Across The Wire

1. DTE Energy And NextCycle Michigan Team Up To Spark Fresh Ideas In Recycling 9/11/2025

   As part of its ongoing history as a driver of innovation and steward of the environment, DTE Energy has partnered with NextCycle Michigan to sponsor a pitch competition to find smart, creative ways to reuse materials like wood chips and wind turbine blades and help push the energy industry toward a more sustainable future.

2. Altalto Advances As UK's Leading Waste-To-SAF Project With New Government Funding And NEXTCHEM Partnership 9/8/2025

   Altalto (Immingham) Limited, owned by Velocys, today announced it has been awarded funding from the UK Department for Transport's Advanced Fuels Fund to progress the Basic Engineering Design of its flagship waste-to-SAF facility.

3. Indonesia Seeks Waste-To-Energy Solutions With High-Level Visits To SUS Jiaxing Waste-To-Energy Project 8/29/2025

   On May 26, 2025, after a four-year hiatus, Indonesia's Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources released a new 10-year electricity development plan (RUPTL 2025–2034), highlighting the central government's ambition to accelerate the deployment of renewable energy. At the same time, the issue of waste overwhelming cities across Indonesia is intensifying.

4. Recon Hits Milestone: Chemical Recycling Plant Construction Finished As Project Nears Production Launch 8/25/2025

   Recon Technology Ltd. ("Recon" or "the Company"), a China-based provider of oilfield and low-carbon energy services, announced today that the main manufacturing plant for Shandong Recon Renewable Resources Technology Co., Ltd. ("Shandong Recon")'s 40,000-ton-per-year waste plastic chemical recycling project ("Recon Plastic Chemical Recycling Project") was successfully topped out.

5. Closed Loop Partners' Private Equity Group Acquires Leading Organics Waste Management Platform, Agri-Cycle 8/20/2025

   Today, Closed Loop Partners announces their acquisition of Agri-Cycle, a premier provider of organics collection for commercial & industrial sectors across the U.S. The acquisition was completed by Closed Loop Private Equity.

6. Interstate Waste Services Acquires Seaside Waste Services, Expanding Operations In Central And Southern New Jersey 8/6/2025

   Interstate Waste Services, Inc. ("IWS"), a leading, vertically integrated provider of solid waste collection, recycling and disposal services, announced the acquisition of Seaside Waste Services ("Seaside").

7. The U.S. Battery Circular Economy Advances With PNE's South Carolina Flagship Recycling Facility 8/6/2025

   Princeton NuEnergy Inc. (PNE), a U.S. company headquartered in Princeton, NJ and a global leader in lithium-ion battery direct recycling, materials rejuvenation, and cathode manufacturing today reports that its Advanced Black Mass (ABM™) recycling production facility is fully commissioned and operational.

8. Techbros Launches The Southwest's First AI-Driven ITAD & E-Waste Facility - Pioneering The Future Of Secure Recycling And Sustainable Innovation 8/5/2025

   In a groundbreaking move that's redefining electronics recycling, Techbros Electronic Recycling has officially launched the Southwest's first fully AI-integrated, R2v3-certified ITAD and e-waste processing facility a next-generation operation that fuses sustainability, automation, and military-grade data destruction under one roof.

9. ReCircled Partners With Merrick To Engineer Next-Generation Material Transformation Systems 7/30/2025

   ReCircled LLC, a preprocessor for footwear, apparel and accessories, today contracted with Merrick & Company, a global leader in hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) technology integration.

10. Reju And Circle-8 Textile Ecosystems Partner To Further Large-Scale Textile Recycling In The U.K. 7/17/2025

    Reju™, the progressive textile-to-textile regeneration company, and Circle-8 Textile Ecosystems, a key builder of ecosystems and infrastructures unlocking textile-to-textile recycling, today announced a partnership to further facilitate a circular textiles ecosystem in the U.K.