Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Dr Charlotte Stamper is Energy Infrastructure Lead at metal recycling expert EMR. Dr Charlotte Stamper writes As the impact of climate change has become more obvious and extreme in recent years, Scotland has emerged as a global leader in one of the most important solutions: renewable energy.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 14, 2021

Recovering the critical raw materials residing within electronic waste will require investment, and a legal framework to incentivise this will be essential, say the authors (image credit: Steve Janosik , CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Batteries from WEEE and end of life vehicles.

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FuelCellsWorks

JANUARY 5, 2024

At Closed Loop Partners, we focus on investing in the circular economy––advancing solutions that reduce waste through material reduction, alternative materials, reuse and end-of-life solutions like recycling. Through our work,

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 19, 2022

The Recycling Association has criticised the “dangerous language” used by Environment Agency chief executive Sir James Bevan. The Recycling Association chief executive Simon Ellin warned that conflating waste crime with exports per se was wrong and failed to address the real reasons behind criminal activity. .

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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. But if current, low recycling rates continue, decommissioned PV modules instead could add up to 1 million tons of waste in the U.S.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Plastics resource efficiency and recycling charity RECOUP has published its 2022 UK Plastic Packaging Sorting & Reprocessing Infrastructure report, which reported that there is a clear bottleneck in the UK’s recycling infrastructure for plastic recycling.

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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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Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 29, 2024

Since everything has a shelf life, some wonder if this way to use H2 is truly clean Are hydrogen fuel cells recyclable? Now, many are questioning how green H2 can be if the materials needed to use it as clean energy cannot be recycled. That said, there are many materials in these units that can be recycled.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 13, 2022

Their main focus has been to build a comprehensive recycling program and to reduce the company’s fossil fuel demand with effective energy management. Developing a comprehensive recycling program and energy management system. The aim is to use any financial excess for something responsible.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2021

million, including the help of PRN funding, the UK’s largest producer of damp-proof membranes is increasing its capacity for recycling ethylene-based plastics by 66 per cent. Mercers, which is based in Bolton, transforms plastic packaging waste into 100 per cent recycled damp-proof membrane. Thanks to an injection of £6.1

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Shayle has been brewing up an investment thesis around how decarbonization will create stratification in traditional commodity sectors, like chemicals and materials. Shayle talks to CEO Dr. Jennifer Holmgren about carbon recycling and the big dent it could make in global greenhouse gas emissions. Are you building a renewable plant?

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Charged

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Battery recycling firm Blue Whale Materials plans to build a Li-ion battery processing facility in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. The company says that, unlike traditional wet processes, which can complicate further refining, the dry Blacksand technology streamlines the recycling process and enhances the quality of the recovered materials.

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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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Charged

MAY 30, 2022

Li-Cycle , LG Chem (LGC) and LG Energy Solution (LGES) have agreed to cooperate on battery recycling and sales. Li-Cycle has agreed to recycle LGES’s battery manufacturing scrap and other lithium-ion battery material from its North American manufacturing sites over a 10-year period.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 19, 2020

The coronavirus outbreak is hitting the vulnerable recovered paper sector hard according to The Recycling Association. With people also shopping less and more people working from home, members of the Association are reporting that there is less material around to trade, even if they can find haulage and containers to get it recycled.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Shayle has been brewing up an investment thesis around how decarbonization will create stratification in traditional commodity sectors, like chemicals and materials. Shayle talks to CEO Dr. Jennifer Holmgren about carbon recycling and the big dent it could make in global greenhouse gas emissions. Are you building a renewable plant?

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Charged

MARCH 17, 2022

Mercedes-Benz has unveiled plans to expand its global battery recycling strategy. The automaker will build its own battery recycling plant in Kuppenheim, Germany, and plans to enlist partners for battery recycling in China and the US. Sustainable battery recycling is a key factor in this, worldwide.

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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. In this way the system saves energy, too.”. SDS Greywater Reuse System.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Viridor says its soon-to-be-opened Avonmouth plastics recycling plant will reprocess over 80,0000 tonnes of plastic, creating recycled raw material ready to be returned to the economy. The circular economy for plastics report highlights the significant role that recycling plastics can play in ensuring the UK achieves net zero.

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Solar Industry

APRIL 1, 2024

Department of Energy (DOE), the U.S. The agencies are partnering to implement the Qualifying Advanced Energy Project Tax Credit (48C) funded by the Inflation Reduction Act. Projects focused on clean energy manufacturing and recycling are set to receive $2.7 Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. billion in tax credits.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 7, 2023

Edinburgh-based Carbogenics – the developer of proprietary technology that enhances the efficacy and applicability of anaerobic digestion – has raised more than £1m in investment to build its first production and R&D facility in Scotland.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Is There a Role of Waste to Energy in the Circular Economy? While many localities and companies are championing zero-waste plans to divert materials that have a second life (think recycling, reusing and composting), the majority of U.S. Sarah Golden, Senior Energy Analyst & VERGE Energy Chair, GreenBiz Group .

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Grist

OCTOBER 1, 2022

When dealing with the life cycle of plastic, hundreds of solutions await, from alternative bioplastics that might be able to degrade themselves through the magic of fungus, to complex chemical recycling that can break plastics down to become other petroleum products or to be rebuilt good as new.

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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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Charged

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) of 2021 authorized $335 million for battery recycling and second-life programs. Now the DOE is seeking information to assist in implementing the investment. The DOE is requesting information on lithium-ion battery materials in consumer electronics, EVs and manufacturing scrap.

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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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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 27, 2020

The cumulative mass of end-of-life PV modules is expected to hit 8 million metric tons globally by 2030, so improving recycling rates is an increasingly critical issue for the industry. There’s only one crystalline silicon recycling facility in the world now, and that’s in France,” Heath told GTM.

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Charged

MAY 15, 2020

Clean Energy Trust, a nonprofit that makes seed investments in clean-tech startups from the US Midwest, has announced an investment in Renewance, a provider of a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for battery lifecycle management. Renewance provides battery management solutions to the energy storage and EV industries.

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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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The Environmental Blog

AUGUST 5, 2021

The following are some effective investments to ensure sustainability at home. On top of that, the energy a household consumes contributes to climate change. This is a significant investment, so a little bit of planning will be helpful for this step. This reduces the need to waste so much energy cooling and warming up the house.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 8, 2023

A new briefing from think tank organisation the Energy Transitions Commission (ETC) argues that the clean energy transition can be delivered on time and at an affordable cost if supply chain risks are minimised by policy and industry action. The energy transition is fundamentally achievable if supply chain risks are managed.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

A new IMechE report sees a vital role for energy storage technologies in the exploitation of UK renewable energy. In January, the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) opened applications for Phase 3 of its Industrial Energy Transformation Fund (IETF).

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Charged

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Nanocarbon supplier Nanoramic has secured a substantial investment from private investment firm Fortistar. As a part of the Fortistar investment, Nanoramic will add Chuck Bryceland to the company’s board of directors. Its process can utilize existing equipment and serve as a drop-in replacement for existing battery designs.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

This week’s edition of Smart Energy Finances breaks down some of the EIB’s key findings on the state of EU firms in the energy transition and details COP27 financial highlights. The past week has been a key period for investment decisions, pleas and pledges within the financial community. Read the full EIB survey??

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The Guardian: Energy

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The investments, of about £30bn a year from the taxpayer and £40bn to £50bn a year from the private sector, would result in savings to the average household of at least £1,000 a year, higher economic productivity, and a better quality of life in the future, the National Infrastructure Commission said.

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Charged

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Li-Cycle ( profiled in our July/August 2020 issue ) uses a hub-and-spoke model for its recycling process. Meanwhile, Li-Cycle, LG Chem and LG Energy Solution have entered into a manufacturing scrap supply and nickel sulfate purchasing agreement. LG Chem and LGES together will make a $50-million equity investment in Li-Cycle. “We

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