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SMS group has taken full ownership of battery recycling company Primobius. The move aims to strengthen its position in the growing market for sustainable battery management.

Recycling robotics startup Glacier has teamed up with Waste Connections for a new project in Pennsylvania. The partnership focuses on deploying AI-powered sorting robots to improve efficiency in material recovery.

At K 2025 in Düsseldorf, Coperion will showcase technologies for compounding and plastics recycling. The company highlights twin screw extruders and digital tools for maintenance and process optimization.

At Simac Tanning Tech 2025 in Milan, BASF will present new materials and processes for the footwear industry. The focus is on polyurethane solutions that enable recycling, reduce weight, and support automated manufacturing.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has newly released an NOL (No Objection Letter) for the polypropylene cap-to-cap recycling process on the Starlinger recoSTAR dynamic recycling system.

Stadler has completed a new high-performance paper and cardboard sorting facility for Italian multi-utility company Iren in Collegno, in the Turin area. Built in partnership with Pellenc ST the facility marks a major step forward in Turin’s circular economy infrastructure.

Covering 60% of Europe’s installed plastics recycling capacity, the RecyClass Recycling Process Certification has become the leading certification scheme for plastics traceability across the region in only three years since its launch.

Tomra Recycling, has launched Finder Color, a new high-throughput solution designed to meet the needs of the scrap metal recycling and e-scrap processing industries.

Nextloopp has announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a Letter of No Objection (LNO) confirming that its proprietary recycling process for recycled polypropylene (rPP) meets the requirements for direct food contact.

The European Parliament gave its final green light to new measures to prevent and reduce waste from food and textiles across the EU.

A European consortium led by CIRCE has officially launched BIOS MATER, a Horizon Europe project co-funded by the Circular Bio-Based Europe Joint Undertaking and the European Union.

Dow, in partnership with Gruppo Fiori, has announced the latest advancements in a jointly-developed, novel process that enables recovery of polyurethane waste from end-of-life vehicles without disassembly.