Business Green

JUNE 27, 2021

Consortium featuring L’Oréal, Nestlé Waters, PepsiCo, and Suntory Beverage & Food Europe tout major plastic recycling breakthrough. As such, plastic can usually only be recycled a finite number of times, and it is estimated only around nine per cent of all plastic ever made has ever been fully recycled.

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Plastics Recycling Recycling Patents 98

Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 13, 2022

Materials technology firm Betolar has been granted a patent for a method for converting mining waste material into a reinforcing binder. The method developed and patented by Betolar heat-treats the waste material generated in the bioleaching process, causing it to become a reactive substance with a binder potential.

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Carbon Patents Waste Waste 147

AGreenLiving

MARCH 9, 2021

Reduce, reuse, recycle, register? Ash Earl Tue, 03/09/2021 – 00:05 Consumer interest in the use of recycled materials, so-called recyclates, is on the rise. Patagonia, for example, recently declared that 68 percent of its offerings use recycled materials.

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Recycling Recycling Recycled materials Patents 28

Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Katie Smith is a Technical Assistant with Reddie & Grose LLP, a firm of patent, trade mark and design attorneys. Last year the European Patent Office and the International Energy Agency published a detailed report on innovation in batteries and electricity storage. Energy storage is widely viewed as a potential solution.

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Cooling Patents Energy Energy 162

Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 21, 2022

The government-owned mint is using patented new chemistry – created by Canadian based Excir – to recover gold within the circuit boards of laptops and mobile phones. If nothing is done, this is set to reach 74 million tonnes by 2030.

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Waste Waste Patents Recycling 298

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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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2022

The Royal Mint is set to develop the world's first recycling facility dedicated to recovering gold from laptops, mobile phones, and other forms of e-waste, the state-owned company has announced. Each year, more than 50 million tonnes of electronic waste is produced globally, with less than 20 per cent currently being recycled.

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Recycling Recycling Waste Waste 36

Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Syzygy Plasmonics and Greentown partner Mitsubishi Heavy Industries signed an investment agreement. PARTNERSHIPS + DEPLOYMENTS American Battery Technology Company (ABTC) started operating its lithium-ion battery recycling facility in Nevada. The post Greentown Labs Member Milestones — October 2023 first appeared on Greentown Labs.

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Startups Lithium Waste Waste 73

CleanTech San Diego

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

million represents a tripling of the capital that these companies came into the program with, and a 50-fold return on investment on the $4.95 Patents: SCEIN companies had 62 new patents approved in 2021 for a total of 388 new patents. This combined $268.5 million in total program expenditures.

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Innovation Patents Energy Energy 98

Business Green

JUNE 24, 2022

The chemicals giant said the demonstration plant would remove 40,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide from the air annually, which would be recycled for use in the manufacturing of sodium bicarbonate, a key ingredient in glass, washing detergents, and pharmaceuticals, as well as in food products, animal feed, and water purification.

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Carbon Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 69

Business Green

MARCH 31, 2023

Four of the six projects to have been awarded funding are from the University of Birmingham, including the Reuse and Recycling of Lithium Ion Batteries (ReLIB) project which is being led by Professor Paul Anderson, co-director of the Birmingham Centre for Strategic Elements and Critical Materials at Birmingham's School of Chemistry.

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Batteries Lithium Recycling Recycling 39

Greentown Labs

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Twenty-five startups joined our community in the final months of 2021, working on innovations as diverse as solar-plus-storage for blackouts, plastic and tire recycling, geothermal power generation, and construction-less dam electrification. We’re thrilled to support these groundbreaking climatetech startups—let us introduce you! Electricity.

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Startups Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Energy Monitor 98

Smart Energy International

MAY 3, 2022

California based South 8 intends to use the funding to accelerate the commercialisation of its patented liquefied gas electrolyte technology, which should improve the performance of lithium-ion batteries for applications such as electric vehicles, grid storage, aerospace and defence. CEO of South 8 Technologies.

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Lithium Batteries Patents Technology 98

Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Raise Green , a marketplace for impact investing in climate solutions, closed a $1.2M Greentown alum Seasats received a $10M investment from L3Harris Technologies, where the startup’s autonomous ocean vehicles will pair with cutting-edge products from L3Harris to create innovative maritime solutions. seed round.

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Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring 98

Greentown Labs

JULY 27, 2022

SiTration raised $2.35M in pre-seed funding , which will support its novel separation processes for extracting lithium, cobalt, nickel, and more from recycled EV batteries. Radical Plastics is conducting field trials of mulch film produced by its patented technology with Johnny’s Selected Seeds. Deployments + Partnerships.

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Startups Plastics Innovation North America 98

Business Green

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Firm reveals it has secured a promise of a further £40m investment from miner Glencore as it unveils plans for a new funding round and Canadian expansion. It noted that as its "key strategic partner", British-Swiss mining giant Glencore had committed to provide the cornerstone for the latest funding round with a £40m investment.

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Lithium Recycling Recycling Electric vehicle 36

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Moreover, he said the firm was investing in a new battery recycling facility close to its 'gigafactory' in Nevada, in a bid to reduce the need for raw materials such as lithium, thereby cutting costs and environmental impacts, he explained.

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Batteries Patents Lithium Electric vehicle 93

Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

On specific clean energy technologies, the report finds that the EU’s wind sector remains a world leader in R&I and high value patents in 2022 and maintains a positive trade balance. Further attention is needed to increase recycling capacity and establish technological capability in cheaper storage/longer-term storage.

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Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 52

Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2021

In the Netherlands, billions of euros worth of investments are currently on hold, because companies cannot obtain permits due to NOx emissions”, says Stef Clevers, Director of TransitionHERO. Alexander Krajete says: “Our patent-protected know-how is an in-depth understanding of the aluminium silicate’s characteristics.

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Ozone Agriculture Patents Technology 130

AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Related: Yara invests in green ammonia for renewable energy According to the company, the main key to success came from designing a highly efficient and reliable non-biological process (patent pending) with the ability to operate without human interference. Air Company Images courtesy of Air Company.

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North America Patents Climate change Recycling 28

Grist

MARCH 21, 2024

” A home’s heating system is the big-ticket item, in terms of financial investment and emissions-saving potential. CORRECTION: In last week’s newsletter, about alternatives to synthetic fabrics , we failed to note that textile recycling company Renewcell filed for bankruptcy last month.

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Natural gas Fossil fuels Electricity Recycled materials 73

Green Tech Challenge

DECEMBER 17, 2018

The country's target is to achieve at least an 85% reduction, with the remaining 15% to be offset by planting trees and other sustainable investments. Meet one of our alumni startups Zemission, which has developed, tested, and patented a zero-emission solution for mobile use.

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CleanTech San Diego

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Together, these startups employ 362 people, have had 162 patents approved, and have raised more than $223 million in private and public investment since being accepted into the program. 76 percent of SCEIN companies have C-Suite diversity.

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Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor 98

Business Green

MARCH 7, 2023

The firm's patented process - known as Accelerated Carbonation Technology (ACT) - was first developed in the early 2000s by researchers at University College London (UCL) and the University of Greenwich, the latter of which retained a stake in what later became the spin-out company Carbon8 Systems.

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Carbon Technology Carbon-negative Waste 36

Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

In 2019, SenGupta and his doctoral students at Lehigh were awarded a US patent for the system, described as a CO2–driven ion exchange desalination process, called HIX-Desal, which he calls “a legitimate candidate to transform wastewater into usable water.”.

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Carbon-negative Waste Waste Climate change 130

Clean Energy Trust

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Clean Energy Trust invested in MITO in 2020 when we realized the wide-ranging applications MITO’s technology could have in industries such as long-haul trucking, sporting goods, marine transportation, and additive manufacturing. During my MBA, MITO’s original technology was sitting on the shelf, patent-pending, and still in development.

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Innovation Startups Technology Climate change 52

Business Green

MAY 31, 2022

An innovative new zero emissions process that uses renewable electricity to recycle steel and cement could overcome one of the "hardest challenges on the journey to a safe climate with zero emissions", according to University of Cambridge developers behind the technology. to further develop the underlying science behind the process.

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Carbon Recycling Recycling Upcycling 39

Greentown Labs

JANUARY 11, 2021

Ennuity Holdings is creating a brand new asset class that allows retirees to buy out their electric utility bill, funding construction of clean energy infrastructure while receiving an in-kind return that substantially beats other types of fixed income investments.

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Startups Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor 97

Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The collaboration will also help SMEs tackle scalability with go-to-market support and access to potential clients, funders and investment. ITES will offer a ‘soft-landing’ for the SMEs, helping to safely develop, test and export solutions that help decarbonise transport.

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Transportation Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor 52

Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 15, 2020

By doing so, retirees can fund construction of the clean energy infrastructure needed to impact the trillion-dollar climate problem, while receiving an in-kind return that substantially beats other types of fixed income investments. The company specializes in the recycling industries, water filtration, and wind energies.

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Carbon-neutral Startups North America Technology 80

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MAY 14, 2021

Dramatic graphics illustrated a steady year-over-year expansion in sectors represented by companies such as Tesla, both as an investment attraction and market cap growth. Jessica explained how recycling has increased and described the excellent programs in Germany to manage recycling. A model to follow.

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Plastics Carbon-neutral Carbon-negative Innovation 88

AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 10, 2019

T he CEO of major meat alternative producer Monde Nissin, Henry Soesanto , also invested alongside Chinese agri-foodtech VC Bits x Bites, Tyson Ventures, and Manta Ray Ventures, a UK-based venture capital firm. (If you include seafood in your definition of meat — jury out over here at AgFunder!

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Technology Startups Meat alternatives Seafood 52

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Speciality chemicals firm Drasklovka, for example, is offering a patented glycine leaching technology, which it says can do this, as well as being able to provide 50% cost savings when working with complex ores. The plan also targets meeting at least 15% of annual consumption via recycling. McKinsey & Co.

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Energy Energy Demand Recycling 147

Greentown Labs

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The panel featured a variety of voices who partner with climatetech startups—through joint development agreements, investments, and more—exploring how to get hard, deep tech climate solutions to market, alongside a Greentown Houston entrepreneur who added in his own crucial perspective.

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Energy Energy Startups Incubators 109

Andrew Winston

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Blackrock’s former sustainable investing chief now thinks ESG is a ‘dangerous placebo’… here. We Need Corporate Patriotism To Defeat American Marxism… here [this is a scary one — a US senator is saying that ‘woke’ companies are not patriotic and calls for a crackdown on, essentially, things like ESG investing].

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Climate change Sustainability Carbon-neutral Carbon 167

Climate Tech VC

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Recent regulations have driven investment in space, air, and ground-based monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) technologies. 🔋 Electra Battery Materials , a Toronto, Canada-based battery materials refining and recycling platform, raised $5m in Grant funding from Government of Canada. Can’t get enough deals?

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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 57

CleanTechnica

MARCH 12, 2024

Builds upon existing long-term partnership and further demonstrates Glencore’s endorsement of Li-Cycle’s Spoke & Hub model, patented recycling technology, and. continued] The post Li-Cycle Announces $75 Million Strategic Investment from Glencore appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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