Metals

The U.S. UBC recycling rate declined to 49.4 percent in 2016, its lowest level in years. The consumer recycling rate...

Larry Reaugh, American Manganese Experts predict large-format lithium-ion batteries will show up more regularly in the scrap electronics stream in...

Sims Recycling Solutions' consolidation of U.S. e-scrap shredding operations yielded financial benefits and more clearly drew a line between its...

Japan's Mitsubishi Materials is planning to invest over $100 million to boost its global e-scrap processing footprint. The investment will...

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Joe Pickard speaks at the Resource Recycling Conference. Ferrous and non-ferrous metals recovered from electronics and other sources have been...

Some of the key recovered commodities generated by materials recovery facilities have been fetching high prices lately, including aluminum and...

Real Alloy is restarting an idled aluminum recycling plant in Kentucky because of increased customer demand and a new contract....

Scientists have developed an environmentally friendly way to recover rare earth elements from shredded electronic scrap without the need for...

A unique, non-toxic leaching technology that's been deployed in Canada is set to roll out at the site of an...