Redwood Wins $2 Billion Federal Loan To Scale Up Production Of Battery Materials For Electric Cars

Redwood Materials is starting to produce anode material for lithium-ion batteries in Carson City, Nevada. Redwood Materials Redwood Materials, the battery recycling and components maker created by Tes...

Redwood Materials nabs $2 billion loan for battery recycling in Nevada

JB Straubel sits down with CNBC’s Phil LeBeau at Redwood Materials. Redwood Materials has attained a $2 billion loan commitment from the Department of Energy, the agency announced on Thursday vi...

In West Texas, Water Is Scarce For Fracking, Expensive For Recycling, Cheap For Disposal Wells, And It Causes M5 Earthquakes.

Permian oil pump jacks in Eddy County, New Mexico. AFP via Getty Images The Permian basin of West Texas and New Mexico is desert for the most part. The desert is called the Chihuahuan but is not raw d...

Iconic Club That Launched Taylor Swift Turns 40 And Goes Green – The Bluebird Café, Women-Led

NASHVILLE, TN – MARCH 31: Craig Wiseman and special guest Taylor Swift perform onstage at Bluebird … [+] Cafe on March 31, 2018 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by John Shearer/Getty Images...

Recycling And Reuse? Ways To Win The War On Waste

Big F&B companies are taking steps to advance waste solutions, even as current product packaging … [+] continues to accumulate. getty No one can question that we have a global problem with f...

How Ikea, Beautycounter And DHL Do It

Electric delivery trucks are parked outside an Ikea store in Amsterdam which is the second city in … [+] the world after Shanghai where IKEA will deliver all packages with electric vehicles. ...

Jordan Peele’s Nope Participated In NBCUniversal’s Sustainable Production Program

Director Jordan Peele attends the World Premiere Of Universal Pictures “Nope” at the Chinese theatre … [+] in Hollywood, California, July 18, 2022. (Photo by VALERIE MACON / AFP) (Ph...

Atlantic Packaging Continues Its Mission Of Leading Change

Atlantic Packaging creates fiber-based alternative packaging, like the packaging for this surfboard, … [+] to help reduce plastic waste and increase recycling. Image courtesy Atlantic Packaging ...

GM’s Affordable Electric Car, Crypto’s Energy Impact And Rotary’s Battery Recycling

This week’s Current Climate, which every Saturday brings you the latest news about the business of sustainability. Sign up to get it in your inbox every week. Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Earlie...

Rotary Club Collecting E-Waste To Help JB Straubel’s Redwood Materials Make EV Batteries

Redwood Materials employees start the recycling process for an old automotive battery pack. Redwood Materials Redwood Materials, a battery recycling and materials company started by Tesla cofounder JB...

Tornado Cash: recycling also for NFT scams

For Elliptic Enterprise, Tornado Cash was also a laundering tool for NFT scams before being sanctioned by the US.  Tornado Cash: laundering for NFT scams before U.S. sanctions Elliptic Enterprise, a b...

How Bill Gates-Backed Republic Services Turns Trash Into Big Cash

Garbage was the ultimate commodity business until a young McKinsey consultant saw how Republic Services could transform itself into a profit machine by pricing all sorts of trash at a premium. Now he’...

Battery recycling could be the next investor darling of the EV era

Automakers and suppliers, keen to fortify an EV supply chain and avoid raw materials shortages, are turning to a domain once overlooked: battery recycling. Suddenly awash in interest from EV makers an...

Footprint Says To Ditch Your Plastic Packaging

Footprint’s molded fiber packaging is a direct replacement for current plastic containers. Image courtesy Footprint There’s a fascinating twist to the origin story of Footprint, a Gilbert, Arizo...

Blockchain is the Solution to Recycling

For a long time, improper waste management has been polluting oceans and landfill sites with plastic that will never break down. The waste to water ratio of water bodies is devastatingly alarming. In ...

Best Buy’s New Environmentally Sound Service Will Cost You

Best BuyBBY recently became the first national retailer to offer a service that picks up old tech from customers’ homes to be recycled. The price of the service, at $199, however, may come with some s...

Mattel Continues Its Efforts To Be Greener By Expanding Its Toy Recycling Program

Mattel is offering free shipping to parents who want to recycle Fisher-Price toys, as part of its … [+] expanded Mattel Playback program. ©2021 Mattel Teri Weber MatteMAT l has added Fisher-Pric...

Alterra Energy Looks To Blow The Lid Off Plastics Recycling

Alterra has developed proprietary technology to economically recycle mixed plastics. Image courtesy Alterra Energy The world has a plastic waste problem. That’s probably not news to you. Standard recy...

Australia opens facility to convert human waste into fertilizer

A sewage treatment plant. The idea of reusing organic matter or waste in industrial processes and other initiatives is not a new one, and the last few years have seen a number of interesting projects ...

Liquidation services resell returned items, a $644 billion business

Inside Liquidity Services’ 130,000-square-foot warehouse in Garland, Texas, the aisles aren’t lined with typical merchandise. Instead, they’re stacked with returns from Amazon, Targe...

Walmart’s InHome hunts for ways to ditch single-use plastics

Walmart is trying to reduce its reliance on single-use plastic bags. It has a pilot program through its subscription grocery service, InHome. Nicholas Pizzolato When Walmart rolled out a new grocery d...

Panasonic To Make Tesla Battery Cells With Recycled Material From JB Straubel’s Redwood

Redwood Materials plans to build a $1 billion plant to make cathode and anode material for electric car batteries starting in 2025. Redwood Materials Panasonic, Tesla’s main battery partner since its ...