Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 27, 2022
Luckily, lithium-ion battery recycling research and development has been going on for years and there is an existing and growing repurposing and recycling system in North America for these components. Current lithium-ion battery collection, repurposing, and recycling network in North America. Slattery et al.
Environment + Energy Leader
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
Between 1995 and 2020, BMW reduced its CO2 emissions by 53%. Also, in 2020, all the electricity it purchased to run its plants worldwide came from renewables. The post BMW Is Driven to Cut CO2 Emissions and Rely on Recycled Parts appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
DECEMBER 12, 2022
While today’s carbon fiber and fiberglass require lots of energ y to produce and are hard to recycle , incorporating more bio-materials into their composites and developing new recycling technologies can reduce their footprint. By 2020, demand for balsa wood outstripped supply. Can wind turbine blades be recycled?
Legal Planet
JULY 1, 2022
Less than 10 percent of the world’s plastic waste is recycled. The law will affect just about every type of plastic packaging you see walking down the supermarket aisle in California, and it’s a major step in the fight to reduce plastic waste, over 90 percent of which does not get, and much of which cannot currently be, recycled.
Ocean Conservancy
FEBRUARY 16, 2022
This quote came to mind as we at Ocean Conservancy launched our latest report, Recommendations for Recycled Content: Requirements for Plastic Goods and Packaging. After all, this was not the first time that Ocean Conservancy has looked at the issue of recycled content. Act in 2020, we saw an opportunity to take a deeper dive.
Union of Concerned Scientists
DECEMBER 12, 2022
Recycling rare earth elements. In addition to increasing oversight and transparency into rare earth element supply chains, one of many viable solutions to mitigating rare earth element extraction is recycling permanent magnets. Supporting rare earth element recycling. Workers in a mine shaft in Bawsaing, Myanmar.
PA Environment Daily
FEBRUARY 9, 2025
The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the February 8 PA Bulletin saying Southwestern Energy Production Company failed to comply with the Act 2 Land Recycling Program cleanup standards at the Greenzweig shale gas wastewater impoundment in Herrick Township, Bradford County. (
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