Posts from Martijn Reintjes

Processing 400 000 tonnes of steel scrap in the Mojave Desert

The US is busy ramping up domestic metals production and recycling with new capacity nationwide. An interesting project – the…

Young people from Spain, Nigeria, Ukraine, the Philippines and Hungary are among the Recycling Heroes 2026. The Global Recycling Foundation…

South Africa’s paper recycling rate was 63.3% in 2025, up from 60% the year before, the country paper industry body...

UK metals recycler Michael Ward has died after a battle with motor neurone disease (MND). He was third generation to...

Incoming chair of the US Recycled Materials Association (ReMA), Andy Golding, is chief strategy officer at metal recycler Kripke Enterprises....

As demand grows for ever-stronger material handlers, scrap shear manufacturers do their best to keep pace. At the IFAT trade...

The World Bank is sounding the alarm bells on rapidly growing waste volumes across the Middle East and North Africa....

Environmental groups are calling on the Indonesian government to send more than 900 seized containers with electronic waste back to...

Explosions, closed sea ports, suspended scrap shipments, and the shutdown of the Straits of Hormuz have been causing widespread fear...

German police are investigating how an elderly man died inside a car at a Munich scrapyard. According to media reports,...

The global landscape for packaging and plastics is shifting faster than at any point in the past two decades, moving...