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More pieces of IKEA's sustainability puzzle come together

GreenBiz

"I think in a dream world, it is that every product that you would buy is coming from recycled materials that are closed-loop in our own supply chain. We're finding alternate ways to reuse it or we have partners that we're working with who can reuse the materials or recycle materials in some way.

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Cirba Solutions and GM extend collaboration on EV battery recycling

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Cirba Solutions and GM have extended an existing agreement to recycle battery scrap generated by manufacturing and research at selected GM facilities through 2024. The original agreement dates from 2021, and GM has already recycled more than a million pounds of batteries.

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Cirba Solutions helps Toyota expand battery recycling network to nationwide program

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Toyota Motor North America is expanding its battery recycling network with Cirba Solutions, a battery recycling materials and management company.

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Blockchain set to transform quality assurance in the recycling market, suggests study

Envirotec Magazine

Blockchain technology will revolutionise the trade of recyclable materials by providing each part of the supply chain with vital data and assurance about the quality of secondary commodities, says The Recycling Association, following recent trials.

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Tesla says new recycling process recovers 92% of battery materials

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It’s not just batteries that Tesla is recycling—the company claims that “any materials that are possible to recycle, we recycle,” and that, at Gigafactory Shanghai, just 4% of the total waste generated is not recyclable. “We Source: Tesla via Electrek.

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Tesla co-founder JB Straubel’s company to produce battery materials in US

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“The existing battery supply chain is a convoluted system that requires materials to travel tens of thousands of miles before they make their way into a final product,” Redwood tells us. “In Today, EVs account for less than 10% of Redwood’s recycling stock.

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VF Corp leans in to the circular economy and regenerative ag

GreenBiz

And then, for our Scope 3 emissions, which is our largest impact, we collected data from our contracted factories, from logistics and across our entire value chain. We're looking at advanced recycling and just to find recycled polyester and different recycled materials.

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