Hacker News with Generative AI: Recycling

UK tyres meant for recycling sent to furnaces in India (bbc.com)
Millions of tyres being sent from the UK to India for recycling are actually being "cooked" in makeshift furnaces causing serious health problems and huge environmental damage, the BBC has discovered.

Recycling, Environment, India, UK, Pollution

6 points by NoRagrets 9 days ago | 0 comments

Toyota's 'Circular Factory' Idea Could Be a Great Alternative to Junk Yards (thedrive.com)
With one junked car at a time, Toyota looks to reduce, reuse, and recycle its way into another profit stream while keeping trash out of well, actual streams.

Sustainability, Automotive Industry, Recycling, Manufacturing, Business

22 points by zfg 9 days ago | 5 comments

UK tyres meant for recycling sent to furnaces in India (bbc.co.uk)
Millions of tyres being sent from the UK to India for recycling are actually being "cooked" in makeshift furnaces causing serious health problems and huge environmental damage, the BBC has discovered.

Environmental Issues, Recycling, International Trade, India, UK

9 points by sarreph 10 days ago | 0 comments

Nearly 100% of Lithium Recycled in Latest EV Battery Breakthrough (insideevs.com)
Chinese battery scientists developed a special technique to make battery recycling cheaper and way more efficient.

Battery Technology, Lithium, Recycling, Electric Vehicles

9 points by toomuchtodo 11 days ago | 0 comments

Perovskite Solar Cells Can Be Completely Recycled (physicsworld.com)
A research team headed up at Linköping University in Sweden and Cornell University in the US has succeeded in recycling almost all of the components of perovskite solar cells using simple, non-toxic, water-based solvents.

Solar Cells, Recycling, Materials Science, Energy

6 points by EA-3167 11 days ago | 2 comments

Battery breakthrough as 99.99% of lithium extracted from old cells (the-independent.com)
Scientists have discovered a way to recycle nearly 100 per cent of the materials within lithium-ion batteries.

Battery Technology, Recycling, Sustainability

8 points by tambourine_man 21 days ago | 0 comments

DIY "infinity contrast" TV – with 100% recycled parts [video] (youtube.com)

DIY, Television, Recycling, Video, Technology

122 points by HelloUsername 30 days ago | 66 comments

Aqueous-based recycling of perovskite photovoltaics (nature.com)
Cumulative silicon photovoltaic (PV) waste highlights the importance of considering waste recycling before the commercialization of emerging PV technologies1,2.

Science, Solar Energy, Materials Science, Recycling

26 points by PaulHoule 41 days ago | 8 comments

Railings Made from WWII Stretchers (wikipedia.org)
Stretcher railings are railings or fences which enclose some buildings in London, England, that were made of repurposed medical stretchers left over from the Blitz during World War II.

History, Architecture, London, Recycling

11 points by lqet 41 days ago | 1 comments

Waste Wars: The Afterlife of Trash (nytimes.com)
In the closing years of the Cold War, something strange started to happen.

Recycling, Environmentalism, Misinformation

10 points by mgav 49 days ago | 5 comments

Convert plastic bottles into 3D printer filament (sustainabledesign.studio)
Convert plastic bottles into 3D printer filament!

Recycling, 3D Printing, Sustainability

35 points by svarrall 56 days ago | 14 comments

You Can't Recycle Bowling Balls – But People Keep Trying (2021) (curbed.com)
Every day, collection trucks from Brooklyn and barges from Queens and the Bronx arrive at Sims Municipal Recycling in Sunset Park, loaded up with old phone books and plastic sporks, metal faucets and glass bottles.

Recycling, Environment

8 points by nafnlj 59 days ago | 8 comments

University of Alabama Engineer Pioneers New Process for Recycling Plastics (news.ua.edu)
Plastic recycling is commonplace but imperfect. Part of the problem, says Dr. Jason Bara, is that current processes yield lower-quality plastics with reduced value and fewer end uses. In a circular plastic economy, any plastic could be broken down to its component parts and then reconstituted into new products with little or no waste.

Engineering, Recycling, Plastics, Materials Science

169 points by thunderbong 89 days ago | 200 comments

Redwood Materials recycled a record 20 GWh of batteries in 2024 (twitter.com)

Recycling, Battery Technology, Sustainability, Environmentalism, Business

3 points by peterisza 91 days ago | 1 comments

Sport produces mountains of high-tech waste. We've New ways to recycle it (theconversation.com)
Sport produces mountains of high-tech waste. We are finding new ways to recycle it

Sports, Technology, Recycling, Sustainability

5 points by gnabgib 94 days ago | 0 comments

Plastic List (plasticlist.org)

Plastic, Recycling, Sustainability

12 points by alphabetting 97 days ago | 1 comments

South Korea's mountain of plastic waste shows limits of recycling (japantimes.co.jp)
South Korea has won international praise for its recycling efforts, but as it prepares to host talks for a global plastic waste agreement, experts say the country's approach highlights its limits.

South Korea, Recycling, Environmental Issues, Plastic Waste, Global Agreements

12 points by PaulHoule 113 days ago | 7 comments

Cups tossed in recycling bins at Starbucks tracked to incinerators and landfill (cbsnews.com)

Environmental Issues, Waste Management, Starbucks, Recycling

31 points by ilamont 118 days ago | 22 comments

Apple's Activation Lock is becoming a barrier to recycling (youtube.com)

Apple, Recycling, Security, Technology

4 points by trinsic2 120 days ago | 1 comments

Black plastics may contain toxic compounds that can leach into food, experts say (cbc.ca)
Takeout containers and utensils made of some recycled black plastics may contain chemicals used in electronics, according to a recently published study.

Food Safety, Plastics, Environment, Recycling, Health

21 points by pseudolus 122 days ago | 4 comments

Bye-bye microplastics: new plastic is recyclable and ocean-degradable (riken.jp)
Researchers led by Takuzo Aida at the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS) have developed a durable plastic that won’t contribute to microplastic pollution in our oceans.

Plastic Pollution, Materials Science, Environmental Science, Recycling

7 points by JeanKage 127 days ago | 2 comments

A $60B-a-Year Climate Solution Is Sitting in Our Junk Drawers (motherjones.com)
In rich nations, just a fraction of e-waste is mined for critical metals. We’re going to have to up our game.

Climate Change, Sustainability, Recycling, Technology, Resources

4 points by ggm 131 days ago | 0 comments

Pulling gold out of e-waste suddenly becomes super-profitable (newatlas.com)
A new method for recovering high-purity gold from discarded electronics is paying back US$50 for every dollar spent, according to researchers – who found the key gold-filtering substance in cheesemaking, of all places.

Recycling, Materials Science, Technology, Sustainability, Business

8 points by infrml 132 days ago | 2 comments

Mercedes-Benz opens its own recycling facility for EV batteries (arstechnica.com)
Today, Mercedes-Benz opened its first battery-recycling plant in Germany.

Recycling, Electric Vehicles, Sustainability, Germany, Automotive

35 points by PaulHoule 153 days ago | 9 comments

Graphene and chitosan sponge 10x more efficient at removing gold from e-waste (phys.org)
A team of chemists and materials scientists at the National University of Singapore, working with colleagues from Manchester University, in the U.K., and Guangdong University of Technology, in China, has developed a type of sponge made of graphene oxide and chitosan, that can be used to extract gold from electronic waste.

Materials Science, Nanotechnology, Environmental Technology, Recycling

3 points by thebeardisred 156 days ago | 0 comments

Experts say a proposed revamp to the recycling symbol is still deceptive (grist.org)
Experts say a proposed revamp to the recycling symbol is still deceptive — and probably illegal

Recycling, Environmentalism, Consumerism, Sustainability

19 points by everybodyknows 157 days ago | 6 comments

Carbon Sequestration by Recycling Cement, Aggregates, and Concrete (mdpi.com)
As the world’s largest producer of construction waste, China’s recycling and related policies are of the biggest concern to the world.

Recycling, Concrete, Environmental Sustainability, China, Construction

37 points by PaulHoule 163 days ago | 11 comments

Mercedes-Benz battery recycling plant recovers '96%' of materials (electrek.co)
Mercedes-Benz just opened Europe’s first battery recycling plant using an innovative process that the automaker says enables recycling rate to more than 96%, all in-house and ready to be used in future Mercedes EVs.

Sustainability, Electric Vehicles, Automotive, Recycling

33 points by peutetre 164 days ago | 18 comments

Pyrolysis technology for plastic waste recycling: a review (sciencedirect.com)

Waste Management, Recycling, Technology, Environmental Science

5 points by thunderbong 176 days ago | 0 comments

Exxon Mobil's 'Advanced' Technique for Recycling Plastic? Burning It (yahoo.com)
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Exxon Mobil, Recycling, Plastics, Environmental Issues, Energy

21 points by signa11 186 days ago | 0 comments