Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2020

Zero Liquid Discharge, or ZLD, is a technique which aims to discharge no liquid waste to the environment, instead recovering as many products from the ‘waste’ stream as possible and leaving just water, which can be re-used. Vapour compression evaporation can recover up to 95 per cent of the wastewater as distillate.

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Waste Waste Patents Cooling 162

Impact Alpha

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

ImpactAlpha, November 29 — San Jose, Costa Rica-based Center for Regenerative Design and Collaboration has patented a process that converts hard-to-recycle plastic into. million for a concrete solution to plastic waste appeared first on ImpactAlpha. The post Toniic members help CRDC Global raise $3.3

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Plastics Waste Waste Patents 59

Hydrogen Fuel News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

New disruptive technology is placing a focus on the recycling of rare earth magnets, a practice that is expected to play an important role in clean energy technologies that often rely on these materials. One company in particular is using planet-friendly disruptive technology to recycle rare earth magnets.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 21, 2022

The Royal Mint has announced plans to build a “world first” plant in South Wales to recover gold from UK electronic waste. 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.

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Waste Waste Patents Recycling 298

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

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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.

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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.

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Plastics Recycling Recycling Patents 98

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. When fully operational in 2022, the $2.3-billion

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 20, 2021

cities, Replate is a tech-driven nonprofit that combats food waste by connecting food donors and food rescuers together. Food waste is both a social and environmental issue and by finding a way to fully utilize perfectly good food, insecure communities find relief and the environmental repercussions of food waste are avoided.

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Waste Waste Climate change Organic 148

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.”. Zanita Markham at AHDB hoped the project “will be the first stage of a larger demonstration.”

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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.

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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. Hence it creates value for the waste material now generating costs. The treatment and storage of waste materials in mining areas also require massive storage pools.

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Carbon Patents Waste Waste 147

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.

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Waste Waste Patents Packaging 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. Source: Aqua Metals

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Veolia is partnering with Carbon Clean to trial a new carbon capture technology, while a separate £300m energy-from-waste facility in Teesside was this week granted planning permission. million tonnes of non-recyclable waste and use it to generate electricity sufficient to power 400,000 homes.

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Waste Waste Carbon Energy 97

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.

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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.

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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.".

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Greentown Labs

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Seventeen startups joined our community in the final months of 2022, working on innovations as diverse as a smart nanocoating to keep products fresh, an autonomous waste-sorting system, and drinking water drawn from air’s humidity. We’re thrilled to support these groundbreaking climatetech startups—let us introduce you!

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2023

To help meet this challenge, a small start-up business in Finland, Sensmet, has developed an online monitoring technology that it says promises a step-change improvement in both the manufacturing and recycling of battery metals. In addition to lithium manufacture, the technology is also suited to the ‘black mass’ recycling of battery metals.

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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.

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Recycling Recycling Waste Waste 130

Charged

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Ionic MT uses a patented continuous production process that enables low-impact, high-capacity operations. The company also uses chemical recycling techniques to transform waste into value-added by-products, which it says results in a substantially reduced carbon footprint compared to conventional EV battery materials.

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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.

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Cooling Patents Energy Energy 162

Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

A Scottish-based manufacturing facility which will enable the production of lower carbon cement products has secured a £500,000 award from Zero Waste Scotland’s Circular Economy Investment Fund. The product was also short-listed as a finalist in the 2021 National Recycling Awards.

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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

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Recycling Recycling Patents Innovation 60

Business Green

MARCH 21, 2022

In a world first, the firm aims to extract gold from laptops, phones, and other e-waste. The Royal Mint is set to develop the world's first recycling facility dedicated to recovering gold from laptops, mobile phones, and other forms of e-waste, the state-owned company has announced.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Recycling requires work. The act of wasting food when people don’t have enough to eat is a tragedy that dates back to the beginning of time, retold generation after generation by fear-mongering mothers hoping their kids will finish dinner. Sometimes it’s inconvenient to do the right thing. Composting can be messy.

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Waste Waste Patents Methane 147

Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 23, 2023

PARTNERSHIPS + DEPLOYMENTS American Battery Technology Company (ABTC) started operating its lithium-ion battery recycling facility in Nevada. Moonshot will work with Purdue University to commercialize its food waste-to-hydrogen technology. The integration is now live on Energy Toolbase’s Platform.

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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. Packaging waste is an industrywide challenge that we must all do our part to address," said Kraft Heinz CEO Miguel Patricio.

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Sustainability Packaging Plastics Recycling 88

AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 22, 2020

After five years and $3 million worth of research and development, two Pennsylvania scientists have developed a proprietary process to create a brand new, 100% leather waste fiber. Because Enspire Leather is made using recycled materials , it reduces the amount of trash produced from more conventional methods. Related: Oliver Co.

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Waste Waste Recycled materials Patents 36

Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Fourteen startups joined our community in the third quarter of 2022, working on innovations as diverse as a carbontech solution for aluminum manufacturing, an AI platform for tracking scope 1 and scope 3 vehicle emissions, and waste-biomass-turned-biochar for replacing cement. Manufacturing. Resiliency + Adaptation.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Gaute Juliussen, CEO and Founder of Toraphene, commented: “Amidst a climate crisis, plastic waste is known to be a huge, global problem and many plastic alternatives now exist, so why don’t we see them everywhere?”. Such plastics make up 23 percent of marine waste.

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Biodegradable Plastics Packaging Biotech 246

Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

cities, Replate is a tech-driven nonprofit that combats food waste by connecting food donors and food rescuers together. Using their patented algorithms, Replate is able to locate food donors, connect them with nearby food rescuers and propose the most efficient path to distribute the food. Operating in most major U.S.

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Innovation Sustainability Stormwater Carbon-negative 148

GreenBiz

JULY 23, 2021

They come in handy cans to avoid food waste — a particular problem with quickly spoiling seafood — and are easily recycled. The Kemps told me they also hold a patent on a vertical shrimp farming technique that would bring sustainable production closer to urban centers and are looking for the right investor to scale their business.

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Seafood Sustainability Startups Patents 504

Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 2, 2021

A biodigester is a contained system in which feedstock (wastewater, food waste, manure, etc) is consumed by bacteria, breaking the feedstock down into smaller molecules and compounds, and often yielding useful products like semi-treated water and free electrons. What is a Biodigester? How Are Biodigesters Used and By Whom?

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Stormwater Waste Waste Methane 78

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The separation method, which uses carbon dioxide, water and food-grade citric acid, is the subject of a Sandia National Laboratories patent application. Environmentally harmful acids would raise clean-up costs beyond economic feasibility in the United States.”.

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Waste Waste Carbon Patents 130

Business Green

MARCH 31, 2023

Four of the six projects to have been awarded funding are from the University of Birmingham, including the Reuse and Recycling of Lithium Ion Batteries (ReLIB) project which is being led by Professor Paul Anderson, co-director of the Birmingham Centre for Strategic Elements and Critical Materials at Birmingham's School of Chemistry.

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