Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

HARARE stands for “Hydrogen As the Reducing Agent in the REcovery of metals and minerals from metallurgical waste”. Standard aluminum smelting processes generate about twice as much red mud waste as aluminum metal. Left: In a traditional linear economy, only very minimal volumes of metallurgical waste are used for other applications.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2021

This milestone took place at Repsol’s Cartagena Industrial Complex, where 10 tons of renewable hydrogen were produced from 500 MWh of biomethane, thus avoiding the emission of about 90 tons of CO 2. The biomethane used as raw material was obtained from urban solid waste. Repsol has had a circular economy strategy in place since 2018.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2021

The feedstock for the facility will be waste-based, low-carbon ethanol, procured from a variety of waste sources. The facility will also have the ability to use ethanol produced from local steel mill waste gases via LanzaTech’s gas fermentation platform.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2014

Industrial biotechnology companies have formed the Brazilian Industrial Biotechnology Association (in Portuguese ABBI - Associação Brasileira de Biotecnologia Industrial). The use of such biotechnology can increase productivity, improve process efficiencies, and reduce waste and pollution in Brazil and beyond.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2020

The plant will feature SGH2’s technology, which will gasify recycled mixed paper waste to produce green hydrogen that reduces carbon emissions by two to three times more than green hydrogen produced using electrolysis and renewable energy, and is five to seven times cheaper. The facility will process 42,000 tons of recycled waste annually.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

regarding the supply of butadiene derived from plastic waste and biomass. To accelerate efforts for decarbonization to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, the automotive industry is transitioning to electric vehicles while the tire industry is further improving the fuel-efficiency and wear resistance of tires.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2016

A partnership comprising AkzoNobel, Van Gansewinkel, Air Liquide, AVR and Enerkem is proposing to build a waste-to-chemicals plant in Rotterdam in collaboration with the Port of Rotterdam, the City of Rotterdam, the province of South Holland and InnovationQuarter. The methanol will then be converted into chemicals such as acetic acid (e.g.,

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

BASF is launching the pilot platform reciChain in the province of British Columbia (BC), Canada, as a response to plastic waste. million tons of plastic waste in 2016. Leveraging blockchain technology, we can work together to ensure our products deliver back to the value chain and contribute to a circular economy.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2023

REMADE is the only national institute focused entirely on developing innovative technologies to accelerate the US’ transition to a Circular Economy.

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Innovation News Network

MAY 23, 2024

To achieve a circular plastics industry, no ‘one-size-fits-all’ solution will do, but a combination of different approaches will be required. The post Synergy of recycling technologies for a circular plastics industry appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2018

Neste, the world’s leading producer of renewable diesel, is now exploring ways to introduce liquefied waste plastic as a future raw material for fossil refining. The aim of the development project is to proceed to industrial scale trial during 2019. In Europe, some 27 million tons of post-consumer plastic waste is generated annually.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2019

Shell will join a consortium comprising Air Liquide, Nouryon (formerly AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals), Enerkem and the Port of Rotterdam in an effort to build Europe’s first advanced waste-to-chemicals facility in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Neste, the world’s leading provider of renewable diesel, renewable jet fuel, and an expert in delivering drop-in renewable chemical solutions, and REMONDIS, one of the world’s largest privately owned recycling, service and water companies, have signed an agreement to collaborate in the development of chemical recycling of plastic waste.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2020

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have developed an onboard separation system that could support increased fuel economy and lower greenhouse gas emissions as part of an octane-on-demand fuel-delivery system. Based on early industry feedback, the team is focusing on the SAMMS approach.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 21, 2021

Today it is one of the largest battery recycling plants in China and has more than 10 years of experience in the industry. It’s had its up and downs, but through it all, it’s built a multi-directional and cross-regional battery waste recycling system. […].

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2021

Infinium, an electrofuels solution provider, announced the close of a funding round bringing together a consortium of investors including Amazon’s Climate Pledge Fund, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), AP Ventures, Neuman & Esser, and the Grantham Environmental Trust. —Robert Schuetzle, CEO of Infinium.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

In Italy, Eni and Hera signed a partnership agreement with the aim of converting used vegetable oil into renewable diesel for Hera’s waste collection vehicles. The agreement revolves around household waste vegetable oil, such as that used for frying, collected by Hera in around 400 roadside containers and about 120 collection centres.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Under the terms of the agreement, XL Fleet and Curbtender will jointly develop a series of battery electric (BEV) and plug-in hybrid electric (PHEV) commercial trucks for use in waste management applications. The Quantum is the US Waste Industry’s #1 selling small rear loader. Curbtender Quantum.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

This enables DSM and its customers to reduce the carbon footprint of their own products while supporting the industry to transition to a circular economy. These polymers are used, for example, in the automotive, electronics and packaging industries. —Shruti Singhal, President DSM Engineering Materials.

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Polymer Waste Renewable Oil 273

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2018

million grant to researchers at Texas A&M AgriLife Research to investigate potential discoveries for waste products used in lignocellulosic biofuel production, turning them into valuable agents used in producing commercial products such as biodiesel and asphalt binding agents. The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded a $2.2-million

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Tenneco and Gentherm (formerly BSST/Amerigon) are part of a US Department of Energy (DOE) consortium actively developing a thermoelectric generator (TEG) for capturing waste exhaust heat in vehicles and converting it to electrical energy to be used to power electrical systems within the vehicle. Source: Crane (2013).Click Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

a leading waste-to-biofuels and chemicals producer, has completed a C$280-million (US$223 million) investment round—its largest to date. The technology converts non-recyclable, non-compostable municipal solid waste into methanol, ethanol and other widely-used chemicals. Canada-based Enerkem Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2016

the core company of the Teijin Group’s carbon fibers and composites business, announced that its German subsidiary Toho Tenax Europe GmbH (TTE) would participate in a technology development project aimed at contributing to Industry 4.0, the German initiative for consistent digitization and linking of all productive units in an economy.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2020

VSPC’s active program to reduce costs even further includes its evaluation of industrial waste materials as feed, as well as the production of cathode-material precursors derived from spent LIBs. Beyond that, the use of common bulk commodities such as manganese, iron and phosphorus reduces costs.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2021

This combined offering helps meet the urgent need to remove carbon emissions in hard-to-decarbonize sectors of the economy. This can be recovered from either industrial processes or biomass, such as waste and residues, or atmospheric sources.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2023

Spain-based AIMPLAS, the Plastics Technology Centre, is working on the RECICAUTXU Project, which focuses on developing industrial processes to obtain a new generation of composite materials loaded with devulcanized rubber particles from ELTs and even other kinds of cross-linked materials.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The recycling of plastic waste plays a large conceptual role in the quesst for the realization of a circular economy. Polypropylene constitutes about 30% of all plastic waste. A paper on their work is published in ChemSusChem.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2023

RecycLiCo Battery Materials has achieved another milestone in its demo plant testing efforts, successfully producing bulk quantities of battery-grade lithium carbonate from an industrial feed of cathode scrap.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 7, 2022

million metric tons of electronic waste in 2019, up more than 21% over five years, according to the United Nations’ most recent assessment. Only about 17% of that e-waste was recycled, and what happens to the rest can be detrimental for both human health and privacy. The world generated a record 53.6 We have so, so, so many devices.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Following successful field trial results, Cemvita has created a wholly owned subsidiary for the Gold Hydrogen business, Gold H2 LLC (GH2), and subsequently raised and closed funding into the entity, led by founding investors Chart Industries and 8090 Industries. —Charles Nelson, Chief Business Officer of Cemvita.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2021

The UK Department for Transport has shortlisted 8 industry-led projects to receive a share of £15 million (US$21 million) in the Green Fuels, Green Skies (GFGS) competition for the development of sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) production plants in the UK. Research indicates that by 2040 the SAF sector could generate between £0.7

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Electric Vehicles India

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Govt aims to expand ethanol industry & EV sales penetration . The government highlighted the flex-fuel vehicles will play an important role to decarbonize the transport sector by making it more sustainable for the environment, economy, and ecology. Read further to know more about EV sales penetration. .

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

a waste-to-biofuels and chemicals producer, has signed an agreement with AkzoNobel, a leading global paints and coatings company and a major producer of specialty chemicals, to develop a project partnership to explore the development of waste-to-chemicals facilities in Europe. Enerkem Inc.,

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Driivz

MAY 3, 2021

That’s where EV industry associations come in. The organizations’ annual conferences and webinars promote information sharing among eMobility leaders to drive the industry forward. The EV ecosystem consists of many dependencies, requiring the coming together of manufacturers, consumers, governments, utilities, software vendors, etc.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 9, 2024

The Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) collaborated with the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board to organise a ‘Circularity Workshop’ on ‘Extended Producer Responsibility Regime: An Innovative Policy Tool for Fostering a Sustainable Circular Economy in the Automotive Industry.’

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Creative Greenius

JULY 11, 2022

That’s granting the workers who pocketed great salaries and benefits, while filling our air and water with toxic waste, a free pass from taking any responsibility for their actions. I want to see the residents of those communities put at the front of the line for guaranteed job training and employment in the clean energy industries.

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Discover EV

MARCH 23, 2020

The problem of e-waste is a growing concern across all markets that are part of the rapid adoption of EVs. With useful battery lives varying, but most manufacturers betting on around a decade, in a few years we could be looking an a waste mountain.

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