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NPHarvest has launched a nutrient recovery pilot at Biogas Westerbakum GmbH & Co. KG in Lower Saxony. The project marks the Finnish cleantech company’s entry into Germany’s biogas market and is intended to demonstrate how liquid digestate can be converted into fertilizer-grade inputs.

Eggersmann has commissioned a new IBA processing plant for Knockharley Landfill Ltd. north of Dublin, Ireland. The project was delivered with support from Kaizen Recycling Limited, Eggersmann’s dealer for the United Kingdom and Ireland.

On Earth Day, the Recycled Materials Association (ReMA) published a new economic impact report outlining the scale of the U.S. recycling sector and its contribution to manufacturing, employment and environmental performance. The study presents recycled materials not as a peripheral environmental activity, but as an established industrial input across major manufacturing segments.

ESWET has welcomed the European Commission’s AccelerateEU Plan as a response to energy price volatility and Europe’s continued dependence on fossil fuel imports. The association points in particular to the plan’s focus on district heating, waste heat recovery and domestic clean energy generation, arguing that Waste-to-Energy can contribute across all three areas.

Tomra Recycling has opened its Americas Test & Training Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, expanding testing, training and after-sales support for recyclers across the region. The new facility combines a test circuit with current sorting technologies, training space and warehouse capacity for critical spare parts.

Axens, IFPEN and JEPLAN have completed a semi-industrial demonstration of a polyester textile recycling loop, processing post-consumer waste into base monomers for new production.

Turning Europe’s circular economy ambitions into reality will depend on making it people-focused — in particular — making sure European Union rules in place work to make it a success for entrepreneurs, business owners, citizens and workers alike, according to two assessments published by the European Environment Agency (EEA).

Tata Steel has signed definitive agreements with Paul Wurth S.A., part of SMS group GmbH, to implement EASyMelt blast furnace decarbonization technology. The project предусматри the first industrial-scale application of the system at blast furnace E (649 m³) in Jamshedpur.

A new German-Austrian research project investigates the biodegradation of compostable plastic fragments in the soil under real conditions. The focus is on the question of how quickly fragments of certified compostable plastic films degrade when they enter the soil via the compost.

Tomra Mining is supplying sensor-based sorting technology for Soma Gold Corp.’s El Bagre operation in Colombia as the miner advances its mineralized material upgrading strategy. Following test work at Tomra’s test centre in Wedel, Germany, Soma has decided to install a COM Tertiary XRT 1200 sorter in its processing flowsheet.

For secondary smelters, reliable feedstock quality and consistent supply are essential. At its site near Bergamo, Italian aluminium recycler Stemin processes around 180,000 tonnes of aluminium per year, representing about 17 to 18 per cent of the country’s secondary aluminium market.

Polykemi and Rondo Plast have invested nearly SEK 25 million over the past two years to expand their plastic recycling capacity. According to the companies, the additions increase production by around 7,500 tonnes of recycled material annually and broaden access to post-consumer recycled feedstock for engineering compounds.