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New Battery Recycling Center Will Have A Big Impact on Europe

May 14, 2023 admin batteries, battery recycling, clean transport, cobalt, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, Europe, glencore, Italy, li-cycle, lithium, lithium-ion batteries, nickel, recycling

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Thu, 11 May 2023 12:10:17 +0000

Lithium-ion batteries are a rapidly growing technology, used to power everything from our mobile phones to electric vehicles to renewable energy systems. Lithium-ion batteries generally have a much longer lifespan than anti-EV commentators would lead people to believe, and once they’re too degraded for vehicle use, they serve for years more doing stationary energy storage. […]

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Researchers In Australia Find A New Reason To Recycle Solar Panels — Money!

April 5, 2023 admin Australia, clean power, green economy, recycling, Solar energy, solar panels

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2023 14:35:23 +0000

Researchers in Australia say they have found a way to make nano-silicon from recycled solar panels in a way that is highly profitable.

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First International Day Of Zero Waste Asks Us To Look Within To Address Global Pollution Crisis

April 3, 2023 admin events, HEALTH, recycling, unep, Waste, waste reduction, zero-waste

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2023 13:05:32 +0000

“The waste crisis is undermining the Earth’s ability to sustain life. Waste costs the global economy billions of dollars each year,” United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said.

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Battery & Solar Recycling Marches On In March

March 30, 2023 admin batteries, battery recycling, clean power, ebmc, Energy Storage, green giant, recycling, silicon ranch, Solar energy, solarcycle

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2023 16:35:30 +0000

Lithium battery recycling is an important part of protecting the environment, as it can reduce the amount of raw materials used to create new batteries and decrease the amount of waste generated by disposable lithium-ion batteries. Recycling lithium-ion batteries not only helps conserve resources (and the emissions that come with obtaining those resources), but also […]

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Consumer Products From Plastic Waste

March 29, 2023 admin circular economy, Fossil Fuels, Manufacturing, plastics, recycling, waste reduction

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2023 14:40:04 +0000

A circular economy for plastic waste must generate profits at all stages. Is it really possible?

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Circular Economic Practices in Argentina

March 26, 2023 admin battery recycling, clean power, Plastic, plastics, recycling

Credit to Author: Otto Gunderson| Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2023 01:40:01 +0000

The call for circular economic practices to be used in conjunction with other aspects of the renewable energy transition has been gaining more attention within the U.S. and Europe. Projects in the U.S. such as circular economy for textiles and metrics and tools for sustainable buildings encourage industries to take their downstream material usage seriously. […]

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Never Mind The Bottlenecks, Wind Farm Repowering Is Taking Off

March 21, 2023 admin clean power, delaware, Iowa, offshore wind farms, onshore wind farms, pivot power, recycling, repowering, texas, usa, waste reduction, wind energy, wind turbines

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2023 15:23:55 +0000

Repowering an existing wind farm is one way to get around the anti-wind movement and keep pumping more clean kilowatts into the grid.

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Recycling Solar Panels Is Essential To The Clean Energy Revolution

March 8, 2023 admin circular economy, clean power, green economy, recycling, Solar energy, solar panels

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2023 12:05:44 +0000

Recycling solar panels will become more important as older panels reach the end of their useful life.

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Redwood Materials Shares Lessons Learned After One Year Of Operation

March 6, 2023 admin batteries, battery recycling, clean transport, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, ford, green economy, inflation reduction act of 2022., recycling, redwood materials, toyota, Volkswagen, volvo

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2023 21:06:56 +0000

Redwood Materials reports that after the first year of operation, its battery recycling facility in California has been a success.

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Vestas Has A Solution For Recycling Old Wind Turbine Blades Into New Ones

February 19, 2023 admin clean power, green economy, Manufacturing, recycling, vestas, wind energy, wind turbines

Credit to Author: Derek Markham| Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2023 19:46:10 +0000

The world’s largest wind turbine manufacturer, Vestas, has just announced a novel process for turning old wind turbine blades into new ones, and considering the amount of ink spilled pointing out that blades which reach their end of life (25 years or so) are “piling up” in landfills, this could be a game-changer for wind […]