Facility

REEcycle Houston Recycling Facility

Rare Resource Recycling Inc. (REEcycle) recovers neodymium, praseodymium, dysprosium, and terbium from NdFeB magnets in electronic waste at its Houston, Texas site. A $5.1 million DPA Title III award (January 2025) funds restart of the existing demonstration facility and advances commissioning of a commercial plant targeting an estimated 50 tons per year of rare earth oxides.

Facts on this page last re-verified Aug 11, 2026 — the oldest verification date among its current claims. How we verify.

Location: Houston, Texas, United States

Recycling

E-waste NdFeB magnet rare earth recovery

Financed

Proprietary recovery process extracting more than 98% of neodymium, praseodymium, dysprosium, and terbium from NdFeB magnets in recycled electronic waste

Material flow

Magnet Scrap and End-of-Life Feedstock → NdPr Oxide, Dysprosium and Terbium Oxides

Capacity

No capacity claim. Absence of a figure means no source publishes one.

Qualification

No qualification claim. Status does not imply qualified output.

Sources

U.S. Department of Defense · published Jan 17, 2025 · retrieved Aug 11, 2026 · archive
The Defense Post · published Jan 23, 2025 · retrieved Aug 11, 2026 · archive