Commercial scale production milestone for lead-acid battery recycling technology
The Californian firm behind what is said to be the only clean lead recycling method - which therefore holds out the possibility of making...
Turning WEEE into gold: The Royal Mint to build South Wales plant
The Royal Mint has announced plans to build a "world first" plant in South Wales to recover gold from UK electronic waste. The facility...
What you should (and shouldn’t) do with all of your old phone chargers and...
By Ian Williams, Professor of Applied Environmental Science, University of Southampton, writing in The Conversation.
The statistics surrounding mobile phones are staggering. There are more...
Enterprises’ role in tackling the rising tide of e-waste
Alan Bentley, from data erasure and circular economy specialist Blancco, writes
More than 53 million metric tonnes of e-waste was produced in 2019. This...
Plasma waste recovery successfully trialled for precious metals extraction from e-waste
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-7xuAV2ch4
Plasma waste recovery firm Tetronics says it has completed the first of four trials using its plasma technology in the extraction of precious metals...
News service for sustainable lighting launches
Lighting recycling expert Recolight has launched a news and information resource, The Circular Lighting Report, which the company says "is set to become the...
Free riders bypass WEEE duties, but is it time to simplify legislation?
A report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in August called upon government’s to tackle the problem of “online free riding”
Partnership to create first end-of-life supply chain for electric car batteries
A seemingly ground-breaking project to create a circular end-of-life supply chain for the electric vehicle industry is being led by EMR Metals Recycling. The...
Case studies offer snapshot of what could be achieved with resource-efficient business models
The potential benefits of adopting innovative business models on a large scale have been highlighted by the latest series of case studies from REBus
Firm launches collaborative service for end-of-life batteries
Resource recovery expert Axion has joined forces with two other partners in a major initiative aimed at reusing and recycling the growing volume...
A bright idea for recycling rare-earth phosphors from used fluorescent bulbs
Recycling facilities collect glass and mercury from thrown away fluorescent bulbs, but discarded lighting could also supply rare-earth metals for reuse. The 17 metals...
New online platform helps understand hazardous materials in electronic waste
In an attempt to respond to recyclers’ quest for information about the presence of hazardous substances in electronic waste, producers and producer responsibility organisations...
Sponsored content: Make green the new black – mitigating the environmental impact of Black...
Black Friday is fast-approaching, bringing massive discounts on products in stores and online. Yet the annual sales event can also have a negative impact...
Program announced for electronics recycling event in Salzburg
A program has been announced for the 17th International Electronics Recycling Congress IERC 2018, taking place 17-19 January 2018 in Salzburg, Austria.
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....
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...
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...
Recycling firm starts new phase of CRM recovery project
Axion Consulting is embarking on the next phase of a major European research project into the recovery of Critical Raw Materials (CRMs) from Waste...
Partnership aims to create circular supply chain for wind turbine rare earth magnets
As the first generation of the UK’s wind turbines come to the end of their serviceable life, a project called “Re-Rewind” aims to help...
Breakthrough technology for lithium manufacture
As global effort to fight climate change intensifies, the challenge for battery manufacturers and their supply chains is to find ways to meet the...
