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Tosca Showcases 100% Recycled Plastic Pallet with Cabka
Tosca has showcased its euro-size Circular Pallet (CP1208), developed with Cabka, at Fruit Attraction in Madrid. Made from 100% recycled plastic, the pallet is designed for reusable transport packagin...

TRIMET Opens New Aluminium Scrap Sorting Facility in Germany
TRIMET Aluminium SE has commissioned a new facility in Hamm designed to process up to 40,000 tonnes of aluminium scrap per year, strengthening its supply of recycled raw materials.
LIBS sorting for...

500 Tonnes of PFAS Foam Sent from New Zealand to Finland for Specialist Treatment
Around 500 tonnes of PFAS-containing firefighting foam from New Zealand is being transported to Finland for specialist treatment and disposal in an international hazardous-waste cooperation involving ...

TOMRA: PPWR could reshape the economics of plastic recycling
New EU packaging rules could increase demand for recycled plastics while also changing the requirements for the recycling industry....

Greyparrot and Circular Services Test AI at New York MRF
Greyparrot says 89% of the aluminium passing through Circular Services' Sunset Park MRF in Brooklyn is recoverable, equivalent to around 91,000 aluminium cans per day. The companies are now preparing ...

OSR and Cleansort: More Than 20,000 Tonnes of Aluminium Sorted with LIBS
Four years ago, OSR introduced Cleansort's laser-based LIBS sorting technology as a pioneering project, laying the foundation for industrialising the process. Building on this milestone, a commercial ...

LEGO Starts Scaling e-Methanol in Plastic Production
The LEGO Group has started using e-methanol, a renewable material, to help make more than 90 robust and rigid LEGO elements, including cross axles, connectors, steering wheels and Minifigure hands....

Plastics Recycling Show to launch in Brazil in May 2027
Brazil will host its first edition of the Plastics Recycling Show (PRS) on 17–18 May 2027 at the Renaissance São Paulo Hotel....

Matthiessen Bag Splitter in Kazakhstan’s New 150,000 t/y Sorting Facility
A new waste sorting complex with a capacity of 150,000 tonnes per year has opened in Pavlodar, Kazakhstan...

Lindner presents Urraco ECO mobile twin-shaft shredder
Lindner Recyclingtech has expanded its mobile shredding portfolio with the Urraco ECO, a new twin-shaft shredder designed for waste wood, green waste and commercial waste. The machine is positioned as...

90%+ recyclable: Covestro takes elastomer recycling from lab to pilot scale
Covestro has opened a new pilot plant in Leverkusen, Germany, for the chemical recycling of high-performance elastomers. The double-digit million-euro project moves a novel recycling process for Vulko...

STADLER opens 2,160 m² Test Center for recycling technology trials
STADLER brought together 50 participants from 10 countries, including representatives of leading recycling companies and international industry media, at its headquarters in Altshausen, Germany, for t...

CWM Environmental invests £15m in automated recycling technology
CWM Environmental has invested £15 million in the redevelopment of its Nantycaws Resource Recovery Facility in Wales, with seven TOMRA AUTOSORT™ units driving the site’s transition to fully automated ...

LEGO owners plan major investment in plastic recycling technology
The investment arm of the Danish family behind LEGO plans to significantly increase its exposure to plastics recycling as Europe moves toward stricter packaging rules....

Nordic Recycling Systems Adds Automated Sorting to Singapore Deposit Return System
Singapore has officially unveiled a new automated sorting facility in Tuas as its Beverage Container Return Scheme moves toward full implementation on October 1....
From Porsche to Porsche: Next Milestone in Battery Recycling
Porsche has produced battery cells using cathode active material made entirely from recycled raw materials for the first time....

OBTAIN™ Deep Learning: AI-Powered XRT Sorting at Hemerdon
Tungsten West plc is deploying six TOMRA Mining XRT ore sorters equipped with OBTAIN™ Deep Learning at the Hemerdon tungsten mine in Devon, England, as part of a redesigned processing plant targeting ...

Dennis Eagle unveils CrewSense AI for refuse collection vehicles
Dennis Eagle has unveiled its new CrewSense AI system at RWM Expo 2026 in Birmingham, using cameras and artificial intelligence to monitor crew activity in the working zone at the rear of refuse colle...

Recycled fishing nets turned into high-performance ropes
The EU-funded SEARCULAR project has unveiled a blueprint for more circular fishing gear after three years of development and field testing....

VAN DYK upgrades Charlotte MRF with 16 optical sorters in $24 million project
🇺🇸 CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A major recycling facility in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, has reopened following a $24 million upgrade that replaced its processing equipment and expanded its automated so...

Lightweight composites could cut transport component weight by up to 35%
The EU-funded FOREST project, coordinated by AIMPLAS, has validated lightweight composite solutions that can reduce component weight by up to 35% compared with conventional materials....

Cyclic Materials Opens US Facility for Rare Earth Magnet Recycling
Cyclic Materials has opened a $20 million commercial-scale facility in Mesa, Arizona, using its proprietary MagCycle™ technology to recover rare earth magnets from end-of-life automotive parts, electr...

Europe’s textile recycling problem is no longer just about volume. It is about economics.
The numbers are becoming harder to ignore. Let’s look at a few examples....

STEINERT to present new LIBS and AI sorting advances at ALUMINIUM 2026
From 6 to 8 October 2026, STEINERT will present new developments in aluminium sorting at ALUMINIUM in Düsseldorf, focusing on smaller grain sizes and smarter separation....

Tosca advances asset traceability with Asset IQ
Tosca is expanding digital traceability across reusable packaging and logistics assets with Asset IQ, an established platform developed and refined over several years that combines Active IoT tracking...

HolyGrail 2030 puts digital watermarks to the real-world test in packaging recycling
Mondelēz International, PepsiCo, pladis Global and Constantia Flexibles are testing invisible digital watermarks on flexible food packaging in Belgium as part of HolyGrail 2030, aiming to improve auto...
Design Skills for Embedding Circularity: Putting Designers Closer to the Realities of Waste
What if designers spent more time seeing what happens to products after we throw them away?...

AMP to showcase AI-powered MSW sorting at ESS Expo 2026
US recycling technology company AMP will showcase its AI-powered municipal solid waste (MSW) sorting technology at the Environmental Services & Solutions Expo (ESS Expo) 2026, taking place on 16–1...

MIT team wins NASA prize for recycling mixed waste in space
A team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has won first prize in Phase 2 of NASA’s LunaRecycle Challenge, receiving US$775,000 for a system designed to recycle mixed waste during fut...

ERI launches India venture as part of major Asian e-waste expansion
US-based Electronic Recyclers International (ERI) has launched ERI India, a 50/50 joint venture with Indian recycler Eco Recycling Limited (Ecoreco)...





























