Charged

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Lithion says its first commercial and mechanical separation plant in Quebec will produce more than 7,500 metric tons per year of recycled material. Lithion’s licensing agreement with IS Dongseo will bring the company’s technology to South Korea.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2024

Of this, more than 25% was sent to Turkey, 25,000 tonnes more than in 2022. This also means that just short of 1 million tonnes of plastic has been sent to Turkey for recycling since 2017. A map showing the receiving destinations of plastic waste from England for recycling. Indonesia took a further 3.4%, and Taiwan 2.5%.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 8, 2022

A UK-based demonstration plant that generates industrial biotechnology sugars and other recycled material streams from the paper and card in mixed household waste has come online in May 2022. The products will be used in the production of several high-performance bio-based materials.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2021

As a manufacturer, as well as a recycling business, Mercers offers additional circularity by guaranteeing a market for the material recycled. Across the industry, we are seeing greater demand for UK-produced PRNs, while upcoming legislation, such as the Plastic Packaging Tax, is driving demand for recycled material.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Due to be completed by August 2022, the VAMOS project expects to demonstrate the potential for new markets by converting the organic fraction of waste normally destined for landfill into bioproducts.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Recycling and resource management firm Viridor has unveiled its “Vision for Zero” – a plan to reduce (to zero) the amount of plastic waste exported from the UK. Drive an infrastructure market for recycling. Expand operations to hard-to-recycle materials. mt) and 2019 recycle rate of 51% (source WRAP).

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 24, 2022

Coming into force on April 1st 2022, the tax increases costs for packaging companies who fail to use recycled materials by 20 to 40 percent.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2021

Sitting alongside the Government’s Resources and Waste Strategy, in 2018 the Treasury first announced the tax on plastics and in April 2022 the Plastic Packaging Tax will be introduced in the UK. We must continue to work together to drive investment to overcome these challenges and act more sustainably.”.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Its new Battery Center of Excellence, scheduled to open in the first quarter of 2022, will be capable of pilot production with up to 500 MWh of capacity. Heritage and 6K plan to be making cathode from recycled content as early as Q1 2022. Sources: Heritage Battery Recycling , 6K.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

JANUARY 17, 2024

The panels are modular, thin, flexible, made of recyclable materials, and compatible with heat pumps. “This CHF 1.3 million injection is a testament to the confidence our investors place in enerdrape’s mission and potential.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The goal is a marked acceleration of targets previously announced by the firm, reflecting technological innovations and market development in the use of recycled plastics. It comes on top of the firm's ongoing efforts to develop reuse and refill systems such as SodaStream, it added.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 5, 2022

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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Grist

APRIL 24, 2024

The Sciences Advances article draws on more than 1,500 “ brand audits ” coordinated between 2018 and 2022 by Break Free From Plastic, a coalition of more than 3,000 environmental organizations. percent as of 2022, and plans to achieve further reductions by 2025. Volunteers across 84 countries collected more than 1.8

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 8, 2021

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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Business Green

JULY 13, 2020

The scheme is the latest step in Cathedral City's sustainability drive, which aims to launch 100 per cent recyclable packaging by 2022. It also builds on TerraCycle's expanding range of services, which has seen it operate provide collection and recycling capacity for a host of hard to recycle materials.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 23, 2022

Winners of the Plastics Recycling Awards Europe 2022 were announced on 23 June at the Plastics Recycling Show Europe in Amsterdam. The seven winners are: • Automotive, Electrical or Electronic Product: Sustainable modular headliner for vehicle interiors and downstream recycling solutions by Grupo Antolin.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The restaurant - which is set to act as a blueprint for other McDonald's new builds from 2022 - is powered by on-site solar panels and two wind turbines, which are expected to produce 60,000 kWhs of power a year. Customers also have access to an array of on-site EV charging points.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The goal is a marked acceleration of targets previously announced by the firm, reflecting technological innovations and market development in the use of recycled plastics. It comes on top of the firm's ongoing efforts to develop reuse and refill systems such as SodaStream, it added.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The goal is a marked acceleration of targets previously announced by the firm, reflecting technological innovations and market development in the use of recycled plastics. It comes on top of the firm's ongoing efforts to develop reuse and refill systems such as SodaStream, it added.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 25, 2024

Governments are increasing pressure to reduce reliance on single-use materials and increase recycled content. However, the waste industry is struggling to meet this demand because of the complexity behind sorting recycled materials such as plastic, compounding a missed $133 billion opportunity.

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The Environmental Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As per OECD, 22% of plastic waste is mismanaged, and only 9% is recycled globally. Recycling is good for the environment because it reduces the amount of waste that ends up in landfills. You Can Save Money.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The world's largest plastic packaging producer said the goal was "industry leading" and in line with its wider commitments to tackling its plastic footprint, including pledges to make all its primary consumer packaging recyclable by 2025 and ensure half its packaging is made from recycled materials by 2030.

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Business Green

MAY 7, 2021

It said it would do this by stepping up its use of recycled materials, refurbishing and reselling used appliances, offering a free packaging recycling service to customers, and reducing the volume of waste going from its global manufacturing sites to landfill to zero by 2022.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 17, 2020

Perdue’s corporate-level waste goal calls for it to divert 90 percent of solid waste from landfills by 2022; it plans to have five more facilities certified by the end of 2022 (of about 20 meat production operations in total). It’s using product trays for the Pure Frame plant-based products made from 50 percent recycled materials.

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Grist

OCTOBER 1, 2022

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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Business Green

MARCH 1, 2022

The Amazon Aware line includes apparel, home, beauty, and other products all of which have been "thoughtfully designed" using materials such as recycled polyester, organic cotton, and bio-based ingredients backed by independent green certifications that are specific to product type, according to Amazon.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Primark also said it aimed to train 160,000 farmers in more environmentally friendly practices, boost the number of sustainable cotton products on shelves to 60 million items by 2022, and to help supplier factories monitor their energy usage and carbon emissions.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

"I think in a dream world, it is that every product that you would buy is coming from recycled materials that are closed-loop in our own supply chain. We're finding alternate ways to reuse it or we have partners that we're working with who can reuse the materials or recycle materials in some way.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 11, 2023

Veolia generated revenues of $47 billion in 2022, an increase of 50 percent from the year before. The first bellwether trial involving Veolia North America ended with a mistrial in August 2022,” Lisberg said. “We The firm’s spokesperson said that Veolia helps polluting companies to improve their environmental performance.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Primark also said it aimed to train 160,000 farmers in more environmentally friendly practices, boost the number of sustainable cotton products on shelves to 60 million items by 2022, and to help supplier factories monitor their energy usage and carbon emissions.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 30, 2021

Related: 4ocean and Poralu Marine present BeBot, the beach cleaning robot The English government has a firmer plan for a plastic packaging tax, which will go into effect in April 2022. Companies that use plastic with less than 30% recycled content will have to pay a tax of £200 per ton of plastic.

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2021

Alongside pledges to reduce water use and cut carbon emissions, signatories have also committed to using more recycled materials in their products and to pilot and implement business models centred around the reuse of old clothes.

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Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 1, 2021

Northvolt is aiming for 50% recycled material in new cells by 2030. The reason to start recycling in Norway is due to the fact that the country remains years ahead of others in terms of EV adoption, which also means that she will be the first country to experience significant volumes of EV batteries reaching end-of-life.

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Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 1, 2021

Northvolt is aiming for 50% recycled material in new cells by 2030. The reason to start recycling in Norway is due to the fact that the country remains years ahead of others in terms of EV adoption, which also means that she will be the first country to experience significant volumes of EV batteries reaching end-of-life.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

In the short term, more immediate goals that will stair step to the larger achievement include earning zero waste to landfill certification in 2022, setting a 2025 deadline to be plastic-free in all packaging and incorporating recyclable or renewable materials into products.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 22, 2022

At a press conference just a few days ahead of the start of the 2022 Paris Motor Show, Renault Group announced the creation of a new business entity, The Future is NEUTRAL.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 18, 2021

At the ceremony, the winners were connected by broadcast links from around the world and awarded medals designed by Dutch artist Christien Meindertsma, inspired by the iconic 'Earthrise' photo taken of the Earth from the Apollo 8 mission in 1968 and created from recycled materials.

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