Pellenc ST VISIONAIR™ – New AI-Powered RGB Optical Sorting Technology | Ecomondo 2026
The Pellenc ST team will present its new VISIONAIR™ sorting system at ECOMONDO 2026 in Rimini, Italy, from 3 to 6 November. Visitors can meet the company’s specialists to explore the technology and d...

Skipway Increases Hard Plastics Payloads to 26 Tonnes per Container with New REP-TEC Baler
Belfast-based recycling company Skipway has increased the payload of mixed hard plastics shipped in 40ft containers to as much as 26 tonnes, adding around eight tonnes to each load following the insta...

Eilbeck Shredders Completes 60-Metre Waste-to-Energy Processing Line for US Market
Australian engineering company Eilbeck Shredders has completed a 60-metre industrial waste processing line for a customer in North Carolina, marking a major export project for its partnership with US-...

Morssinkhof-Rymoplast Opens €30 Million Plastics Recycling Plant in Belgium
Morssinkhof-Rymoplast has opened a new plastics recycling facility in Lommel, Belgium, adding up to 40,000 tonnes of annual processing capacity and strengthening the country's domestic recycling infra...

Volkswagen Opens Industrial Vehicle Dismantling Line in Zwickau, Targeting 4,100 Vehicles Annually
Volkswagen has officially opened a new vehicle dismantling and recycling facility at its Zwickau plant in Germany.
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Closed Loop Partners Backs Renegade Plastics in Scaling Recyclable Polypropylene Textile Production
Closed Loop Partners has provided debt financing to US-based Renegade Plastics to support the development of a commercial-scale production line for recyclable polypropylene (PP) coated textiles. The f...

Polytag Expands AI-Free Packaging Tracking Network to Scotland
Polytag Limited has installed its Ecotrace UV-tag detection technology at Wyllie Recycling’s materials recovery facility (MRF) in Perth, Scotland, expanding its network to 15 detection units and givin...

Polysmart to Commission $60 Million PET Recycling Plant in Nigeria
Nigeria’s Polysmart Packaging is due to commission the first phase of a $60 million food-grade recycled PET (rPET) facility in Mowe, Ogun State, on October 29.
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Clarios to Acquire Ecobat’s US Recycling Facilities, Strengthening Domestic Critical Mineral Supply
Clarios plans to acquire three US critical mineral recovery and processing facilities operated by Ecobat, expanding its closed-loop battery recycling network and strengthening domestic supplies of rec...

Recycleye AI Sorter Achieves 97% Fibre Purity at UK Recycling Facility
Recovering valuable paper and cardboard from residual waste, an AI-powered sorting system from Recycleye has achieved 97% output purity at NEWS Recycling in Norwich, UK, part of the Norse Group, follo...

Registration Opens for Textiles Recycling Expo USA 2027
📅 Second edition returns to Charlotte, North Carolina, on April 7–8, 2027
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Specim Launches AI-Powered Hyperspectral System for Automated Textile Sorting
Specim, Spectral Imaging Ltd., a KONICA MINOLTA, INC. Minolta company, has introduced RETEX, an industrial solution combining hyperspectral imaging and artificial intelligence to identify textile mate...

Tadweer Group Starts Construction of 400,000-Tonne Waste Recovery Facility in Abu Dhabi
Tadweer Group has begun on-site works on a new material recovery facility in Abu Dhabi, developed in partnership with environmental services company Urbaser. The plant is designed to process 400,000 t...

AIMPLAS Develops Digital Product Passport and Reuse Systems for Plastic Packaging
AIMPLAS · Technological Institute of Plastics is leading the VERSO project to validate plastic packaging reuse systems and develop practical applications for the EU Digital Product Passport (DPP).
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Sorting what the eye can see – and what it can’t
Recycling plants can identify and separate materials with increasing precision, but valuable fractions are still lost when operators lack real-time visibility into material flows, purity and process p...

Pulpex Opens First Commercial Paper Bottle Manufacturing Facility in Scotland
Pulpex has opened its first commercial fibre-bottle manufacturing facility in Glasgow, Scotland, with an initial production capacity of up to 40 million bottles per year...

Atlantic Copper Opens €550 Million E-Waste Recycling Plant in Spain
Atlantic Copper, part of Freeport-McMoRan, has officially opened its CirCular plant in Huelva, Spain, following an investment of €550 million ($615 million) in recycling equipment....

PICVISA Integrates Optical Sorting and Robotics for Fully Automated Textile Recycling
PICVISA will present an integrated textile sorting system combining its ECOSORT optical sorter with Girbau’s Sortech automated feeding and separation technology at ECOMONDO 2026 in Rimini, Italy. The ...

ReLoopDesign links circular purchasing to Scope 3 climate data across four Nordic countries
ReLoopDesign, a Nordic platform for products containing at least 50% recycled or sustainable material, now connects more than 20 brands with businesses, public buyers and consumers in Sweden, Denmark,...

Full Agenda Announced for North America’s Leading Critical Minerals, Battery Recycling and E-Waste Events
More than 60 expert speakers will address key challenges facing the critical materials and resource recovery industries at Critical Minerals Expo North America, Battery Recycling Expo North America an...

Aurubis to commission automated metal-sorting facility in Hamburg in 2028
Aurubis will commission a new automated pre-processing and sorting facility at its Hamburg site in late 2028, targeting more precise separation and valuation of copper- and precious-metal-bearing inte...

UK launches £3.6m robotics hub for waste and recycling
West London Waste Authority (WLWA) and Kingston University are partnering with universities, technology developers, waste operators and public bodies on a £3.6 million project to accelerate the adopti...

CP Group develops AI platform to optimise recycling plant performance
CP Group announced POINT Operator Intelligence™ on 14 October, a platform designed to detect operational deviations at material recovery facilities (MRFs) and recommend corrective actions to improve t...

24/7 plant operation starts with one thing: reliable service
A recycling plant doesn't stop because production is inconvenient. Every hour of downtime means lost throughput, additional maintenance and increased operating costs.
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Enva offers two-year supply agreements for recycled plastics used in white goods
Enva can supply more than 600 tonnes of white recycled polystyrene (PS) compound per month to European white goods manufacturers, backed by plastics recovered from end-of-life electrical equipment....

Cross Wrap Supplies Bale Dewiring System for Circulose Textile Recycling Plant in Sweden
Cross Wrap is supplying an automated bale infeeding and dewiring system for Circulose’s textile recycling plant in Ortviken, Sundsvall, Sweden, ahead of the planned Q4 2026 restart of commercial produ...

Italy Opens Textile Recycling Plant with Capacity of 19,200 Tonnes per Year
IGERS has inaugurated a textile recycling plant in San Pietro Mosezzo, Novara, designed to process post-consumer and post-industrial textile waste into flakes and frayed fibre suitable for the spinnin...

WRAP Launches New Programme to Transform UK Textile Collection
WRAP has launched a new programme to improve the collection, reuse and recycling of post-consumer textiles in the UK, with funding from NEXT, Primark and Tesco....



























