With ever more electric vehicles on the road, regulators and automakers are considering what can be done with the millions of batteries that power EVs after they're spent. Even when their useful life ...

Recycling of electric car batteries can be easier, cheaper, and more environmentally friendly, according to a new scientific article from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, which outlines an ...

A new chemical process separates mixed textile waste and produces components that can be reused (Sci. Adv. 2024, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ado6827). After their lifetime of use, most discarded clothes ...

Equipment maker Lindner and Procter & Gamble say their solvent-based Flexloop process can remove impurities from recycled polymer chains. The secondary resins obtained through Flexloop not only comply ...

RecycLiCo Battery Materials Inc., a lithium-ion battery (LIB) recycler based in Surrey, British Columbia, has been issued an official communication from the European Patent Office (EPO) indicating its ...

German study proves automated sorting can recover nearly half of hospital plastic waste for recycling into new products ...

This content was paid for by an advertiser and created by Crain's Custom Content. In October 2024, the Austrian Federal Minister for Labor and Economy, Martin Kocher, presented the award in Vienna.

Laid out left to right to illustrate notable steps in the process of lithium battery recycling are: a pair of lithium iron phosphate batteries; a container of black mass powder obtained from shredding ...