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 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...

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 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...

A recycling plant doesn't stop because production is inconvenient. Every hour of downtime means lost throughput, additional maintenance and increased operating costs. ...

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 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...

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 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....

Borouge International is expanding its European mechanical recycling capacity, adding nearly 14,000 tonnes per year of recycled plastics output across facilities in Germany and Austria....

Europe is preparing to collect and process significantly more textile waste. But as recycling capacity expands, another question is becoming increasingly important: who will actually buy the recycled ...

Tosca has showcased its euro-size Circular Pallet (CP1208), developed with Cabka, at Fruit Attraction in Madrid. Made from 100% recycled plastic, the pallet is designed for reusable transport packagin...

TRIMET Aluminium SE has commissioned a new facility in Hamm designed to process up to 40,000 tonnes of aluminium scrap per year, strengthening its supply of recycled raw materials. LIBS sorting for...

New EU packaging rules could increase demand for recycled plastics while also changing the requirements for the recycling industry....

The LEGO Group has started using e-methanol, a renewable material, to help make more than 90 robust and rigid LEGO elements, including cross axles, connectors, steering wheels and Minifigure hands....

Brazil will host its first edition of the Plastics Recycling Show (PRS) on 17–18 May 2027 at the Renaissance São Paulo Hotel....

A new waste sorting complex with a capacity of 150,000 tonnes per year has opened in Pavlodar, Kazakhstan...

Lindner Recyclingtech has expanded its mobile shredding portfolio with the Urraco ECO, a new twin-shaft shredder designed for waste wood, green waste and commercial waste. The machine is positioned as...

Covestro has opened a new pilot plant in Leverkusen, Germany, for the chemical recycling of high-performance elastomers. The double-digit million-euro project moves a novel recycling process for Vulko...

STADLER brought together 50 participants from 10 countries, including representatives of leading recycling companies and international industry media, at its headquarters in Altshausen, Germany, for t...

The investment arm of the Danish family behind LEGO plans to significantly increase its exposure to plastics recycling as Europe moves toward stricter packaging rules....

Singapore has officially unveiled a new automated sorting facility in Tuas as its Beverage Container Return Scheme moves toward full implementation on October 1....

Porsche has produced battery cells using cathode active material made entirely from recycled raw materials for the first time....

Dennis Eagle has unveiled its new CrewSense AI system at RWM Expo 2026 in Birmingham, using cameras and artificial intelligence to monitor crew activity in the working zone at the rear of refuse colle...

The EU-funded SEARCULAR project has unveiled a blueprint for more circular fishing gear after three years of development and field testing....

The EU-funded FOREST project, coordinated by AIMPLAS, has validated lightweight composite solutions that can reduce component weight by up to 35% compared with conventional materials....

Cyclic Materials has opened a $20 million commercial-scale facility in Mesa, Arizona, using its proprietary MagCycle™ technology to recover rare earth magnets from end-of-life automotive parts, electr...

The numbers are becoming harder to ignore. Let’s look at a few examples....

What if designers spent more time seeing what happens to products after we throw them away?...

A team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has won first prize in Phase 2 of NASA’s LunaRecycle Challenge, receiving US$775,000 for a system designed to recycle mixed waste during fut...