25Mar

“Will composites transform industry?”

Building wind turbine blades with thermoplastic—instead of thermoset—resins may make recycling them financially viable, says @Arkema_group.

25Mar

“The terrifying cost of scrapping the world’s aging oil and gas rigs”

There are thousands of offshore oil/gas platforms dotting the world’s oceans. Recycling them at the end of their lives is no easy matter.

25Mar

Do terms such as #recyclable and #compostable accurately reflect which products/materials are green? @OregonDEQ found the answers.

22Mar

China has started building the country’s first grid storage plant predominantly from used lithium batteries recycled from electric vehicles.

22Mar

Carpet recycler Circular Polymers can supply the chemical recycling industry with feedstock from 15,000 T of post-consumer carpet annually.

22Mar

Black plastic is difficult to recycle because recycling facility scanners absorb, rather than reflect, light from it—and it goes unsorted.

21Mar

@Audi is using retired EV lithium-ion batteries to power factory vehicles such as forklift trucks at its main plant in Ingolstadt.

21Mar

@ChemistryCanada says achieving zero plastic waste requires tripling mechanical recycling rates + product design/ consumer behavior changes.

21Mar

@RecycleAcrossAm is teaming with 9-year-old non-profit head Ryan Hickman to spread the message about standardized recycling bin labels.

20Mar

New batteries now cost around $200/kWh. Second-life batteries repurposed from EVs could cut that to $49/kWh, according to @EY_Automotive.