25-11-2020 Business Plastics Bottle-to-bottle wave rolls in There seems to be no lack of investment when it comes to the expansion of plastics recycling capacity. Time and…
25-11-2020 Column Plastics Opportunity rather than uncertainty Taking responsibility as an industry is not only about recycling materials. It entails an holistic approach in which recyclers, producers,…
19-11-2020 Batteries Research The goal of more cost-effective and smarter battery recycling There may soon be a better way to handle post-consumer products that contain lithium-ion batteries. Researchers and scientists at the…
15-11-2020 VIRTUAL TRADE SHOW Are you ready for Pollutec Online? The postponement of the Pollutec tradeshow to October 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic has inspired organisers to design a…
11-11-2020 Business Textiles Textile recyclers back new UK sustainability drive UK recyclers are supporting a new national voluntary agreement for a more sustainable textile sector – and have called on…
29-10-2020 Batteries Business Making recycling the standard in growing energy storage sector US firm Renewance is collaborating with GlidePath Power Solutions to advance battery recycling and repurposing efforts for the energy storage industry….
09-10-2020 Technology VIRTUAL TRADE SHOW SSI upgrades its PRI-MAX shredders US firm SSI Shredding Systems has implemented new patented technologies and features across the entire PRI-MAX product line that substantially…
08-10-2020 Business Plastics Multinational takes sustainability step towards circular plastics LyondellBasell seeks to lead its manufacturing sector by pledging to produce two million tonnes of recycled and renewable-based polymers annually…
06-10-2020 Product Spotlight On the fridge recycling front line URT Umwelt- und Recyclingtechnik GmbH (also known as URT Recycling Technology) of Germany is celebrating its 25th anniversary. In 2020,…
30-09-2020 Business Plastics Plastic scrap may be complex but it is not a worthless waste stream Recyclers have been reacting to a media investigation in the United States suggesting plastic scrap is ‘not valuable’ and ‘never…
16-09-2020 Business CORONA VIRUS Automotive sector motors back after shutdown The recovery of the automotive industry since the Covid-19 crisis offers good trading opportunities for the scrap sector, according to…