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Swedish battery maker Northvolt announced that it has produced its first battery cell with 100% recycled nickel, manganese and cobalt (NMC) at its Northvolt Labs in the central city of Västerås.
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Whanganui to get kerbside recycling and food waste pickup starting 2023
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Whanganui is set to get kerbside recycling from 2023, and a year after that food waste collection will follow. Whanganui District Council’s policy and by-law committee voted in favour of adopting its Waste Minimisation and Management Plan 2021 on Wednesday.
New multimillion-dollar recycling plant for Christchurch to open in 2022
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Christchurch will soon be home to a $16.8 million state-of-the-art recycling plant. The facility will be built with a grant from the Ministry for the Environment’s special Covid-19 response and recovery fund.
Pot Recycle: Closing the loop on plastic plant and seedling pots
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Mitre 10 has launched a nationwide roll-out of Pot Recycle, a ‘closed loop’ solution that stops garden pots ending up in landfill and reduces the amount of new plastic used to make plant and seedling pots.
Robotics Takes Plastic Recycling To The Next Level
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Several new and exciting projects have taken root worldwide in the recycling industry that involves robots and artificial intelligence (AI). From large-scale to individual machines, these improvements to the sector will dramatically increase the recycling rate of municipal waste.
20,000 pounds of trash removed from Pacific Garbage Patch
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Recent tests on Dutch entrepreneur Boyan Slat’s ocean cleanup rig called System 002 were a success, leading Slat to predict that most of the oceanic garbage patches could be removed by 2040.
Engineers Have Invented an Entirely New Approach to Recycling Plastic
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A new study demonstrates the proof-of-concept of an entirely new approach to plastic recycling, inspired by the way nature naturally ‘recycles’ the components of organic polymers present in our environment.
Aircraft recycling: How planes are being turned into items like Coke cans
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With COVID-19 bringing forward the retirement of hundreds of airliners, there’s now massive money to be made from recycling them. There are dozens of companies around the world which dismantle airliners and salvage what they can for resale.
Work starts on plant to recycle blended fibres
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Australian start-up BlockTexx has begun work on what it claims will the the first textile recycling plant capable of separating and recycling blends of cotton and polyester fibres at scale.
Hello poo-powered dairies, goodbye recycling bins
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The New South Wales south coast is powering ahead when it comes to alternative energy projects, with dairies soon to be powered by poo and new solar farms being built, and plans for a state-of-the-art recycling machine.
Natural enzymes revolutionize plastic recycling
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Plastic recycling is still in its infancy – only a small part of the waste is recyclable. Natural enzymes could get the circular economy going.
Auckland factory producing recyclable meat trays
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An Auckland packaging company is working to remove the confusion around recycling plastic, one meat tray at a time. Pact Packaging’s Kiwi-designed meat trays – made from Polyethylene Terephthalate, or PET – can be recycled.