Coronavirus is severely impacting China’s recycling sector. Currently, twenty-seven major Chinese cities are in lockdown as a result of the virus. The inability to get scrap through to the [...]
Swedish company Northvolt combines mass production of battery cells with recycling. Under the management of former Tesla executive, Peter Carlsson, the company has created a program called [...]
A UK phone recycling scheme managed by Telecommunications company O2 has achieved an important milestone in 2019. Set up ten years ago, more than three million handsets have been recycled and [...]
Recycling smart watches is taking its first steps in the recycling market. Currently the global smart watch market is estimated to be worth EUR 39.6 million. In 2016 Fitbit achieved global sales [...]
Making demolition waste into aggregates for a major residential housing project has become a reality in Saudi Arabia. Work on a new recycling facility is about to start at the end of the year. [...]
A new rare earth metals recycling facility has been established at the University of Birmingham. Established at a cost of EUR $4 million, the new pilot plant will focus on recycling magnets. [...]
South Korea is planning to build a new battery recycling plant at Younggwang, South Jeolla Province. Earthtech has invested US$20 million in the new recycling hub. The plant will recover [...]
Samsung believe there are already 1 billion more mobile phones in the world than people. Furthermore, the number of mobile phones in use currently exceeds 8 billion. Whilst Samsung first quarter [...]
The world’s largest incineration plant has opened in Shanghai with the expansion of the Laogang Renewable Resource Recycling Centre. The plant was commissioned in early July and is capable of [...]
A Victorian ban on e-waste being dumped in skips or bins destined for landfill comes into force from July 1st. The ban follows a similar decision of the South Australian government in 2013. [...]