Charged

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

UK-based Altilium is building a new EV battery recycling plant in Plymouth, as the company embarks on the next phase of its ambitious growth plans. Located in Plymouth’s Estover Industrial Estate, the new recycling plant is expected to begin operations by the end of the year.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 7, 2025

New rules on how workplaces in England sort their recycling and waste came into force on 31 March, hopefully ending confusion over what goes where and enabling consistent, more streamlined collections. They will also have the freedom to decide on the size of containers and frequency of collections based on the volume of waste they produce.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 4, 2025

The LEGO Group has introduced a new, more sustainable material for selected LEGO tires, made from recycled fishing nets, ropes, and engine oil. The material is created by repurposing discarded ropes and nets from ocean vessels which is then combined with recycled engine oil to reduce reliance of virgin fossil fuel-based ingredients.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 18, 2025

The findings suggest “there is a very long way to go when it comes to making packaging recyclability in the UK easy to understand for the consumer”. New research indicates that the majority (70%) of British consumers admit they are confused by what packaging can and can’t be recycled. aluminium) (7%).

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

RECOUP has updated its Recyclability by Design (RBD) publication, bringing things up to date with emerging requirements, and at a critical time for packaging recyclability with the impending increase of compliance costs associated with Extended Producer Responsibility. The new guidance.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 18, 2025

Trade group Steel for Packaging Europe has confirmed the highest ever EU recycling rate for steel packaging, 1 bringing the steel packaging sector closer to fully closing the material loop. All recycled steel packaging will be used to make new steel products without loss of quality.

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Packaging Recycling Recycling Europe 130

Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 15, 2025

of plastic materials produced globally in 2022 were manufactured from recycled materials. Of the 400 million tonnes of plastic produced over the year, just under 38 million tonnes (9.5%) was produced from recycled plastic. sent for sorting and potential recycling 36.2% sent for sorting and potential recycling 36.2%

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 23, 2025

Lithium-ion battery recycling technology firm Altilium says it has commenced construction of the UKs first at-scale EV battery recycling facility with integrated chemical refining capabilities, located in Plymouth, Devon. The group claims a first in the UK in terms of the production of new battery cells from recycled materials.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Effective immediately, XCharge NA will provide broken or worn-down EVSE materials to Grensol and its research partner Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), for the development of an industrial recycling solution for such equipment.

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Charged

JULY 7, 2025

German chemical company BASF has started the commercial operation of its battery black mass recycling plant in Schwarzheide, Germany. BASF’s offering in Europe covers all steps along the battery recycling value chain, from collecting end-of-life batteries and production scrap, discharging and dismantling, black mass production and refining.

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Recycling Recycling Batteries Lithium 97

Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2025

Terry Keyworth is Country Manager UK and Ireland and Segment Director Metal at TOMRA Recycling, a global leader in sensor-based sorting solutions. Terry Keyworth of TOMRA Recycling provides valuable insights into the key trends in sorting and recycling. Digital twins of sorting lines allow detailed object tracking and analysis.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 9, 2025

This will include the construction of the UKs largest planned EV battery recycling facility, to be located in Teesside. Their investment strengthens our position as leaders in sustainable battery materials and reinforces our commitment to building the UKs largest EV battery recycling facility. recycling market.

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Recycling Recycling Batteries Lithium 147

Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 2, 2025

The winners of the Plastics Recycling Awards Europe – this year in their 8th run -were announced on 2 April at the Plastics Recycling Show Europe in Amsterdam. was highly praised by judges for the high percentage of post-consumer recycled content and its high potential to reduce emissions for vehicle production.

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Energy Storage News

MAY 12, 2025

Battery recycling firm Livium, via its wholly owned subsidiary, Envirostream Australia, has broadened its recycling deal with BYD Australia to include battery energy storage systems (BESS).

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Recycling Recycling Batteries Energy 176

Charged

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

New research carried out by Imperial College London indicates that recycled EV battery materials produced by UK-based Altilium can match the performance of mined materials. Minor changes observed during testing affirmed the recycled CAMs chemical and physical robustness. Source: Altilium

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 1, 2025

A major breakthrough for the recycling industry is claimed with the successful detection of 100% of UV-tagged single-use plastic bottles entering one of Europes busiest Materials Recycling Facilities (MRF) in France. One of Polytag’s Plastic Detection Units (PDUs) in use at an MRF.

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TechXplore

JUNE 3, 2025

A research team at TU Bergakademie Freiberg is now investigating how the recyclable materials can be recovered from used electrolysis cells so that they can be used directly for new cells. Once an electrolysis cell has done its job, the materials used in it currently end up as scrap steel.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 12, 2025

Other finalists include AI-enabled heat-mapping drones to help councils and housing associations pinpoint social housing stock in need of insulation upgrades more efficiently, and an AI technology to identify materials in end-of-life solar panels and then recycle them into new photovoltaic cells instead of going to landfill.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2024

” The group’s Emma Armstrong said these solutions overcome “technical challenges to recycling, such as the stress caused to de-soldered components by the reclamation process, while opening up new revenue streams and cost savings from the reclaimed components.” ” .” ”

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TechXplore

JUNE 1, 2025

To reduce radiation across Japan's northern Fukushima region after the 2011 nuclear disaster, authorities scraped a layer of contaminated soil from swaths of land.

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TechXplore

JUNE 16, 2025

Australia's rooftop solar industry has renewed calls for a mandatory recycling scheme to deal with the growing problem of solar panel waste. Only about 10% of panels are currently recycled. The rest are stockpiled, sent overseas or dumped in landfill.

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Charged

JUNE 18, 2025

The goal of the JV is to produce at least 2,000 metric tons per year from recycled feedstock such as EV motors, hard disk drives, wind turbines, MRI machines and other permanent magnet-containing materials. The goal will be to then expand by deploying ReElement’s technology to India to refine REEs.

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Recycling Recycling Batteries Technology 108

TechXplore

JUNE 20, 2025

From Li-ion batteries and electric vehicles to drones and solar panels, nearly all clean technologies depend on critical raw materials, such as lithium, nickel and cobalt. As the demand for these technologies surges, so too does the demand for their components, placing immense pressure on supply chains.

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Batteries Europe Recycling Recycling 128

The Verge: Energy

JUNE 26, 2025

The electric vehicle battery recycling and manufacturing venture , which was founded by Tesla’s former chief technologist, has created a new division called Redwood Energy to manage these projects. And often times, the batteries it receives for recycling still have a lot of usable energy capacity — up to 50 percent.

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Batteries Recycling Recycling North America 103

Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 18, 2025

A circular economy focuses on reducing consumption of finite raw materials by keeping materials in use through reuse or recycling. The idea is that this not only reduces environmental harm, but could deliver a £25 billion boost to the UK economy by 2035 and create hundreds of thousands of jobs across the country, explains the document.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Altilium’s Recell.store provides an online interface for UK businesses looking to sell used batteries for recycling or second-life applications. Once a sale is agreed, Altilium will arrange for collection of the battery for recycling at its UK facilities. Business can also register to join Altilium’s network of affiliated recyclers.

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Batteries Recycling Recycling Automotive 116

Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

While technologies like electric furnaces and cullet (recycled glass) melting have helped reduce emissions, the industry still faces significant challenges to fully decarbonize traditional manufacturing practices. Cullet recycling, the process of recycling glass, offers another impactful solution.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Line for washing shredded PET plastic at a recycling facility. Australian researchers have identified a new, or previously overlooked, culprit in the release of microplastics into the environment: The shredding process used to recycle plastics. They subsequently discussed this in a commentary published in Science.

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Microplastics Plastics Recycling Recycling 130

Charged

MARCH 31, 2025

US-based supplier of remanufactured battery packs for EVs, re/cell has introduced lithium-ion blocks using recycled cells from Tesla battery packs.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 7, 2025

million metric tons of plastic packaging that ends up in household waste in Germany every year, after being used just once, less than a third of it can be recycled. That makes it even more important to find ways to recycle these single-use products, most of which are based on crude oil. Where German households produced 2.1

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Plastics Waste Waste Recycled materials 130

Renew Economy

JUNE 18, 2025

Pacific Blue has a 70-80% recycling goal for its decommissioned projects and will use the Codrington wind farm as a template for end-of-life batteries. The post “Not acceptable to dig a hole:” Decommissioned wind farm to be template for recycling batteries appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 17, 2025

Widely reported recycling figures – particularly for plastics – were shown to be misleading. Data included in the index focus on waste generation, recycling, incineration, and landfilling (all measured as mass in kg per inhabitant per year). Hungary, the US, and Israel recorded a notable rise in landfilling rates.

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Waste Waste Recycling Recycling 211

Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Effective from 1 November 2024, REDWAVE and TOMRA Recycling will offer each other’s complementary metal sorting technologies directly to their respective customers. The combined technologies of REDWAVE and TOMRA Recycling are perfectly suited to meet these complex requirements.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 25, 2025

The breakthrough addresses the urgent need to recycle a widely used plastic known as polyethylene terephthalate (PET), which ultimately ends up in landfill or polluting oceans. PET recycling is possible, but existing processes create products that continue to contribute to plastic pollution worldwide, researchers say.

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Science Daily: Renewable Energy

JUNE 26, 2025

The technique could be a game-changer for artisanal miners and recyclers, helping recover valuable metals while protecting people and the planet. Tested on everything from circuit boards to mixed-metal ores, the approach offers a promising solution to both the global gold rush and the growing e-waste crisis.

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Waste Waste Recycling Recycling 88

PV Tech

JUNE 30, 2025

The Spanish government has launched a €100 million (US$117 million) aid programme to help promote the recycling and reuse of materials from renewable energy projects.

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Recycling Recycling Government Energy 64

Business Green

JULY 9, 2025

Project to turn disused industrial facility in Shropshire into state-of-the-art closed loop recycling plant capable of processing 80,000 tonnes of plastic a year

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