Taco Bell Wants to Recycle Your Old Fire Sauce Packets
Taco Bell has set aside millions of dollars to make sure those little Mild, Hot, and Fire (and, sometimes, Diablo) sauce packets you get with your takeout order don’t end up in landfills.
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Toss, Repair, or Recycle Solar Panels? How Human Behavior Affects Fate of Old Solar Panels
Analysts Apply New Approach To Understand Consumer Decisions About Aging Modules, Identify Secondary Markets Toward a Circular Economy
JB Straubel Plans Circular Supply Chain For Batteries, With Emphasis On USA
Redwood Materials wants to build a US battery factory with a capacity of 500 GWh a year.
Alabama Will Get A Li-Cycle Battery Recycling Facility
Li-Cycle has announced plans to build a new lithium-ion battery recycling facility in Alabama. This will be its fourth commercial lithium-ion battery recycling facility and will be located in Tuscaloosa, AL. Previously, the company had a base plan for three North American facilities, or Spokes. These are planned for Kingston, … [continued]
Automated Disassembly Line Aims to Make Battery Recycling Safer, Faster
Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory developed a robotic disassembly system for used electric vehicle batteries to make the process safer, more efficient and less costly. Credit: Jenny Woodbery/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy Originally published by Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak … [continued]
There Are Answers & Solutions To The Many EV Battery Questions & Concerns People Have
Even before EVs, I was keen to recycle batteries. ALDI stores do a great service with recycling bins. I just have to remember to take the dead ones with me shopping. Everyone is now accustomed to battery-powered devices, but since I have bought a Tesla, the questions I get seem … [continued]
Li-Cycle Completes Its Combination With Peridot Acquisition Corp.
Li-Cycle, which specializes in lithium-ion battery resource recovery and is currently the leading lithium-ion battery recycler in North America, has announced that it has completed its business combination with Peridot Acquisition corporation. This has resulted in a new stock ticker symbol for Peridot, changing from $PDAC and $PDAC.WS to $LICY … [continued]
Tesla Impact Report Highlights Sustainability & Battery Recycling
The latest Impact Report from Tesla says the company is making sustainability a central part of all its business operations.
Reverse Vending Machine That Pays Cash For Plastic — CleanTechnica Interview
Olyns has launched what is technically a reverse vending machine that will make it easier (or more personally worthwhile) for consumers to recycle plastic. The elegant and convenient solution is aimed at helping to meet the 1 billion pounds of commercial demand for recycled plastic (rPET). I got to chat … [continued]
Li-Cycle & Helbiz Partner to Advance Battery Recycling in Micro-Mobility
Li-Cycle, which is focused on providing customer-centric, end-of-life solutions for lithium-ion batteries while also creating a secondary supply of critical battery materials, has announced a partnership with Helbiz. Helbiz focuses on micro-mobility, and together, the two companies are partnering up to create a safe and sustainable recycling solution for end-of-life … [continued]
