recycling

Aluminum scraps left over from factories and old products could be given a valuable second life as an extremely lightweight material used in cars, buildings and machinery. Researchers at Fraunhofer IWU in Germany are developing new ways to make aluminum foam using recycled aluminum instead of relying mainly on newly manufactured aluminum powder. Their work […] The post Scientists Turn Aluminum Sc…

Smartwatches, phones, and even some drones rely on lightweight, rechargeable energy storage systems. Once those devices wear out, many end up as electronic waste. Now, researchers reporting in ACS Energy Letters have developed a compact supercapacitor that can be quickly disassembled into reusable components. They used the devices to power a glider's propeller and then took apart one supercapacit…

A research team has developed a sorting process for end-of-life vehicle materials and, using a simulation model, has examined, among other things, what percentage of the plastic used in new cars could come from the recycling of end-of-life vehicles.

synthetic garments, textile waste, and factory offcuts are packed into mild-steel cages before heat treatment. The post discarded synthetic textiles become porous structural material through heat fusion appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine .

Glass is one of the few materials that can be recycled again and again without losing quality, yet most households still throw usable glassware away. Thrift stores are full of vintage coupes, compotes, carafes, and bottles that sell for a few dollars each, and every piece is a small building block for something useful. Reusing […] The post How to Reuse Glass: From Thrifted Glassware to Building M…

Resources, environment ministries team up to promote battery recycling industry Under the agreement, the two will establish a platform for battery trade and history, link certification systems for recycled materials, […] The post Resources, environment ministries team up to promote battery recycling industry appeared first on Batteries News .

Repurposing is the practice of giving a household item a second job instead of throwing it away. It is one of the cheapest sustainability strategies available, because the container you already own costs nothing while the organizer you would buy new adds to the demand for fresh materials. Interior design professionals treat reuse as a […] The post Household Items You Should Always Repurpose: 8 Sm…

One of the biggest challenges in the U.S. critical minerals supply chain is in recovering valuable materials not only from traditional sources but also from resources that have already been mined. Colorado School of Mines metallurgists are leading the way with creative new recovery and recycling methods, developing innovations in retrieving metals from end-of-life batteries, secondary resources l…

As per the Environmental Services Association, in the UK alone, 22,000 tonnes of batteries are discarded each year, and only 45% are properly recycled. This results in over 1,200 fires breaking out in UK bin lorries and waste sites in a single year. Nearly 50% of these recycling and waste fires are started by lithium-ion […] The post This Startup is Turning Lithium-ion Batteries into Reusable Lit…

Dropping a plastic bottle into a blue recycling bin feels like a straightforward environmental action. However, the path your plastic takes after leaving your curb is far more complex than most consumers realize.  While materials like aluminum and glass can be melted down repeatedly without losing quality, plastic behaves differently. Most of what we toss […] The post Where Does Your Recycled Pla…

Scientific Reports, Published online: 21 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41598-026-47137-x Introducing a recycling method for iron oxide from cold forming mild scale and its application in alkyd resin-based primer paint

Aduro Clean Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq: ADUR; TSX: ACT; FSE: 9D5), which converts feedstocks such as waste plastics, heavy bitumen and renewable oils into new resources, said its collaboration with ECOCE, A.C. has moved into its next phase after completing Phase 1 feedstock mapping and stream selection. Selected post-consumer flexible plastic packaging streams collected in Mexico are now entering …

Japan develops a method to recover up to 90% of lithium from used EV batteries and it could be a major breakthrough In a ground-breaking step forward, Scientists from Japan have developed a new method to recover up to 90 percent of lithium from used EV batteries – and it suddenly feels like great news on Earth Day. With electric vehicles booming worldwide, the pressure is mounting to find smarter…

Plastic bottles could find new life in batteries as graphite jmm96@psu.edu Tue, 06/30/2026 - 11:57 June 30, 2026 A plastic bottle tossed into a recycling bin could one day help power an electric vehicle, smartphone or renewable energy storage system, according to a team of Penn State researchers. In a new study, researchers converted waste polyethylene terephthalate, or PET, into highly ordered s…

A new report by the UK Critical Minerals Intelligence Centre reveals insufficient end-of-life material stocks present a supply risk over the coming decade, but offer significant long-term potential to meet critical mineral demand through recycling. The post Shortage of end-of-life materials presents challenge to UK critical minerals security appeared first on British Geological Survey .

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 …

Recycling. A word often related to large companies receiving tons and tons of paper or plastic in an effort to reduce our carbon footprint. However if we look at plastic bottles for instance, humans buy a million plastic bottles per minute , and 91% of all plastic is not recycled . This article is going to cover what makes plastic recycling so important, how to recycle PET and the future of recyc…

Send your 3D printed scrap to one of these services for a new life as recycled filament or useful plastic products.