The most plastic is made from fossil fuels, predominantly coal and oil, despite rhetoric by producers, supermarkets and drinks companies about plastic being recycled. Globally, landfill remains the ma...

AUDI AG is the first car manufacturer to develop and implement an economically viable recycling concept for recyclates from end-of-life vehicles. The company began testing the MaterialLoop program in ...

As of January 1, 2025, states including California, Oregon, and New York have enacted bans on expanded polystyrene (EPS) foam products commonly used in foodware, packaging, and coolers. The legislatio...

♻️ Enva Officially Opens Scotland’s Only Fridge and Small Domestic Appliances (SDA) Recycling Facility....

Extracting valuable metals from used lithium-ion batteries just got easier! 🌱🔋 A new method uses plant oil and water to clean the "black mass"—a low-value mix of anode, cathode, and other materials—in...

Every year, improperly disposed lithium-ion batteries pose hidden dangers at waste processing facilities. These tiny power sources—sometimes no bigger than a coin—can spark fires, damage equipment, an...

The rules include packaging reduction targets (5% by 2030, 10% by 2035 and 15% by 2040) and require EU countries to reduce the amount of plastic packaging waste....

RECOUP said year-on-year, despite increases in material being recycled in the UK, quantities of plastic waste exported for recycling from England have increased by more than 10% to just over 600,000 t...

Residents of Wells will soon participate in a pioneering recycling trial, as Somerset extends its successful flexible plastics collection scheme...

TOMRA revolutionizes its product portfolio with the launch of the new INNOSORT™ FLAKE for high-throughput purification of plastic flakes. Its enhanced features enable simultaneous flake sorting by pol...

Sysav Industri AB is now operating the world’s first fully automated sorting plant for textiles recycling in Malmö, Sweden. The plant is fully automated – people are needed only to start and stop the...

Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam) installs plastic bottle recycling machines. A new plastic bottle recycling machine was installed on October 18 at the Annam Gourmet store, Thu Duc City. It is anticipated th...

People are getting 10p back for their used drinks containers in a Brecon (UK) trialling a deposit scheme that could come to all parts of the country....

RWM - Resource and Waste Management Expo has ended on 14 of September at NEC, Birmingham (UK). Watch the magic that unfolded at Environmental Services and Solutions Expo 2023. ...

ZenRobotics and Terex Recycling Systems to Deliver a Fully Robotised Material Recovery Facility in Norway. ...

Juno Technology uses a wet processing system to reclaim contaminated fiber. ...

The Dutch company Myne, formerly Reukema,with Delft University of Technology ​ is launching the world's first digital recycling plant....

Australian engineers to make stronger concrete with old coffee grounds. Researchers have given tons of waste coffee grounds a “double shot” at life, by infusing it into concrete—where it not only incr...

Copenhagen will recycle a large proportion of used diapers from childcare facilities and homes from 2024....

Tesco is introducing clear caps to 425 million of its own brand milk bottles per year to make them easier to recycle. ...

A new law to ensure that batteries are collected, reused and recycled in Europe is entering into force. This will support the shift to a circular economy, increase security of supply for raw materials...

UK company uses water to break down the bonds in waste plastic. Advanced plastic waste recycling technologies can tolerate mixed plastics and films, which can’t be handled through traditional mechani...

The Innovate Recycle team has developed a patented mechanical process which deconstructs polypropylene carpets, which make up 70% of the UK market. ...

Origin Materials, a California based manufacturer ​ creates sustainable PET Bottle Caps, Enabling “All PET Mono-Material” Bottle and Cap Solutions....

The largest solar panel recycling plant @werecyclesolar in North America has opened in Yuma, Arizona just as the flow of used and spent solar panels sharply ramps up. ...

Plant to recycle fridges for Northern Ireland Andritzwill supply Enva Northern Ireland Ltd. with an automated fridge recycling plant for their new site in Toomebridge....

A water treatment company in San Francisco has partnered with a brewery to create a beer made with recycled water from a residential building...

More than 7 billion plastic bags have been prevented from polluting the UK landscape since the introduction of the single-use carrier bag charge. ...

The UK government has announced new plans to encourage the use of fewer resources and increase repair, reuse and recycling as part of its “goal” to achieve a circular economy approach. ...

gr3n and Intecsa Industrial are entering a joint venture to build a ‘first-of-a-kind’ manufacturing facility for the microwave-assisted depolymerisation of PET. ...