Sustainability & Recycling

3D-printing startup crushes recycling with disposable clay cups, inspired by the 5,000-year-old kulhar Drawing from South Asian culture, GaeaStar uses 3D printing for cups and bowls made of clay, water and salt that can be crushed into…

Reduce. Reuse. And Then, When All Else Fails, Recycle. A municipal waste worker turns away another shipment of recycled materials littered with greasy pizza boxes and broken glass, sentencing this waste to slow death in a landfill without…

Viridor launches £25m glass recycling plant at Newhouse Recycling firm Viridor has launched its new £25m glass recycling plant in North Lanarkshire. The 70,000 sq ft facility at Newhouse will recycle material from 17 Scottish local…

Plastic recycling volumes increase in 2021 Despite the overall increase compared with 2020, recovery of HDPE bottles and PP declined. Plastic recycling volumes in the U.S. increased by 280.3 million pounds in 2021 compared with the…

Suzuki, Toyota allies at Indian ELV recycling facility Vehicle provider Maruti Suzuki and Toyota Tsuho open JV end-of-life vehicle scrap yard near Delhi. A ceremony in Noida, India, near New Delhi, was held this week to inaugurate a…

Bosch to build Europe’s first fully automated battery recycling plant Bosch Rexroth to supply Battery Lifecycle Company with fully automated system for discharging and disassembling EV battery modules; plant in Magdeburg, will recycle up…

All 30K PVR INOX employees to wear uniforms made with recycled PET bottles Over the past nine months, as many as 1,000 PVR INOX Ltd employees across 25 movie theatres in 20 cities have switched over to wearing uniforms made with fabric…

Researchers Recycle Rare Earth Metals With Biomass Rare Earth metals are essential to countless high-tech applications. Working together with the University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern, a research team from the Technical University…

Cornell University Scientists Improve Recyclability Of Waste Plastic Plastics are incredible materials with properties invaluable to the functioning of our modern world. They are strong, flexible, versatile, long-lasting and inexpensive.…

Mahindra, Maruti and Tata out to prove their mettle in recycling Recycling companies are among the unsung heroes of the automotive world and three of India’s leading carmakers are doing their bit with environment-friendly recycling of…