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Are hydrogen fuel cells recyclable?

Hydrogen Fuel News

Now, many are questioning how green H2 can be if the materials needed to use it as clean energy cannot be recycled. After all, the entire idea of sustainable energy is to reduce the problems contributing to climate change, not simply create them in new places.

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Study: Circular strategies could slash auto industry emissions by two-thirds

Business Green

New analysis from Bain & Company suggests recycled materials could play dominant role in auto industry supply chains. The European auto industry could slash emissions and drastically reduce its exposure to resource security risks by embracing recycled materials and circular business models.

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EU project aims to play leading role in addressing e-waste

Envirotec Magazine

An EU project is attempting to lead the European electronics industry towards more sustainable materials, design, manufacturing methods, and improved circularity and energy efficiency, writes Finnish research group VTT. According to the World Economic Forum , 53 million tonnes of electronic waste was discarded in 2019.

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Firms selected to pitch at climate tech innovation event

Envirotec Magazine

The UK’s energy, water, transportation, circular economy and built environment sectors have a combined value of £1.3 The five categories for Pitch Day cover Energy, Water, the Circular Economy, the Built Environment, and Mobility. Gravitricity long-life, underground energy storage. trillion a year, representing 20% of GDP.

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Best of GBB in 2021: Green Businesses Leading the Sustainable Business Movement

Green Business Bureau

With the vast amount of waste that comes from single-use PPE and regular long-term wear, Watson Gloves is focusing on beginning of life and end of life manufacturing initiatives to help divert much of this textile waste by developing gloves using innovative sustainable materials. Operating in most major U.S.

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A conversation with Ford's sustainability leader

Business Green

Even though Ford is facing both internal restructuring and as well as the massive transformation happening in the broader automotive industry, the company continues to make strong commitments to sustainability. And setting goals to become true zero waste to any landfill globally as well.

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Inside Eastman’s moonshot goal for endlessly circular plastics

GreenBiz

But something extraordinary is going on at this Eastman chemical plant: two breakthrough processes to turn waste plastics of all kinds back into new plastics, continuously, with no loss of quality. The company claims this enables waste plastics to be recycled an infinite number of times without degradation of quality.

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