AGP Executive Report
Last update: 4 hours agoAI Sorting: A Sarasota recycling plant has added a Glacier robot that can pick up to 60 cans and plastic bottles a minute, helping recover materials from a facility processing up to 50 tons of recycling per hour. Materials Recovery: Aditya Birla’s Advanced Materials unit and ORSL plan to develop a recycling chain for composite waste, including wind-turbine materials, using technology designed to separate and recover resin and reinforcing fibres. In Malaysia, TANAKA MEP has broken ground on a precious-metals refinery aimed at returning recovered materials to manufacturing. Collection Changes: Wirral Council is consulting on collecting non-recyclable waste every three weeks, citing lower residual-bin volumes after weekly food-waste collections. E-Waste: Tipperary residents can bring unwanted electrical goods to a free collection event; the county recycled 1,563 tonnes of e-waste in 2025, but its per-person rate was below the collection-area average. Regulatory Scrutiny: India’s National Green Tribunal has directed Odisha’s pollution board to take legal action and report on alleged environmental and waste-management breaches at a Bhubaneswar composting centre.
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