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Electronic waste is moving up on regulatory agendas in 2026: New European waste-shipment rules, expanded recycling fees on products with non-removable batteries in California, and an e-waste import ban in Malaysia, for example, are all increasing pressure to recover more value before electronics are shredded or exported. The world is projected to generate 82 million tonnes of e-waste annually by …

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The rapid growth of lithium-ion battery (LIB) deployment in electric vehicles and energy storage systems has led to an increasing volume of end-of-life batteries, highlighting the urgent need for efficient and sustainable recycling technologies. Microwave thermal treatment has recently emerged as a promising approach for LIB recycling due to its unique internal heating mechanism, rapid heating ra…

Shingle is a roofing material with fiber glass carrier, covered with mineral stones in various colors and shaped in decorative patterns. Shingle material can appear as an excess usage due to defective production problems or at the end of their service life. Therefore, the evaluation of these material in different areas is important for a sustainable production process. In this study, the utilizat…

Road piezoelectric energy harvesting technology has been widely studied and applied. However, after long-term use, the piezoelectric ceramics inside the harvester will be broken, which seriously affects the use of the piezoelectric system. A reliable recycling process can be adopted to reuse the transducer. Therefore, this study focuses on the feasibility of field application of road piezoelectri…

Data-Driven Design of Recycling-Friendly Aluminium Alloys Montanelli, Luca Francesco Improving material efficiency through the increased use of secondary material is an unambiguous goal for the aluminium industry. The main barrier in achieving this is the compositional mismatch between scrap and alloy. Among the many approaches to address this, one promising direction is to design alloys that com…

Greeshma Gadikota and her team explore how materials that might otherwise be landfilled can be transformed into products needed for solar energy and other critical technologies.

Recycling Partnership Recycling is a simple act that makes a big difference every day. Smithsonian Enterprises -- along with other media companies, paper companies and catalogers -- is a supporter of Recycling Works in Publishing (RWIP). RWIP is a member of The Recycling Partnership, a program of Curbside Value Partnership, whose goal is to increase curbside recycling in communities throughout th…

New method extracts desirable elements from waste magnets using less energy and acid.

Electronic waste, or e-waste, is a rapidly growing global problem, and it’s expected to worsen with the production of new kinds of flexible electronics for robotics, wearable devices, health monitors, and other new applications, including single-use devices. A new kind of flexible substrate material developed at MIT, the University of Utah, and Meta has the potential to enable not only the recycl…

By Mariah R. Lucas UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Recycling does not necessarily prevent an item from eventually ending up in a landfill, according to Enrique Gomez, interim associate dean for equity and inclusion and professor of chemical engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering. Instead, recycling simply delays its end of life. Plastic bottles that are recycled and then turned into carpet, …

Polymer chemist Athina Anastasaki talks about establishing her career, inroads into polymer recycling, and resilience in academia. The post Athina Anastasaki: New ways to recycle old polymers appeared first on Advanced Science News .

Scrap metal has various environmental benefits. Let's explore scrap metal's eco-friendly resurgence and how it finds a second life as a valuable resource, benefiting both our environment and our economy Eco-Friendly Metal Resurgence - A Second Life for Scrap In a world increasingly driven by sustainability and environmental consciousness, the resurgence of scrap metal as a valuable resource is a …

Landfill mining can recover valuable recyclable materials, including aluminum. In fact, the concentration of aluminum in many landfills is higher than the concentration of aluminum in bauxite from which the metal is derived. Now, a multidisciplinary Michigan Tech research team will determine ways to select viable and sustainable landfill sites. Paul Sanders is the principal investigator (PI) on a…

The EU-Funded ASTUTE 2020 operation based at Swansea University has provided industrial Research, Development, and Innovation (RD&I) support to help Brother Industries (U.K) Ltd. produce their first Brother branded toner cartridge manufactured from recycled materials recovered from End of Life products.

Swansea University has literally gone green to hammer home the recycling message.

The post Building an Ethical and Efficient Recycling Supply Chain in India appeared first on Wharton Global Youth Program .

Electronic waste, such as discarded mobile phones, computers, and tablets, contains a large number of precious metals including copper, zinc, gold, silver, etc. Electronic waste has been considered as one of the most important resources of urban mining. However, recovering valuable metals from waste requires lots of efforts and time. A typical industrial process to recycle metal from waste includ…

Associate Professor Joshua Pearce (MSE/ECE) presented “The Progress and Potential for Distributed Household Recycling” at the 24th Annual UPRC (Upper Peninsula Recycling Coalition) Recycling Conference in Iron Mountain, Wednesday, Sept. 26. Recycling could bring more money and jobs to Michigan The conference gives recyclers throughout the U.P. an opportunity to get together to talk about . . .