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

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The UK’s innovation agency, Innovate UK, has announced a £6.6m investment in research projects which aim to help build a stronger supply chain of the critical minerals used widely in electronics and industry. In total there are 40 organisations receiving funding.

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Investment Recycling Recycling Innovation 162

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

John Collins, deputy director of evidence assessment and evaluation at the Environment Agency, said that despite having one of the most robust pollutants testing systems globally, rapid investment in innovation is needed to detect all sources of contamination from both established and newly emerging pollutants.

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Innovation Ozone Technology Pollution 147

Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 12, 2024

The first addresses household waste segregation which can significantly improve the volume and quality of material collected for recycling, while reducing sorting costs and decreasing landfill disposal. To encourage this, we need investments and solutions that improve waste management, support behaviour change, and promote innovation.” “We

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Plastics Recycling Recycling Waste 130

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

Charged

MARCH 25, 2024

US truck maker Mack Trucks , a subsidiary of Volvo , has delivered a Mack LR Electric refuse vehicle to Florida-based Coastal Waste & Recycling. Coastal Waste & Recycling is also piloting Volvo Construction Equipment’s CE EC230 Electric 23-ton excavator. Nextran Truck Centers will provide service and support.

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Recycling Recycling Waste Waste 119

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 108

Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

A state-of-the-art facility to allow the recycling of flexible plastics is to open in Glenrothes, Fife. The company behind the project, Yes Recycling, writes: As an experienced recycler, we specialise in hard-to-recycle plastics, including banknotes, hard hats, printed packaging film, and post-industrial and construction waste streams.

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Recycling Recycling Plastics Waste 245

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

RaRE (Rare-earth Recycling for E-machines) project is funded by the Office for Low Emission Vehicles (OLEV) and delivered in partnership with Innovate UK, and involves six partners who will work together to establish the first end-to-end supply chain of recycled rare earth magnets in the UK.

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Recycling Recycling Patents Innovation 238

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Dr Charlotte Stamper is Energy Infrastructure Lead at metal recycling expert EMR. As one of the companies working to recycle these turbines – and to create a sustainable, circular economy for the materials they contain – EMR is in a great position to correct this narrative.

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Recycling Recycling Recycled materials Climate change 147

Charged

MAY 18, 2022

NGen Canada, a non-profit organization that promotes advanced manufacturing, has announced a series of new innovation projects to support the zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) manufacturing ecosystem in Canada. These projects are funded by NGen under Canada’s Innovation Supercluster Initiative.

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Innovation Investment Lithium Batteries 105

Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

The proposals in the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) consultation on business waste are anti-competitive and will force successful recycling businesses into administration, The Recycling Association has warned. Business collections are already a mature and successful market that encourages innovation.

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Recycling Recycling Government Waste 147

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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Recycling Recycling Batteries Lithium 122

The Guardian: Energy

JANUARY 15, 2024

Octopus Energy invests in scheme which recycles heat from computer data processing centres Up to 150 public swimming pools in the UK could be offered an innovative way to cut their energy bills by recycling heat from computer data processing centres after a £200m investment by Octopus Energy into a green tech firm.

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Investment Recycling Recycling Energy 83

Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2023

Innovate Recycle rolls out the red carpet for new recycling plant after scoring £750,000 investment

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Recycling Recycling Innovation Investment 36

Inhabitat - Innovation

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

A new investigation by NPR and PBS Frontline reveals that for decades, executives in the oil and plastic industries invested millions of U.S. dollars into misleading the public about the recycling of plastics. As a good citizen, you sort your trash, thinking that the plastic will be recycled to reduce pollution.

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Plastics Recycling Recycling Pollution 279

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.

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Recycling Recycling Carbon Carbon-negative 170

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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Investment Waste Waste Climate change 130

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.

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Recycling Recycling Carbon Carbon-negative 142

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

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Luxury in the new normal: Leadership and innovation in 2020 and beyond. To drive innovation and demonstrate leadership in the years ahead, luxury leaders should consider these three opportunities: 1. Elisa Niemtzow. Fri, 10/16/2020 - 01:00. Business as usual for the luxury industry is over. Deepen luxury’s value proposition.

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Innovation Fashion Resilience Sustainability 457

Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 30, 2023

The householder is central to every decision regarding collections, recycling rates, and addressing ‘wishcycling’ which has also been in the newspaper headlines recently. Putting the householder at the centre of recycling, digital DRS provides them with control while being carbon efficient as the collection is still made from their house.

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Recycling Recycling Waste Waste 240

Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

A Scottish-based manufacturing facility which will enable the production of lower carbon cement products has secured a £500,000 award from Zero Waste Scotland’s Circular Economy Investment Fund. The product was also short-listed as a finalist in the 2021 National Recycling Awards. ”

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Innovation Sustainability Waste Waste 130

Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

Women are involved in every level of the materials recycling industry and this certainly seems to be confirmed by Axion Polymers, where they hold key roles in areas including management, finance, process engineering and laboratory research. It is a high-tech, modern industry that offers so much opportunity,” continues Caroline.

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Recycling Recycling Plastics Waste 147

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

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Recycling equipment manufacturer TOMRA has published a new white paper titled ‘Transforming Textiles: 4 Key Beliefs to Enable Textiles Circularity’. Today, only 1% of annual textile waste is recycled into new products without being downgraded. Sorted polyester textiles (image courtesy of TOMRA).

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Recycling Recycling Waste Waste 147

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MARCH 22, 2021

California’s ambitious goal of reaching 75% recycling by 2020 was unsuccessful – the state has only achieved 37% in 2019 ( 1 ). We have called on industry leaders to guide this solutions-based forum and panel on how innovation can move us away from landfill dependency and decrease the impacts on our environment. Virtual Event.

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Waste Waste Recycling Recycling 52

Charged

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The two companies will work together to “create a closed loop for battery recycling and a domestic supply chain for critical battery materials.”. Ford also made a strategic investment of $50 million in Redwood. Ford also recently announced a joint venture with SK Innovation, BlueOvalSK, which will supply batteries for Ford vehicles.

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Recycling Recycling Batteries Electric vehicle 126

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.

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Fashion Recycling Recycling Waste 130

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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Plastics Waste Waste Recycling 298

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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Recycling Recycling Plastics Recycled materials 90

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Next generation energy innovators will receive a £24 million cash boost to develop “new technologies that will decarbonise UK industry, build home-grown energy supplies and help prepare the country for a net zero future.”

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Innovation Government Technology Carbon 147

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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Recycling Recycling Waste Waste 130

GreenBiz

JULY 26, 2021

LanzaTech, a carbon recycling tech company, views addressing those industrial emissions as an opportunity. And in its latest announced partnership with athletic apparel company Lululemon, it’s creating yarn and fabric using recycled carbon emissions. Innovation. That equates to about 8 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions.

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Waste Waste Carbon Fashion 468

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

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

However, the risks associated with PFAS – per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances – in drinking water sources present emerging concern and new challenges around public confidence, and monitoring and treatment, that require additional resources and investment. Once in the environment, PFAS are extremely persistent.

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Technology Recycling Recycling North America 147

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. Increased Sales.

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Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring 158