Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

RaRE (Rare-earth Recycling for E-machines) project is funded by the Office for Low Emission Vehicles (OLEV) and delivered in partnership with Innovate UK, and involves six partners who will work together to establish the first end-to-end supply chain of recycled rare earth magnets in the UK.

Recycling 238

Recycling Recycling Patents Innovation 238

Solar Industry

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

EDF Renewables North America has signed an agreement with SOLARCYCLE to recycle solar panels that are damaged or broken during construction and operation from their grid-scale, distribution-scale and on-site solar projects. “As ” The post EDF Turns to SOLARCYLE for PV Panel Recycling appeared first on Solar Industry.

Recycling 117

Recycling Recycling North America Patents 117

Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

A state-of-the-art facility to allow the recycling of flexible plastics is to open in Glenrothes, Fife. The company behind the project, Yes Recycling, writes: As an experienced recycler, we specialise in hard-to-recycle plastics, including banknotes, hard hats, printed packaging film, and post-industrial and construction waste streams.

Recycling 245

Recycling Recycling Plastics Waste 245

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Plastics resource efficiency and recycling charity, RECOUP launched its inaugural awards at its annual conference on 29 September, the first in its 32-year history. The winner of the second award for ‘Recycled Plastic Product of the Year’ was presented to Beko, for its recycled plastic washing machine tub.

Recycling 130

Recycling Recycling Plastics Packaging 130

Charged

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Battery recycler Li-Cycle has announced that its Alabama Spoke plant in Tuscaloosa has started commercial operations. The Alabama Spoke uses Li-Cycle’s patented technology to recycle and directly process full EV battery packs without any dismantling through a submerged shredding process that produces no wastewater.

Recycling 133

Recycling Recycling Batteries North America 133

Charged

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Battery recycling and manufacturing company Ascend Elements (formerly known as Battery Resourcers ) is planning to open a battery recycling plant in Georgia by August of 2022, where it will recycle lithium, cobalt and nickel.

Recycling 123

Recycling Recycling Batteries North America 123

Charged

MARCH 17, 2022

Mercedes-Benz has unveiled plans to expand its global battery recycling strategy. The automaker will build its own battery recycling plant in Kuppenheim, Germany, and plans to enlist partners for battery recycling in China and the US. Sustainable battery recycling is a key factor in this, worldwide.

Recycling 117

Recycling Recycling Batteries Lithium 117

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2021

The Royal Mint has signed an agreement with Canadian clean tech start up Excir to introduce a seemingly world first technology to the UK, allowing it to safely retrieve and recycle gold and other precious metals from electronic waste. Less than 20% of electronic waste is currently recycled world-wide.

Waste 130

Waste Waste Technology Energy Monitor 130

Charged

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Dragonfly Energy, maker of Battle Born Batteries, in collaboration with battery recycling pioneer Aqua Metals , has reported a significant advance in its quest for sustainable lithium-ion battery production. Source: Dragonfly Energy

Recycled materials 57

Recycled materials Lithium Recycling Recycling 57

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.

Plastics 98

Plastics Recycling Recycling Patents 98

Charged

AUGUST 2, 2023

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. Source: Aqua Metals

Recycling 67

Recycling Recycling Batteries Lithium 67

Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2023

The PigProGrAm project includes Membracon’s Downflow Gas Contactor (DGC), described as “a patented technology that excels in a wide variety of gas separation applications, such as industrial carbon capture.”. He said the DGC will be used “to help generate a route for the livestock sector to become truly sustainable.”

Patents 130

Patents Carbon-negative Agriculture Waste 130

Charged

MARCH 14, 2023

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.

Lithium 57

Lithium Recycling Recycling Batteries 57

Charged

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Aqua Metals has developed a novel battery recycling process. The partners’ plan outlines a joint venture to co-locate a full-scale battery recycling facility engineered and operated by Aqua Metals to supply 6K Energy’s PlusCAM cathode manufacturing plant in Tennessee. 6K Energy produces sustainable materials for lithium-ion batteries.

Batteries 107

Batteries Recycling Recycling Lithium 107

Business Green

MAY 31, 2020

Innovate UK-backed initiative aims to scale up recycling process for rare earth metals used in electric vehicles. Dubbed 'Rare Earth Recycling for E-Machines' (RaRE), the initiative is being supported by a £1.9m I believe this is industry, technology, recycling and innovation working together at its impressive best.".

Recycling 100

Recycling Recycling Electricity Electric vehicle 100

Charged

AUGUST 19, 2022

Umicore , a materials technology and recycling company, and oil company Idemitsu Kosan have reached an agreement to co-develop catholyte materials, which integrate cathode active materials (CAM) with solid electrolytes, for all-solid-state battery applications.

Patents 91

Patents Lithium Batteries Recycling 91

Hydrogen Fuel News

MAY 30, 2024

With demand growing in the region, the AVCHI will be focused on increasing the availability of clean, low-carbon hydrogen while laying out a road map for recycling and utilizing waste gases into critically needed clean fuel.   Michael Schmitz ReCarbon, Inc. +1

Hydrogen 88

Hydrogen Waste Waste Resilience 88

Charged

MAY 21, 2021

Li-Cycle, the developer of a novel battery recycling system , has announced an agreement with Ultium Cells, a joint venture of GM and LG Energy Solution, to recycle up to 100% of the scrap generated by battery cell manufacturing at Ultium’s Lordstown, Ohio mega-factory. The deal is expected to close in the second quarter of 2021.

Recycling 82

Recycling Recycling Batteries North America 82

Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 8, 2022

The water recycling specialist has introduced automated timers to operate blowers in the biological treatment section of its patended HiPAF (high performance aerated filter) package treatment plants. At the heart of our Hybrid SAF technology are unique flow characteristics that have been patented.

Patents 130

Patents Packaging Technology Energy 130

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

Charged

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Ionic Mineral Technologies, a US-based producer of nano-silicon battery anode technology, has announced the grand opening of its new production facility, technical center and headquarters in Provo, Utah. Ionic MT uses a patented continuous production process that enables low-impact, high-capacity operations.

Patents 106

Patents Batteries Lithium Technology 106

Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A new partnership will increase the sustainability potential of organic and food waste recycling, say the firms behind it. The partnership combines Alfa Laval’s Prodec Oil Plus decanter, said to be designed to maximise oil separation, and AD, to turn oil and fats waste into biofuel, using a process developed and patented by Bisviridi.

Waste 268

Waste Waste Organic Patents 268

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.

Cooling 162

Cooling Patents Energy Energy 162

Charged

JULY 4, 2023

Nth Cycle , a metals extraction and recycling firm, has inaugurated a 21,000-square-foot refining plant in Fairfield, Ohio to provide a US source of nickel and cobalt chemicals for lithium-ion batteries.

Patents 112

Patents Lithium Waste Waste 112

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Resource recovery technology firm Fiberight is one of the consortium partners. 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.

Waste 281

Waste Waste Plastics Biotech 281

Business Green

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Rare earth magnet recycling project aims to develop materials for luxury automaker's electric and hybrid vehicle ranges. HyProMag investor Mkango Resources, a Canadian-listed rare earth mining company with a number of mines planned in Malawi, will also help fund the recycling research, according to the update. The £2.6m

Recycling 61

Recycling Recycling Patents Innovation 61

Charged

APRIL 9, 2024

Aqua Metals has developed a process for recycling lithium-ion batteries that it says is much cleaner, more efficient and more cost-effective than current methods (see our recent in-depth interview with company execs ). At full scale, Aqua will provide 30% of the nickel and lithium carbonate needed at 6K’s PlusCAM facility.

Batteries 52

Batteries North America Sustainability Recycling 52

Greentown Labs

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Conduit Tech builds software and machine learning technologies that integrate home-specific insights and data into the HVAC sales process. Arco Technologies offers green hydrogen solutions for trains, trucks, boats, and all kinds of heavy-duty use. Reframe Systems is scaling offsite construction with advanced robotic microfactories.

Startups 98

Startups Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 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.

Carbon 147

Carbon Patents Waste Waste 147

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.

Waste 298

Waste Waste Patents Recycling 298

altenergymag

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

MW installation uses Ciel & Terre's patented Hydrelio® technology to float a grid of 4,959 high-performance solar modules on a recycled storage pond, powering the town's wastewater treatment facility and saving $4M in electric costs over the next 20 years. Located in Windsor, the 1.78-MW

Patents 84

Patents Recycling Recycling Energy 84

Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

A recently completed project demonstrates that the rare earth magnets in loudspeakers, which are currently lost to landfill, can be successfully recycled, says the group behind it, from the University of Birmingham. Despite the differences between the two sectors, the average magnet grade remained fairly consistent.

Recycling 130

Recycling Recycling Waste Waste 130

Smart Energy International

MAY 3, 2022

South 8 Technologies has raised $12 million in Series A financing to commercialise next-generation electrolytes for lithium-ion batteries. The financing round was led by industrial venture investor Anzu Ventures along with LG Technology Ventures and Shell Ventures as well as Foothill Ventures and Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corporation.

Lithium 98

Lithium Batteries Patents Technology 98

Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 23, 2023

grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support smallholder farmers in East Africa through a collaboration with in-region technology and weather partners. PARTNERSHIPS + DEPLOYMENTS American Battery Technology Company (ABTC) started operating its lithium-ion battery recycling facility in Nevada.

Startups 73

Startups Lithium Waste Waste 73

Business Green

MAY 10, 2022

Renewable and recyclable bottles will be made by Pulpex using 100 per cent wood pulp. The prototype paper-based, renewable and recyclable bottle will be made from 100 per cent sustainably-sourced wood pulp. Once used, they are also expected to be widely and readily recyclable in paper waste streams.

Sustainability 89

Sustainability Packaging Plastics Recycling 89

CleanTech San Diego

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Funds Helping Regional Companies Advance Breakthrough Clean Energy Technologies for the Benefit of California Ratepayers. Patents: SCEIN companies had 62 new patents approved in 2021 for a total of 388 new patents.

Innovation 98

Innovation Patents Energy Energy 98

Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

With a nutrient neutral approach to new property developments expected to become more widespread across England, increasing numbers of developers are giving closer consideration to wastewater treatment, writes Andrew Baird, technical director at water recycling specialist WPL. Housing development with HiPAF systems.

Waste 130

Waste Waste Patents Packaging 130