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U.S. Spent Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing May Be Making a Comeback—Here’s Why

October 27, 2022 admin advanced nuclear, advanced nuclear fuel, argonne, Business, curio, DOE, Fuel, full coverage, haleu, International, mox, news, Nuclear, nuclear fuel, oklo, pyroprocessing, recycling, reprocessing, separation, supply chains, Technology, trends

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2022 14:47:24 +0000

The Department of Energy (DOE) has ramped up efforts to explore recycling spent nuclear fuel (SNF), or used nuclear fuel (UNF), from the nation’s fleet of light water reactors (LWRs), doling out $38 million in federal awards to a dozen projects on Oct. 21. Teams will receive funding under the DOE’s March 2022–launched “Converting UNF […]

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BMW To Recycle Fishing Nets In New Electric Cars

September 16, 2022 admin BMW, cars, clean transport, climate change, electric cars, Electric vehicles, great pacific garbage patch, ocean plastics, recycling

Credit to Author: Jo Borrás| Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2022 18:20:55 +0000

BMW’s new, recycled plastic bits could take a chunk out of the Pacific Garbage Patch.

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Junk to Junk Competition for Schoolkids

August 14, 2022 admin Australia, clean transport, cleanaway, recycling, reuse

Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2022 18:41:52 +0000

As we move towards a circular economy, we need to bear in mind the huge job of cleaning up after ourselves and our ancestors. Just like LGI, Cleanaway is working towards adding value to the waste reallocation industry. Something you threw away today may find another use tomorrow. We should ask ourselves, what waste can […]

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Solar Panel Recycling Is About To Become BIG Business!

July 17, 2022 admin clean power, recycling, Solar energy, solar panel recycling, solar panels

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2022 18:30:54 +0000

A solar panel has a useful life of about 20 years. That means a lot of panels installed in the early part of this century are ready to be replaced. But what to do with them? Until now, most of them have simply been discarded in dumps and landfills because no commercially viable recycling process […]

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Tech’s Problem With Plastics — Plus Solutions Tech Can Offer

June 1, 2022 admin climate change, Fossil Fuels, Manufacturing, plastic pollution, plastics, recycling, waste reduction

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2022 15:50:22 +0000

Are we kidding ourselves when we think that recycling is enough of a solution to the global plastics pollution problem?

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New Process Yields Super Strong Recycled Wood

June 1, 2022 admin buildings, cleantech news, green economy, Manufacturing, recycling, wood

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Tue, 31 May 2022 17:35:07 +0000

A recent article at New Scientist tells us about a process to recycle wood, but with a twist: the process not only means you can build something with it again, but it will have more strength than steel. “This is a really elegant way to heal wood, using a common cellulose solvent, recovering and enhancing […]

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Hydrovolt, The Largest Battery Recycling Facility In Europe, Begins Operations

May 17, 2022 admin batteries, battery recycling, Energy Storage, Europe, green economy, hydrovolt, northvolt, Norway, recycling

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Tue, 17 May 2022 19:05:41 +0000

Hydrovolt expects to recycle 12,000 tons of depleted batteries in its first year of operation.

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Household Recycling Goes To Market

May 9, 2022 admin carbon emissions, climate change, consumer technology, green economy, recycling, research, Waste, waste reduction

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Mon, 09 May 2022 18:45:06 +0000

Humans generate a remarkable amount of garbage: over 2 billion tons per year. Can startups help to alleviate this problem? Are home recycling devices practical?

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California AG Subpoenas Exxon Over False Plastics Recycling Claims

May 2, 2022 admin California, exxon, plastics, policy & politics, recycling, Waste

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 02 May 2022 19:00:28 +0000

Exxon is the target of new claims that Big Oil has hidden what it knows about plastics and pollution for decades.

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There’s Value in Old Power Generation Components

May 2, 2022 admin arthur d. little, blocks, bricks, Coal, coal combustion residuals, distributed energy, fly ash, Gas, ge, globe metal, Hydro, news, Nuclear, nuclear fuel, offshore wind, recycling, reuse, sidley, siemens gamesa renewable energy, Solar, solar panels, we recycle solar, Wind, wind turbines

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Mon, 02 May 2022 04:18:00 +0000

Equipment from both renewable and thermal energy power plants is finding new life in the recycling market. The market for recycled power equipment components is getting a boost due to ongoing global supply

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