Testing lithium-ion battery materials in a new pilot plant has been a key focus recently for American Manganese (AM) in British Columbia. Certainly the new plant is part of an ambitious plan to [...]
The Recycling specialist Wastecare has acquired the East Kent High Temperature Incinerator from Augean for US$4.5 million. The East Kent facility can process up to 10,000 tonnes of waste per [...]
New research by Mobile Muster suggests that there are millions of old phones gathering dust in Aussie homes. Furthermore their work suggests people are holding on to phones for years. 23 [...]
2017 Battery collection in the US exceeds expectations according to North America’s leading battery recycling programme, Call2Recycle. A total of 8 million pounds of batteries were collected from [...]
New ways of extracting e-scrap metals are being researched by Ireland’s University College Cork. Current recovery rates of recycled copper, aluminium, steel and solder from e-scarp waste average [...]
The global battery recycling market continues to grow and was estimated to be worth $10 billion in 2017. According to new figures published by ‘Transparency Market Research’ the compound annual [...]
Victoria’s e-waste is projected to rise from 109,000 tonnes in 2015 to 256,000 tonnes by 2035. This growth suggests a significant opportunity to capture valuable materials for recovery and [...]
E-Waste activists were on show in Barcelona in late February at the Mobile Phone Technology World Conference. Green NGO’s and E-Waste activists took the industry to task with a mural outside the [...]
Mobile phone trade-in programs are achieving solid growth in the UK, with Intellibox now having rolled out 70 of a planned 1500 ATM-style phone trade-in for cash kiosks across the UK. Kiosks are [...]
With over 23 million unused mobile phones being discarded each year the opportunities for mobile phone recycling are attracting a lot of interest amongst Australian corporates. One by-product of [...]