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AI solutions to sustainability challenges share £1 million as Manchester Prize names finalists

Envirotec Magazine

Finalists included Greyparrot Insights, which tracks waste in recycling plants to build a digital map of the packaging value chain. It aims to create a complete digital map of the world’s waste flows to track what happens when waste is discarded and support the value chain to improve packaging design, policymaking and recycling rates.

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Green day unravelled: Pundits respond to policy package

Envirotec Magazine

An apocalyptic “meh” seemed to greet the government’s bumper package of energy- and climate-related policy announcements and documents released on 30 March, which appeared short on new ideas and sources of funding. Hydrogen: Not a time to get blue? None of it sounded likely to move the dial on investment in the area, believed Tye.

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KPMG and Circulor partner to provide digital battery passport software package

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Multinational professional services firm KPMG and UK-based supply chain traceability firm Circulor have announced an alliance to offer a software package known as a digital battery passport, which enables the tracing, monitoring and control of critical raw materials throughout battery value chains, from extraction to beyond a product’s first life.

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Labelmaster and Endural offer plastic hazardous packaging for EV batteries

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Labelmaster , a provider of labels, packaging and technology for carrying dangerous goods (DGs) and hazardous materials, and plastic casing company Endural have announced a partnership to offer the automobile industry reusable plastic packaging for lithium batteries and other DGs. Source: Labelmaster

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Ensuring safe and reliable lithium-ion battery performance

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It is, therefore, important to remove heat from battery and powertrain components efficiently. What is Battery Safety? Generally, battery safety encompasses protecting the battery system from several adverse circumstances – electrical, thermal and environmental conditions.

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Caterpillar unveils prototype batteries for off-highway equipment

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Yellow machine icon Caterpillar has announced the development of 48-volt, 300-volt and 600-volt batteries for the off-highway equipment industry. Caterpillar will showcase prototypes of its battery technologies at the upcoming bauma 2022 trade show in Munich.

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More pieces of IKEA's sustainability puzzle come together

GreenBiz

More pieces of IKEA's sustainability puzzle come together. That's one of the challenges we've identified that we feel like we can make a big impact on within our whole strategy," said Jenn Keesson, sustainability manager at IKEA U.S. . Deonna Anderson. Wed, 11/25/2020 - 08:00. Black Friday is upon us. We have a lot of goals by 2030.