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Lindner presents Urraco ECO mobile twin-shaft shredder
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...

90%+ recyclable: Covestro takes elastomer recycling from lab to pilot scale
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 opens 2,160 m² Test Center for recycling technology trials
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...

CWM Environmental invests £15m in automated recycling technology
CWM Environmental has invested £15 million in the redevelopment of its Nantycaws Resource Recovery Facility in Wales, with seven TOMRA AUTOSORT™ units driving the site’s transition to fully automated ...

LEGO owners plan major investment in plastic recycling technology
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....

Nordic Recycling Systems Adds Automated Sorting to Singapore Deposit Return System
Singapore has officially unveiled a new automated sorting facility in Tuas as its Beverage Container Return Scheme moves toward full implementation on October 1....
From Porsche to Porsche: Next Milestone in Battery Recycling
Porsche has produced battery cells using cathode active material made entirely from recycled raw materials for the first time....

OBTAIN™ Deep Learning: AI-Powered XRT Sorting at Hemerdon
Tungsten West plc is deploying six TOMRA Mining XRT ore sorters equipped with OBTAIN™ Deep Learning at the Hemerdon tungsten mine in Devon, England, as part of a redesigned processing plant targeting ...

Dennis Eagle unveils CrewSense AI for refuse collection vehicles
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...

Recycled fishing nets turned into high-performance ropes
The EU-funded SEARCULAR project has unveiled a blueprint for more circular fishing gear after three years of development and field testing....

VAN DYK upgrades Charlotte MRF with 16 optical sorters in $24 million project
🇺🇸 CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A major recycling facility in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, has reopened following a $24 million upgrade that replaced its processing equipment and expanded its automated so...

Lightweight composites could cut transport component weight by up to 35%
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 Opens US Facility for Rare Earth Magnet Recycling
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...

Europe’s textile recycling problem is no longer just about volume. It is about economics.
The numbers are becoming harder to ignore. Let’s look at a few examples....

STEINERT to present new LIBS and AI sorting advances at ALUMINIUM 2026
From 6 to 8 October 2026, STEINERT will present new developments in aluminium sorting at ALUMINIUM in Düsseldorf, focusing on smaller grain sizes and smarter separation....

Tosca advances asset traceability with Asset IQ
Tosca is expanding digital traceability across reusable packaging and logistics assets with Asset IQ, an established platform developed and refined over several years that combines Active IoT tracking...

HolyGrail 2.0 puts digital watermarks to the real-world test in packaging recycling
Mondelēz International, PepsiCo, pladis Global and Constantia Flexibles are testing invisible digital watermarks on flexible food packaging in Belgium as part of HolyGrail 2.0, aiming to improve autom...
Design Skills for Embedding Circularity: Putting Designers Closer to the Realities of Waste
What if designers spent more time seeing what happens to products after we throw them away?...

AMP to showcase AI-powered MSW sorting at ESS Expo 2026
US recycling technology company AMP will showcase its AI-powered municipal solid waste (MSW) sorting technology at the Environmental Services & Solutions Expo (ESS Expo) 2026, taking place on 16–1...

MIT team wins NASA prize for recycling mixed waste in space
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...

ERI launches India venture as part of major Asian e-waste expansion
US-based Electronic Recyclers International (ERI) has launched ERI India, a 50/50 joint venture with Indian recycler Eco Recycling Limited (Ecoreco)...

Sesotec targets the blind spot in plastics sorting: black plastics
German sorting technology specialist Sesotec has moved its new VARISORT+ CARBON BLACK system from development to a fully operational MWIR sorting platform, addressing a longstanding challenge in plast...

RCS Group starts construction of €75m plant for food-grade HDPE recycling
Germany’s RCS Rohstoffverwertung GmbH has started construction of a new plastics recycling
facility in Werne, representing an investment of around €75 million. The new 6.5-hectare
si...

EFS-plastics Invests $12M in HDPE, PP and PET Recycling Facility
Canadian recycler EFS-plastics Inc. has completed a US$12 million expansion of its facility
in Lethbridge, Alberta, transforming it from a regional sorting operation into an integrated
...

Sutco commissions automated waste sorting plant in Brazil
BRUSQUE, Brazil — July 2026 — Sutco RecyclingTechnik has commissioned a new automated municipal solid waste (MSW) sorting plant for Ciclare in Brusque, Santa Catarina, as Brazil expands its capacity t...

AMI launches Textiles Manufacturing Expo in Charlotte for 2027
AMI is launching the Textiles Manufacturing Expo, a new exhibition and conference that will take place on April 7–8, 2027, in Charlotte, North Carolina, alongside the established Textiles Recycling Ex...

Smart DRS processes more than 150,000 reusable cup returns in four months
Smart DRS has processed more than 150,000 reusable cup returns since its first live deployment at the IIHF Ice Hockey U18 World Championship in late April, expanding across major music festivals, cult...

Europe moves to recycle end-of-life wind turbine blades
🇪🇺 Europe is stepping up efforts to keep end-of-life wind turbine blades out of landfills, as the EU-funded ReWind project develops new routes for reuse and recycling of composite materials....

The DiPPa™ Framework: Turning Digital Product Passport Data into Competitive Advantage
Illuminate what matters. Measure what counts. Adapt and transform.
Digital Product Passports are arriving, and the regulations and data infrastructures needed to support them are beginning to take ...

Atlanta is gearing up for three major events shaping the future of resource recovery
The preliminary agenda is now live for Critical Minerals Expo North America, Battery Recycling Expo North America and E-Waste World Expo North America, taking place October 28–29 in Atlanta. More than...





























