Tag Archives: #Recycling

https://recyclinginternational.com/ferrous-metals/india-to-review-shipbreaking-at-alang-yard/ India’s Gujarat Maritime Board is to reassess the ‘standard operating procedure’ that permits foreign operators to use the well-known Alang shipbreaking facility. Government officials argue that the review of India’s shipbreaking sector is necessary following evidence from a consortium of security and intelligence agencies regarding crime, particularly the trade …

https://recyclinginternational.com/e-scrap/and-the-winners-of-americas-electronics-challenge-are/ More than 275 000 tonnes of unwanted electronics were saved from being sent to US landfills this year as part of the successful Electronics Challenge. America’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the winners of its annual sustainable materials management awards, citing ‘growing support’ from US businesses. Third party certified …

https://recyclinginternational.com/plastics/driving-for-change-recycled-truck-heading-to-the-south-pole/ Have you heard of Solar Voyager? It’s the name of a hand-built vehicle, made up of mostly recycled plastics and scrap metal, that the Dutch eco-adventurers Edwin and Liesbeth ter Velde are taking to Antarctica. The couple’s mission: to promote the use of recycled materials and help put the …

 https://www.icm.ch/icbr-2018 23rd International Congress for Battery Recycling ICBR 2018 September 26 – 28, 2018, Berlin, Germany ICBR is the international platform for presenting the latest developments and discussing the challenges faced by the battery recycling industry.  The 23rd edition of ICBR will bring together many experts and decision makers of the …

https://recyclinginternational.com/business/7-grand-investment-for-greece-to-realise-high-quality-recycling-infrastructure/ The Greek island of Corfu has been granted more than EUR 700 000 worth of funding to boost its recycling performance as part of the European Union’s Ionian Islands Operational Programme, according to Theodoros Galiatsatos, regional governor of the Ionian Islands. Greece has an average recycling rate of around …

https://recyclinginternational.com Platinum group metals represent an attractive market for recyclers in various parts of the world. A new player stepping onto the scene is AltMet, based in South Africa. The start-up has developed a novel process to recover platinum, palladium and rhodium from catalytic converters in a ‘much more energy …

http://www.af.mil McCLELLAN, Calif. (AFNS) — J.D. Wang, the CEO of a tire recycling company, believes people can recycle anything if they put their minds to it. So it seems fitting that his company is expanding into a recycled building — once the commissary at the former Norton Air Force Base …

https://www.thenational.ae Forget abandoned cars at the airport, in Fujairah the problem facing officials is abandoned planes. A new company will start picking through the fuselages and engines of passenger jets left at Fujairah International Airport next month in the first venture of its kind in the region. “A lot of …

http://www.calrecycle.ca.gov/electronics/whatisewaste/ E-waste is a popular, informal name for electronic products nearing the end of their “useful life.” Computers, televisions, VCRs, stereos, copiers, and fax machines are common electronic products. Many of these products can be reused, refurbished, or recycled. With the passage of the Electronic Waste Recycling Act of 2003, certain portions …

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_waste E-waste or electronic waste is created when an electronic product is discarded after the end of its useful life. The rapid expansion of technologymeans we are creating a very large amount of e-waste every passing minute.[3] “Electronic waste” or E-Waste may be defined as discarded computers, office electronic equipment, entertainment device electronics, mobile phones, television …