How recycling could solve the shortage of minerals essential to clean energy

A clean energy transition requires more of the metals and minerals used to build clean energy technologies

BC region gains new metals recycling service

West Kootenay, British Columbia, residents and business owners have a new location to recycle scrap metal since LocalMetal opened its doors in Genelle this spring

US consortium tackles metals recovery

A US consortium of private and educational groups is working to find new ways to reduce waste and recover more useable materials in metals processing

New marketplace to authenticate recycled metals

Orbex has launched a marketplace for globally recognized authenticated recycled metals

Companies to send recycled rare earths from Ontario to France

Cyclic Materials has signed a deal with Solvay to send recycled rare earths to the French company's plant in La Rochelle, France

Quebec government funding magnet recycling demo

Geomega Resources Inc. has been awarded a $3 million grant from the Technoclimat Program to advance its construction of a magnet recycling demonstration plant

Sanexen to clean up metals in Quebec’s Arctic

Sanexen Environmental Services Inc. and its affiliate Avataani Environmental Services Inc. have won a two-year contract by the Kativik Regional Government to collect and recycle 4,000 tonnes of metallic residual materials from the Northern community of Kangirsuk, Quebec

Can recycling alleviate li-ion metal supply concerns?

Increasing demand for battery metals and the motivation to reduce the reliance on unsustainable and unethical mining practices drive the li-ion battery market. Recycling batteries alleviates both factors – but to what extent?

IMR picks up scrap processor

Integrated Metal Recycling has bought Société des Métaux Recyclés

Project reclaims rare earth magnets from loudspeakers

The University of Birmingham has demonstrated that the rare earth magnets in loudspeakers, which are currently lost to landfill, can be successfully recycled