Automotive recycling is set to grow over the next five years. European estimates suggest the global car recycling market will reach EUR 221 billion by 2025. This compares with the 2018 market [...]
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 [...]
in The end of plastic waste is a fundamental objective for any country. China produces 60 million tonnes of plastic waste every year. The government, as a result, is looking to reduce the scale [...]
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 new recycling system to collect and recycle aerosol cans has been launched by the US Environmental Protection Agency. This new initiative will save millions in regulatory costs each year. [...]
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 [...]
Volatile nickel prices reflect the difficult state of the world economy. In early September nickel prices for the year were up more than 75%, but warehouse stocks at the London Metals Exchange [...]
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 [...]
Adam Minter’s new book, ‘Secondhand’ paints a detailed picture of the ‘afterlife’ of our earthly possessions. The author of ‘Junkyard Planet’, explores the problems of tracing used [...]
International E-waste day was held on October 14th throughout Europe. As a result it is increasing the awareness of the need for electronic scrap recycling. This was the second E-Waste Day and [...]
