GreenBiz

MARCH 15, 2021

This new class of plastics goals include designing for recyclability, investing in recycling infrastructure and exploring material innovations, charting and reporting progress and helping to bring more partners in to drive collection action. VP & General Manager, Sustainability, North America Operating Unit. Alpa Sutaria.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

recycling market has been in free fall since 2018, when China, Malaysia, Thailand and other Southeast Asian countries announced that they would no longer import many types of recyclable material scraps. percent of all the plastic produced in 2017 eventually got recycled, according to the U.S. Holly Secon. Of course, the U.S.

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GreenBiz

MAY 27, 2020

A jolt in this direction came overnight as COVID-19 drove people indoors, forcing many to rethink how they reduce, reuse or recycle items they took for granted only weeks earlier. Embracing imperfections and repairs is part of his vision for a pair of jeans to be loved and worn for a decade until ultimately being recycled.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2019

PragmatIC says its technology could allow a low-cost inlay (tag) to be incorporated in packaging, allowing consumers to access information about product usage, food storage, cooking instructions and local recycling. A 2015 study by the UK waste and recycling advisory body Wrap estimated that of the 7.3 tonnes was actually edible.

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Recycling Recycling Waste Waste 228

GreenBiz

MAY 12, 2020

As businesses, we can manufacture and sell products with no packaging, create closed-loop recycling systems and collaborate with suppliers to create innovative solutions for reducing waste — all while thriving. How can we tackle reuse and recycle in a way that is both meaningful and impactful? But it doesn’t have to be like this.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 2, 2020

Julie Zaniewski, North America sustainability director at Dow, says that the company's plans for 2020 include living out its sustainability strategy. That includes keeping plastic out of the environment and bringing circular economy solutions to life.

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Charged

JANUARY 25, 2022

Primobius has reached an option and licensing agreement with Stelco Holdings to commercialize Primobius’s proprietary EV battery recycling and processing technologies in North America. Operations are expected to begin in 2023. Canada-based Stelco is a steelmaking company that supplies steel to automakers.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

The two-year project, with a total budget of C$515,686 ($373,687) between the two companies, aims to further improve the sustainability of NOVONIX’s technology by incorporating recycled metal feedstock, such as cobalt and nickel carbonates and oxides, into the process. Source: NOVONIX

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

The commonly held view that lithium-ion batteries are not being recycled is not true. China recycled around 67,000 tons of lithium-ion batteries last year, or 69 percent of all the stock available for recycling worldwide, according to Hans Eric Melin, founder of U.K.-based 'Long tail' of recycling hopefuls.

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altenergymag

OCTOBER 13, 2022

-Li-Cycle’s fourth Spoke recycling facility in North America has capacity to process up to 10,000 tonnes of manufacturing scrap and end-of-life batteries per year -The Spoke can recycle the equivalent of batteries required for approximately 20,000 EVs per year and has the ability to directly process full EV battery packs

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

US lithium-ion battery recycler Redwood Materials has partnered with BMW of North America to recycle end-of-life batteries from all EVs in the BMW Group , including BMW, MINI, Rolls Royce and BMW Motorrad vehicles. Source: Redwood Materials

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Charged

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Battery recycler Li-Cycle has announced that its Alabama Spoke plant in Tuscaloosa has started commercial operations. The Alabama Spoke uses Li-Cycle’s patented technology to recycle and directly process full EV battery packs without any dismantling through a submerged shredding process that produces no wastewater.

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Recycling Recycling Batteries North America 133

Charged

MARCH 14, 2023

Battery recycling company Ecobat is building its third lithium-ion battery recycling facility and its first in North America. We are thrilled to grow our global lithium-ion battery recycling footprint with a new facility in Casa Grande,” said Ecobat CEO Marcus Randolph. Source: Ecobat

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Charged

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Battery recycling and manufacturing company Ascend Elements (formerly known as Battery Resourcers ) is planning to open a battery recycling plant in Georgia by August of 2022, where it will recycle lithium, cobalt and nickel. Source: Ascend Elements.

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Recycling Recycling Batteries North America 124

Charged

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

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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Charged

APRIL 28, 2021

Battery Resourcers , a battery recycling and manufacturing company, recently completed a $20-million Series B equity round to support the development of a commercial-scale processing facility with the annual capacity to recycle 10,000 tons of batteries—roughly the amount of batteries from 20,000 EVs.

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Charged

MAY 2, 2023

Volkswagen and lithium-ion battery recycler Redwood Materials have partnered to offer US consumers a convenient way to recycle rechargeable devices or lithium-ion batteries. The collaboration between Volkswagen Group of America and Redwood began last year with a recycling deal for all Volkswagen and Audi EV battery packs.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

With Our Responsible Journey, Samsonite strives to lead the lifestyle bag and travel luggage industry across key sustainability indicators, including the use of recycled materials in its products and packaging and achieving carbon neutrality across its owned and operated facilities. Goals that are specific, yet ambitious.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 23, 2020

The commitment to eliminate one-third of its plastic waste by 2025 is part of its "preserve the environment" ambition, and it’s part of a goal that also includes transitioning to 100 percent recyclable, reusable or compostable plastic packaging by the same year. We didn't slow down the implementation of our new recyclable tube," Tracy said.

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Charged

JANUARY 2, 2024

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

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Charged

DECEMBER 27, 2021

BASF , a producer of cathode active materials (CAM), plans to consolidate some of its business into a new legal entity called BASF Automotive Catalysts and Recycling beginning in January of 2022. billion ($5 billion) in battery materials and recycling. BASF also plans to expand its CAM manufacturing in Asia, Europe and North America.

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Charged

JANUARY 17, 2023

Nevada-based Aqua Metals has begun operating a pilot battery recycling facility at the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center. The company’s Li AquaRefining technology is “a low-emission, closed-loop recycling solution capable of recovering all valuable metals, including high-purity lithium, manganese, cobalt and nickel from lithium batteries.”.

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altenergymag

MARCH 14, 2022

Combined Offering Creates Recycling Solution for Industry and Consumers Enabling a “Circular Supply Chain” Opportunity

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Charged

APRIL 25, 2023

A novel mono-material approach is applied to interior materials—all layers of certain components are produced from the same base material, allowing them to be recycled more efficiently. Polestar 4 will be launched first in China. Production is to begin at a Geely-owned production facility in Hangzhou Bay in November 2023.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Li-Cycle has announced plans to build a fourth commercial battery recycling facility in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Li-Cycle’s new facility will have an initial capacity of up to 5,000 tons of battery manufacturing scrap and end-of-life batteries per year, bringing its total North American recycling capacity to 25,000 tons per year.

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Recycling Recycling Batteries North America 124

Charged

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Li-Cycle ( profiled in our July/August 2020 issue ) uses a hub-and-spoke model for its recycling process. LGES and Li-Cycle intend to partner on recycling nickel-bearing lithium-ion battery scrap and other battery materials to create a closed-loop ecosystem.

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Recycling Recycling North America Lithium 122

Charged

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Redwood Materials , the battery materials firm founded by Tesla cofounder JB Straubel, has launched a battery recycling pilot in California that aims to “establish efficient, safe and effective recovery pathways for end-of-life hybrid and EV battery packs.” Our goal is to learn, and share those learnings with the industry,” says Redwood. “We

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Recycling Recycling Batteries North America 133

Charged

MARCH 24, 2022

Lithium battery recycling company Retriev Technologies has purchased battery recycling management firm Battery Solutions. According to Retriev, the acquisition makes the expanded company “the first and only comprehensive battery management solution in North America.”.

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Recycling Recycling Batteries Technology 122

Solar Industry

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

EDF Renewables North America has signed an agreement with SOLARCYCLE to recycle solar panels that are damaged or broken during construction and operation from their grid-scale, distribution-scale and on-site solar projects. “As ” The post EDF Turns to SOLARCYLE for PV Panel Recycling appeared first on Solar Industry.

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Recycling Recycling North America Patents 118

GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

But the industries need to push beyond recycling. A new technology of this sort, chemical garment-to-garment recycling, was one of your favorite stories of the year. . Why H&M, other big brands are investing in garment recycling. Clean beauty and fashion are trendy. Media Source. Courtesy of. Media Authorship. Close Authorship.

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Charged

AUGUST 14, 2023

Toronto-based battery recycling company Li-Cycle has begun operation of the first main processing line at its new Spoke recycling facility in Magdeburg, Germany. The second main line is expected to begin running later this year.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Redwood Materials , the battery recycling venture founded by former Tesla CTO JB Straubel, has signed an agreement to recycle scrap and defective battery cells for Envision AESC, which manufactures batteries for the Nissan LEAF in Smyrna, Tennessee. Redwood recycles all types of lithium-ion batteries, not just EV battery packs.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Automaker Stellantis and nuclear energy company Orano have signed a memorandum of understanding to form a joint venture to recycle EV batteries and scrap. Stellantis will have access to cobalt, nickel and lithium from gigafactories in Europe and North America for electrification and energy transformation.

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Recycling Recycling Batteries North America 119

Charged

MARCH 17, 2021

Heritage has launched a new division, Heritage Battery Recycling (HBR), to address the growing market demand for safe, sustainable solutions for lithium-ion batteries at the ends of their lives. In collaboration with Romeo Power , HBR will develop a battery reuse and recycling facility in the southwestern US. “By

Recycling 105

Recycling Recycling Batteries North America 105

Charged

APRIL 18, 2023

Battery recycling company Cirba Solutions has announced a Phase I investment of at least $300 million in a new battery recycling facility to be built near Columbia, South Carolina.

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Canary Media

JUNE 28, 2024

The material is ubiquitous and useful, but the process of making and recycling it is a major source of planet-warming pollution. By 2050, aluminum producers in North America will need to cut… Pots and pans, soda cans, skyscrapers, laptops, even solar panels — all these things share a common ingredient in aluminum.

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North America Recycling Recycling Pollution 134

Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 24, 2025

Iridium is one of the scarcest elements on the earth, mainly extracted in South Africa and Zimbabwe (90%), with Russia and North America accounting for the rest, only as a by-product of mining other precious metals like platinum and palladium.

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