The rebrand comes alongside a contract win with City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council to receive and process co-mingled dry mixed recycling collected across the district, running to 31 March 2029 with an option for a further year.

The Gateshead facility, on the former Graphite Resources site, will increase the group's processing capacity and create what MATIQ describes as a strategic recovery hub for the North East. The company, founded in Sheffield in 2013, completed a £25 million investment in its Sheffield site in 2024 before progressing the Gateshead development.

Large-scale biomass remained the biggest end use at 2.459 million tonnes, a 12 per cent fall year on year, while waste wood used in panel board production rose slightly to 927,000 tonnes and reuse increased by 12 per cent. The Wood Recyclers' Association said constrained storage during periods of disruption had pushed some material into landfill and unregulated outlets such as illegal dumping.

Julia Turner, executive director of the WRA, said the sector "worked tirelessly to ensure material kept moving wherever possible" but warned that a small but significant proportion of waste wood was lost from the circular economy. She called for more flexible, risk-based regulation around storage to reflect the seasonal nature of the industry, adding that without it more material could reach illegal sites this summer.

ClearWatt's EV Flash Test connects a diagnostic device to the vehicle, paired with an app, to capture diagnostic signals and produce an independent battery health report. The data is intended to identify which batteries are suitable for repair, reuse or repurposing into second-life applications such as battery energy storage systems, or for recycling to recover critical materials.

ClearWatt's technology is already used by car dealers, leasing companies and fleet operators across the UK, and the company says dealer deployments show an average three to four day reduction in time to sell. recell.store, the UK's first online marketplace for end-of-life EV batteries, is backed by clean technology group Altilium.

Project Re:claim recycles post-industrial and post-consumer polyester textiles into recycled PET pellets that can be spun back into yarn, with trials underway at spinners and fabric mills internationally. SATCoL is the UK's largest charity-owned textiles collector, processing 77,000 tonnes a year. The partnership will also evaluate expansion into Asia and other markets.

According to WRAP, the UK generated 1.45 million tonnes of used textiles in 2022, of which only 1 per cent is recycled back into textile products, with most incinerated or sent to landfill. Pact Group, an Australian recycler and packaging manufacturer, already runs a global garment hanger reuse business across the fashion supply chain.