GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

The production of EV batteries is very wasteful, meaning companies are losing a lot of money through wasted materials. Speakers across the three days emphasized the crucial nature of developing products and systems that reduce or even eliminate waste, leading to more profits and less pollution for the planet.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The Scottish government-funded circular economy advisory group Zero Waste Scotland is reminding Scots that they should recycle batteries separately to other household waste after a new survey revealed a quarter of people dispose of them incorrectly. Recycling batteries is easy and possible in more places than some people might realise.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In rural West Virginia, largely hidden among steep hills, stands a $255 million facility designed to transform fracking waste into freshwater and food grade quality salts. Laden with heavy metals, chemicals and other contaminants, this waste frequently exhibits levels of radioactivity hundreds of times the safe limits set by regulators.

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Charged

JANUARY 17, 2023

Feedstock has been introduced into the automated system, enabling recovery of valuable critical minerals from spent lithium-ion batteries. Li AquaRefining uses electroplating powered by electricity to recover metals, instead of intensive chemical processes or polluting fossil-fuel furnaces.

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R-Squared Energy

JANUARY 23, 2020

Following recent articles I wrote on both lithium-ion and lead-acid batteries, I received significant correspondence about the environmental pros and cons of both types of battery. But lithium-ion batteries are newer to the market, and their environmental impact is still being worked out. Lithium-ion batteries .

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Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2020

The UK must develop facilities to extract valuable metals from electronic waste, or it risks falling behind growing global competition, argues Inprotec's Chris Oldroyd. They include the rare earth elements and other metals such as lithium, indium, tellurium, gallium, and platinum group elements. Instead, we mostly ship it abroad.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 4, 2021

The vehicles will form the UK’s first zero emission recycling and waste collection fleet and will collect residents’ waste and recycling in the Square Mile. Air pollution is the largest environmental risk to public health with up to 36,000 people dying prematurely every year in the UK. “We

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 23, 2021

The state of California , through its Attorney general, has filed a lawsuit accusing Walmart of allegedly illegally disposing of hazardous waste in landfills across the state. The 42-page document directly implicates Walmart for dumping 160,000 pounds of hazardous waste each year over the past six years. Read more here:Â .

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The Environmental Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

The problem is that they also have lithium -ion ??batteries, They can also cause soil and water pollution. Landfills not only pollute the environment, but also hinder the beauty of the city. Pollutants that are released into the air and water can be greatly reduced with an increase in recycling. Environmental benefits.

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Business Green

APRIL 30, 2020

Up to £5m of interest-free loans for electrical waste treatment facilities and £600,000 of grants for charity-sector reuse organisations are now up for grabs. The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Fund (WEEE Fund) has announced a £5.6m Improperly recycled WEEE waste poses a major threat to human and ecosystem health.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 26, 2024

In September 2023, New Zealand-based battery material developer CarbonScape announced an $18 million investment, signalling the company’s plans to commercialise its biographite production in Europe and the US, enabling cleaner lithium-ion batteries for EVs and grid-scale energy storage. Elon Musk did. Elon Musk did.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 21, 2021

Vehicles such as the big rigs that carry goods across state lines, vans that drop off packages at your front door, garbage trucks that pick up our waste or the forklifts that move pallets across the floor in warehouses. Battery-powered commercial vehicles also highlight the power of the lithium-ion battery in a unique way.

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Grist

JANUARY 28, 2022

But it will also substantially increase the demand for the so-called energy transition minerals that go into electric vehicles, their batteries and the charging infrastructure — lithium, cobalt, copper, nickel and rare earth elements. The company plans to tap the wastewater for lithium. Alan Majchrowicz / Getty Images.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2022

Innovate UK's Jonny Voon explores some of the most exciting green ideas this year, ranging from UK lithium mining and plastic recycling breakthroughs, clothing that 'grows' with the children wearing it. British Lithium. The UK economy has suffered considerably over the past two years at the mercy of Covid-19. Impact Recycling.

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Charged

AUGUST 2, 2023

Through its subsidiary, Yulho Materials, the company collects and processes battery manufacturing scrap and spent lithium-ion batteries into black mass —the mixture of lithium, nickel, cobalt and other valuable battery materials that Aqua Metals’ process is designed to recover.

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Grist

MARCH 12, 2021

When Edward Bartell first learned that a lithium mine might be moving into his remote corner of northern Nevada, the longtime cattle rancher wasn’t upset. “I He knew that lithium is a key metal used in batteries for electric vehicles and the power grid, and he knew the United States is going to need a lot of it to transition off fossil fuels.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 16, 2020

Each year, the world produces 150 billion kilos of flexible plastics with the potential to pollute the environment (about 1.2 The company goes even further to raise awareness for a different type of pollution : batteries. Gomi portable chargers repurpose plastic waste and batteries. Chargers measure 12 cm x 8 cm x 2.5

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Plastics recycling, especially for mixed and contaminated plastics, remains a major pollution concern. At the same time but seemingly unrelatedly, we need more plentiful and sustainable sources of graphene (useful for everything from solar cells to battery storage) and graphite (a key component of lithium-ion batteries).

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 2, 2021

For every car on our roads to be zero emission by 2050, just under double the current total annual world cobalt production, 75% of the world’s lithium production and at least 50% of the world’s copper production would be required. The mining process also causes terrible pollution in local rivers. Lithium mining. Cobalt mining.

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Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 19, 2023

“With transportation emissions responsible for a quarter of Canada’s carbon pollution, and personal vehicles making up around half of that, EVs are vital for fighting climate change and protecting the health of Canadians. After all, there is no time to waste. EVs are a win-win-win: for our health, for our climate, and for our wallets.”

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

For decades, many mining activities have caused acid runoff into essential water and food sources, noise and air pollution, and even the uprooting of native communities. A car or computer has dozens of mined materials including cobalt, lithium, copper, gold and zinc. The supply chain is extremely lengthy and confusing. "In

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Grist

MARCH 17, 2023

Less than 40 percent of the nation has been mapped in enough detail to support the discovery of new mineral deposits, hampering the Biden administration’s plan to boost domestic mining of energy transition metals like rare earths and lithium, an essential ingredient in electric vehicle batteries.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 11, 2023

The Biden administration’s ambitious projections seem to depend on a mix of agricultural waste (from corn and soya bean production) and woody biomass. These are more abundant and closer to the designation “waste”, although this is a more expensive route than relying on animal fats so you can see why the aviation sector is dragging its feet.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2021

Some kinds of water pollution, such as algal blooms and plastics that foul rivers, lakes, and marine environments, lie in plain sight. Leaching into water resources from mining operations, nuclear waste sites, or from natural subterranean deposits, the element can now be found flowing out of taps worldwide.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

In Beck’s mind, too , forwarding-thinking companies should look at natural resources not just as consumables but as recyclable goods, and then design systems and products in a way that eliminates waste. Nearly a century ago, Ecolab sold dishwasher soap with a dispenser described as its first effort to reduce waste.

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Greentown Labs

MARCH 21, 2023

Eighteen startups joined our community in the first months of 2023, working on innovations as diverse as an ammonia-based energy system, sneakers made from food waste, and nano-filters that reduce energy consumption in chemical separations. This system has 5x higher system-level energy densities compared to lithium batteries.

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Green Living Guy

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The research, published in the journal Waste Management, has been carried out by some of the world’s foremost experts in the field, and […]. That’s according to a new scientific article from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, which outlines an optimized recycling process.

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Recycling Recycling Batteries Waste 139

Charged

JULY 26, 2023

Brinn addresses the EV-bashers’ main logical fallacy head-on: “EVs will always be a more environmentally friendly choice than fossil fuel-powered cars simply because they do not rely on continuous fossil fuel extraction, which has destroyed aquifers, polluted the air, and harmed the health of so many people over the past century.

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Batteries Fossil fuels Recycling Recycling 79

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2020

The first prototype unit is now up and running, powered by lithium-ion battery modules extracted from a MINI Electric development vehicle. Off Grid said it expects this to be the first of many similar opportunities, using high tech know how to prolong the life of previously used batteries for the long term benefit of the environment.

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Batteries Energy Energy Sustainability 130

Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 20, 2021

We provide equipment , manage the lab, handle all waste streams, and encourage our entrepreneurs to share ideas and knowledge. We couldn’t be more proud of the group of climatetech startups we have in the wet lab and their incredible progress. Manufacturing. Resiliency + Adaptation.

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Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 17, 2023

These are the innovators who are creating the huge companies of the future – ones that invest in workers, reduce pollution, restore our soils and lower the costs of food and energy.” The why: The nearly 16,000 desalination plants around the world create enough waste to cover Florida with a foot of brine each year.

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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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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Winter view in Copenhagen, Denmark (source: flickr/ Kristoffer Trolle, creative commons) Another pioneer in the geothermal sector is German Vulcan Energie Ressourcen GmbH , a company that is working on the innovative solution of acquiring lithium from geothermal brine. 13 O+G is already changing and aware of the risks of climate change.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

ACES will provide up to 150,000 megawatt-hours of energy storage capacity, a scale that dwarfs the lithium-ion battery capacity being installed in California and across the Intermountain West. Mitsubishi also makes lithium-ion batteries for the rapidly growing global market, said Paul Browning, CEO of Mitsubishi Power America.

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Hydrogen Natural gas Lithium Batteries 130

Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 28, 2021

Beyond just renewable power, Canada’s clean energy sector is made up of companies and jobs that help reduce carbon pollution, whether by generating clean energy, helping move it, reducing energy consumption in transportation, buildings, and industry, or making low-carbon technologies. Already, 127 countries —including the U.S

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

The production of EV batteries is very wasteful, meaning companies are losing a lot of money through wasted materials. Speakers across the three days emphasized the crucial nature of developing products and systems that reduce or even eliminate waste, leading to more profits and less pollution for the planet.

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Electric vehicle Batteries Electricity Recycling 28

AGreenLiving

JANUARY 5, 2022

“It is the search for the production process that requires the maximum reduction in the extraction of new raw material, reduces material waste as much as possible and makes the final products easily recyclable as normal waste, and with a very high percentage of reusable material to make the cycle virtuous.” the absorption of plants).”

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