The City of Portland, Oregon, announced that 20 tons of batteries were collected in the first year of its curbside battery collection program.

Solar panel processor Comstock Metals received a conditional use permit to store a large volume of solar panels at its Silver Springs, Nevada, facility. 

Cyclic Materials will invest $25 million into a rare earth recycling facility in Kingston, Ontario, shortly after the company announced its first U.S. facility in Mesa, Arizona.