04Oct

“The Reason Single-Use Coffee Cups Usually Aren’t Recyclable”

Because most single-use coffee cups are coated in plastic, @RepublicService says you typically can’t recycle them in your curbside bin.

29Sep

“Novel tech to recycle silver, aluminum from end-of-life solar panels”

@uniofleicester scientists have developed a sustainable way to extract silver and aluminum from end-of-life PVs using inexpensive solvents.

29Sep

@BMWGroup’s Neue Klasse EVs will incorporate plastic made from 30% recycled fishing nets—yielding parts with a 25% smaller carbon footprint.

29Sep

Recycle your TV at @BestBuy (for $25 for big sets). If you buy a TV and the company installs it, for $40 they will haul/recycle the old one.

27Sep

@nunamenergy is working with @AudiOfficial to develop battery-powered rickshaws to recycle used batteries from Audi’s e-tron vehicles.

27Sep

@RenaultTrucksCo has opened a disassembly plant where old truck tractors are dismantled and their parts restored, recycled, or melted down.

27Sep

@TerraCycle has partnered with @PopSockets to offer a free recycling program for all brands of phone cases.

22Sep

Absent policy change or new recycling technologies, up to 78% of old wind turbine blades in the U.S. will be landfilled by 2050, says @NREL.

22Sep

@HermanMiller is reissuing its entire Eames Molded Plastic Chair Portfolio, which is made from 100% post-industrial recycled plastic.

22Sep

According to the @EPA, over one-third of the U.S. food produced is never consumed—wasting water, energy, fertilizer, and pesticides.

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