电子垃圾

|A €7 million processing plant for aluminium and copper containing materials will be completed next year in Heinola, Finland.

|Umicore has inaugurated its carbon-neutral production facility for cathode active materials for electric vehicles in Nysa, Poland.

|Umweltschutz Höpperger has successfully completed the start-up of an Andritz ADuro G-1600S granulator at its e-scrap recycling mill in Pfaffenhofen, Austria.

|Small, end-of-life electrical and electronic appliances present a significant challenge.

|ClimateTech startup tozero has raised € 3.5m in a Pre-Seed financing round led by Atlantic Labs.

|The European Commission has published draft proposals for ecodesign and energy labelling regulations on smartphones and tablets. If agreed, they will establish a repair index and the first-ever EU-wide energy label for these devices.

|UK battery recycler Wastecare has welcomed the Environment Agency’s revised guidance on the classification of portable and industrial batteries, which was published last week.

|Kerry Chen, CEO of ATRenew, talks about the market for second-hand electronics in China, technologies for preparing for reuse und future challenges for the industry.

|This year, the main focus of International E-Waste Day (#ewasteday) taking place on 14 October, will be those small electrical devices that we no longer use but keep in drawers and cupboards or often toss in the general waste bin.

|BASF wants to build a commercial scale battery recycling black mass plant in Schwarzheide, Germany.

|The Parties to the Basel Convention at their 15th meeting (COP15) held in Geneva agreed by consensus to the "Swiss-Ghana Amendments," establishing new definitions of hazardous and non-hazardous electronic waste, and ensured that both of these two categories of e-waste will either be banned from trade or at a minimum require notification by the exporting country and consent by the importing country prior to export.

|Metal recycler has plated high purity cobalt and produced manganese dioxide from lithium-ion battery black mass.

|The Future Availability of Secondary Raw Materials (Futuram) project commenced on 1st June 2022 and plans to play a key role in ensuring a secure supply of secondary and critical raw materials from within the European Union.

|在国际回收局的年度大会上，所有部门都批评欧盟委员会对废物运输的更大监管计划：限制贸易将危害企业和回收利用。