13-03-2018 Business The world-first facility to turn glass into insulation United Kingdom – Knauf Insulation and Veolia have opened a high-tech glass recycling facility in St Helens near the UK...
09-03-2018 Technology news To sort or not to sort… Germany – ‘Can you imagine how many different models of mobile phones there are today?’ asked Dr Sven Connemann of...
09-03-2018 Non-Ferrous metals recycling Acosta: Latin America could be ‘the new frontier’ in scrap processing Global – The import restrictions in China will catalyse the scrap markets into some form of evolution, according to Enrique...
08-03-2018 Electronics recycling Hong Kong’s ‘flagship’ e-scrap facility nears start-up…finally China – There were serious delays in its construction and completion. But now the Hong Kong WEEE Park, seen as...
05-03-2018 Business Chalmers speakers: how to turn a tragedy into an opportunity? Sweden – ‘How can we improve the recycling of e-waste? Are we prepared to take our responsibility?’ Those two questions...
02-03-2018 Electronics recycling What is the best way to recycle e-scrap? Check out I4R Global – In response to recyclers’ quest for information about the presence of materials and components in electronic waste that...
27-02-2018 Plastics recycling Future vision: carefully storing waste plastics in ‘controlled landfills’ United Kingdom – With volumes of waste plastics rising in the UK as a result of China’s import policies, the...
26-02-2018 Plastics recycling Glastonbury: music and throw-away plastics don’t mix United Kingdom – Organisers of the UK’s biggest music gathering, the Glastonbury Festival, say an ‘enormous project’ is under way...
21-02-2018 Ferrous metal recycling Indonesia playing ever more key role in stainless steel market Asia – Liquid stainless output remains ‘at healthy levels throughout the world’ while the order intake and production outlook for...
14-02-2018 Plastics recycling Is a new plastics economy looming on the horizon? Europe – The EU wants to lay the foundations to ‘a new plastics economy’, so it declares in its latest...
07-02-2018 Business UK’s big stride towards landfill diversion target for carpet waste United Kingdom – Approaching 170 000 tonnes of the UK’s carpet waste was reused, recycled or recovered for energy last...