Business Green

APRIL 30, 2020

Covid-19 support package to help the electrical waste recycling sector manage disruption caused by the coroinavirus crisis. We've designed the application process to ensure speedy allocation of funding, and included a range of support for re-use and recycling organisations.".

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 9, 2024

Despite many vape shops having facilities to dispose of them safely for recycling, only 17% of vapers recycle them correctly. There are some businesses already offering disposable vape recovery and recycling, often as part of a broader electrical waste (WEEE) and small mixed electrical waste service. In 2023, over 7.7

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2021

As well as addressing climate change and air pollution, this funding will boost the bus manufacturing sector and give more passengers the best modern buses.". We have set an ambitious target to phase out the sale of new petrol and diesel cars by 2030," said Minister for Investment Gerry Grimstone. "To

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Business Green

AUGUST 1, 2022

The net zero transition depends on copious amounts of graphite, lithium, cobalt, and other materials that provide the building blocks for energy efficient buildings, electricity transmission infrastructure, solar panels, electric vehicles, energy storage, wind turbines, and myriad other technologies.

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Business Green

JUNE 11, 2021

Firstly, most of that EV adoption worldwide is expected to take place in industrialised and emerging economies, meaning the rest of the developing world is currently expected to remain reliant on polluting vehicles through to 2040 and beyond. Investments and public policy should therefore reflect that - and urgently.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Tesla’s co-founder is pioneering a circular system for electric vehicle batteries Katie Fehrenbacher Wed, 09/02/2020 – 01:30 This week, I’ve been thinking a lot about electric vehicle batteries and the massive potential for battery recycling and reuse.

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EDF + Business

MAY 2, 2023

Key Takeaways Covers a variety of investments (incl. Incentive Type: Allocated investment credit. Battery Joint Venture In January 2023, Ford Motor Company announced an investment of $3.5 billion to build a lithium iron phosphate (LFP) EV battery plant in Marshall, Michigan. billion earmarked for energy communities).

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Business Green

MAY 7, 2021

Gold, tungsten, lithium, cobalt and other precious metals can be found in these devices and are crucial in the manufacture of wind turbines, electric vehicle batteries and solar panels. An effective circular economy for electronic products is needed, but current rates of reuse and recycling are disappointing.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 24, 2019

By commuting via e-scooters, it was hoped they would reduce traffic volume, promote zero-carbon transport and improve air quality by mitigating pollution. Consequently, Bird is trying to drum up more investment capital just to stay afloat, thus hinting at the startup’s overvaluation. Could this be the end for e-scooters?

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Clean Energy Trust

JANUARY 28, 2022

Middling government action Also, one crosscutting theme that is hard to avoid is the significant increase in new climate tech investment funds. Credit: The Economist One other trend that is sure to be clear to folks following the space is the incredible surge in climate tech investment over the year (really over the last couple of years).

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

The government of India has recently set aside $544 million to stoke private sector investments and technological research in this industry. Other critics see the mining as a ponzi scheme of sorts that is meant to draw venture capital investment but in fact has little real chance to make money in the long term.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The automaker’s sustainability goals include sourcing energy only from renewable sources and getting at least half the materials in its vehicles from recycled, bio-based or renewable origins — by 2030 in the U.S. It’s also investing in professional mentorship for minorities and backing communities through $6.5 and globally by 2040.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 8, 2020

For those who grew up in the ’80s, the three Rs — reduce, reuse and recycle — are seared into our brains. This can be done in ways that leverage the oilpatch’s core competencies (drilling, petrochemistry) toward new products, from carbon fibre to lithium to hydrogen. Grocery stores suddenly had bulk bins to reduce wasteful packaging.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

We know Elon Musk’s Tesla vehicles create less pollution out of the tailpipe, but what about those batteries? Over the years, there have been accusations of poor treatment of the Indigenous population surrounding a lithium mine in Argentina, a dirty source of graphite from China and cobalt mined under harsh conditions.

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Clean Energy Canada

OCTOBER 4, 2019

It also misses people such as Diane Praught, who uses recycled CO2 to make stronger, cleaner concrete for new homes at Halifax-based CarbonCure. In Ontario, 6,000 jobs and half-a-billion dollars of investment are thought to have been lost after the government cancelled renewable energy projects.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 5, 2022

GPR’s Impact Zero Project focuses on creating high-quality products that are efficient, recyclable and manufactured to bring their carbon footprint down to zero. Their motorcycle parts are built from 51% to 71% recycled material, and up to 88% of the product weight is recyclable, according to a video GPR produced on its Impact Zero Project.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Redwood Materials , the battery recycling venture founded by former Tesla CTO JB Straubel, came out of stealth mode last year, and announced that it is recycling scrap from Panasonic’s battery cell production at Tesla’s Gigafactory Nevada. In July, it raised $700 million in new investment. Straubel told Bloomberg.

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 10, 2023

With a 40% decrease in climate tech venture investments compared to the first six months of 2022—and growth-stage activity experiencing the greatest decline, even as early-stage deals increased —the data could indicate a reshuffling of the ecosystem. Happy Monday! ICYMI, our H1 2023 funding report dropped at the end of June.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Though it is hard to link the exact source of the particulate matter and NOx emissions - cars and other industries also pollute - it is a fact that outdoor air pollution is a major cause of death and disease globally. But the pollution caused by burning marine fuels are directly linked to hundreds of thousands of deaths each year.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

” The automaker’s sustainability goals include sourcing energy only from renewable sources and getting at least half the materials in its vehicles from recycled, bio-based or renewable origins — by 2030 in the U.S. It’s also investing in professional mentorship for minorities and backing communities through $6.5

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Business Green

MAY 27, 2022

Good ESG investing," he continued, should acknowledge the risks associated with governance issues "but also weigh them against the environmental positives and opportunities in the equity with the investor making the ultimate decision." He noted that lithium, cobalt and nickel supply chains have human capital issues.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

If they were coming from Europe and had a superior system that would actually free us from the pollution and the toxicity that would be welcome,” said Jill Hunkler, executive director of Ohio Valley Allies, a grassroots advocacy group fighting for environmental justice in northern Appalachia.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

And yet, it has clinched hundreds of millions of pounds of investment from private investors, the UK government, and mining giant Glencore, who have backed its ambitious plans to take on the Asian battery market with a new type of low-carbon battery pack that can be tailor-made to vehicle manufacturers' needs.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Why is $45bn in fossil fuel considered ‘an investment’, while every dollar invested in renewables or the energy transition or viewed as 'costs'? According to the IEA , roughly $800 billion will be 'invested' in the oil and gas industry in 2021. > (2). I always wonder. But displacing it in, say, heavy-duty trucks is harder.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

  This week, we get nerdy mining ExxonMobil’s lithium announcement - is this lithium’s shale moment? Lithium Mobil-ization Source: Company presentations, Bloomberg Last week, ExxonMobil unveiled its first-ever lithium mining operation in Arkansas, marking its first major foray into lithium production.

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