Robin Latchem

Traders in used textiles across Europe are warning that the industry is experiencing an unprecedented crisis more significant than during the Covid-19 pandemic.

UK Haulage and excavation firm CCC Waste says a new recycling plant is helping achieve its goal of sending zero construction and demolition and excavation (C&D) waste to landfill.

Mercedes-Benz has opened Europe's first mechanical-hydrometallurgical recycling plant for batteries at Kuppenheim in southern Germany. The car giant says the expected material recovery rate of the facility will be more than 96%.

Chicago-based LRS has won Recycling Facility of the Year award in the recent honours announced by the National Waste and Recycling Association (NWRA).

Recycling plastic targets in the UK are achievable with increased investment, smarter legislation, and improved communication and collection systems, according to the national industry association.

Australian technology outfit Iondrive is claiming breakthrough results in its recycling of black mass from Li-ion batteries.

One of the largest PET recycling facilities in northern Europe has opened at Olaine, Latvia.

Recyclers in Europe and possibly beyond are being urged to look out for PET recycling equipment that has been stolen in its entirety from a UK facility. The value of the missing machinery is put at £1.3million (EUR 1.6 million).

New research suggests that countries importing plastic scrap need to recycle an average 63% of the material to break even, a figure far higher than is currently achieved.

A world-leading facility in the UK to produce aluminium extrusion billet with less embodied carbon is the goal of a collaborative project which includes metals recycler EMR.