| E science news reports that a team of researchers have discovered a process of extracting cobalt and lithium from waste batteries using natural occuring fungi

| According to Fox News, scientists are developing an edible form of packaging to help cut both food and plastics waste.

| According to preliminary ICSG data, the refined copper market for May 2016 showed an apparent production deficit of around 65,000 metric tonnes (t) mainly due to strong Chinese apparent refined copper demand.

| Japan’s Meiwa Co.,Ltd. reportedly intends to build an organic waste processing facility in Meru County, Kenya, and is said to be in talks with the local government regarding the construction. The company specialises in biomass carbonisation technology wherein organic waste is converted into charcoal.

| World crude steel production for the 66 countries reporting to the World Steel Association (worldsteel) was 133.7 million tonnes (Mt) in July 2016, 1.4% up on July 2015.

| Composites play an important role in today’s industry and the volumes are increasing, but as with many materials, the question of proper waste management remains. Composites UK has examined the current state of composites recycling.

| The city of Karachi – which also happens to be the capital of Sindh province of Pakistan, and also the seventh populous city in world – is dealing with a serious problem of garbage disposal.

| The ferrous metals industry seems to have hit rock bottom – this is something most experts agree on. But there is still no coherent tendency as to where the markets are heading. The current BIR report provides an overview of the different regions.

| The next conference in electronics and cars recycling will take place from November 15 - 18, 2016 in Macau.

| Extracting precious metals such as gold, silver, platinum, or palladium, from electronic waste has never been an easy procedure; moreover, the process becomes more dangerous with the inclusion of solutions that primarily contain cyanide which eventually affects the environment.

| A study by the New York City Department of Sanitation and the city’s Business Integrity Commission has highlighted benefits of establishing commercial waste collection zones. The study said that setting up such zones for private waste collection firms would reduce truck traffic and greenhouse gas emissions associated with waste collection. The study said that the zones could reduce truck traffic by 49-68% and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 42-64%.

| Hitachi Zosen will construct the plant in the Manila metropolitan area.

| Municipal recycling programs "are the hubs of the reverse logistics needed to return valuable packaging to the supply chain,” said The Recycling Partnership’s director of corporate partnerships Jeff Meyers.

| According to the Nikkei Asian Review, various Japanese non-ferrous metals companies are trying to make a business out of e-waste other countries want to get rid of.

| Mineral processing company Mineworx said that it has developed a nontoxic leaching method that extracts precious metals from ores and e-waste. Mineworx said that this is safer for the environment than existing cyanide-based formulas.