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Recycler Redwood builds 63MWh second-life EV battery microgrid for AI data centre

Energy Storage News

Ex-Tesla CTO’s battery recycling and materials company Redwood Materials has launched a new business unit to repurpose second-life EV batteries for energy storage.

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Vinyl and CD recycling scheme announced by major music packaging broker

Envirotec Magazine

Key Production Group , said to be Europes leading bespoke physical music and packaging manufacturing broker, has announced the full rollout of its Key Production Recycling scheme, which the group says provides a responsible and sustainable recycling option for vinyl and CDs that are no longer playable.

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Using sunlight to recycle black plastics

Envirotec Magazine

Inside this reaction vial, spotlit by concentrated sunlight, a piece of black polystyrene from a foam tray breaks down into a recyclable material (image credit: Hanning Jiang). An emerging strategy for plastic recycling involves using light to help break down plastic into chemically useful materials that can be recycled into new products.

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EU project aims to separate and recycle nuclear waste

Envirotec Magazine

With the aid of new EU funding, a new project aims to investigate the options for recycling some elements of nuclear waste using novel separation techniques. The materials to be recycled are lanthanides, a group of chemical elements which include some rare earths. In order to recycle waste, it has to be separated.

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Survey suggests strong public support for EPS recycling

Envirotec Magazine

A 2025 YouGov survey conducted by the British Plastics Federation (BPF) appears to indicate a strong public demand for expanded polystyrene (EPS) recycling solutions. Many people remain unaware that EPS is fully recyclable, explains the BPF here, but the survey points to a significant desire for accessible recycling programs.

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Recycled plastic’s unknown constituents could be toxic

Envirotec Magazine

Recycled plastic pellets from polyethylene (PE) can be used when making a water bottle for instance. But we can never have full knowledge of what chemicals will end up in an item made of recycled plastic. A single pellet of recycled plastic can contain over 80 different chemicals.

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Veolia to build £70 million closed-loop plastics recycling facility near Shrewsbury

Envirotec Magazine

Plastic bottles collected for recycling. Resource management company Veolia has launched its biggest UK plastics recycling project with a £70 million investment which will include the country’s first “tray to tray” closed loop PET recycling facility in Battlefield near Shrewsbury, Shropshire.

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