Marius Schaub

Brij Mohan Garg founded the company 40 years ago as a metal trading business. Today, it's managed by his sons Rakesh and Manish. Under their leadership, Hudei has become a specialist in metal recycling, especially for stainless steel, and is seen as a model across India for this emerging sector.

Following a pilot phase initiated last year, Ecophon is operating Sound Circularity Reuse in Sweden. Contributing to the company's circular offer, the initiative aims to reduce the carbon footprint and resource usage of acoustic products.

A team of scientists has been looking at what effects different strategies for achieving a circular economy with lithium, cobalt and nickel for electric vehicles will have on the demand for materials in Europe. Their conclusion: eleven mines and 57 recycling plants fewer could be needed.

World crude steel production for the 71 countries reporting to the World Steel Association (Worldsteel) was 165.1 million tonnes (Mt) in May 2024, a 1.5% increase compared to May 2023.

For Indian preform and plastic packaging manufacturer Magpet Polymer, Coperion and Herbold Meckesheim are collaborating technologies in construction of an entire plant for bottle-to-bottle recycling from a single source.

The winners of the Plastics Recycling Awards Europe 2024 were announced today at the Plastics Recycling Show Europe in Amsterdam. For the first time in the of the awards, the judges have announced two Plastics Recycling Ambassadors as well as the four product and two innovation category winners.

Through a strategic partnership with the company Plato Technology, Vecoplan intends to offer customers comprehensive processing solutions for plastics recycling from a single source in future.

The Scottish waste management and recycling company, Levenseat Renewable Energy, now has real-time access to material inventory figures and, as a result, efficiently manages its logistics and processing operations after implementing a Lidar-based solution for inventory tracking.

Dow announces launch of reduced carbon, bio-based, and circular Propylene Glycol solutions to support more sustainable offerings for propylene glycol applications.

The European Recycling Industries' Confederation has issued recommendations for an EU circular economy. In it, Euric suggests exploring chemical recycling when no better recycling alternative available.