Charged

APRIL 5, 2024

Afraid there won’t be enough recycling plants to recycle EV batteries when they start reaching end of life in large numbers? Encouraged by generous government incentives, companies have been investing heavily in battery plants. Current plans for recycling plants see capacity greatly outstripping the supplies of waste batteries.

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Recycling Recycling Batteries Recycled materials 97

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Quick thinking and agility has helped waste management companies survive and even prosper during lockdown, says Aaron Baker, an investor at BGF, an investment firm which has backed a number of firms in the waste sector. Could waste management businesses work effectively when the majority of their staff were home-based?

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Waste Waste Recycling Recycling 245

Business Green

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Chemically-recycled plastic could be in high demand by the end of this decade, major companies predict. In a letter published this morning, the firms said there was potential demand for at least 800,000 tonnes a year of chemically recycled plastic in Europe by 2030 from 40 firms alone.

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Plastics Recycling Recycling Demand 76

Charged

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

UK-based clean technology group Altilium is collaborating with vehicle salvage and recycling specialist Synetiq to recycle the growing number of EV batteries from damaged cars. The company has invested heavily in equipment to remove the batteries from these cars and store them safely.

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Recycling Recycling Batteries Waste 113

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.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

investment in research projects which aim to help build a stronger supply chain of the critical minerals used widely in electronics and industry. Among the winners is Ionic Technologies Ltd, based in Belfast, which specialises in the recycling of magnets to enable the creation of sustainable and traceable rare-earth supply chains.

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Investment Recycling Recycling Innovation 162

Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 23, 2021

Anaesthetic gas recycling technology firm SageTech Medical Equipment (SageTech) has completed a £2.9m pre-series A investment, including a £1.6m investment introduced by specialist venture capitalist EMV Capital. The firm is currently developing technology which will allow this gas to be recycled, purified and sold commercially.

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Recycling Recycling Waste Waste 130

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

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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Plastics Recycling Recycling Packaging 130

Charged

MARCH 17, 2021

Heritage has launched a new division, Heritage Battery Recycling (HBR), to address the growing market demand for safe, sustainable solutions for lithium-ion batteries at the ends of their lives. In collaboration with Romeo Power , HBR will develop a battery reuse and recycling facility in the southwestern US. “By

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Recycling Recycling Batteries North America 104

Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2022

UK-based Mura Technology announces major backing from global chemicals giant to help it develop host of innovative US and European plastic recycling facilities. A spokesperson for Mura Technology said Dow's latest backing announced today amounted to a "multi-million-dollar" investment, but would not disclose the precise sum.

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Plastics Recycling Recycling Innovation 68

GreenBiz

MARCH 15, 2021

As plastic waste continues to threaten the globe, companies are making ambitious commitments and joining with partners to do their part. Common challenges companies face in combating plastic waste, and how to overcome them. Erin Simon, Head, Plastic Waste and Business, WWF. Head, Plastic Waste and Business. taylor flores.

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Plastics North America Waste Waste 387

GreenBiz

JUNE 3, 2021

Climate tech startups, and investments into them, are growing. In 2020, investments into early stage climate tech companies topped $60 billion and grew at a faster rate than all VC investments from 2013 to 2019. The largest source of textiles in municipal solid waste is discarded clothing. Who are they? Close Authorship.

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Startups Carbon-negative Waste Waste 522

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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Greywater Recycling Recycling Business Energy Monitoring 130

GreenBiz

APRIL 26, 2021

While electrification and renewable energy are key to decarbonizing the economy, the growing demand for solar PV may be creating a new problem. Today's standard practices for solar manufacturing and disposal need close examination — especially as demands for the cheap, clean energy is set to increase. . Mon, 04/26/2021 - 00:30.

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Recycling Recycling Energy Energy 544

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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Plastics Waste Waste Recycling 88

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

A new Quality Recycling Process (QRP) for flexible packaging, from CEFLEX (a consortium of European firms working on flexible packaging recycling) and its stakeholders, appears to demonstrate the viability of high value applications for recycled polymers from a mechanical recycling process.

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Packaging Recycling Recycling Plastics 130

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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Plastics Carbon-neutral Carbon-negative Waste 519

Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Essex-based waste management and recycling solutions provider, Green Recycling, has achieved its goal of becoming the UK’s first picker-less C&I MRF with the help of a sensor-based sorting system able to identify the weight and quantity of plastics, one of a number of features enabled by AI.

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Recycling Recycling Plastics Waste 263

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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Recycling Recycling Hydrogen Carbon-neutral 104

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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Asia Recycling Recycling Waste 60

Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 18, 2021

This Global Recycling Day (18 March), Robert Lockyer, CEO and founder of Delta Global, a sustainable packaging solutions provider for luxury fashion brands, discusses some of the ways in which he believes the industry is making great headway in terms of recyclability, as well as where more can still be done. Restoration.

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Fashion Recycling Recycling Waste 130

GreenBiz

MARCH 5, 2021

percent gets recycled and used again. It is more urgent than ever to shift from linear, use-it-up-and-throw-it-away models to a circular economy: where waste and pollution are designed out, products and materials are kept in use for longer, and natural systems can regenerate. We would need 1.5 Reduce emissions.

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Plastics Fossil fuels Recycled materials Recycling 514

Envirotec Magazine

MAY 27, 2021

Manufacturers, retailers and recyclers urged to join the collaboration. Fund designed to drive progress towards household collection of flexible plastic for recycling. This will in turn increase the supply of recycled plastic enabling industry to become more ‘circular’ and meet the forthcoming UK plastic packaging tax obligations.

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Retail Plastics Recycling Recycling 147

Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 6, 2023

Technology and recycling equipment firm TOMRA has signed a majority ownership agreement with Plastretur, the Norwegian Producer Responsibility Organisation for recycling plastic packaging. The plant will be the cornerstone in building the national infrastructure Norway needs to achieve future recycling targets.

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Packaging Plastics Recycling Recycling 130

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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Recycling Recycling Plastics Europe 130

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

More than 53 million metric tonnes of e-waste was produced in 2019. This coincides with a national increase in demand of IT equipment, as remote working and schooling requires a well-equipped population. Alan Bentley, Head of Global Strategy, Blancco. Alan Bentley, from data erasure and circular economy specialist Blancco, writes.

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Waste Waste Policy Sustainability 203

Business Green

JULY 24, 2022

Firms behind major recycling plant on Teesside announce major expansion of partnership. Advanced plastic recycling firm Mura and leading chemicals giant Dow have announced they plan to work together to construct multiple large-scale recycling facilities in the US and Europe.

Plastics 82

Plastics Recycling Recycling Europe 82

GreenBiz

MARCH 22, 2021

I also have observed firsthand how technology-driven innovation is disrupting the traditional grocery supply chain, opening new doors to reducing food waste and helping the world to think differently about how we source food. For meal kits, packaging waste was one of those unintended consequences.

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Packaging Waste Waste Retail 545

Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Rocket Industrial helps organizations reduce waste with their innovative packaging solutions. ? of landfill garbage is packaging material of some kind, meaning waste reduction demands a global shift to avoid throwaway solutions, and supporting this shift is the packaging distribution company Rocket Industrial. generated 291.4

Packaging 78

Packaging Waste Waste Organic 78

Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 10, 2022

A positive Return On Investment (ROI) and Sustainability go hand in hand, as many sustainable business practices save money, create a competitive advantage, open new markets and attract customers and employees. the product’s reuse and recycling potential). Waste Reduction: recyclable materials and food waste.

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Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring 158

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

Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 12, 2024

Investment in clean energy such as solar, hydropower and wind to meet Africa’s energy demand which is expected to double by 2040. Improved solid waste management to prevent dumping and burning of waste and improve reuse, recycling, and recovery rates.

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Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 147

Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2022

Wagamama is removing most of the plastic from the packaging used in its food deliveries and shifting instead to fully recyclable materials, in a move the restaurant chain claims could remove up to 330 tonnes of virgin plastic from its supply chain each year.

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Recycling Recycling Waste Waste 36

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Recycling firm Paper Round has announced the commissioning of a new sorting line at its facility in Essex for the Vegware compostable catering disposables it collects in London, Brighton and Sussex. These contaminants will be removed from the compostable stream and recovered for recycling using existing MRF processing.

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Recycling Recycling Waste Waste 130

Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 21, 2021

Mark Priestman, Managing Director of Non-Ferrous at EMR (formerly European Metal Recycling) writes. As the recycling industry innovates to embrace its role as a key player in the UK’s journey towards a more sustainable society, new challenges continue to emerge. Mark Priestman of EMR.

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Pollution Organic Plastics Recycling 130

Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

million tonnes of electrical waste produced by UK households and businesses was either lost, thrown away, hoarded or stolen last year, costing the economy more than £370m of lost valuable raw materials and metals, new research indicates. Roughly a third of the 1.45 million cars driving on the roads, the non-profit said.

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Waste Waste Electricity Recycling 91