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There’s gold (and lithium and cobalt) in all those EV battery packs

The Verge: Energy

Illustration by Sisi Kim for The Verge Smarter tech and new recycling techniques might just mean our EVs get even greener. Here’s how Redwood Materials is putting recycling at the heart of the burgeoning battery belt. The solution, or part of it, might come from recycling.

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'The world is moving on': Coca-Cola's Therese Noorlander on plastic, packaging, and youth activism

Business Green

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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The Return on Investment (ROI) of Sustainable Business

Green Business Bureau

The old adage, “measure what you manage to get things done”, definitely applies in sustainability. Engineering, including product design, materials, and end-of-life management (e.g. the product’s reuse and recycling potential). Waste Reduction: recyclable materials and food waste. Waste Management.

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'Testbed': Behind the scenes at Asos' latest 'circular' fashion collection

Business Green

The new range of clothes is made exclusively from recycled, renewable or 'innovative' materials, with the online retail giant claiming the collection has been created to test a range of "circular" or "sustainable" technologies and textiles that could eventually become mainstays of the fashion industry of the future.

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The Return on Investment (ROI) of Sustainable Business

Green Business Bureau

The old adage, “measure what you manage to get things done”, definitely applies in sustainability. Engineering, including product design, materials, and end-of-life management (e.g. the product’s reuse and recycling potential). Waste Reduction: recyclable materials and food waste. Waste Management.

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The Return on Investment (ROI) of Sustainable Business

Green Business Bureau

The old adage, “measure what you manage to get things done”, definitely applies in sustainability. Engineering, including product design, materials, and end-of-life management (e.g. the product’s reuse and recycling potential). Waste Reduction: recyclable materials and food waste. Waste Management.

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The U.S. Plastics Pact launches new initiative to redesign the plastics value chain at Circularity 20

GreenBiz

recycling market has been in free fall since 2018, when China, Malaysia, Thailand and other Southeast Asian countries announced that they would no longer import many types of recyclable material scraps. percent of all the plastic produced in 2017 eventually got recycled, according to the U.S. Holly Secon. Indeed, only 8.4

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