07Nov

“Audi and Umicore develop closed loop battery recycling”

Umicore and Audi are developing a closed-loop recycling process that the latter plans to use for its new Audi e-tron electric car.

07Nov

“Turning waste into advantage”

MB crusher buckets can recover for reuse more than 85% of the casting waste, metal sprues, and other types of slag generated in foundries.

07Nov

Tips for creating a sustainable office: go paperless, use Energy Star-certified equipment, and reuse/recycle items where possible.

06Nov

Italian firm Lombardy, under the auspices of the EU Battery Alliance, is establishing a network of pilot plants for EV battery recycling.

06Nov

A new line of lightweight luggage from National Geographic uses up to 144 post-consumer recycled plastic bottles per bag.

06Nov

Two vegan Brits for weeks ate only food that had passed its sell-by date, fruit picked off trees and soon-to-be-binned produce from friends.

05Nov

Cheaply made Chinese solar panels can break down in as little as five years—meaning a deluge of solar waste could soon be upon us.

05Nov

Researchers have developed a binder made of 80% fly ash, a byproduct of coal-fuled power plants, to replace portland cement in concrete.

05Nov

The EU has okayed a ban effective 2021 on 10 single-use plastics that most often end up in the ocean, including plates, cutlery, and straws.

02Nov

Tesla’s li-ion battery recycling process reportedly can reclaim nickel, copper, cobalt, steel, aluminum and lithium for use in new products.