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A string of recent incidents in Texas, California, and Michigan shows how discarded car and lithium-ion batteries can damage garbage trucks and trigger fast-moving fires.

Sortera says its new Lebanon, Tennessee operation has entered full service, doubling the company’s processing capacity and extending the use of AI-driven sorting in domestic metals recovery.

Flash Metals Texas, Inc., operating as Metallium, has received a Phase II SBIR contract tied to recovering critical minerals from electronic waste, signaling continued U.S. defense interest in domestic materials supply.

Researchers at the University of Virginia say a continuous-wave infrared laser can remove backsheets from end-of-life silicon solar modules without damaging glass or wafers, pointing to a lower-energy recycling approach.

Researchers in Germany are developing a running shoe concept built almost entirely from a single material, aiming to make footwear more recyclable without abandoning performance-focused design.

French cleantech company Rosi has raised more than €20 million to expand photovoltaic recycling and build a new 10,000-tonne-per-year processing facility in Teruel, Spain.

A once-overlooked automotive waste stream is getting new attention as recyclers chase iridium and platinum that had long been lost with scrap steel.

China is moving to scale and formalize lithium battery recycling through a policy push that mandates digital traceability for retired EV batteries, pointing to tighter oversight of the recovery chain.

China's massive aluminum sector, responsible for nearly 5% of the country's total emissions, may have reached its carbon dioxide peak. A combination of production caps, renewable energy adoption, and recycling growth is bending the curve.