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Aqua Metals and Yulho to establish EV battery recycling operations in South Korea

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EV battery recycler Aqua Metals has entered into a strategic partnership with South Korean battery materials company Yulho. Yulho will make a strategic equity investment of $5 million in Aqua Metals, and Aqua will grant Yulho a license to deploy its patented AquaRefining technology in South Korea.

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Aqua Metals produces high-purity lithium hydroxide directly from recycled Li-ion batteries

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Battery recycler Aqua Metals has demonstrated the recovery of high-purity lithium hydroxide from lithium-ion battery black mass at the company’s Li AquaRefining recycling facility in Nevada. This new capability can have a profound impact on the lithium battery industry in North America.

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Project secures EU funding to create sugars, chemicals and plastics from household waste

Envirotec Magazine

Bringing together experts from six countries, the three-year project will produce second-generation sugars from paper and card-based materials from municipal solid waste (MSW) or waste rejected from sorting and recycling processes. Reduce environmental plastic pollution levels.

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Graphene-based packaging presented as first truly biodegradeable and compostable alternative to plastic

Envirotec Magazine

Birgit Liodden, founder of The Ocean Opportunity Lab, said: “Toraphene has the potential to create a critical turning point in tackling the global plastic pollution crisis. We all know how pressing the climate crisis is, and plastic pollution is a huge problem, particularly in our ocean environments.

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How Sustainability Innovation Is Driving The Green Economy

Green Business Bureau

With sustainability at the forefront of business models, companies can operate sustainably while still allowing reduced carbon emissions and pollution, enhanced energy and resource efficiency, and conservation of biodiversity and ecosystem services. Even better, all EcoEnclose boxes are 100% recyclable and biodegradable. Smog Armor.

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Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q4 2021

Greentown Labs

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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Gas purification converts NOx to fertilizer

Envirotec Magazine

Not only are they a significant source of air pollution, but they also contribute to climate change via their conversion into ozone. Alexander Krajete says: “Our patent-protected know-how is an in-depth understanding of the aluminium silicate’s characteristics.

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