EEE

The company has inaugurated Europe’s first hydrometallurgical battery recycling pilot plant on the company’s one-year anniversary.

Northvolt and EMR have built and commenced operations at a battery recycling facility in Hamburg.

Andritzwill supply Enva Northern Ireland Ltd. with an automated fridge recycling plant for their new site in Toomebridge.

This year International E-Waste Day will operate under the slogan “You can recycle anything with a plug, battery, or cable!” highlighting the issue of invisible e-waste – the electronic items that often fall under the recycling radar of those disposing of them because they are not seen as e-waste.

The process complements Metso’s battery minerals technology offering, which covers concentration and hydrometallurgical processing as well as related services.

The global reach of e-waste issues was illustrated at the latest meeting of the BIR E-Scrap Committee, with guest presentations shedding light on the latest developments in Europe, South America and the Middle East.

By using a new method, precious metals can be efficiently recovered from thin-film solar cells.

Following its annual general meeting, board members of the European Electronics Recyclers Association (EERA) unanimously voted to re-elect Kurt Kyck as President for a further three-year term.

Today, the European Commission adopted a new proposal on common rules promoting the repair of goods.

Nottingham Trent University (NTU) is part of a £4.5 million research project to establish a process to recycle or reuse electric vehicle batteries to help prevent up to nine million tons of battery waste per year going to landfill.

A consortium has commenced an ambitious four-year project to create a data platform that will share detailed information on these products.