Business Green

OCTOBER 3, 2022

BusinessGreen reports on the fast-evolving plans to establish a thriving EV battery recycling industry in the UK. Ramping up battery reuse and recycling is increasingly regarded as critical to ensuring climate goals are met in as sustainable and efficient way as possible.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Circularity refers to a circular economy – a regenerative system in which resource input and waste, emission, and energy leakage are minimized by slowing, closing, and narrowing energy and material loops. This can be achieved through long-lasting design, maintenance, repair, reuse, remanufacturing, refurbishing and recycling.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2019

The firm’s winning idea is a gelatine-based alternative to conventional leather, which is made from low-value gelatine waste from the meat and leather industries, such as skin and bones. ” The ability to customise the thickness and texture makes Gelatex attractive for both the textile and automotive industry. .”

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EDF + Business

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Actionable Insights for a Decarbonizing World Pathways to Net Zero – Circular Economy Strategies for Climate Action A circular economy is a regenerative system in which resource input and waste, emission, and energy leakage are minimized by slowing, closing, and narrowing energy and material loops. billion tons come from secondary 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. Launched in 2017, the awards have witnessed a dramatic and inspirational rise in the circular use of plastics through increased recycling and recyclability over the last the five years, said the organisers.

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Business Green

MARCH 7, 2022

Defra says 2023 timeline has been scrapped to allow department to take account of over 1,200 consultation responses, but campaigners fear move will undermine waste reduction efforts. However, plans to introduce the new rules are now in limbo after Defra last week confirmed the timetable for introducing the system had slipped.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The government has today announced clean tech innovation funding totaling £134m for over 1,000 projects across the UK, just 24 hours after confirming the award of £49m to a raft of green automotive initiatives.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 15, 2022

Eco-friendly automotive repair shops. To be a sustainable automotive body and repair shop, you need to follow a thorough sustainability guide. By automotive body and repair shop, we are referring to facilities including service stations, vehicle fleet maintenance facilities, auto dealerships, and car washes. Operations.

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Business Green

JULY 21, 2020

The Prime Minister has marked his first year in office by unveiling a £350m green funding package today to support efforts to drive down carbon emissions from heavy industry, construction, space and transport, touting the move as a bid to "fuel a green, sustainable recovery" from the Covid-19 crisis.

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Business Green

JULY 8, 2021

Green Packaging Project of the Year. Greener Packaging. Riverford Organic Farmers - Box Zero and Packaging Pledge. Seedlip - Mushroom Packaging. Switch Packaging Specialists. SDCL Energy Efficiency Income Trust plc - Primary Energy Recycled Energy Project. Roots and Hoots - Online Zero Waste Shop.

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Packaging Innovation Sustainability Carbon 89

AGreenLiving

JANUARY 10, 2020

At the 2020 Consumer Electronics Show, acclaimed American-Danish automotive designer Henrik Fisker, CEO of the eponymous startup Fisker Inc. , Vehicles and option packages will be made available to customers for viewing at select Fisker experience centers this year. has unveiled the hotly anticipated Fisker Ocean.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

Energy and materials elegantly flow through ecosystems, efficiently cycling back into new forms without waste or stagnation. A circular economy is so much more than recycling or reusing waste streams, which is a reductionist understanding of what nature does. Subscribe to our Circularity Weekly newsletter, sent Fridays.

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Cooling Waste Waste Automotive 28

AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

Energy and materials elegantly flow through ecosystems, efficiently cycling back into new forms without waste or stagnation. A circular economy is so much more than recycling or reusing waste streams, which is a reductionist understanding of what nature does. Subscribe to our Circularity Weekly newsletter, sent Fridays.

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Cooling Waste Waste Automotive 28

Business Green

JUNE 29, 2020

The chancellor's stimulus package must include measures to replace lost jobs with green jobs, re-train workers so they can access these jobs and power the new green economy both Leeds and the UK need.".

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Business Green

MAY 22, 2020

Single-use plastics are helping keep people safe during the Covid-19 pandemic, but creating new challenges for governments in dealing with the waste problem. Some of the world's largest corporations promised to quickly slash their use of virgin plastic packaging. Companies that process or sell recycled plastics are in a tough spot. "We

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Plastics Recycling Recycling Recycled materials 99

Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The "world's largest" CO2-to-methonal plant has started production in China this week, with developers hailing how they are capturing waste carbon dioxide and hydrogen gases from a steelmaking factory to produce hundreds of thousands of tonnes of methanol annually for use as a fuel or chemical feedstock.

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Methane Electric vehicle Europe Transportation 36

Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 5, 2024

Redwood Materials raised $1bn to build its US battery materials and recycling facility.   BorgWarner focuses on integrating acquisitions into its automotive and mobility offerings with all three acquisitions, drivetek, Akasol, and Rhombus Energy in Transportation.  Government funding catalyzed major private rounds.

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Climate Tech VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As ore quality declines, production costs, emissions, and waste volumes all increase.  ♻️ Greyparrot , a London, UK-based waste and recycling intelligence platform, raised $13m in funding from Bollegraaf.  Udderly amazing, old milk can churn out gold from e-waste.

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Green Technology

JUNE 21, 2023

Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) Ferguson Through a first-of-its-kind collaboration, Ferguson has partnered with Holman, a global automotive services organization, and Electrada, an electric fuel solutions company, to pilot fleet electrification in California.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 26, 2020

PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, Unilever and even Tupperware have signed on with governments and NGOs to do away with "unnecessary" plastics and innovate so that other plastics will be reused, recycled or composted; and kept out of natural systems. Plastics Pact by EMF, The Recycling Partnership and WWF. Chief legal officers .

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 14, 2023

Entrants in the final furlong include an on-demand clothing manufacturing technology that eliminates 20 billion unsold garments each year, 100% compostable protective packaging that replaces single use plastic, and an Oxford University spin-out that changes the way valuable metallic resources are mined, refined, recycled, and processed.

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Innovation Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 130

Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2022

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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Charged

JUNE 24, 2020

The automakers say the heat pump maximizes the distance that EVs can travel on a single charge by scavenging waste heat to warm the cabin. Comprising a compressor, evaporator and condenser, the heat pump captured waste heat given off by the vehicle’s electrical components, recycling this energy to heat the cabin. .

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Issues range from greenhouse gases emitted during production processes and the chemicals involved in the processing of textiles to the enormous waste mountain created by the 'Fast Fashion' industry and the huge water footprint which according to some estimates sees up to 10,000 litres of water used to produce a single kilogram of cotton.

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Fashion Innovation Waste Waste 68

AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Advene releases one product at a time, using responsible materials to create its designs along with a commitment to reducing harmful plastic waste throughout the process. Customers who opt for minimal packaging to reduce waste get a discount on the bag. The name Advene is taken from “advenience.”

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2022

In 2020, the world produced an estimated 353 million tonnes of plastic waste , vast amounts of which have gone on to pollute landscapes, oceans, and even the air, causing detrimental impacts to our climate, ecosystems, and health. Plastics are everywhere, and the problems they pose are well documented.

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Business Green

JULY 14, 2021

But despite the significant gains to be had in shifting towards a more circular model, government has largely failed to introduce a package of policies to help the economy reap these financial and environmental rewards, with policies introduced to date proving to be piecemeal, toothless, and subject to repeated delays.

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Business Green

AUGUST 28, 2020

With the launch of the US branch of the Plastics Pact the case for corporates to step up their plastic waste reduction efforts are becoming clearer than ever. Time isn't on the side of those who hope to prevent the projection by the Pew Charitable Trusts that plastic waste flows into the oceans will double in the next 20 years.

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Plastics Waste Waste Recycling 82

Business Green

MARCH 30, 2023

Caroline Lucas, Green Party MP, said: "The greenest thing about this plan is the recycling of already announced ideas. Sarah Mukherjee MBE, CEO of IEMA, said: "Today's announcements make clear that there is no time to waste and all sectors need to work together on delivery of net zero.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 7, 2023

This, coupled with combined monthly finance packages inclusive of both vehicle and home charging, will be vital for building consumer confidence in the affordability of EVs. The Green Finance Institute’s report puts forward a series of solutions designed to overcome the barriers to the used EV market.

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GreenBiz

MAY 11, 2020

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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Business Green

MAY 15, 2020

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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Plastics Recycling Recycling Waste 41

Business Green

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Automotive innovation in the UK has long been driven by internal combustion engine design, a craft that is set to become increasingly redundant as the EV transition gathers pace. Kickstarting the UK's recycling ecosystem. We really need to make sure we've got that recycling piece in place," Rolton acknowledges.

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Batteries Recycling Recycling Lithium 69

Climate Tech VC

MARCH 11, 2024

🍎 Bene Bono , a Paris, France-based D2C food waste platform, raised $11m in Series A funding from 2050, Axa Venture Partners, Project A Ventures, and Stride Ventures.

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