Kirstin Linnenkoper

Recycling International regularly spotlights individual scrap traders from around the globe. Here we give the floor to Autumn Barnes of Georgia-Pacific Recycling in the USA.

Being a battery recycler is no easy task, according to Charles Stuyck, global battery recycling manager at Umicore. ‘We are being squeezed at all sides, whether you're talking about new legislation, trade challenges, economic drivers or poor design choices,' he says. ‘It's a tough sector.'

Solarcycle is building a five gigawatt solar panel recycling facility in Cedartown, Georgia, USA to complement its existing glass manufacturing plant.

The global Li-ion market will be worth over US$ 400 billion by 2035, according to new data from IDTechEx.

New Zealand has launched Tyrewise, the country's first national tyre recycling scheme.

‘Our mission is to redefine the limits of aluminium,' says Ralf Köring, head of recycling services at Speira.

Trina Solar has unveiled what it claims is the world's first fully recyclable crystalline silicon photovoltaic module.

Aluminium producer Speira says its new ‘transparent' melting furnace is boosting capacity while improving its recycling performance.

German recycling plant manufacturer URT Umwelt- und Recyclingtechnik commissioned its seventh industrial lithium-ion battery recycling plant in August.

The largely untapped gold reservoir within consumer electronics is worth a pretty penny, new market data suggests. Not surprisingly, the US market has the biggest potential due to its immense waste stream.