Austria, Wales and Taiwan are best municipal recyclers
Austria has been announced as the world’s best country for recycling in a new study which examined the recycling performance…
Canon enters plastics sorting sector
Japanese multinational Canon has become a manufacturer of plastic sorting equipment using material identification technology. The company is now accepting…
Sustainable US states ranked
A new study has named North Dakota as the least environmentally friendly state in the US. California topped the table. The...
Design crucial for circularity, reaffirm e-scrap recyclers
Recyclers across Europe have sent out a united message that electronics recycling and ecodesign must go hand-in-hand to achieve circularity....
New approach, new language for Sweden’s end-of-life tyres
A more entrepreneurial approach to the value of recycled end-of-life tyres is paying dividends for Sweden’s extended producer responsibility organisation...
New waste shipment regulation endangers European recovered paper
The EU’s newly revised Waste Shipment Regulation (WSR) poses a serious risk to Europe’s recovered paper industry beyond 2027, according...
Certify scrap export audits, EU urged
The head of Belgian extended producer responsibility organization Valipac has urged a certification scheme to guarantee compliance within the new...
Sector seethes over new waste shipment regulation
Continuing concern among recyclers of the consequences of the European Union’s newly adopted Waste Shipment Regulation (WSR) came to the...
Nickel trading recovers from 2022 scare
A ‘return to normality’ at the London Metal Exchange (LME) after the nickel crisis of 2022 has been asserted by...
Eyes in the sky deliver key ferrous scrap data within hours
Following the real-time movement of every ferrous scrap consignment from space may be a challenging concept but a Singapore-based data...
No let-up in copper prices – or protectionism
The soaring price of copper, growing protectionism and claims of Chinese stockpiling dominated the non-ferrous session at BIR’s Copenhagen convention....
