About
RecyclerWorld covers the recycled materials economy — scrap metal, plastics, paper, e-scrap and the equipment that processes them — for the operators, traders, buyers and engineers who make the decisions.
This industry is served by trade titles that do a real job well: they cover the news, run the conferences and connect suppliers to buyers. What they have not done is treat their most valuable material — pricing, facility data, supplier information — as something that belongs on the web, queryable and linkable, rather than in a print insert or a gated PDF.
We are building the other thing. The news river is free and fast. The price index is free to read and paid to interrogate. The company directory is free to be listed in and paid to stand out in. Everything is structured, mobile-first and open to the machines that increasingly answer questions on our readers' behalf.
These are commitments, not aspirations. If we break one, tell us at newsroom@recyclerworld.com and we will publish the correction.
Commercial content is produced by a different team, carries a label on the card and on the page, and opens with a disclosure line. Nobody can buy editorial coverage, and no advertiser sees a story before it publishes.
If a piece is built from a company announcement, we say so in the first paragraph. If we interviewed someone, we name them and say when. A reader should never have to guess whether they are reading reporting or a restated release.
Every story carries a "Why it matters" block written by the editor who filed it. If we cannot say why a piece of news changes a decision someone makes, it probably was not worth publishing.
Corrections are appended to the story with a date and a description of what changed. We do not quietly edit and move on.
Audience figures, package contents and prices live on a public page. Media buyers should not need a sales call to learn what a placement costs.
We welcome AI crawlers and answer engines, publish structured data on every page and maintain an llms.txt manifest. If an assistant answers a question about scrap markets, we would rather be the cited source than the blocked one.
Editor-in-Chief
Markets, policy, corporate strategy
Markets Editor
Ferrous and nonferrous pricing
Senior Editor
Plastics, paper and packaging policy
International Editor
Trade flows, freight, EU and Asia policy
Equipment Editor
Processing technology and plant operations
Data Editor
Price index, directory and research
RecyclerWorld is an independent publication. Editorial decisions are made by the newsroom alone. Contact the desk at newsroom@recyclerworld.com, or partnerships at partners@recyclerworld.com.