This site uses cookies to improve your experience. To help us insure we adhere to various privacy regulations, please select your country/region of residence. If you do not select a country, we will assume you are from the United States. Select your Cookie Settings or view our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Used for the proper function of the website
Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Strictly Necessary: Used for the proper function of the website
Performance/Analytics: Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
Terry Keyworth is Country Manager UK and Ireland and Segment Director Metal at TOMRA Recycling, a global leader in sensor-based sorting solutions. Terry Keyworth of TOMRA Recycling provides valuable insights into the key trends in sorting and recycling. Digital twins of sorting lines allow detailed object tracking and analysis.
Viridor says its soon-to-be-opened Avonmouth plastics recycling plant will reprocess over 80,0000 tonnes of plastic, creating recycled raw material ready to be returned to the economy. The circular economy for plastics report highlights the significant role that recycling plastics can play in ensuring the UK achieves net zero.
The automaker’s sustainability goals include sourcing energy only from renewable sources and getting at least half the materials in its vehicles from recycled, bio-based or renewable origins — by 2030 in the U.S. and globally by 2040. The H&M Foundation and CO:LAB venture capital arm share a focus on advancing textile recycling.
The goal is a marked acceleration of targets previously announced by the firm, reflecting technological innovations and market development in the use of recycled plastics. We need to design packaging to be recyclable, reduce the amount of packaging we use, and make it easy for consumers to recycle.
Recycling technologies for end-of-life lithium ion batteries (LIBs) are not keeping pace with the rapid rise of electric vehicles, storing up a potentially huge waste management problem for the future, according to a new study. To recycle these efficiently, they must be disassembled and the resulting waste streams separated.
BusinessGreen reports on the fast-evolving plans to establish a thriving EV battery recycling industry in the UK. Ramping up battery reuse and recycling is increasingly regarded as critical to ensuring climate goals are met in as sustainable and efficient way as possible.
The goal is a marked acceleration of targets previously announced by the firm, reflecting technological innovations and market development in the use of recycled plastics. We need to design packaging to be recyclable, reduce the amount of packaging we use, and make it easy for consumers to recycle.
The site also uses cladding and insulation made from recycledmaterials, including sheep's wool and washing machines that would have otherwise gone to landfill. "At Customers also have access to an array of on-site EV charging points.
Resource management company Veolia has unveiled plans to build a new recycling plant in the West Midlands that it claims will be capable of processing a fifth of the UK's end-of-life electric vehicle (EV) batteries in 2024.
As a signatory to the British Retail Consortium's Climate Action Roadmap, the company has already committed to achieving net zero emissions by 2040, and by 2021 it aims to complete the mapping of its entire carbon footprint, enabling it to then embark on setting science-based emissions reduction targets.
The Dubai collaboration is being led by the UK’s Heriot-Watt University and wants to bring the cement sector in the UAE to net zero emissions by 2040. She highlighted Heriot-Watt’s spin-out company Kenoteq, which has launched a revolutionary brick made of recycled construction and demolition waste.
The goal is a marked acceleration of targets previously announced by the firm, reflecting technological innovations and market development in the use of recycled plastics. We need to design packaging to be recyclable, reduce the amount of packaging we use, and make it easy for consumers to recycle.
Mobile and media giant halves CO2 by using recycledmaterials during broadband expansion works in Scotland. The expansion works in Shotts, Scotland, saw the company connect more than 3,000 homes and businesses to its ultrafast gigabit network, which delivers speeds of up to 1,130Mbps.
Illustration by Sisi Kim for The Verge Smarter tech and new recycling techniques might just mean our EVs get even greener. Here’s how Redwood Materials is putting recycling at the heart of the burgeoning battery belt. The solution, or part of it, might come from recycling.
New York is on a path to achieve its mandated goal of a zero-emission electricity sector by 2040, including 70% renewable energy generation by 2030, and to reach economy-wide carbon neutrality. Governor Cuomo’s climate agenda is the most aggressive climate and clean energy initiative in the U.S.,
In December, Coca Cola European Partners (CCEP) became the latest major company to announce a goal to achieve net zero emissions by 2040, 10 years ahead of the hard deadline set out by climate scientists and a growing number of governments around the world. The policy is based on evidence of what works to drive up recycling rates.
A Preferred Materials and Fibers List is continually updated with new research to help Fjällräven choose the highest quality and most sustainable materials. The brand prioritizes using organic, renewable, and recycledmaterials whenever possible. Well before 2040, Concentric aims to become a net-zero business.
Coca-Cola European Partners' vice president for sustainability, Joe Franses, sets out the firm's plans to become a net zero business by 2040 across its value chain. Our new 'Action on Climate' plan has been developed with a bold vision in mind: to reach net zero emissions across our entire value chain by 2040.
The Amazon Aware line includes apparel, home, beauty, and other products all of which have been "thoughtfully designed" using materials such as recycled polyester, organic cotton, and bio-based ingredients backed by independent green certifications that are specific to product type, according to Amazon.
Individual companies may have announced sharp reductions in waste levels, but overall waste statistics remained stubbornly high while recycling rates only edged up if, they moved at all. Our proposals today reduce packaging waste, promote reuse and refill, increase the use of recycled plastics, and make it easier to recycle packaging.
Inside, car shoppers may stretch to view it as premium: a plethora of sustainable and recycled surfaces includes spotted hard plastics made of ground-up window frames, and other materials made from blue jeans, soda bottles and so forth. Like the larger XC40 Recharge, it’s relatively slab-sided and upright, and its 7.0-inch
So , last year, at the launch of our first fully electric vehicle, XC40 Recharge, we stated our intention to become a climate neutral company by 2040. In addition, w e are aiming to reduce supply chain emissions by embracing the circular economy, including through remanufacturing parts and components and greater use of recycledmaterial.
Under a business-as-usual scenario , plastic production will triple by 2040, resulting in 50kg of plastic entering the ocean for every metre of shoreline, burdening the world with permanent plastic contamination. There are three main technologies available to investors: chemical recycling, separate collection and reuse/refill.
The new agreement incentivises manufacturers with a bonus for using recycledmaterials and circular manufacturing techniques, which reduces pollution and saves manufacturing costs. Maria works as in-house for a medium-sized catering company that has set a 2040 net zero target. Property risk. Supply chains and Scope 3 emissions.
.” The automaker’s sustainability goals include sourcing energy only from renewable sources and getting at least half the materials in its vehicles from recycled, bio-based or renewable origins — by 2030 in the U.S. and globally by 2040. It is already at 96 percent renewable energy toward the 2030 goal of 100 percent.
What we found is that, although they fall far short of what so-called “high-ambition” countries and advocacy groups would like to get out of the treaty, industry groups’ proposals to bolster recycling and waste collection could cause a significant reduction in mismanaged plastic waste — even in the absence of a cap on plastic production.
The lightweight bars, which are packaged in fully recyclable cardboard cartons, also use less water to manufacture are have smaller carbon footprint than traditional shampoo and conditioner plastic bottles, the supermarket said. The brand claims the shoe, which is made from 100 per cent recycledmaterials, is its most sustainable to date.
Tech giant pledges to deliver carbon neutral operations by 2025 and a net zero emission value chain by 2040. Additionally, the company said 75 per cent of its total annual product and packaging content, by weight, will come from recycled, renewable and/or reused materials, products, and parts by 2030.
New analysis from Bain & Company suggests recycledmaterials could play dominant role in auto industry supply chains. The European auto industry could slash emissions and drastically reduce its exposure to resource security risks by embracing recycledmaterials and circular business models.
This vast field is where Redwood Materials stores the batteries it harvests from electric vehicles, laptops, toothbrushes, and the litany of other gadgets powered by lithium -ion technology. They now await recycling at what is the largest such facility in the country. Recycling is going to plug that gap, she told Grist.
We organize all of the trending information in your field so you don't have to. Join 12,000+ users and stay up to date on the latest articles your peers are reading.
You know about us, now we want to get to know you!
Let's personalize your content
Let's get even more personalized
We recognize your account from another site in our network, please click 'Send Email' below to continue with verifying your account and setting a password.
Let's personalize your content