Northvolt & Hydro Team Up For EV Battery Recycling
Electric cars and recycling are made for each other. Northvolt and others are working today on the battery anhd motor recycling systems of tomorrow.
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Plastic Crisis? No Problem, FLAM Is Coming With Bonus 3-D Printing
A killer combo of food waste recycling, 3-D printing, and the biobased plastic alternative FLAM spells more trouble for oil and gas stakeholders.
TerraCycle Adds Loop To Its Circular Economy Repertoire
Customers can order products from a variety of companies that are shipped to them in returnable and reusable containers packed inside a reusable blue Loop container.
When the products are consumed, the containers are placed inside a similar Loop container, picked up by UPS or other package delivery service, and returned to the point of origin for re-use. Customers pay a modest service fee of the use of the Loop container
Redesigning The Economy: From Linear To Circular & From ‘Me’ To ‘We’
The rise in interest of the circular economy (CE) has been rapid and widespread within the domain of business, economics, and recently, politics. Championed by organizations such as the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, the key concepts of a circular economy are now directly influencing policy across Europe, from Finland to France and Spain to Slovenia; and globally too with India and China both exploring what circularity means from their own economic, national, and cultural perspectives.
One Excellent Danish Company Aspires To Change The World
In 2002, I needed a change to my working environment as my body was withering away from endless hours at the computer as a web page designer since the dawn of the internet. To remedy the situation, I looked for a job doing some good old fashioned manual labour and … [continued]
Boosting The Circular Economy With E-Mobility
Momentum has been building for more closed loop systems and circular economy business models in an effort to foster sustainable economic growth. Minimizing the negative externalities of waste by designing technological products for reuse is the essence of creating a circular economy, where economic activity is decoupled from the consumption of finite resources.
Circular Economy: Redesigning Economy Beyond A Product
The recent debate around circular economy tends to focus primarily on product redesign. But a circular ‘economy’ encompasses more than just product design, it’s about product business development and the interactions between players in the ecosystem.
Building Equitable Circular Societies
Applying human-centered circular principles, tax shifts and crypto-currencies to better design our societies.
Taiwan’s EPA Turns Hazardous Waste Into Raw Materials With New LCD Recycling Process
CleanTechnica spoke with Taiwan’s Environmental Protection Administration at the Taiwan Circular Economy show. EPA expert Shan-lun Lee shared a new recycling program with us that the agency has developed in conjunction with the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) that enables discarded liquid crystal display (LCD) panels to be broken down and recycled into fresh new raw materials.
Implementing Circular Design In The Manufacturing Process
Global resource scarcity has become not only an issue for environmentalists, but has also reached the attention of the business environment. Business models based on the circular economy approach is a possible alternative that can reduce resource intensive production; even Google started using this definition for its business model optimization.
