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UK needs to act to prevent electric vehicle battery waste mountain – new study

Envirotec Magazine

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.

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Examples Of How The Physical Marketing Industry Is Going Greener

The Environmental Blog

They are doing everything most other physical businesses are doing including: Reducing the consumption of energy and materials. Sourcing their energy and materials from green sources. Switching to using electric vehicles. Using equipment that is made from recycled materials.

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NatWest 'reverse vending machines' to turn unused bank cards into clothing

Business Green

After pickup, plastic waste is transported to a recycling facility via an electric vehicle, where the first cards will be repurposed into hats and socks for London's homeless. The new machines will also accept card readers and plastic bottles for recycling.

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Volvo teams up with Phillip Lim on sustainable weekender bag

AGreenLiving

Volvo released a statement in September 2021 vowing to take an ethical stance in the name of animals by committing to leather-free materials in its current and future electric cars. The company plans to move to a line of fully electric vehicle production by 2030. “The collaboration with 3.1

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Can a global plastics treaty help tackle the pollution crisis?

Business Green

Over 90 per cent of global greenhouse emissions are now covered by net zero targets, and key clean technologies such as wind, solar, and electric vehicles are rapidly disrupting polluting industries and driving down growth projections for fossil fuel demand.

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Tesla co-founder JB Straubel’s company to produce battery materials in US

Charged

“By early 2022, Redwood will announce a site for our North American battery materials manufacturing facility, aiming to produce 100 GWh/year of cathode active materials and anode foil for one million electric vehicles by 2025,” says the company. “By Today, EVs account for less than 10% of Redwood’s recycling stock.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S. As electric vehicles drive toward the mainstream, General Motors has come full circle as well. It mass-produced the first electric car in the 1990s, then literally crushed most of them in 2003. In August, the 98-year-old company joined the U.S.