Breakthrough in Separating Plastic Waste: Machines can now Distinguish 12 Different Types of Plastic. For the first time, we can now tell the difference between a wide range of plastic types and thereby separate plastics according to their chemical composition. This is absolutely ground...
New Method Recovers Cobalt and Nickel from NMC Batteries. The method, developed by a team led by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign chemical and biomolecular engineering professor Xiao Su, is said to produce final product purities of approximately 96.4% and 94.1% for cobalt and nickel,...
Technology Minerals' Recyclus Partners with Slicker Recycling to Launch Battery Recycling Initiative. A new battery recycling plant is to open in the UK. The plant is planning to recycle lithium ion batteries, which at the present have to be exported, as well as recycling the more traditional...
New Technology in Metal Recycling. The application of artificial intelligence and cutting-edge sensor technology promises major efficiency gains in the metal scraping industry. #News #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #WasteManagement #Metals #Recycling #GreenTechnology
Underground Tests Dig into how Heat Effects Salt-bed Repository Behavior. Scientists from Sandia, Los Alamos and Lawrence Berkeley national laboratories have just begun the third phase of a years-long experiment to understand how salt and very salty water behave near hot nuclear waste...
New, Environmentally Friendly Method to Extract and Separate Rare Earth Elements. A new method improves the extraction and separation of rare earth elements—a group of 17 elements critical for technologies such as smart phones and electric car batteries—from unconventional sources. New research...
Walls Made from Recycled Beverage Cartons. SIG and Tetra Pak will build a recycling facility in New South Wales where used beverage cartons and papercups will be turned into high quality building material The SIG-funded project to recycle used beverage cartons has received a A$1.74 million...
Research Guides Future of Plastic Waste Chemical Recycling. New research from Cornell University College of Engineering aims to ease the process of chemical recycling – an emerging industry that could turn waste products back into natural resources by physically breaking plastic down into the...
With COP26 approaching and environmental targets becoming more pressing, a Westminster Forum event discussed some of the policies being proposed to deal with the UK’s plastic waste. Read more here . #Plastics #WasteManagement #Packaging #Recycling
Visit the new Together for Our Planet SME hub To raise awareness of the actions small businesses can take to reduce their emissions, the Together for Our Planet campaign is asking SMEs to make the new UK Business Climate Hub their first port of call on their journey to net zero. BEIS have...