How do recycling centers separate materials? What are the steps in the recycling process? Learn the answers to your burning questions about recycling as we dive behind the scenes at a recycling ...

A new textile recycling process holds the promise of cleaning up the planet and boosting the circular economy. It easily separates cotton from polyester, producing usable glucose from the former and ...

Equipment maker Lindner and Procter & Gamble say their solvent-based Flexloop process can remove impurities from recycled ...

TOKYO — November 12, 2025 — Teijin Ltd. announced today that it is using solvent-based recycling, an emerging technology, to ...

Question: "I am interested in what happens to my recycling materials after I drop them off at the transfer station. Where do they go? How do they (aluminum, steel, and plastic) get separated? Why did ...

Laid out left to right to illustrate notable steps in the process of lithium battery recycling are: a pair of lithium iron phosphate batteries; a container of black mass powder obtained from shredding ...

We know that most plastics thrown into the recycling bin don’t get recycled, but what about the ones that do? According to new research, those also end up spitting bits of plastic back into the ...

Recycling of electric car batteries can be easier, cheaper, and more environmentally friendly, according to a new scientific article from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, which outlines an ...

MIT spinout and battery maker 24M Technologies today debuted a new direct-material battery recycling process for EV batteries and battery storage. Cambridge, Massachusetts-based 24M Technologies, ...

A Rice University research team has unveiled a rapid, acid-free method to recover lithium and transition metals from spent lithium-ion batteries. The two-step flash Joule heating chlorination and ...

I threw on my tennis shoes, headed over to Spartanburg County Recycling and got an answer for you. Jes Sdao is the Recycling Coordinator for Spartanburg County. She gave me a breakdown of the process ...

Recycling of electric car batteries can be easier, cheaper, and more environmentally friendly, according to a new scientific article, which outlines an optimized recycling process. The research ...