Trash totem: ‘Mount Recyclemore’ sculpture appears on Cornish beach
A giant Mount Rushmore-like sculpture of the G7 leaders’ heads, made entirely of discarded electronics, has appeared on a beach near Carbis Bay. The...
UK needs to act to prevent electric vehicle battery waste mountain – new study
Recycling technologies for end-of-life lithium ion batteries (LIBs) are not keeping pace with the rapid rise of electric vehicles, storing up a potentially huge...
Recycling more precious metals from nuclear and electronic waste using the Picasso pigment
A big problem with the disposal of nuclear and electronic wastes is that the process wastes precious metals such as gold and platinum-group metals,...
Big Changes to the Weee Regulations This Year
The UK Government is planning to consult on updates to the WEEE Regulations later this year. They are likely to result in major changes to the system, as compliance expert Recolight explains.
Collaborative approach to collection increases WEEE recovery in Northern England trial
An EU-funded project appears to illustrate the possibilities for increasing collection rates of difficult-to-recover WEEE items by partnering with well-known and trusted consumer brands....
Reducing e-waste and connecting the disconnected: Campaign marks milestone
A landmark 10,000 smartphones have been "rehomed with people who need them", according to Community Calling, a joint initiative of Virgin Media O2 and...
Finnish innovation boosts battery recycling rate to over 80%
Electrification will rapidly increase the need for batteries. A new solution by Nordic clean energy company Fortum claims to make over 80% of the...
Project aims to boost recycling supply chain for luxury cars
A new research project aims to deliver a sustainable source of rare earth magnets for electric and hybrid vehicles for one of the most...
Reuse hub for lighting launches
The Reuse Hub for lighting products was launched by Recolight at the end of 2023. It is a platform to facilitate the donation of...
Lighting product design for a circular economy: workshops in April and May
Recycling expert Recolight’s first training workshop focusing on lighting product design for a circular economy ran in London during April.
The course design drew on...
Interpreting the environmental legislation changes to the classification of Persistent Organic Pollutants
Mark Priestman, Managing Director of Non-Ferrous at EMR (formerly European Metal Recycling) writes
As the recycling industry innovates to embrace its role as a...
Cloud-based energy aggregation and battery waste innovators pick up low carbon funding awards for...
A cloud-based energy aggregation service has picked up the Shell Springboard and Shell LiveWIRE awards, securing £180,000 of equity free funding. Another award went...
Critical raw material closed loop recovery project closes with release of trial learnings
Project exploring ways of boosting recovery of critical raw materials from household WEEE concluded on 29 March
Advisory group reminds Scots to recycle old batteries
The Scottish government-funded circular economy advisory group Zero Waste Scotland is reminding Scots that they should recycle batteries separately to other household waste after...
Greater Manchester calls for a repair revolution
Greater Manchester is marking Repair Week 2024 (11-17 March 2024) with a rallying call for a ‘repair revolution’, as an eye-opening new survey reveals...
Speaker line-up and details announced for IERC 2019 event, in Salzburg
Over 500 delegates are expected to gather in Salzburg in January for the International Electronics Recycling Congress (IERC) 2019.
Keynote speakers will include: Paul E....
Unique online tool for repair cafés gets an update
The latest version of a free online resource for repair cafés - the Repair Café Carbon Calculator from Farnham Repair Café (FRC) - went...
Prague to pilot large-scale, dynamic waste collection
The city of Prague is to pilot dynamic waste collection via automated collection routes. Seemingly impressive in scale for a trial of this kind...
Sponsored content: Announcing Recolight’s webinar series for 2021
Recolight has announced a new Circular Economy webinar series for 2021. It will build on the events held in 2020, and the progress being made by the lighting industry
E-waste pollutes plastics in popular toy
A recent global survey has found that recycling plastics containing toxic flame retardant chemicals found in electronic waste results in contamination of a (still,...
