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Using sunlight to recycle black plastics

"Simple, visible light irradiation holds the potential to transform the chemical recycling of plastics..."

27-Nov-2024 - Not all plastics are equal — some types and colors are easier to recycle than others. For instance, black foam and black coffee lids, which are often made of polystyrene, usually end up in landfills because color additives lead to ineffective sorting. Now, researchers report in ACS Central ...

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Spark Award 2024: procedure for recycling rare earth metals receives award

In order to market the technology, the researchers already founded a start-up called Reecover

26-Nov-2024 - The prize for the most promising invention of the past year goes to Marie Amélie Perrin and Victor Mougel. They have developed a method that enables rare earth elements to be efficiently recovered from electrical waste. Rare earth elements are an indispensable part of modern electronics. They can ...

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Developing advanced recycling technology to restore spent battery cathode materials

The recycling process restores spent batteries to 100% of their original capacity, making them equivalent to new batteries

18-Nov-2024 - A research team led by Dr. Jung-Je Woo at the Gwangju Clean Energy Research Center of the Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER) has successfully developed a cost-effective and eco-friendly technology for recycling cathode materials from spent lithium-ion batteries. With the recent rise in ...

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Neste, Alterra and Technip Energies collaborate to offer standardized solution to build chemical recycling plants

Combining the expertise of three companies in one solution

06-Nov-2024 - Neste, Alterra and Technip Energies have signed a collaboration agreement to advance the circularity of plastics by providing the industry a standardized technology solution for chemical recycling, also referred to as “advanced recycling”. The partners aim to globally offer a standardized modular ...

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Mercedes-Benz opens own recycling factory to close the battery loop

Plant to generate enough recycled materials to produce more than 50,000 new battery modules per year

23-Oct-2024 - Mercedes-Benz opened Europe's first battery recycling plant with an integrated mechanical-hydrometallurgical process making it the first car manufacturer worldwide to close the battery recycling loop with its own in-house facility. The recycling plant in Kuppenheim, southern Germany, creates a ...

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Promoting battery recycling in Europe and industrial by-products to power batteries

The role of the University of Oulu in battery chemistry research is further strengthened

15-Oct-2024 - New large-scale research projects aim to improve the recycling and recovery of battery materials in Europe and to develop more sustainable battery technologies.The University of Oulu's sustainable chemistry research is involved in two three-year international projects to develop new electrode ...

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How Textile Waste is being Turned into New Resources for a more Sustainable Future for the Fashion Industry

Start-up Renasens is one of the 5 finalists on the ISC3 Innovation Challenge 2024 on the topic of ‘Innovations in Sustainable Chemistry for Textiles

24-Sep-2024 - The growing world population, not least in connection with fast fashion, has led to a massive increase in textile production and thus textile waste. According to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the fashion and textile industry is currently responsible for around 8% of all carbon ...

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LYB lays foundation for first industrial-scale advanced recycling plant at Wesseling, Germany site

Catalytic pyrolysis unit in heart of Europe to bolster sustainable growth, value creation

23-Sep-2024 - LyondellBasell (LYB) advanced its journey toward sustainable growth and value creation by laying the foundation of its first, catalytic advanced recycling plant at its Wesseling, Germany site. German Chancellor Scholz and Minister-President Wüst attended the celebrations, underscoring the ...

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'Made in Germany': Battery recycler cylib to scale strategic critical raw material production for Europe

Battery recycling is critical to Europe’s supply of strategic critical raw materials for resilient battery infrastructure

11-Sep-2024 - Sustainable end-to-end battery recycling firmcylib today breaks ground on its first European industrial plant located at Currenta’s Chempark Dormagen in the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. One year after the commissioning of its pilot line in Aachen, cylib is marking the start ...

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More efficient battery recycling thanks to mathematical modelling

Recovering valuable raw materials with less effort

06-Sep-2024 - How can we recover as many valuable raw materials as possible, such as lithium, from melt-down electronic scrap? This question is being examined by a priority programme of the German Research Foundation (DFG) dedicated to the production of tailor-made artificial minerals through metallurgical ...

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