The European Council adopted a new regulation that strengthens sustainability rules for batteries throughout their entire life cycle. The regulation wants to ensure that they are safe, sustainable and competitive.
As bottom ash recycling becomes the norm, the fly ash generated during the combustion process seems to be forgotten. But instead of...
At the recently held IFAT Eurasia a panel discussion following a workshop on disaster waste focused on how to deal with this special sort...
The International Solid Waste Association recently held a workshop on disaster waste management at IFAT Eurasia. Here's a short summary of...
When talking about healthcare waste we usually think about hazardous waste and plastic waste. Anaesthetic gases hardly ever make the list....
EPA wants to list certain PFAS as hazardous substances. The waste management industry fears expensive lawsuits but might find help in new...
The European Parliament has voted in favour of stricter control measures for waste shipments and a ban on plastic waste exports, whereas...
Building Information Management (BIM) can play an important role not only in the construction of buildings. But it can be equally relevant...
The goal of the MIRECO platform is to make the use of high-quality, recycled raw materials possible by means of a circular economy and to...
The MEPs call for stricters rules to to protect the environment and human health. To this aim they want that waste shipped outside the EU...
Green Science Alliance developed a procedure to extract rare metal such as cobalt, nickel and manganese from cathode and black mass of...
The Council and the European Parliament reached a provisional political agreement on a proposal to strengthen sustainability rules for...
Li-Cycle launches global strategic partnership with VinES, a battery and cell pack manufacturer and a member company of Vingroup, the...
The COVID-19 pandemic caused an unprecedented rise in health care waste around the globe. Now the Government of Japan and the United...
Parties to the Basel Convention at their 15th meeting (COP15) held in Geneva agreed by consensus to the "Swiss-Ghana Amendments,"...
The amount of medical waste and PPE waste has increased through the pandemic. Operators within the resource industry play a crucial role in...
Martin Reichstein, Managing Director at REDUX Recycling GmbH, talks about the upcoming EU regulatory framework for batteries and his...
Batteries should only be disposed of separately in the collection boxes provided, either in shops or at the rubbish tip, the Association of...
Glencore designates Li-Cycle as a preferred global lithium-ion battery recycling partner and invests $200 million.
Veolia and Suez announce the signing of an agreement for the acquisition by Suez of all of the hazardous waste assets in France as part of...
As a new wave of avian flu spreads across the US, mortality composting presents a safe way to deal with the carcasses. Especially hobby...
Batteries are relevant in so many areas of our lives and their number is ever growing. Alas, they still present a challenge for recyclers....
by WEKA Industrie Medien
