Materials & Compounding

Metastable Materials: It’s Time to Think About Recycling Li-ion Batteries This firm’s recycling process extracts valuable metals from spent units Millions of vehicles are equipped with or directly powered by lithium-ion (Li-ion)…

We The People: NGO That Promotes Recycled Products And Women Empowerment Teenager Sameera Jalan started PinThread project as an NGO that provided scores of women in Gorakhpur with gainful employment during the pandemic to create…

Fashion Firms Look to Single-Fiber Clothes as EU Recycling Regulations Loom Clothing companies are increasingly signing deals with recycling startups Clothing companies could start selling more garments made from a single material this…

Textiles recycling: Rising Pressure on India’s Recyclers India’s textiles recycling sector employs more than one million people and, each year, turns over around US$ 2 billion in processing some 5 million tonnes of material But despite…

Why Indian Cities Must Urgently Start to Recycle Construction Waste Though cheaper, procuring fresh building material leads to hillocks being crushed and causes severe dust pollution in surrounding areas. Every day, Bengaluru generates…

We Require Dependable Ways to Recycle Lithium Batteries In March this year, the Indian government announced four recipients for its Production Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme for advanced cell chemistry batteries, which aims to establish 50…

High-Efficiency Technologies For Manufacturing, Compounding, and Plastics Recycling Coperion and Herbold Meckesheim at Plastindia 2023 At Plastindia 2023 (February 1-5, 2023, Pragati Maidan, New Delhi, India), Coperion – technology…

Apple Expands the Use of Recycled Materials Across Its Products Company also advances new disassembly technology as part of closed-loop goal Apple today released new details on the increased use of recycled content across its products.…

Is Chemical Recycling a Silver Bullet or a Lead Balloon? Companies are spending billions of dollars to develop chemical recycling technologies and infrastructure, but is the process even viable? Is chemical recycling the answer to the…

How Residents of Kolkata Are Keeping Their City Clean and Getting Paid for It Too! One of the major issues that every city in India faces is the exponential rise of waste. Leaving aside the growing piles of waste, it is the way the entire…