28May

“Where do EV batteries go when they die?”

While South Korea is subsidizing EVs to encourage development of the market, it lacks a system to process the resulting used EV batteries.

28May

“Cement additive producer turns focus to plastic waste”

Maitland, Florida-based Cement Lock is looking to use low-value plastic waste as fuel in their cement production kilns.

28May

@Nespresso coffee pods can be recycled by ordering a free bag from the company, filling it and dropping it at any of 122,000 sites globally.

26May

@NCCUKinfo has developed a method for using structural composite adhesives that could simplify disassembly and recycling of wind turbines.

26May

A Costa Rican firm has developed a way to process plastic waste into aggregate for use in concrete building blocks.

26May

Downloadable apps can help you reuse your old Android phone or tablet as a universal remote or a security camera.

21May

While 90% of a lithium battery cell can technically be recovered, typically not all of it can be recycled economically.

21May

Researchers at @utarlington are studying how to use recycled plastic as road material.

21May

An estimated 70 percent of the world’s printer cartridges are not recycled. They can take up to 1,000 years to decompose in a landfill.

19May

PV recycling lags that of EV batteries partly because solar components like glass and silicon aren’t as valued as lithium, nickel or cobalt.