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Affordability threatens to put the breaks on Germany’s electric mobility – study

Smart Energy International

With skyrocketing gas prices and expensive electric mobility options, the Mobility Study 2022 – published by Continental – has found that consumers are increasingly worried about the affordability of their mobility. The same applies to the use of fuels obtained through renewable energy such as green hydrogen.

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PET plastic recycler receives planning permission for first UK plant

Envirotec Magazine

The firm says the facility will be able to re-use 100% of the PET it takes in and help recycle some of the 4.9 The successful application means the plastic recycling facility will be operational in Summer 2022 at Peel NRE’s 54-hectare strategic energy and resource hub, Protos, near Ellesmere Port, Cheshire.

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‘We can’t recycle our way out’

Grist

Washington state’s wakeup call came about five years ago when China stopped accepting highly contaminated bales of recycled materials from around the world. Washington lawmakers, responding to the loss of a market that took upwards of 60 percent of the state’s recycled materials, created the Recycling Development Center in 2019.

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'Repair our planet': First Earthshot prize winners revealed

Business Green

For the final category, Fix our Climate, the AEM Electrolyser, developed by a group from Thailand, Germany, and Italy, won for its technology to turn renewable electricity into emissions-free hydrogen gas. At the ceremony, the Earthshot Prize announced it will launch in America in 2022, with nominations opening from January.

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? CTVC’s guide to NYCW #163

Climate Tech VC

Deals of the Week (8/14-8/27) Venture Fundings 🔋 Northvolt , a Stockholm, Sweden-based lithium-ion batteries from recycled materials producer, raised $1.2B ⚡ Rega Energy , a Lisbon, Portugal-based biomethane and green hydrogen developer, raised $66M from Swen Capital Partners. Are you going to be in town?

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'Opportunity to reset': How MPs are urging the Treasury to use tax policy to drive green recovery

Business Green

Other recommendations include urgently delivering clear strategies to deliver new carbon capture and storage (CCS) and hydrogen projects, setting clear and ambitious targets in the delayed Environment Bill, laying the groundwork for domestic EV battery manufacturing at scale, and aligning the UK's net zero and nature agendas. Budget test.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

H&M seeks by 2030 to become fully circular, eliminating waste and adopting sustainable and recycled materials , and has partnered with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation since 2018. Other circular approaches include making vanilla flavoring from discarded rice husks and reusing hydrogen peroxide for paper production.