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. If a shortage of recyclable batteries develops, such companies could have the advantage.

Recycling 111

Recycling Recycling Batteries Recycled materials 111

R-Squared Energy

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Last fall Swedish lithium-ion battery maker Northvolt announced that it had raised $600 million in equity to invest in capacity expansion, research and development, and large-scale recycling. The report noted that lithium-ion based battery technology companies received the most VC funding in 2020, with $649 million.

Batteries 78

Batteries Technology Lithium Recycling 78

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? The world is becoming increasingly aware of the impact of technology when its life comes to an end. Now, many are questioning how green H2 can be if the materials needed to use it as clean energy cannot be recycled.

Recycling 78

Recycling Recycling Hydrogen Energy Monitor 78

GreenTech Gazette

JULY 6, 2022

Green technology – tech that has a minimal, if any, impact on the environment – has become increasingly commonplace. That hasn’t solely been seen with cars and in the home, but it’s become quite popular in the business world, with there being multiple green technologies small businesses can use. and for how long.

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Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor 52

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The very first wind turbines to be erected in Scotland are now reaching the end of their operational lives but, rather than creating a “major headache”, EMR and others are already busy recycling them. And these turbines are proving to be a rich source of high-quality, low carbon recyclable material.

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Recycling Recycling Recycled materials Climate change 147

ThinkGeoEnergy

JANUARY 17, 2024

Enerdrape , a startup based in Vaud, Switzerland pioneering pre-fabricated geothermal panel technology, has just concluded a CHF 1.3 The panels are modular, thin, flexible, made of recyclable materials, and compatible with heat pumps. million (approx. million) seed financing round. Alessandro Rotta Loria, and Prof.

Startups 64

Startups Recycled materials Technology Cooling 64

Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The report states that cross-sector collaboration is needed in the UK to maximize wind turbine recycling and to make the region a global leader in a circular economy within the wind turbine sector. WindEurope estimates that 10% of all composite material waste will come from the wind sector over the coming years.

Recycling 87

Recycling Recycling Recycled materials Technology 87

Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

When done right, sustainable business practices deliver a positive return on investment (ROI), improving efficiency, lowering costs and driving sales. Like any investment a company makes, the potential return on an investment in sustainability should be considered before making the investment. Increased Sales.

Business Energy Monitoring 78

Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring 78

Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

When done right, sustainable business practices deliver a positive return on investment (ROI), improving efficiency, lowering costs and driving sales. Like any investment a company makes, the potential return on an investment in sustainability should be considered before making the investment. Increased Sales.

Business Energy Monitoring 78

Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring 78

Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2021

Veolia, who collect more than 100,000 tonnes for recycling annually in the UK, recently expanded its operations to be able to recycle dozens of different grades of plastics. Tim Duret, Director of Sustainable Technology, Veolia UK and Ireland says.

Packaging 130

Packaging Plastics Recycling Recycling 130

Business Green

JUNE 9, 2021

Rather than slowing the pace of environmental concerns in the investment world, the pandemic appears to have focussed minds - collective wake-up call, perhaps. Just last week, HSBC announced it would halt funding coal investments. Is the role of governments redundant as climate-adverse investments continue to become unviable?

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Investment Recycling Recycling Climate change 56

Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 8, 2021

The facility will take PET – the main material used for food and drinks packaging such as plastic bottles and certain food packaging – and convert it into the raw material for new food-grade packaging. It will see an investment of around £20 million into the local economy and create 50 new, permanent jobs.

Plastics 130

Plastics Recycling Recycling Packaging 130

Business Green

JULY 24, 2022

Mura said the new deal marked an important milestone in the rapid scaling of its advanced recycling process, dubbed Hydrothermal Plastic Recycling Solution, which can be used to recycle all forms of plastic, including flexible and multi-layer plastics that have proven resistant to traditional plastic recycling technologies.

Plastics 80

Plastics Recycling Recycling Europe 80

Business Green

MAY 30, 2022

Suntory Beverage & Food Great Britain & Ireland (SBF GB&I) said its decision announced on Friday to shift to use 100 per cent recycled plastic was a considerable investment, as growing demand for rPET was pushing up costs.

Plastics 77

Plastics Recycling Recycling Recycled materials 77

Charged

DECEMBER 31, 2019

The Commission designed the project to support the development of innovative technologies that improve charging time, battery life, safety and sustainability. Cells and modules: Develop new technologies that meet safety and performance requirements for both automotive and non-automotive applications.

Batteries 98

Batteries Sustainability Recycled materials Automotive 98

Green Business Bureau

JUNE 30, 2021

Invest in reusable silverware and dishes can reduce waste. Since plumbing involves large amounts of driving, consider investing in high efficiency vehicles or even an electrical fleet in order to minimize fossil fuel emissions. Inform your customers of current money saving, eco friendly plumbing technology.

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Sustainability Business Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring 128

Business Green

OCTOBER 12, 2022

"More specifically, and assuming that global investment in the field materialises by 2030, the Parties wish to express their common interest in purchasing commercial volumes of chemically recycled plastic content to incorporate in their packaging portfolio [from chemical players]".

Plastics 75

Plastics Recycling Recycling Demand 75

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.

Recycling 28

Recycling Recycling Recycled materials Patents 28

Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Keeping costs low while investing in significant sustainable change. They’ve found that a lot of the time, customers want to be more sustainable, but they don’t want to pay the initial extra cost that’s – sometimes – needed to invest in sustainable design and development.

Packaging 78

Packaging Waste Waste Organic 78

Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Ryan Edmonds, director of customer programmes at Sheffield Forgemasters, said renewable energy technologies promised to play a crucial role in decarbonising the UK's steel sector. Increased investment is also being funnelled into green steel projects worldwide.

Hydrogen 85

Hydrogen Recycling Recycling Recycled materials 85

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. Making the most of the latest technology.

Recycling 130

Recycling Recycling Plastics Europe 130

Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 25, 2024

London-based recycling tech business, Sorted, has raised £1.65 The group’s technology enables human pickers to better sort and recover targeted materials. Using computer vision, spectroscopy and coloured lasers driven by AI, their solution identifies, differentiates and pinpoints valuable items on recycling lines.

Recycling 162

Recycling Recycling Startups Recycled materials 162

Business Green

MAY 18, 2020

Waste and resource giant Viridor has today announced that it has commenced feasibility work on a new project that would allow 30,000 tonnes of previously unrecyclable thin film plastic to be processed each year using a new technology that makes such materials 'infinitely recyclable'.

Plastics 75

Plastics Recycling Recycling Biodegradable 75

GreenTechMedia

JULY 21, 2020

Typically, Apple signs contracts (including virtual power-purchase agreements) with renewables developers like Avangrid and sPower, although it occasionally buys projects outright or makes equity investments. technology giants. Google has become one of the world’s largest purchasers of renewable energy, including a 1.6-gigawatt

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Carbon-neutral Carbon Carbon-negative Recycled materials 130

Envirotec Magazine

MAY 12, 2022

Exports are vital for our economy and tracking recycling material will become increasingly available through the development of technology. Re-Gen is at the forefront of sorting technology, but investment in future needs can only come through the right policies that provide market freedom and certainty of regulation.

Recycling 229

Recycling Recycling Building Energy Monitoring Packaging 229

Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 22, 2022

These facilities and projects will thus be poised to extract and process lithium, graphite and other battery materials, manufacture components and demonstrate new approaches, including manufacturing components from recycled materials. This includes critical minerals and materials needed to meet production and deployment goals.

Batteries 40

Batteries Lithium Law Electric vehicle 40

Business Green

MAY 16, 2021

New jails will use new green technologies and modern methods of construction to ensure our prisons cut carbon emissions as well as reoffending.". Once the £15m clean energy investment programme is completed, 20 per cent of energy at the sites will be powered by solar, it added.

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Government Electricity Construction Recycling 66

Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 28, 2023

Deals of the Week (8/14-8/27) Venture Fundings 🔋 Northvolt , a Stockholm, Sweden-based lithium-ion batteries from recycled materials producer, raised $1.2B in Convertible notes from BlackRock, CPP Investments, OMERS, Investment Management Corporation of Ontario, Goldman Sachs Asset Management, and other investors.

Building Energy Monitoring 52

Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor 52

Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

This month, they presented their incredible climate technologies at an ACCEL Showcase at Greentown Houston. Check out a recording of the event below, and read on to learn about each startup, the climate impact of their technologies, and their progress during the program! It’s been a very good acceleration pathway.”

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Startups Carbon-negative Fossil fuels Plastics 120

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Government should publish detailed policy framework to help drive low carbon investment in heavy industry following recent industrial decarbonisation and hydrogen strategies, sustainable business group warns. It is within these hard-to-abate sectors that the UK has a chance to pioneer lucrative new clean technology markets, it added.

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Policy Government Carbon Investment 68

GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

That's the hope of several early movers in circular economy investing, who shared their insights at the GreenBiz 21 virtual event in early February. . Also about one year ago, Nestlé launched its $2 billion sustainability fund , to support companies developing innovative packaging and recycling technologies through 2025.

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Innovation Recycling Recycling Packaging 488

The Verge: Energy

DECEMBER 7, 2023

More demand for EVs means more demand for batteries, which, in turn, means higher demand for raw battery materials, stressing a global infrastructure already stretched to the limit. The solution, or part of it, might come from recycling. This has driven massive investments, including a recent $1 billion Series D raise for Redwood.

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Lithium Batteries Recycling Recycling 102

Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2022

We will not reach carbon neutrality without increasing our investment and development of new technologies and recycling opportunities," he said. "As As the demand for electric vehicles increases, we will need this facility - and more like it in the UK - to ensure we don't hit a resource crisis in the next decade.".

Recycling 49

Recycling Recycling Batteries Lithium 49

Sustainability Consulting

JANUARY 5, 2022

Their efforts so far mean 100% of their US electricity needs are met with renewable energy and 87% of their production line uses recycled materials. ESG investments are top priority As we highlighted in November , the pandemic escalated environment-driven ESG into a whole new realm.

Sustainability 52

Sustainability Business Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring 52

Green Business Bureau

JULY 5, 2021

Long-distance sourcing of materials that contribute to extensive transportation emissions. Carbon emissions from operations, vehicles and material engineering. Reduce Waste and Use Recycled Materials. Electric equipment is often designed with smart technology thus improving operational efficiency and safety.

Construction 148

Construction Sustainability Waste Waste 148

Charged

OCTOBER 16, 2021

I think the technology is so compelling that it was going to happen at some point, no matter what,” Straubel replies. “I Of course, that’s where Redwood Materials comes in. This is one reason that I’m so excited about going after every little bit of recycled material we possibly can, because it is the lowest-hanging fruit.

Lithium 98

Lithium Recycling Recycling Batteries 98

GreenBiz

MAY 19, 2020

Citizens can feel disheartened by the realization that our efforts to recycle are often in vain. Consider the following statistics: More than 20 million tons of curbside recyclable materials are sent to landfills annually. If the remaining 20 million tons were recycled, it would generate 370,000 full-time equivalent (FTE) jobs.

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Recycling Recycling Recycled materials Waste 530