Global Renewable News

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Cirba Solutions, the largest and most.

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The Environmental Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

Scrap car recycling is a major industry in North America. million cars are recycled each year. About 95 percent of vehicles eventually make their way to the recycling yard. If you have an old, non-working or junk vehicle you need to recycle, where should you take it? How to Recycle Cars. In Canada, 1.6

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

With Our Responsible Journey, Samsonite strives to lead the lifestyle bag and travel luggage industry across key sustainability indicators, including the use of recycled materials in its products and packaging and achieving carbon neutrality across its owned and operated facilities.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 28, 2022

Related: LIVDEN decorative tiles are made with recycled materials The technology behind the product is called HybriQ+® by Silestone®, which has drawn attention for both material composition and manufacturing processes. The multi-purpose product is made in a factory that recycles 99% of the water used during production.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

To this end, Dash Linear is handmade using a low-impact manufacturing process that includes zero-VOC adhesive and limited material waste. Dash Linear is currently available across North America and offered in three finishes — natural, white and blonde.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

And once you’ve finished your mug of coffee, you can simply compost the bag and recycle the packaging, which is already made from recycled materials as well. What’s more, these bags are sustainable, plant-based and dressed in recyclable, compostable packaging. Steeped Coffee Image via Steeped Coffee.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

That’s a massive figure that ignores the nearly 250 million tires that are disposed of annually in North America, roughly half of which are burned. Bridgestone’s goal is also 2050 but is introducing models now with an increased focus on sustainability, like the Turanza EV , made of 50 percent renewable and recycled materials.

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

DRINKICKS DrinKicks is developing sneakers made from food waste and recycled materials in an effort to engage the sneaker-enthusiast community in circularity. Greentown partner ENGIE North America was a sponsor of the sneaker drive , which brought together local nonprofits, business owners, educators, and many climate champions.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 11, 2023

The agenda for the conference, which is being hosted in Boise, Idaho, shows that the Western States Petroleum Association (WSPA) and the waste management company Veolia North America are sponsoring two of the “beat dinners” hosted on Friday, April 21 — the third day of the event.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Related: Top 6 sustainable winter resorts for snowboarding and skiing in the US Thankfully, the eco-conscious team at MountainFLOW has kicked off a new Kickstarter campaign to announce the launch of North America’s only line of plant-based ski wax. MountainFLOW Images via MountainFLOW.

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The Verge: Energy

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Photo by Wan Shanchao / VCG via Getty Images We could soon see more lithium-ion batteries made with recycled materials thanks to a new partnership. Now, we are establishing the first closed-loop system in North America. This enables BASF and Nanotech to produce lithium-ion batteries with locally recycled content.”

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Greentown Labs

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

DrinKicks (Houston, Texas) is a sneaker-themed consumer-products company that is focused on repurposing food waste and recycled materials into sustainable goods such as shoes, sports equipment, and clothing, all while educating consumers on the power of the circular economy. Its co-founders are Shivam Bhakta and Richard Swartwout.

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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.

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Grist

JANUARY 8, 2021

Others, like General Electric, are using old turbine blades to cook up new materials. Last month, the renewable energy division of the conglomerate announced it had begun contracting recycling company Veolia North America to take blades from U.S.

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The Verge: Energy

DECEMBER 7, 2023

“There’s been significant investment flowing towards building recycling capabilities across the world in recent months,” Jessica Roberts, head of forecasting at Benchmark Mineral Intelligence , says. “In But can we meet the market need with recycled materials? Can we ever really close this loop of battery demand?

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Charged

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Volvo Construction Equipment and Mack Trucks , both Volvo Group companies, recently delivered an electric excavator and an electric refuse truck to Boca Raton, Florida-based Coastal Waste & Recycling, which has 25 locations in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina, and operates more than 700 vehicles.

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R-Squared Energy

OCTOBER 31, 2019

On the recycling side of lithium batteries, the energy needed to recycle the lithium batteries will cost more on top of the additional cost to transport, fully discharge, disassemble, separate prior to recycling, assuming enough infrastructure will be developed and is even cost-efficient to warrant the recycling of the lithium batteries.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

With Our Responsible Journey, Samsonite strives to lead the lifestyle bag and travel luggage industry across key sustainability indicators, including the use of recycled materials in its products and packaging and achieving carbon neutrality across its owned and operated facilities.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The eventual goal is to make close to 100% of batteries from recycled materials, but that won’t be possible until there’s a large number of end-of-life EV batteries available. Today, EVs account for less than 10% of Redwood’s recycling stock. More than 95% of the core battery materials are recycled, according to Redwood.

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GreenBiz

MAY 27, 2020

The senior vice president of Dell’s Experience Design Group recently visited a new Wistron electronics recycling plant in Dallas, one of the largest in North America. I’ve been involved in recycling materials for a long time, but seeing it firsthand in that kind of environment was kind of daunting," Boyd said.

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Greentown Labs

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

The first one is that companies like Saint-Gobain producing materials and associated solutions must support the growth of the circular economy, including recycling and using less virgin materials. And by the way, using recycled materials means emitting less when we produce.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

recycling market has been in free fall since 2018, when China, Malaysia, Thailand and other Southeast Asian countries announced that they would no longer import many types of recyclable material scraps. Recycling alone can't solve the circular economy, but the circular economy can help solve the problem on waste and recycling.

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Charged

JANUARY 5, 2024

In North America, the EX30 is small enough that four full-size American adults will find it too tight for more than short trips. Expanding Volvo’s audience “We’ve gotten an amazing reception, with way more pre-orders and hand-raisers than we expected,” said Mike Cottone, CEO of Volvo Cars in North America.

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Business Green

MAY 22, 2020

Yet the recycled material available to make bottles, bags and boxes has become harder to find and more expensive. But have rock-bottom oil prices and the pandemic doomed the market for recycled plastics? California's plastic bag ban had required reusable bags to include 40 per cent recycled material, a plus for his business.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

to renewable fuels, renewable power, building materials and aggregates, and other recycled materials), grid decentralization and two-way efficiencies, and at intersections with other sectors including energy efficiency in logistics or better emissions tracking enabled by other technologies.

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Business Green

MAY 29, 2020

The senior vice president of Dell's Experience Design Group recently visited a new Wistron electronics recycling plant in Dallas, one of the largest in North America. I've been involved in recycling materials for a long time, but seeing it firsthand in that kind of environment was kind of daunting," Boyd said.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 27, 2020

The senior vice president of Dell’s Experience Design Group recently visited a new Wistron electronics recycling plant in Dallas, one of the largest in North America. “I’ve been involved in recycling materials for a long time, but seeing it firsthand in that kind of environment was kind of daunting,” Boyd said.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 27, 2020

The senior vice president of Dell’s Experience Design Group recently visited a new Wistron electronics recycling plant in Dallas, one of the largest in North America. “I’ve been involved in recycling materials for a long time, but seeing it firsthand in that kind of environment was kind of daunting,” Boyd said.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

recycling market has been in free fall since 2018, when China, Malaysia, Thailand and other Southeast Asian countries announced that they would no longer import many types of recyclable material scraps. Of course, the U.S.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Now is the moment where we can take these nine winners, and really identify what's next for each of them in order to help them to align with retail operations in North America so that we can start to drop some of these solutions into retail stores.". Innovative materials.

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Charged

AUGUST 16, 2022

Kunal Phalpher, Chief Strategy Officer of Li-Cycle , stressed the need for localized sources for battery-grade materials. His company is building a hub-and-spoke network of recycling facilities in order to produce recycled material in the regions in which there is demand. “In

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