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"EV battery recycling key to easing future lithium supply constraints, modeling study shows"
#EV #ElectricVehicle #Cars

EV battery recycling key to easing future lithium supply constraints, modeling study shows
Lightweight, powerful lithium-ion batteries are crucial for the transition to electric vehicles, and global demand for lithium is set to grow rapidly over the next 25 years. A new analysis from the University of California, Davis, published May 29 in Nature Sustainability, looks at how new mining operations and battery recycling could meet that demand. Recycling could play a big role in easing supply constraints, the researchers found.

Please make sure to mention at the bottom of the press release that the nuclear power station laptops will have their disks wiped before being given to teenagers.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/laptop-recycling-at-sellafield-helps-to-b…

Laptop recycling at Sellafield helps to bridge the digital divide
A collaborative laptop recycling scheme, is helping to bridge the digital divide across our local communities.

This is pretty awesome, well done #Pembrokeshire CC!
Small electrical items now accepted in kerbside #recycling collections
https://newsroom.pembrokeshire.gov.uk/news/small-electrical-items-now-accepted-in-kerbside-recycling-collections

Replaced article(s) found for cs.LG. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/new
[2/6]:
- EigenLoRAx: Recycling Adapters to Find Principal Subspaces for Resource-Efficient Adaptation and ...
Prakhar Kaushik, Ankit Vaidya, Shravan Chaudhari, Alan Yuille

Tesla unterschreibt Wasservertrag zu Recycling in Grünheide
In einem neuen Vertrag mit dem regionalen Wasserversorger sollte Tesla höhere Grenzwerte bekommen, wenn der Hersteller Wasser spart. Nun steht eine Einigung.

"Unique Miami Recycling Company Gives Discarded Shoes New Traction"
#Recycling #Shoes #Clothes

Unique Miami Recycling Company Gives Discarded Shoes New Traction
It was seen as a more environmentally friendly way to do business, but second-hand shoes is a good gig—the only competition is the landfill.

We sold about 200 items in our yard sale last Saturday, and today, I took two carloads of stuff to the donation site at our recycling centre. I feel like I'm being judged by the quality of my junk (" OH... we don't want that") even though I realize the community thrift store is flooded with donations and can't take everything. Only about 10% of my junk was deemed trash, so I'll take that as a win.
#Recycling #Donation

Enzyme-based plastics recycling at an industrial scale could be cost-effective, analysis finds
https://phys.org/news/2025-06-enzyme-based-plastics-recycling-industrial.html

HEY! My MP Gord Johns up with the first Petition of the new Parliament!
Presenting a petition to
"Develop enforceable federal standards to reduce the negative environmental and social impacts of ship recycling that meet or exceed those set out in the Hong Kong and EU Conventions for the safe recycling of ships; and
2. End shipbreaking in Baynes Sound.”
Johns: ”THIS IS THE FOURTH YEAR I HAVE TABLED THIS PETITION AND NO ACTION”
#CanPoli #CdnPoli

We have to talk about burning trash🗑️🔥
Waste incinerators / waste-to-energy plants that generate electricity and heat are an enormous and often underestimated source of CO2 🏭💨🌎. For example, in Germany, a country where waste-to-energy plants are common, their emissions are higher than those of cement.
Waste incinerator operators will often claim that half of their emissions don't count 🌿 or even that they already have net-negative emissions 🌎. I disagree with both 🧵

Just Stop Burning Trash
Waste-to-energy plants are a massive source of carbon dioxide emissions. Yet, it is not obvious what the best solution for high-emitting incinerators would be. Should incinerators be equiped with carbon capture? How much can recycling rates be improved, and what role should chemical recycling play? And could landfills be a carbon storage solution?

Series C, Episode 04 - Dawn of the Gods
AVON: Orac has a weakness: a thirst for knowledge. Infallibility depends upon your point of view.
TARRANT: How about testing his infallibility in the recycling machine?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/304/31 B7B4

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Fenceline (or frontline) communities are residential areas that sit next to high polluting facilities that emit pollutants like noise, light, odours, chemicals, and even traffic.
Lynn Jacobs explains that less than a kilometer from her home and across from the KahnawŠ:ke Survival (High) School are waste management facilities, including one that recycles plastic battery casings.
“In the summer, we smell plastic burning odours because the process of the recycling is, it gets shredd…

Sacrifice Zones: Life along the fenceline between the land and industry
Lynn Jacobs opens a gate to the backyard of her small homestead, taking slow strides

"Reusable cups take center stage as venues ditch single-use plastic"
#Reusables #Environment

Reusable cups take center stage as venues ditch single-use plastic
Music venues, arenas and festivals across the United States are swapping single-use plastic cups for washable, reusable ones in a growing shift away from recycling toward full-scale reuse.Anna Phillips reports for The Washington Post.In short:About 200 U.S. venues now use r.World’s reusable drinkwar...

Today we used a "Grätzlrad" (one of many free cargo bikes provided by the Mobilitätsagentur Wien) to transport our old stove to the recycling center. #bicycle

Die Recycling-Ralle aus der Familie der Rallen (Rallidae).
#RecyclingRalle #Birds #BirdsOfMastodon

The recent European switch to attached bottle lids for recycling is very interesting to me, because as an American I've always been told that plastic bottle caps *cannot* be recycled, and should be thrown in the trash while only the bottle itself gets recycled.
Anybody know the origin for this? Was it just a desire to sell more single-use plastics? Are detached lids so small that the effort to extract them from the waste stream is too much to justify the amount of material you get?…

Absurder Hinweis: Das braune Recycling ToiPa gefällt mir nicht, das sieht in der Schüssel so komisch aus! Ohne Worte …

KAT-Züge rückten an - Großbrand unter Kontrolle, Warnung bleibt aufrecht #News #Nachrichten

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.07527 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

Can slow pulsars in Milky Way globular clusters form via partial recycling?
Alongside the population of several hundred radio millisecond pulsars currently known in Milky Way globular clusters, a subset of six slowly spinning pulsars (spin periods $0.3-4\,$s) are also observed. With inferred magnetic fields $\gtrsim 10^{11}\,$G and characteristic ages $\lesssim10^8\,$yr, explaining the formation of these apparently young pulsars in old stellar populations poses a major challenge. One popular explanation is that these objects are not actually young but instead have been…

"Safe and easy ways to recycle electricals – and even get money for your old gadgets"
#Electronics #Technology #Recycling

"Plastic-Recycling Enzyme Discovered in Compost Heap Close to Commercialization Through German Startup"
#Plastic #Plastics #Germany

Plastic-Recycling Enzyme Discovered in Compost Heap Close to Commercialization Through German Startup
If successful, their 2030 plan will be four 350 cubic-meter reactors capable of processing 45,000 metric tons of PET plastic every year.

Comment on "Politicizing science funding undermines public trust in science, academic freedom, and the unbiased generation of knowledge"
John M. Herbert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.18196

Comment on "Politicizing science funding undermines public trust in science, academic freedom, and the unbiased generation of knowledge"
In a commentary published in mid-2024 (to which the present work is a direct response), a number of scientists argue that U.S. funding agencies have "politicized" the process by which grants are awarded, in service of diversifying the scientific workforce. The commentary in question, however, makes numerous unfounded assertions while recycling citations to a fusillade of opinion essays written by the same cabal of authors, in an effort to resemble a work of serious scholarship. Basic fact-check…

"A solar panel recycling scheme would help reduce waste, but please repair and reuse first"
#SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

A solar panel recycling scheme would help reduce waste, but please repair and reuse first
Older rooftop solar systems are being scrapped – often well before the end of their useful life. Establishing a product stewardship scheme is part of the solution.

Nussdorf-Debant
Explosionen bei Großbrand in Osttirol
Samstagnachmittag ist in einer Recycling-Anlage in Nußdorf-Debant in Osttirol ein Brand ausgebrochen. Dabei kam es zu mehreren lautstarken Explosionen. 13 Feuerwehren stehen im Einsatz, um den Brand zu löschen. Die Bevölkerung wurde aufgefordert, Fenster und Türen geschlossen zu halten.
Verzicht auf Herz-Jesu-Feuer in Osttirol
Das Land rief am späten Nachmittag dazu auf, in Osttirol auf Herz-Jesu-Feuer zu verzichten. Wenn noch etwas passieren würde, würden keine Feuerwehren mehr zur Verfügung stehen.
https://tirol.orf.at/stories/3311450/

Teurer Schwund - Pfand-Muffel lassen 100 Millionen Euro liegen #News #Nachrichten

Looking at hopeful ebay entries for people trying to sell the Gü glass ramekins that they couldn't bear to put in the recycling.

Finally whole again. Picked up a new refurb bike from revolve reCYCLING, highly recommend for anyone in Sydney.
Pictured in background, my beloved retro aluminium frame steed also from revolve. Alas, time has taken it's toll and the metal of the fear fork fractured. Looking to have it welded back together shortly.
#sydney

"Plastic bag bans help: Study finds up to 47% drop in shoreline bag litter"
#Plastic #Plastics #Environment

Plastic bag bans help: Study finds up to 47% drop in shoreline bag litter
Among the biggest culprits of plastic pollution in the ocean and along shorelines are thin plastic shopping bags, which have low recycling rates and often become litter when they blow away in the wind. Once there, they can entangle animals and break down into harmful microplastics. As awareness of this problem has grown, more than 100 countries have instituted bans or fees on plastic bags. But what effect those policies are having on the amount of plastic litter in the marine environment has no…

"New tech gives second life to plastic farm waste"
#Plastic #Plastics #Environment

New tech gives second life to plastic farm waste
In a study published in the journal Recycling, the research team analyzed the thermal, physical and mechanical properties of various plastic waste materials to determine the optimal temperature to process them using a groundbreaking, cost-efficient melting machine developed by partner company Ritchie Technology (Rtec).

"This startup turns steel and aluminum waste into usable metals"
#US #USA #America #Chicargo

This start-up turns steel and aluminum waste into usable metals
Chicago-area Sun Metalon removes gunk and grime from metal slivers normally thrown away, helping to reduce emissions from aluminum and steel production.