Recycling

Permanent Secretary for Environment and Ecology (Environment) attends Environment Day cum Recycling Day Launching Ceremony (with photos) ******************************************************************************************      The Permanent Secretary for Environment and Ecology (Environment), Mr Eddie Cheung, today (June 7) officiated at the Environment Day cum Recycling Day Launching Ceremony. Officiating guests included the Deputy Director-General of the…

TL;DR Swiss cleantech GR3N raised €15.5M to build a microwave-assisted PET recycling plant in Spain. It handles the 85% of PET waste that current methods can’t. Swiss cleantech startup GR3N has raised €15.5 million in a Series B round to build the world’s first commercial-scale microwave-assisted PET recycling plant. The…

“Solar recycling has to be dealt with today, for the solar panels being installed now,” Dunlop emphasises, in response to questions from PV Tech Premium. “Due to our nature as a low-cost form of electronics with an extremely long lifespan—sometimes 30+ years—recycling has to be paid for at the point…

Photo Credit: Mick Haupt IMPALA has unveiled a collaboration with FÉLIN’s ReDisco, a vinyl recycling initiative that’s said to have “given a second life to 1.2 million unwanted records” since launching three years ago. France’s National Federation of Independent Labels and Distributors (FÉLIN) established ReDisco in 2023, after a law…

One third of people regularly change their shopping and transport-related behaviour to act more sustainably, but are not as willing to eat less meat or attend a protest calling for climate action, a poll has found. In the poll of 1,056 adults for the Irish Examiner by Ipsos B&A, it…

Executive Director and MD of Retail and Business Banking at Absa Bank Ghana, Kobla Nyaletey, has advised businesses in Ghana’s emerging recycling sector to start with smaller-scale projects and gradually expand to attract investor confidence and financing. Speaking at the Landfills2Landmarks Summit, Mr Nyaletey said Ghana’s recent macroeconomic conditions made…

A new Views & Comments article published in Engineering highlights emerging biocatalytic strategies for plastic depolymerization, focusing on artificial intelligence (AI)‑enabled enzyme design and multi‑enzyme cascades as promising routes to enhance sustainable plastic recycling. Global plastic waste has outpaced existing collection and disposal systems, leading to persistent accumulation in terrestrial…

In June, athletes from 16 countries will kick off the World Cup wearing other people’s used clothing. Well, maybe. They’ll be sporting uniforms made from recycled fabric, potentially including a mix of scraps and old clothes. It’s the latest initiative from Nike, one of the world’s largest apparel companies, to…

The University of Manchester has been awarded over £1.3 million to develop technologies that could recover valuable materials from hard-to-recycle waste including disposable vapes and cars. The three‑year project, REMOVE‑UM: REcovering MOlecular ValuE from Unrecycled Multi‑materials, funded by EPSRC and Defra will develop new technologies to tackle some of the…

Researchers have developed a low-temperature, hydrogen peroxide-mediated oxidative liquefaction process to recycle end-of-life solar panels by selectively breaking down polymers into useful chemical feedstocks. The proposed method reduces energy consumption, eliminates hazardous solvents, and minimizes landfill waste compared to traditional recycling techniques...Read More