UK cautious over new EU recycling targets
Top-News: No Teaser Text: The UK opposes the idea of Europe setting new targets for recycling - despite warnings from the EU's environment commissioner that such measures should be non-negotiable,...
View ArticleRedwave XRF: new sorting possibilities for a multitude of materials
October 2015Special edition RT: RT APPLICATION STORIES Country: Austria Author: Redwave, a division of BT-Wolfgang Binder GmbH Austrian sensor-based separation and sorting equipment specialist...
View ArticleRedwave XRF: new sorting possibilities for a multitude of materials
October 2015Special edition RT: RT APPLICATION STORIES Country: Austria Teaser-PicAuthor: Redwave, a division of BT-Wolfgang Binder GmbH Austrian sensor-based separation and sorting equipment...
View ArticleSurge in UK's steel packaging recycling
Top-News: No Teaser-PicsTeaser-Bild 4z3: Teaser Text: A total of 119 556 tonnes worth of steel packaging was recycled in the UK during the second quarter of the year, according to a recent report by...
View ArticleEurope recycles 50%-plus of aluminium closures
Top-News: No Teaser-PicsTeaser-Bild 4z3: Teaser Text: The European recycling rate for aluminium closures has increased to more than 50%, according to the European Aluminium Foil Association (EAFA)....
View ArticleGlass and ceramics to be made from radioactive waste?
Top-News: No Teaser-PicsTeaser-Bild 4z3: Teaser Text: A research team at Rutgers University in the USA has found a way to recycle nuclear waste by immobilising radioactive iodine-129 in 'chemically...
View ArticleMSW recycling rate shows minimal growth in USA
Top-News: No Teaser-PicsTeaser-Bild 4z3: Teaser Text: The overall recycling rate for municipal solid waste in the USA increased to 34.6% in 2014, up 0.3 percentage points from that of the previous...
View ArticleCould 'catalytic glassware' from Singapore help boost metals recycling...
Top-News: No Teaser-PicsTeaser-Bild 4z3: Teaser Text: Researchers from the National University of Singapore are running a special project that has them coat glass laboratory flasks with palladium...
View ArticleRetailer collects 300 000 perfume bottles for recycling
Top-News: No Teaser-PicsTeaser-Bild 4z3: Teaser Text: Since April last year, customers of European perfume and cosmetics retailer Marionnaud have returned some 300 000 perfume bottles for recycling...
View ArticleDiscarded glass bottles to fuel next-generation batteries
Top-News: No Teaser-PicsTeaser-Bild 4z3: Teaser Text: 'Even with today's recycling programmes, billions of glass bottles end up in landfills every year,' note researchers at the University of...
View ArticleCanadian university lab prioritises post-experiment materials recycling
Plastic newsletter: Yes Top-News: No Teaser-PicsTeaser-Bild 4z3: Teaser Text: Test tubes, plastic gloves and safety masks are only a string of items used and discarded daily at a laboratory. And...
View ArticlePhiladelphia recyclers transform filthy discarded glass into 'ultra...
Top-News: No Teaser-PicsTeaser-Bild 4z3: Teaser Text: Have you ever heard of foamed glass aggregate? Philadelphia-based company AeroAggregates produces this special material, which is very strong...
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