GreenBiz

APRIL 26, 2021

A circular approach to electrification and renewable energy. While electrification and renewable energy are key to decarbonizing the economy, the growing demand for solar PV may be creating a new problem. That’s 1 percent of the world's e-waste.). Lauren Phipps. Mon, 04/26/2021 - 00:30. In the U.S.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

A Fortum waste-to-energy plant in Brista, Sweden. A trade group comprising European suppliers of waste-to-energy technology, ESWET welcomed a recent opportunity to contribute to the EU Emissions Trading System’s revision (EU ETS). At least half of the energy output from Waste-to-Energy plants is considered renewable.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2023

A recycling site in Sweden will process 125,000 tons of end-of-life batteries and battery production waste each year, making it the largest plant of its kind in the world, according to Swedish battery developer Northvolt, which is working with industrial technology firm ABB on the project. ” The Revolt Ett site. .

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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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Waste Waste Carbon Recycling 147

Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2023

A new study looks at the use of gold extracted from electronic waste as catalysts for reactions that could be applied to making medicines. Re-using gold from electronic waste prevents it from being lost to landfill, and using this reclaimed gold for drug manufacture reduces the need to mine new materials.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2022

The new synthesis procedure can seemingly convert fish scales obtained from fish waste into a useful carbon-based nanomaterial. Group says they have developed a simple, fast, and energy-efficient synthesis method for producing exceptional carbon nano-onions from fish scales. This greatly limits the potential of CNOs. COOH) and (?OH)

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Renew Economy

JULY 6, 2022

As solar PV waste grows to tens of millions tonnes a year by 2040, researchers say the recycling market will boom – as will demand for recycled components. The post Solar panel recycling market to be worth billions by 2030, say researchers appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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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. This also means that the volumes of both household waste and industrial waste are on the way back to pre-pandemic levels.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Our cotreatment process reduces demand for chemicals to soften wastewater,” Barber said. Instead of discharging the water, we treat it, and instead of drawing from fresh water, we recycle treated water back through.” And an energy producer’s business is focused on producing shale gas and oil — they don’t want to care about water.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

· VAT on labour-intensive activities can make repairing broken items too expensive, frustrating consumers who want to avoid waste. As well as preventing waste, this would satisfy public demand, stimulate the economy and help to create 34,000 new jobs in the repair sector and 346,000 new jobs in remanufacturing.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 8, 2021

PET plastic bottles collected at a recycling plant. Specialist PET (polyethylene terephthalate) recycler Enviroo has had its planning application approved for its first plastic recycling facility in the UK. The firm says the facility will be able to re-use 100% of the PET it takes in and help recycle some of the 4.9

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Grist

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

It’s estimated that less than 1 percent of rare earths are recycled globally — from wind turbines, dead hard drives , and everything else. government, fearing a future rare-earth supply crunch that could hold back the energy transition, wants to change that. million “Wind Turbine Materials Recycling Prize.”

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 28, 2023

Nigel Harvie, CEO of Recolight, discusses the uptake of remanufacturing lighting equipment All too often, we think that getting products recycled means we have “done our bit” for the environment. But recycling is near the bottom of the waste hierarchy. And the commercials can work too. Upgrades can be performed in situ.

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altenergymag

DECEMBER 11, 2019

CMT's Recycled Energy Asia (dual tracks - WtE Asia and 6th Biomass & BioEnergy Asia) opens in Bangkok on 19-21 February, 2020 - reviews prospects of waste to energy, bioenergy, biomass feedstock production and supplies to North Asia, financing, investments, technology and more.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 6, 2024

Last week at the New York State Capitol, more than 300 advocates joined lawmakers for a rally to urge the passage of a landmark waste reduction bill that proponents say is the best piece of legislation in the country aimed at lessening plastic trash. percent of the plastic waste produced in the country per year.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2020

Zero Liquid Discharge, or ZLD, is a technique which aims to discharge no liquid waste to the environment, instead recovering as many products from the ‘waste’ stream as possible and leaving just water, which can be re-used. www.hrs-heatexchangers.com.

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TechXplore

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Demand for valuable metals needed in batteries is poised to grow over the coming decades in step with the growth of clean energy technologies, and the best place to source them may be by recycling spent batteries.

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Batteries Waste Waste Recycling 121

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 1, 2021

A filtration system fuelled by whisky co-products is being developed by researchers to sustainably extract rare and valuable metals – including gold, silver, and palladium – from waste electronics using a new combined biological and chemical approach. million tonnes of waste electronics. million tonnes of waste electronics.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

A next-generation water recycling system, unveiled by water infrastructure systems specialist SDS, will seemingly boost business sector efforts to save water by offering significantly improved investment returns for commercial developers and operators. Using ultrafiltration also makes the system responsive to demand at peak times.

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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

DECEMBER 16, 2019

On site with (left) operations director Gregor Keenan and (right) Louise McGregor, Head of Circular Economy, Zero Waste Scotland. Organic waste recycling firm Keenan Recycling has secured £540,000 from Zero Waste Scotland’s Circular Economy Investment Fund. The new centre in Linwood is due to open in March 2020.

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Charged

AUGUST 3, 2021

TES, a provider of sustainable technology lifecycle services, has taken over a recycling facility at the Port Of Rotterdam , Europe’s largest seaport, from Battery Recycling Services Netherlands. TES plans to focus the facility on the recycling of lithium-ion batteries. The TES project in Rotterdam is exactly that.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Recycling technologies for end-of-life lithium ion batteries (LIBs) are not keeping pace with the rapid rise of electric vehicles, storing up a potentially huge waste management problem for the future, according to a new study. To recycle these efficiently, they must be disassembled and the resulting waste streams separated.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 4, 2021

Research project to create new materials from recycling’s waste products. Heriot-Watt University has joined forces with Brewster Bros, a recycling business based in Livingston, to create new materials from the residual waste left over during the recycling process. This by-product commonly ends up in landfill.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MAY 30, 2024

The AVCHI Initiative is a multi-stakeholder, public-private partnership with the goal of transforming waste biogases into clean hydrogen to help fuel the growth of the local clean energy economy and provide energy and economic resilience in the Antelope Valley.   Michael Schmitz ReCarbon, Inc. +1

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 27, 2021

On 20 May 2021, metal sorting technology expert TOMRA Recycling held its first metals sorting webinar, which was entitled ‘Aluminium sorting industry outlook – key sorting technologies, innovations and opportunities in a circular economy.’ More than 200 participants from across the globe joined the 45-minute live session, said the firm.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 3, 2021

The startups you will hear from apply a multitude of ideas to mitigate climate risk, respond to shifting customer demands and unlock new business opportunities across the value chain. The largest source of textiles in municipal solid waste is discarded clothing. Who are they? Lizee customer environmental performance dashboard.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 14, 2023

Material and equipment manufacturer working to meet the demands of an environmentally conscious world Volm Companies and Yellowstone Plastics is a material and equipment manufacturer and supplier. Their portfolio now includes recyclable materials, paper, biobased, compostable, and lightweight products.

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Waste Waste Plastics Packaging 78

Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Joseph Doherty, Managing Director of waste management services firm Re-Gen Waste, believes that the PRN prices will be affected by the cost of living crisis. The graph below shows the amount of packaging placed on the UK market reported by registered packaging producers since the early days of the packaging waste regulation.

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Recycling Recycling Packaging Waste 245

Envirotec Magazine

JULY 31, 2020

Sorting technologies manufacturer TOMRA Recycling considers the limitations of existing sorting methods and explores the issues facing European scrap metal processors and aluminium producers investing in equipment to sort their own scrap material.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

WWF defines a plastic credit as a "transferable unit representing a specific quantity of plastic that has been collected and possibly recycled from the environment.". Plastics crediting schemes are based on the premise that recycling plastic and keeping it out of nature equals success, which is a problem.

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Business Green

JANUARY 7, 2022

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. Fresh funding provides boost to UK firm's plans to build Europe’s first plastic to hydrogen plant.

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The Environmental Blog

AUGUST 24, 2023

With a growing global population and increasing demand for protein, this practice has become a vital part of the world’s food production. Technological and scientific advancements have ushered in an era of efficiency, reduced waste, and better animal welfare practices. Similarly, egg production has risen from 15 to 93 million tonnes.

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Building Energy Monitoring Sustainability Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor 195

Business Green

APRIL 13, 2022

Nestle, Danone, Unilever and PepsiCo among firms to set out united vision for how nascent chemical recycling industry can be delivered in a way that is sustainable and green. Just last month, 175 national governments agreed to draw up a legally-binding global treaty to combat plastic waste and pollution by 2024.

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Plastics Recycling Recycling Packaging 89

Charged

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Redwood Materials , the battery recycling venture founded by former Tesla CTO JB Straubel, has signed an agreement to recycle scrap and defective battery cells for Envision AESC, which manufactures batteries for the Nissan LEAF in Smyrna, Tennessee. Redwood recycles all types of lithium-ion batteries, not just EV battery packs.

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Recycling Recycling Batteries Lithium 121

The Environmental Blog

JUNE 26, 2023

Benefits of temporary structures Reduced construction waste: Temporary structures are typically constructed off-site, in controlled factory environments. This off-site construction approach minimizes the amount of waste generated on-site compared to traditional building methods.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2023

As global effort to fight climate change intensifies, the challenge for battery manufacturers and their supply chains is to find ways to meet the rapidly growing demand for electric vehicles (EVs). According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), global sales of new electric vehicles (EV) grew from 3 million in 2020 to 6.6

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