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...“With this unprecedented supply of cheaper materials, how does recycling compete in that environment? It is a much tougher environment than we have seen previously.”...
...But the Industrial Revolution, the upscaling of material production and the rise of mass-produced house building changed the game in many parts of the world....
...Tesla co-founder JB Straubel’s battery recycling start-up is in talks to raise $700mn in a deal that would value it at almost $5bn and help fund the company’s first major plant in Nevada....
...But big US waste companies have been investing hundreds of millions of dollars to improve their recycling facilities, including new tech to sort materials, a Morgan Stanley report noted in June 2022....
...Much of the tangled steel rebar, hunks of concrete, and aluminium, stone, timber and glass from buildings demolished across the capital is destined for recycling plants, where it will be crushed into tiny...
...This article has been updated to clarify that Higg Inc has rebranded as Worldly, not the Higg Index as incorrectly stated in a previous version. ...
...Rivian founder and chief executive RJ Scaringe chose Normal for its first factory, buying a former Mitsubishi car plant weeks away from demolition for $16mn in 2017....
...The economist Kumagai suggested that introducing wastewater recycling facilities at factories and expanding agricultural insurance programmes could be critical measures to cushion the economic fallout from...
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...InfraBuild, an Australian steel and recycling business, is considered one of the Indian-born industrialist’s most stable assets....
...Tesla co-founder JB Straubel’s ambitious battery recycling start-up Redwood Materials has raised more than $700m in a funding round as it seeks to upend the US supply chain for electric vehicles....
...Europe is the leader in industrial gas....
...But if electric cars are zero-emission already, why is recycling their batteries so important?...
...For industrial companies, it means rethinking fuels, replacing machines and commodity choices....
...The proposed loan would have sat at a holding company above Gupta’s InfraBuild, an Australian steel and recycling business that is considered one of the most stable assets within the industrialist’s GFG...
...The bitcoin investment amounts to a recycling of some of the billions of dollars Musk has been able to raise from stock market investors on the back of Tesla’s booming share price....
...All of these matter, but to me, the sheer undesirability of factory farming and industrial fishing are the icing on the cake. How can investors play this mega trend over the next decade or so?...
...Perhaps the seemingly defunct architectures of the recent past can be repurposed in the same way the industrial buildings of the 19th and 20th centuries have been made into lofts, galleries and restaurants...
...More than 40 big companies, including Mars Inc, PepsiCo and Unilever, are now experimenting with reusable packaging, according to the foundation....
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...Apollo’s monstrous rival Recycling and the science of plastics are not new concepts — they were explored in gory detail in Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein....
...“We may talk about styling but in truth real industrial design is so much more sophisticated and complex,” says MoMA’s Ms Antonelli....
...Nespresso says aluminium is not the problem because it can be recycled but concedes it needs to do more to encourage the recycling of pods....
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