Recycling Today

In an early December essay written by ILA Executive Vice President Dennis A. Dagget, the ILA officer points the finger squarely at port material handling automation as the most contentious issue brewing between the New Jersey-based union and USMX, also based in New Jersey.

Two contributors to the December Bureau of International Recycling (BIR) World Mirror on Non-Ferrous Metals report have portrayed government activities in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region that are having an impact on nonferrous scrap imports there.

GCP says initially it will supply “behind-the-meter renewable electrical energy” to Hybar, which it refers to as its sister company. It anticipates Hybar will begin producing recycled-content steel rebar in the summer of 2025.

Phoenix-based national waste and recycling firm Republic Services Inc. has joined a new engine lubricants recycling program called MoreCircular, which is organized by lubricants producer Castrol Ltd.

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Christian Schiller, founder and CEO of Cirplus GmbH, writes that "a lot of focus has been on recycling from the petrochemical industry, even though it is clear to everyone that the influx of more plastic into the environment cannot be solved through recycling alone."

Analysts Peter Sand and Emily Stausbøll of Norway-based freight rate benchmarking platform Xeneta say several looming circumstances in the first five weeks of 2025 are poised to keep container shippers and freight forwarders on their toes early next year.

United Kingdom-based Proficio Ltd., whose operations include the size reduction and purification of scrap metal turnings, is now using an Untha RS50 four-shaft shredder at its facility in Livingston, England.

According to steelmaker SSAB, it has been granted $130 million from the EU Just Transition Fund, designed to support a transition to lower carbon emissions steel production.

Two Starlinger recoSTAR PET 165 HC iV+ PET recycling lines at the plant have been commissioned in late 2024. They have a combined output of 3.6 tons of bottle-grade recycled PET pellets per hour, amounting to a total capacity of 28,000 tons per year, says Starlinger.