Recycling news: 2025

Industry news LKQ Publishes 2024 Global Sustainability Report LKQ Corporation (Nasdaq: LKQ), a global leading provider of alternative and specialty parts to repair and accessorize automobiles and other vehicles, (May 28) announced the release of its 2024 Sustainability Report. The report showcases LKQ's role in driving success as a best-in-class operator for our investors and key stakeholders, while maintaining a critical role in facilitating the growth o… Auto Recycling World · 4 Jun 2025 Industry news RECLAMET announced as a headline sponsor for Martha Trust’s 2025 ‘Music on the Farm’ Festival RECLAMET, a leading metal and vehicle recycling business, is proud to be a headline sponsor of the Martha Trust’s much-loved annual summer festival, Music on the Farm, taking place on Sunday, June 29th, 2025, from 12 noon to 8 pm at Solley’s Ice Cream, Ripple, Kent. ATF Professional · 4 Jun 2025 Industry news Recycling Lithium-Ion Batteries: The Cornerstone of a Sustainable Future The post Recycling Lithium-Ion Batteries: The Cornerstone of a Sustainable Future appeared first on Recyclus Group | The UK’s First Industrial Scale Lithium-Ion Battery Recyclers . Recyclus Group news · 4 Jun 2025 Industry news £15bn for South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, North East, West Midlands transport Metro, tram and rail expansions, and improved bus infrastructure will also support more people in Greater Manchester to leave cars at home and punt for low emission travel. Unveiled by Chancellor Rachel Reeves, the mammoth £15billion investment across the North of England and Midlands comes amid a flurry of announcements relating to public transport. Schemes […] Environment Journal · 4 Jun 2025 Industry news Materials, Minerals & Mining for People, Places, Planet (M3P3) - IOM3 Materials World (IOM3) · 4 Jun 2025 Industry news Fight climate change by creating jobs, trade unionists tell PM Ahead of next week’s spending review, leaders of the UK’s biggest trade unions are calling on the Prime Minister to prioritise nature, the environment and employment. Bosses from the Fire Brigades’ Union, British Medical Association, Transport Salaried Staffs’ Association and University and College Union have issued an open letter through Zero Hour to Labour leader […] Environment Journal · 4 Jun 2025 Industry news EPR for Textiles – A tour through Erdotex Textiles Sorting Facility Head of Finance, Jo Tucker had the pleasure of joining colleagues from ERP Netherlands and a few key customers on a guided tour of the Erdotex Textiles Sorting facility Der Beitrag EPR for Textiles – A tour through Erdotex Textiles Sorting Facility erschien zuerst auf United Kingdom (EN) . ERP UK (European Recycling Platform) · 4 Jun 2025 Industry news Warwick District Council installs solar mats on 20 refuse vehicles Warwick District Council has installed solar mats on 20 refuse and recycling vehicles, which it says could reduce carbon emissions by around 1.3 tonnes per vehicle, per year. Funded by the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, the mats have been installed as part of the Council’s ‘Low Cost, Low Carbon’ strategic priority, which is focused […] Circular Online (CIWM) · 4 Jun 2025 Industry news ALDI’S £5 SCHOOL UNIFORM BUNDLE RETURNS – LAUNCHING EARLIER THAN EVER Aldi’s sell-out school uniform bundle is back – and, this year, it’s arriving earlier than ever, still frozen at the unbeatable price of just £5. Landing in stores from 29th June, the bundle offers incredible value for all busy parents and carers. Shoppers looking to bag affordable uniform for the lowest price around best be […] Aldi UK Press Centre · 4 Jun 2025 Industry news Circular copper recovery could bridge 3.6 Mt supply gap, says McKinsey Demand for copper is expected to spike with advances in the global energy transition, but the industry could face a 3.6 million metric tons (Mt) shortfall in refined copper by 2035, according to a new report from consultancy firm McKinsey. Increasing circularity in copper recycling will be essential for both supply security and emissions reduction, […] Envirotec Magazine · 4 Jun 2025 Industry news York is meeting national air pollution targets for the first time Many UK cities continue to struggle to meet the legally-defined limits for NO2, ahead of the forthcoming Clean Air Day, so City of York Council’s 2 June announcement that it is now meeting national air pollution targets for the first time seems significant. The latest air quality monitoring figures from the council for 2024, reported […] Envirotec Magazine · 4 Jun 2025 Industry news Biffa awarded £56 million collection contract in Wokingham Wokingham Borough Council appoints Biffa as the area’s new contractor for waste and recycling collection, and street cleansing, on an eight-year £56 million contract. The contract is valued at approximately £7 million per year, running for an initial term of eight years with the potential for it to be extended for a further eight years. […] Circular Online (CIWM) · 4 Jun 2025 Industry news The role of trust in accelerating uptake of the circular economy It’s staggering to consider just how much waste the global economy generates, every day – and worse still, that the volume is rising. According to the UNEP's International Resource Panel, global material consumption has more than tripled since 1970 and continues to grow. At the same time, the World Bank estimates that global municipal solid waste generation will increase by 70% by 2050 if curre… edie — Circular Economy tag · 4 Jun 2025 Industry news Closing the circularity gap: A route to net-zero and long-term economic prosperity The post Closing the circularity gap: A route to net-zero and long-term economic prosperity appeared first on Reconomy . Reconomy · 4 Jun 2025 Industry news LARAC: ‘Single-use vape ban is not a standalone solution’ Four days into the single-use vape ban, LARAC has said it strongly supports the move and the accompanying requirement for vape manufacturers to fund or provide takeback schemes. Disposable vapes and other small electronic devices containing lithium-ion batteries are a well-documented contamination issue for local authority waste streams and pose a serious fire risk in … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 4 Jun 2025 Industry news Can old satellite dishes become next generation solar power? A Swiss data centre has partly met its rapidly rising energy needs by converting old broadcast television equipment. CKW, which supplies integrated energy and building technology solutions, is behind the innovative work-around. The company confirmed it had successfully transformed unused satellite TV dishes into solar installations for Swiss telecoms provider Leuk TDC. Developed in collaboratio… Environment Journal · 4 Jun 2025 Industry news Warwick’s refuse and recycling vehicles get a solar upgrade Warwick district council has recently installed solar mats on its 20 refuse and recycling vehicles, in a bid to reduce carbon emissions by around 1.3 tonnes per vehicle a year. The mats have been installed as part of the council’s ‘Low Cost, Low Carbon’ strategic priority, which is committed to reducing energy consumption in the … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 4 Jun 2025 Industry news Detecting algal blooms in real time: Group presents inexpensive method A real-time, low-cost algal bloom monitoring system has been developed by Korean researchers, employing inexpensive optical sensors and a novel labeling logic. The system achieves higher accuracy than state-of-the-art AI models such as Gradient Boosting and Random Forest, according to the group behind it, from Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT). Harmful […] Envirotec Magazine · 4 Jun 2025 Industry news Manchester HWRC to close for ‘up to 12 months’ A Household Waste and Recycling Centre (HWRC) in Manchester will close for up to 12 months for “major” improvement works. The Reliance Street HWRC in Newton Heath, Manchester will be shut from 8pm on Sunday 29 June 2025. The improvements will look to bring more parking bays to the site, more space for recycling containers … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 4 Jun 2025 Industry news SEPA announces changes to regulation of waste-to-land activities in Scotland On 2 June, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) said it was informing businesses in Scotland of important changes to the regulation of the use of waste on land for soil improvement. This includes changes to how to apply for an authorisation. The move will create a single regulatory framework for the application of waste […] Envirotec Magazine · 4 Jun 2025 Industry news Support from WEERT and CIWM sees students attend engineering course at Oxford University 72 school pupils in year 10 of their education have attended the ‘Uncover Engineering’ course at Oxford University with the support of waste sector charities WEERT and CIWM. Circular Online (CIWM) · 4 Jun 2025 Industry news Project turns NHS uniforms into upcycled bags Hand-stitched, upcycled bags will give a second life to NHS uniforms that would otherwise be incinerated or sent to landfill, in a new project by two recent graduates from the University of Brighton. The bags are handstitched by Angus Clifford, a recent Product Design graduate who is working with gomi, a Brighton-based sustainability design studio […] Envirotec Magazine · 4 Jun 2025 Industry news A museum on the move: new institution captures human stories of migration Those behind Fenix Rotterdam hope to offer a nuanced picture of the ‘timeless and universal’ phenomenon Positive News · 4 Jun 2025 Industry news EGA secures Ghana bauxite agreement - Aluminium International Today Aluminium International Today · 4 Jun 2025 Industry news Planning Bill update: where are we now, and what are we calling for? - CPRE CPRE (the countryside charity) · 4 Jun 2025 Industry news Ocado's digital twins and simulations: driving efficiencies and innovation at scale - Ocado Group Ocado Group media · 4 Jun 2025 Industry news Future generations thinking can change minds about the world we want to live in Short term thinking is failing us. The world continues to hurtle toward a 3°C temperature rise by the end of this century, despite promises made in the 2015 Paris climate agreement. This trajectory will be hard to change without bold action. So why are efforts […] Green Alliance blog (Inside Track) · 4 Jun 2025 Industry news COMMENT: CSOs the fall guys in ESG reset PepsiCo is sugar-coating its “refined” environmental targets and it’s a bitter pill to swallow – especially for those leading its sustainability efforts. By David Burrows. “My entire life is about trade-offs,” the sustainability director at a food manufacturer told me last week. We were talking about packaging Footprint Media (foodservice sustainability) · 3 Jun 2025 Industry news Big Marathon Month 2025: 31 days of miles and smiles From paintings and dog walks to swimming, cycling, and running, our incredible fundraisers have taken on the Emmaus Big Marathon Month 2025 in some seriously inspiring ways — all helping... Emmaus UK · 3 Jun 2025 Industry news Biffa awarded £56m waste contract in Wokingham Biffa has been awarded Wokingham borough council’s £56 million waste and recycling contract. The contract is set to come into effect on 1 June 2026 and will run for an initial eight years, with the option to extend it for a further eight. It will include street cleansing and a new fleet of collection vehicles. … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 3 Jun 2025 Industry news Camden signs on for eight more years with Veolia Veolia will continue its partnership with Camden council, having announced the eight-year extension of its recycling and waste contract. With the contract having restarted in April 2025, 10 new electric vehicles have already taken to the streets of the borough. Veolia will deliver recycling and waste collections for both households and commercial businesses as well … Read More letsrecycle.com News · 3 Jun 2025 Industry news TFA, everywhere and forever? Trifluoroacetic acid contamination – a new CHEM Trust FAQ Trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) is a chemical with very mobile and persistent properties that is one of many per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) also known as the ‘forever chemicals’ due to their longevity in the environment. The spotlight is increasingly being turned on TFA because, as monitoring of this chemical steps up, it is becoming clear […] CHEM Trust · 3 Jun 2025 Industry news ALDI JOINS VIRAL DUBAI-STYLE CHOCOLATE CRAZE WITH NEW LAUNCH The nation is yet to grow tired of the recent pistachio obsession, and Aldi has responded with its own Dubai-style Chocolate bar, painting the town green from the 12th June. Now, shoppers can experience this viral sensation without the hefty price tag thanks to Aldi, at just £3.99 per bar (100g), making it one of the […] Aldi UK Press Centre · 3 Jun 2025 Industry news Announcing Fixfest 2025! Fixfest 2025 will take place in London, 5-6 September. Learn more about this global gathering for community repair. The Restart Project · 3 Jun 2025 Industry news Why Unite? The Strategic Value of Joining Your Auto Recycling Association As professional affiliations are more often evaluated through a cost-benefit lens, the value and purpose of trade associations are being reexamined. Adam Pade, Head of Secretariat of the Danish Auto Recycling Association (DAG), discusses why unity remains essential in today’s competitive landscape and why membership in a professional community is not just symbolic. It’s a strategic asset that b… Auto Recycling World · 3 Jun 2025 Industry news Fagerhult uses recycled aluminium Fagerhult has announced that its extruded aluminium profiles for its high-volume product lines now contain 75 per cent recycled material. […] Recolight · 3 Jun 2025 Industry news AI ‘to make environmental metrics easier’ The use of artificial intelligence is set to make the creation of environmental metrics such as life cycle assessments (LCAs) […] Recolight · 3 Jun 2025 Industry news Pendants are made from paper pulp and cement A range of pendant lights made from a blend of paper pulp and cement has been unveiled by Rippl Lighting. […] Recolight · 3 Jun 2025 Industry news Environment Agency Waste Tyre review provided extensive evidence by the TRA On the 2nd June, the Tyre Recovery Association released the comprehensive dossier of evidence they submitted to the Environment Agency’s inquiry into Waste Tyres. The dossier summarises the years of persistent engagement with government and regulators, highlighting the urgent need for reform in the management and export of end-of-life tyres (ELTs). ATF Professional · 3 Jun 2025 Industry news Bus Services Bill empowers councils to protect ‘socially necessary services’ The proposed act will mean local authorities can stop companies from axing key routes, regardless of profitability. Passing its second reading in the House of Commons yesterday, Monday 2nd June 2025, the Bus Services Bill forms part of Labour’s Plan for Change and is part of a wider response to a sharp fall in public […] Environment Journal · 3 Jun 2025