The rise of electric vehicles is a critical part of the move away from fossil fuels and the "greening" of transport. However, it isn't without its environmental challenges, one of the major issues ...

A new recycling technique developed in China claims to capture 99.99% of the lithium in spent electric vehicle batteries, a level of recovery that would have sounded fanciful only a few years ago. By ...

How can electronic waste, also known as e-waste, be recycled without resulting in negative environmental impacts that are often produced with traditional e-waste recycling methods? This is what a ...

A research team has developed a method to recycle valuable metals from electronic waste more efficiently while significantly reducing the environmental impact typically associated with metal recycling ...

Electrodes removed from the batteries. Electrodes consist of a film made of aluminum or copper, for example, covered with a thin layer of active material. Researchers at Aalto University in Finland ...

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd., a research and development partner based in Espoo, Finland, has announced that it has demonstrated how chemical recycling offers an alternative to ...

A research team led by Professor Kotohiro Nomura from Tokyo Metropolitan University has developed a method for the depolymerization of PET (polyethylene terephthalate) using alcohols and an ...

For years, the arguments against renewable power focused on its high costs. But as the price of wind and solar plunged, the arguments shifted. Suddenly, concerns about the waste left behind when solar ...

Researchers at the University of Bath report that they have developed a method for chemically recycling PMMA, one of the world’s most widely used plastics that is difficult to recycle effectively by ...

Despite polyethylene terephthalate (PET) being one of the most widely recycled plastics, only about 20% of used PET bottles are actually recovered as high-quality raw materials. The majority are ...