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New tyre recycling plant in Kazakhstan

Archiv – The first recycling plant for old tyres in Kazakhstan was recently put into operation. Kazakhstan Rubber Recycling will…

Smorgon Steel founder dies aged 96

Archiv – Australian businessman Victor Smorgon, former head of the Victor Smorgon Group, has passed away at the age of…

Recycling veteran Ben Sacco dies at 87

Archiv – Ben Sacco, the well-known founder and Chairman of Sierra International Machinery and Sierra Recycling and Demolition, has died…

Recycla Chile and Recyclebank ’technology pioneers’

Archiv – The World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, has selected Chilean e-scrap recycler Recycla and the US rewards…

Call to tighten America’s e-waste laws

Archiv – A Congress resolution has been introduced which calls on the USA to ban the export of environmentally-damaging electronic…

Greenpeace: E-waste poisoning environment in Ghana

Archiv – Ghana | Electronic waste from European, US and Japanese manufacturers is contaminating the environment around the sites where…

Rescue deal for Knowaste operation

Archiv – There still is a future for nappy – or diaper – recycling in the Netherlands. Following the collapse…

Chinese e-waste recycling raises dioxin in mothers and babies

Archiv – The methods used to recycle electronic waste exported to China ’significantly’ increase the amount of the toxin dioxin…

Metal theft wave in Japan

Children’s slides, cemetery incense holders and even the roof of a public toilet have disappeared in a spate of metal…

A boat made of PET bottles

Archiv – As part of the so-called MegaPET project, which is intended to highlight the major issue of domestic refuse…