Mercedes-Benz opened an in-house battery recycling plant. The facility will produce enough materials to make 50,000 new battery modules annually, the company says. EV battery recycling is a niche but ...

Gamini Mendis, assistant professor of plastics engineering technology, in the plastics lab at Penn State University's Behrend campus. A company planning to build a huge plastics recycling facility in ...

In this Q&A, Adam Lovewell, a 2025 Waste360 40 Under 40 Award winner, discusses how he designs systems that solve clients’ ...

Note: Eastman Chemical Company’s first “molecular recycling” facility is now fully operational in Kingsport. It uses a process called methanolysis to reduce hard-to-recycle waste plastic to its ...

I’m on an overnight flight from New York to Frankfurt, Germany, and the accoutrements given to me in business class have a sustainable sheen. Both the polyester blanket and polyester flight kit ...

An increasing amount of electronic waste is not being properly disposed of but is often discarded together with plastic waste, for example. If the batteries in these products are damaged, they can ...

Mercedes-Benz Group AG has opened a battery recycling plant with an integrated mechanical hydrometallurgical process in Kuppenheim, Germany. According to Mercedes-Benz, based in Germany, the expected ...

Officials said the upgraded facility -- located at 5109 Bleigh Ave. -- is expected to process up to 192,000 tons of material per year and is already processing recyclable bottles, jars, cans, and ...