Metals are essential materials in our modern society, used in everything from infrastructure and transportation to electronics and consumer goods. However, the extraction and production of metals ...

Three German recycling associations jointly have co-authored a letter pointing to potential negative outcomes from scrap ...

In a blog post titled “Scrap, or Strategic Asset? America Must Rethink its Approach to Secondary Aluminum,” Joe Quinn, executive director of the Center for Strategic Industrial Materials at SAFE, ...

The recycling and recovery of metals from spent alkaline and zinc‐carbon batteries are emerging as pivotal processes in the sustainable management of battery waste. These processes involve a sequence ...

The metal recycling industry is growing, not least due to the use of metals in green energy electronic components. Researchers at Lund University have examined the inhaled air of workers at 13 ...

To build all of the solar panels, wind turbines, electric vehicle batteries, and other technologies necessary to fight climate change, we’re going to need a lot more metals. Mining those metals from ...

A proposed bill in the California Senate aims to provide consistent regulation for California’s scrap metal recycling facilities, including Oakland’s Radius Recycling, whose West Oakland plant caught ...

Metal recycling is the process of collecting, processing, and reusing scrap metals to create new products. In Nigeria, it’s gaining traction due to increasing urbanization, industrial waste, and ...

What risks can metal recycling pose to workers? This is what a recent study published in the International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health hopes to address as a collaborative team of ...

The owners of S&W Atlas Iron & Metal Co., a metal recycling company that caused controversy for its disposal of hazardous waste adjacent to a high school in Watts, were sentenced to two years of ...