Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Plastics recycling, especially for mixed and contaminated plastics, remains a major pollution concern. When Ian Bishop and Ron Presswood first brought their idea for a recycling process that would create carbon and hydrogen to a professor at a Tier One University, they were told it was scientifically impossible.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The Simpler Recycling initiative brings clarity on what kinds of waste will be collected and how often (image credit: Peter_Fleming / Shutterstock.com). The Simpler Recycling initiative – previously known as Consistent Collection – was generally welcomed by waste and environmental observers.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Volkswagen has opened its first EV battery recycling facility to recover raw materials such as lithium, nickel, manganese and cobalt in a closed loop, together with aluminum, copper and plastics, achieving a recycling rate of more than 90% over the long term. Source: Volkswagen.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

A key area where businesses can focus their carbon reduction efforts is manufacturing processes, both in terms of energy usage and the carbon footprint of raw materials. This is particularly pertinent for companies that use plastics or steel in their processes. The environmental impact of plastics is widely documented.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2023

Current catalysts are often made of rare metals, which are extracted using expensive, energy-intensive and damaging mining processes. Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) is typically sent to landfill, as separating and extracting the components requires a lot of energy and harsh chemicals, undermining its economic viability.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Commentary from recycling company Geminor The national BEHG tax on CO2 emissions, which is likely to be introduced from the new year, will be imposed on the local energy recovery industry. To avoid this taxation, they are now demanding that relevant waste codes be established for all waste covered by the BEHG regulations in the future.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Recycled Aluminum: Shaping the Future Responsibly Aluminum, renowned for its lightweight and pliable characteristics, is extensively utilized in the construction of exhibition booths. It holds a remarkable position as one of the world’s most recycled materials. million European homes for an entire year.  

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The Environmental Blog

MARCH 12, 2021

“Businesses have a big impact on how well recycling in the UK is shown so it is important for them to set the trend and reduce and improve their waste and recycling in the most efficient and eco-friendly way possible,” says recycling experts QCR Recycling Equipment. Optimise your recycling habits.

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GreenBiz

JULY 12, 2021

The plastic waste problem gets plenty of attention, and for good reason: If we continue mismanaging this material as usual, there could be 7.7 Just as stunning: Plastic isn't the fastest growing waste stream the world needs to deal with. . percent of electronics are collected, refurbished or recycled worldwide. Heather Clancy.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Retailers need to make the switch from plastic shopping bags to eco-friendly alternatives. Plastic bags are not biodegradable and can last over a 1000 years. Plastic bags are so lightweight that they can travel long distances through the wind and water. Customers demand non-plastic alternatives.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

At present, rather than increase duty, the government appears to be seeking ways to alleviate consumer costs, but it seems unlikely that new PM Liz Truss will be able to mitigate the full cost impact of energy, food and all the other consumer factors. One of the uncertainties this year has been the downturn of non-melt recycling for glass.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Viridor has chosen the very latest in sensor-based sorting technology from TOMRA Recycling for two of its polymer recycling plants. Meanwhile, a new AUTOSORT® FLAKE unit has been installed at Viridor’s Skelmersdale polymer recycling and reprocessing facility in Lancashire, boosting throughput and elevating the purity of PET flakes.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Fortum has launched Fortum Batterie Recycling GmbH in Germany to provide safe and sustainable electric vehicle (EV) battery recycling in central Europe in the hope of bridging the raw materials gap the automotive industry is facing. Fortum’s battery recycling.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The Scottish Government-funded circular economy advisory group Zero Waste Scotland is warning that the current focus on plastics is distracting from the real issue of ending the disposable throwaway culture and urges Scots to take a stand against unwanted extra materials in their daily lives. Ian Gulland of Zero Waste Scotland.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The Scottish Government-funded circular economy advisory group Zero Waste Scotland is warning that the current focus on plastics is distracting from the real issue of ending the disposable throwaway culture and urges Scots to take a stand against unwanted extra materials in their daily lives. Ian Gulland of Zero Waste Scotland.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 27, 2021

Aluminium is an infinitely recyclable material, with over 75% of all the aluminium ever produced still in use today. And yet craft brewers often feel they have no choice but to contaminate aluminium beverage cans with plastic labels or shrink sleeves. Recycling aluminium takes 95% less energy than producing it from its raw materials.

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The Environmental Blog

AUGUST 29, 2022

They’re also used to produce quality adhesives, plastics and rubber products, and much more. Come to think of it, it’s hard to imagine life without specialty plastics. Their production is often linked to high carbon emissions , water pollution, and plastic waste problems. Shift To Renewable Energy Sources.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Battery recycling specialist Li-Cycle will invest over $175 million dollars in a lithium-ion battery recycling “Hub” at Eastman Business Park in upstate New York. steel and plastics). The company processes all types of Li-ion batteries used in electronic devices, EVs and energy storage.

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The Verge: Energy

DECEMBER 7, 2023

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. There’s a bit of a battery manufacturing boom going on.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Some European countries still have few restrictions on what can be landfilled, which means a lot of waste feedstock that is suited to material recycling or energy recovery is currently being landfilled. With regard to this, there is a growing demand for new markets that can replace the volumes from the UK.

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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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Business Green

JANUARY 7, 2022

Fresh funding provides boost to UK firm's plans to build Europe’s first plastic to hydrogen plant. Waste-to-energy firm Hydrogen Utopia has raised £3m in an initial public offering (IPO) on the Aquis Stock Exchange (AQSE) on Thursday, which valued the London-based business at approximately £28.8m. pence apiece in the IPO.

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 14, 2020

Reusing items can save help the environment in the following ways: Reduces the Demand For Raw Materials. The good news is that you can reuse most of the products you buy from the store like plastic containers and food packaging materials. How much energy saved usually depends on the materials being recycled.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Recycled plastic: There’s market demand, but where’s the supply? Nonprofit Carbon180 has plenty of ideas for how the Department of Energy and the Department of Agriculture can collaborate to cultivate new economic opportunities centered on carbon removal. How financial policy could charge up clean energy (29:00) .

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Green Technology

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

In July 2017 China, which is by far the world’s largest importer and recycler of scrap metals, plastic and paper, notified the World Trade Organization that it planned to effectively ban imports of 24 types of scrap , which its environment ministry called “foreign garbage,” by the end of the year. The world’s recycler.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Valued for their combination of light weight and strength, CFRPs are increasingly deployed in sectors incuding automotive, aerospace and renewable energy. But it will only be sustainable if we can find cost-effective routes to recycling. In recent years, the demand for CFRPs and CFRTPs has grown explosively.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Oil and gas industry's bets on petrochemicals growth look increasingly dicey as world turns away from plastics, Carbon Tracker warns. Plastics pollution and climate change are two of the world's foremost environmental and economic concerns, and the global oil and gas industry are a major contributor to both.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

MAY 31, 2022

On April 28, 2022, the California Attorney General launched an investigation into the “fossil fuel and petrochemical industries for their role in causing and exacerbating the global plastics pollution crisis.” plastic recycling rate is 9% with the remaining 91% going to landfills, being incinerated, or released directly into the environment.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 31, 2021

Those processes use a lot of energy and largely come from fossil fuels; one-third of U.S. For example, its analysis found that using electrified drying for the recycled paper industry could avoid 16 million metric tons of carbon dioxide by 2050. Optimize electric energy efficiency. Ali Hasanbeigi. Wed, 03/31/2021 - 01:00.

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Business Green

APRIL 1, 2022

Today has been dubbed 'April cruel day' by The Daily Mirror as households experience a 54 per cent increase in energy bills on the same day as hikes to National Insurance payments and council taxes came into effect. There are also plans to drive down the cost of heat pumps further still so they become competitive on an upfront cost basis.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Then, we consider the great plastic cover-up. How important are plastics to the profits of fossil-fuel companies? We dive into an important investigation from NPR and Frontline into how fossil-fuel companies hoodwinked the public on plastics recycling. Frontline : Plastic Wars. The gang weighs in. Based in the U.S.,

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Oil and gas industry's bets on petrochemicals growth look increasingly dicey as world turns away from plastics, Carbon Tracker warns. Plastics pollution and climate change are two of the world's foremost environmental and economic concerns, and the global oil and gas industry are a major contributor to both.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2020

With 2020 now upon us, Andrew Brady, UK CEO of EMR (formerly European Metal Recycling) reflects on what has changed in his sector since the start of the millennium, and offers perspective on its growing importance and the challenges that lie ahead. Economic growth has driven ongoing demand for waste metals since 2000.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 5, 2022

First round of negotiations to deliver a new treaty to end plastic pollution was characterised by much the same dividing lines that marred recent climate talks. The mandate agreed by UN member states opens the door to a legally binding treaty that deals with the root causes of plastic pollution, not just the symptoms," she said. "The

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2021

This hard-to-reach 20% of emissions resides within sectors including agriculture, plastics, cement, and waste. To reach Net Zero, intersections between plastics, proteins and plants, three seemingly unconnected systems, may hold the key. ” Dr Mike Mason, another co-author, talks about the problems of plastics here.

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Business Green

JANUARY 27, 2020

SC Johnson is partnering with the Milwaukee Brewers for its latest plastic-busting initative. Consumer goods giant SC Johnson is partnering with Milwaukee Brewers in its latest bid to develop a circular economy for the plastic used in its products, the Wisconsin-based firm announced yesterday.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 30, 2021

Altogether, industry represents over 30% of global GHG emissions, when counting both direct process emissions and industrial energy use. They cover a range of technologies, including carbon capture and storage, alternative chemistries, recycling, hydrogen and biomass, among others. But the stakes are high.

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