Audi and Umicore will join forces to successfully complete the first phase of a new project into battery recycling. Importantly, the new partnership will develop methods to extract key components [...]
America Recycles Day was an outstanding success, sparking thousands of recycling drives and special community projects. Last year over 2 million people participated in the event resulting in the [...]
A new report shows that many EU members will miss their 2020 recycling targets. Fourteen member states are at serious risk of missing their mandatory 50% recycling rate target. Malta is the worst [...]
The surge in China’s use of steel scrap has been overstated. The Bureau of International Recycling (BIR) at its recent London convention announced that scrap metal usage in China had increased by [...]
At a time of great change in global recycling, family owned businesses continue to invest. German family owned conglomerate, Trimet Aluminium, has invested in the modernisation of two of its [...]
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 [...]
One of the positive side effects of an international trade war could be reducing imports by recycling more steel and aluminium. Many commentators expect the imposition of tariffs on imported [...]
With strong demand for platinum, German technology group Heraeus has made a US$100 million investment in China . The new precious metals refining and recycling plant in China is due to open in [...]
Comments by the President of BIR Non-Ferrous Metals Division suggest that 2018 is a very challenging year for scrap traders. Members of the scrap traders industry gathered in Barcelona in early [...]
Hydrogen gains commercial momentum, but is notoriously costly to produce and transport. Using a new process of distributed waste to produce hydrogen fuel cells a new system has been developed. [...]