At recycling facilities, these batteries pass through several sorting stages before ending up in the ferrous metal fraction alongside other materials. Their small size, irregular shape, and mixed composition make reliable separation difficult. As a result, batteries contaminate metal streams, reduce material value, and increase fire risks during downstream processing.

The joint operation will provide services for large energy-storage and electric vehicle batteries. Its activities include transport, storage, dismantling and second-life assessment. The company states that it can process all battery chemistries.

The Micromat Series IV will be shown with a multicut rotor for processing materials such as big bags and textiles.

The combined event brings together stakeholders from the waste management, recycling, secondary raw materials and circular electronics sectors. With a single registration, visitors gain access to all four exhibitions and their associated conference programmes. Attendance for both the exhibition and conference is free of charge.

Scrap exports have been keeping recycling businesses alive, serving as a counterbalance to the extremely low EU demand for recycled materials.Closing the EU borders for scrap exports will have detrimental consequences to the environment, the economy, and the EU's competitiveness. The prolonged decline of European steel and aluminium production is concerning for recyclers, as it threatens Europe's competitiveness and 'green' and digital transitions. Any calls by the European steel and aluminium industry to restrict scrap exports are completely unjustifiable and unacceptable, especially when the supply of recycled scrap has never been the reason behind any decreased activity of EU mills.Trade challenges cannot be addressed through protectionism, and protectionist measures must not work against Europe's circularity backbone: the European recycling industry. We urge EU policymakers to preserve open trade and carefully consider the EU recycling industry's contributions to the EU economy and sustainability, and to only endorse measures that encourage them to keep innovating and generating resources, instead of hampering them and threatening their very existence.

The European glass packaging industry also wants to achieve the goal of climate neutrality by 2050. This is a challenge in a traditionally energy-intensive industry. The European association FEVE has outlined the path to a low-carbon glass packaging industry in a paper. Low-carbon and affordable electricity is particularly important.

The recoSTAR PET 215 HC iV+ features Starlinger's biggest single extruder size, reaching an output of up to 2,700 kg of bottle-grade pellets per hour. The PET bottle-to-bottle recycling system is equipped with a pre-drying unit, high-vacuum degassing, a continuous filtration system, and an underwater pelletizer. The viscoSTAR SSP reactor installed at the end of the recycling process further increases the viscosity and level of decontamination of the produced pellets. The entire recycling process is based on the FIFO principle, ensuring uniform treatment of every single flake at the front end and each pellet at the back end for outstanding food-contact decontamination.