Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

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). However, finding the right helper that won’t create more waste and is easily incorporated into recycled materials remains a challenge for researchers.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 2, 2025

The winners of the Plastics Recycling Awards Europe – this year in their 8th run -were announced on 2 April at the Plastics Recycling Show Europe in Amsterdam. was highly praised by judges for the high percentage of post-consumer recycled content and its high potential to reduce emissions for vehicle production.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 9, 2021

Reduce, reuse, recycle, register? Consumer interest in the use of recycled materials, so-called recyclates, is on the rise. Patagonia, for example, recently declared that 68 percent of its offerings use recycled materials. Tue, 03/09/2021 - 00:05.

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Science Daily: Renewable Energy

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

A simple, highly efficient, inexpensive, and environmentally friendly process could provide a viable pathway for the sustainable recycling of depleted lithium-ion batteries (LIBs): No chemicals beyond citric acid need to be added to leach out and separate over 99 % of the lithium, nickel, cobalt, and manganese metals contained in NCM batteries.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JANUARY 13, 2023

But it's also made with 75% recycled materials. This is a sleek, classic garbage can or rubbish bin, depending on which side of the ocean you live near, is modeled on the 1939 pedal bin, a traditional garbage can design. This may look like a classic home addition, but actually, this is the future of throwing stuff away.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Effective immediately, XCharge NA will provide broken or worn-down EVSE materials to Grensol and its research partner Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), for the development of an industrial recycling solution for such equipment.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 26, 2020

Ensuring Performance and Safety in Recycled Plastics. As companies and consumer brands incorporate recycled plastic content into their products and as part of their circularity goals, product integrity becomes an important consideration. There are many ways to evaluate the performance and safety of recycled materials.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2025

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.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 30, 2020

How Pandora hopes to reach 100% recycled silver and gold. By 2030, Pandora, the world’s largest jewelry brand by volume, will use 100 percent recycled silver and gold in its products. As it stands, 71 percent of the silver and gold in Pandora jewelry comes from recycled sources. Deonna Anderson. Tue, 06/30/2020 - 08:55.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JULY 22, 2020

Pentatonic, a circular economy company focused on removing single-use plastic products from the marketplace, partnered with acclaimed singer and outspoken opponent of single-use plastic Pharrell Williams to launch a portable dining kit made from recycled materials.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

New research carried out by Imperial College London indicates that recycled EV battery materials produced by UK-based Altilium can match the performance of mined materials. Minor changes observed during testing affirmed the recycled CAMs chemical and physical robustness. Source: Altilium

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 13, 2022

The Recycling Association’s chief executive Simon Ellin has warned that the people behind the Big Plastic Count (an event co-organised by Greenpeace) were “irresponsible” for recent comments saying plastic recycling doesn’t work and for sowing seeds of doubt in the public mind. This is irresponsible by them.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The PANGEA Movement is all about the planet in more than just name. It is a company with a focus on green design products and a dedication to using proceeds from sales to rid the Earth’s waterways of plastic and other pollution.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Recycling efforts by north London’s two million residents will not be significantly boosted by the new Simpler Recycling proposals, the North London Waste Authority (NLWA) has warned. Cllr Loakes said: “The Government should be making a herculean effort to ensure that producers minimise packaging that needs recycling or disposal.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Incorporating recycled materials into product collections is a good start.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

The ability to recycle materials has been around for generations, and as an increasing number of residential and commercial facilities take on the metal, plastic and glass, it has become a common task to put your recycling at the curb on garbage pick-up day.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

AUGUST 5, 2020

This fashion boutique is made with clay tiles, upcycled metal, recycled beer bottles and more.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

MAY 15, 2020

Aaranya is an agricultural farmstay that pays homage to the rural vernacular and Mother Nature.

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GreenBiz

JULY 9, 2024

Sponsored: Colored and opaque PET is a valuable recyclable material with significant benefits for brands. New technologies and end markets are expanding the supply of recycled PET, expanding circularity for one of the most widely recycled plastics.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

AUGUST 26, 2019

Engineers design flat pack self-watering plant pot Related: + POTR POTS Via BBC POTR Pots, flat pack self-watering plant pot

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 7, 2025

million metric tons of plastic packaging that ends up in household waste in Germany every year, after being used just once, less than a third of it can be recycled. That makes it even more important to find ways to recycle these single-use products, most of which are based on crude oil. Where German households produced 2.1

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 24, 2023

Aluminium recycling trade group Alupro officially launched its “Roadmap to increasing UK aerosol recycling” at an event in Leeds on 19 April. The document attempts to offer a long-term strategic vision to drive a widespread uplift in national capture and recycling rates. Alupro’s Tom Gidding’s at the launch.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

AUGUST 24, 2021

With a focus on the future of sustainability in automotive design, the MINI Strip is a one-off car that resulted from a collaboration between two British brands. MINI and Paul Smith custom-made the vehicle, which premiered to the world in London in August 2021.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 30, 2020

A NEW facility has opened in Bolton that will seemingly recycle up to a quarter of a million mattresses thrown away in Greater Manchester every year. Each trained operative can process more than 65 mattresses per day, and depending on the condition of the mattresses, up to 85% of the material can be recycled.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 10, 2022

Recycling and waste management business Levenseat has announced plans to invest £4m upgrading a new Materials Recycling Facility (MRF), which it purchased for an undisclosed sum from Avondale Environmental on 10 May. The Falkirk site will also process mixed household, commercial, industrial, construction and demolition waste.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

DECEMBER 22, 2020

One tool for handling long days on your feet or sitting at a computer is a trusty pair of compression socks.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 15, 2020

Then the pandemic hit, and the market changed — characterized by higher demand for single-use packages and bags, and lower availability of recycled materials. Recycling takes center stage. Reusable solutions are one path of a circular economy, but there is far more effort to advance another circular approach, recycling.

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TechXplore

OCTOBER 20, 2023

On a gray, foggy day in May 2021, a rust-kissed barge carried three shed-sized tidal turbines—each mounted on the points of a triangular steel frame—through New York City's East River.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 10, 2023

In 2025, there will be media and consumer outrage around all the failed commitments related to eliminating virgin plastic packaging and increasing the use of recycled material.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

MAY 19, 2020

Get your Disney characters delivered retro style and made from recycled materials. The line is a partnership with Unifi, a leader in the recycled fibers game.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Over 900 Tesco stores now have collection points for plastic recycling. A new partnership between Tesco and packaging manufacturer Berry Global is now recycling soft plastic collected from customers at Tesco stores. It has collected over 850 tonnes of soft plastic to date and is working with partners on several recycling solutions.

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Living Green Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

As environmental concerns and sustainability gain more traction, using recyclable materials in house building has become a modern solution. Recyclable materials not only help reduce waste but also offer cost-effective alternatives for construction.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

MAY 20, 2020

Spending a lot of time at home? Give your feet a little support and style with these vegan leather slippers.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 23, 2022

Winners of the Plastics Recycling Awards Europe 2022 were announced on 23 June at the Plastics Recycling Show Europe in Amsterdam. Launched in 2017, the awards have witnessed a dramatic and inspirational rise in the circular use of plastics through increased recycling and recyclability over the last the five years, said the organisers.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JUNE 3, 2020

The Looper tented suites incorporate recyclable materials and renewable energy to bring customizable accommodation to isolated and environmentally sensitive wilderness areas — such as rugged yet beautiful Yala National Park in southeast Sri Lanka. <!

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Inhabitat - Innovation

DECEMBER 12, 2022

In2Green is the brainchild and merger between founders Stefanie Zeldin and Lori Slater, lifelong environmental thinkers.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Explorer Robert Swan tested the RIKR backpack to prove the durability of recycled materials.

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