Charged

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Indianapolis-based Heritage Battery Recycling has signed a joint development agreement with materials management specialist 6K to produce new cathode material from recycled batteries. 6K uses proprietary plasma processing technology to create battery materials. Sources: Heritage Battery Recycling , 6K.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Battery recycling technology company Lithion has raised 125 million Canadian dollars ($99 million US) in a Series A funding round, and has granted construction and manufacturing firm IS Dongseo the exclusive right to use its lithium-ion battery recycling technology in the South Korean market.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 8, 2021

PET plastic bottles collected at a recycling plant. Specialist PET (polyethylene terephthalate) recycler Enviroo has had its planning application approved for its first plastic recycling facility in the UK. 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

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Charged

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The use of recycled cathode material to make new batteries will be a key part of the circular battery supply chain, but is recycled material truly equivalent to the freshly-mined stuff? In general, people’s impression is that recycled material is not as good as virgin material. “In

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Grist

OCTOBER 1, 2022

When dealing with the life cycle of plastic, hundreds of solutions await, from alternative bioplastics that might be able to degrade themselves through the magic of fungus, to complex chemical recycling that can break plastics down to become other petroleum products or to be rebuilt good as new.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Viridor says its soon-to-be-opened Avonmouth plastics recycling plant will reprocess over 80,0000 tonnes of plastic, creating recycled raw material ready to be returned to the economy. The circular economy for plastics report highlights the significant role that recycling plastics can play in ensuring the UK achieves net zero.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

If IKEA can't resell an item, the company plans to recycle it or donate it to community organizations. . 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. trillion in 2022 from $3.53 24 through Dec.

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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. We need to design packaging to be recyclable, reduce the amount of packaging we use, and make it easy for consumers to recycle.

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Business Green

JULY 13, 2020

Leading brand launches new effort to recycle flexible film packaging. A new frontier in plastic packaging recycling was opened this week, as Cathedral City announced a scheme to recycle flexible film cheese packaging. Without a standard recycling solution in the industry, consumers are unsure what they can recycle and where.

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Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 1, 2021

Creating a circular European battery industry Summary - Northvolt has partnered with Hydro to establish a first-of-its-kind battery recycling facility. The recycling plant will be established as a green field development, under a joint venture named Hydro Volt, and come online in 2021 in Fredrikstad, outside of Oslo. Brace yourself.

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Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 1, 2021

Creating a circular European battery industry Summary - Northvolt has partnered with Hydro to establish a first-of-its-kind battery recycling facility. The recycling plant will be established as a green field development, under a joint venture named Hydro Volt, and come online in 2021 in Fredrikstad, outside of Oslo. Brace yourself.

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Charged

JULY 13, 2023

The company says it aims to rely on responsible sources for critical battery materials and to increase its use of recycled materials. Under a 2022 agreement with BMW Group , AESC will supply battery cells for EVs produced at BMW’s Spartanburg plant in South Carolina.

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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. The Plastic Packaging Tax is Government policy aiming to directly increase plastic recycling in the UK and cut carbon emissions.

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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. We need to design packaging to be recyclable, reduce the amount of packaging we use, and make it easy for consumers to recycle.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Bringing together experts from six countries, the three-year project will produce second-generation sugars from paper and card-based materials from municipal solid waste (MSW) or waste rejected from sorting and recycling processes.

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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. We need to design packaging to be recyclable, reduce the amount of packaging we use, and make it easy for consumers to recycle.

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Grist

APRIL 24, 2024

“What the data is saying is that if the status quo doesn’t change in a huge way — if social norms around the rapid consumption and production of new materials don’t change — we won’t see what we want,” Cowger told Grist. By that date the company also aims to collect and recycle a bottle or can for each one it sells.

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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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Sustainability Consulting

JANUARY 5, 2022

A shift in consumption More industries are learning how they can better incorporate reusing, repairing, refurbishing, and recycling current materials and products within their business model. During 2022, we expect efforts like these to continue to grow among businesses.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 17, 2020

More precautions have meant more PPE, which usually has come in contact with biological matter that causes management challenges for recycling facilities. The designation indicates that 100 percent of the waste stream at the facility is reused, recycled or incinerated for energy. In the U.S., It has 35 of them.) .

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 25, 2024

London-based recycling tech business, Sorted, has raised £1.65 The group’s technology enables human pickers to better sort and recover targeted materials. Using computer vision, spectroscopy and coloured lasers driven by AI, their solution identifies, differentiates and pinpoints valuable items on recycling lines.

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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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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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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

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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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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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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Business Green

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

The global retail giant is beefing up its take-back service to mark Black Friday, but its sweeping sustainability plans extend far beyond recycling and re-use. If IKEA can't resell an item, the company plans to recycle it or donate it to community organisations. Black Friday is upon us. We don't want to encourage people to overconsume.

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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

DECEMBER 22, 2022

What will it take to get to 'car-to-car' recycling? 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. Another of The Future is NEUTRAL's ambitions is to become the leader in closed-loop battery recycling in Europe.

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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

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

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Coca-Cola's sustainability director for Europe Therese Noordlander talks to BusinessGreen about the drinks giant's mission to drive down emissions and ramp up its recycling efforts. As the world's largest drinks producer, the Coca-Cola Company's decarbonisation and sustainability efforts have to be supersized.

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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 insists that the claims are false and that only contaminated material is incinerated.

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2021

New Look, Ted Baker, Sainsbury's, and Tesco have also signed on to the scheme, alongside 26 reuse or recycling organisations and 21 affiliates. WRAP CEO Marcus Glover emphasised that sustainability had to become "the next big thing" for the fashion industry.

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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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