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 [...]
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 [...]
A new study by Global Market Insights inc. (GMS) estimates that the global recycled elastomers market share will surpass $6 billion by 2025. Driven by the increasing investments in construction [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
A new patent for recycling PVC has been developed by Ballarat inventor Dennis Collins. The owner of trucking business PaperFreight has long been interested in recycling and has picked up [...]
GreenCell chairman, Ian Wright, has recently called on the establishment of a new waste management research facility in Tasmania. This facility would work in a similar way to the CSIRO and the [...]