Andritz has modernized and started up a refrigerator recycling plant, including a Universal Cross-Flow Shredder QZ, at Praktik system in Stráž pod Ralskem, Czech Republic.

Alcoa Foundation increases support of The Recycling Partnership through the All In On Recycling Challenge. Foundation's $300,000 grant will boost recycling across the country

The Supervisory Board of Vecoplan AG has appointed Michael Lambert to its Management Board effective 1 April 2019.

The World Steel Association (Worldsteel) has released its April 2019 Short Range Outlook (SRO). Worldsteel forecasts global steel demand will reach 1,735 Mt in 2019, an increase of 1.3% over 2018. In 2020, demand is projected to grow by 1.0% to reach 1,752 Mt.

According to a new research report by Global Market Insights, the battery materials recycling market will surpass USD 40 billion by 2025.

A collection of Swedish experts aims to create new bio-based products from excess waste sludge produced from wastewater effluent management at pulp and paper mills.

On Wednesday, Parliament approved a new law banning single-use plastic items such as plates, cutlery, straws and cotton buds sticks.

Styrenics Circular Solutions (SCS), the joint industry initiative to accelerate circularity for styrenic polymers and Agilyx, a leading developer of chemical recycling technologies for plastics, have achieved promising results from the depolymerisation of various post-consumer polystyrene waste samples.

Despite a year filled with political gridlock and uncertainty in U.S. politics, the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) achieved a number of important victories benefiting recyclers in 2018.

Global Recycling Day, taking place on 18th March 2019, has inspired a host of events and initiatives across the world to raise awareness of the importance of 'Recycling into the Future' (this year's theme) for the wellbeing of the planet.