Recycled

The very first deployment of Siemens Gamesa’s 108-meter-long (354-feet-long) B108 recycled blades is headed to RWE’s 1.4 gigawatt (GW) Sofia offshore wind farm at Dogger Bank, off the UK’s east coast. In 2022, global renewable energy giant RWE became the first commercial, large-scale offshore developer to install Siemens Gamesa’s recycled blade technology RecyclableBlade, at its Kaskasi offshore wind farm in Germany. Kaskasi features 81-meter-long (266-feet-long) RecyclableBlades on select…

The big promise of electric cars is that they’ll radically cut down on carbon emissions, helping fight climate change. And at first glance, they do so — after all, you don’t have to fill the tank with fossil fuels every few days, and there are no emissions from the car itself. But the truth is a little murkier. Electric cars may not produce emissions themselves, but they have much bigger batteries requiring exotic metals, potentially creating a whole different environmental issue when those batteries near the end of…

Through its joint project, MaterialLoop, Audi is proving you can turn old cars into new ones. The project aims to “close the loop” on materials, such as steel, aluminum, plastic, and glass, recycling them to build new cars and significantly reduce emissions and waste. Gas-powered cars emit around 4.6 metric tons of carbon dioxide each year, according to EPA data. However, even before these vehicles reach the road and long after, they are polluting the earth. Producing aluminum, steel,…

Image: Images: Glass Half Full NOLA Graphics: Vicky LetaGlass Half Full and Tulane University researchers are winners of the 2023 Gizmodo Science Fair for recycling glass bottles and using them to restore shoreline in Louisiana.The QuestionCan a glass recycling project divert New Orleans’ glass bottles from landfills and turn them into sand for emergency response and shoreline restoration?The Results When their project began in early 2020, the Glass Half Full team had just a small machine that could crush one glass…

<!----> Honda Motor announced a basic agreement with Ascend Elements, a US based company with expertise in recycling battery resources. The companies intend to collaborate toward stable procurement of resources from recycled lithium ion batteries in North America necessary for…

Volkswagen is going to put recycled materials in the rest of the ID. series that have already been mass-produced in the ID. Buzz. The Volkswagen ID. Buzz’s interior is made up of a sizable amount of recycled materials, and those materials will be gradually introduced in the ID.3, ID.4, ID.5, and ID.7. For example, many of the Buzz’s interior components are made of recycled ocean plastic, or 63 (yes, VW is precise) 500 ml PET bottles. The Buzz’s seat cover’s outer material is made of…

Image: Tide/BoompodsAll these environmental considerations help to explain why Boompods -- a British electronics design company that makes peripherals, such as speakers, headphones, and ear buds, power banks and charging cables -- is using recycled ocean plastic to build devices that people use every day, while also aiding the fight against plastic pollution. Boompods founder David Tansley says one of the reasons he's steering the company toward using recycled ocean plastics is because of the amount of plastic…

Image: Tide/BoompodsAll these environmental considerations help to explain why Boompods -- a British electronics design company that makes peripherals, such as speakers, headphones, and ear buds, power banks and charging cables -- is using recycled ocean plastic to build devices that people use every day, while also aiding the fight against plastic pollution. Boompods founder David Tansley says one of the reasons he's steering the company toward using recycled ocean plastics is because of the amount of plastic…

Nokia X30 was unveiled at IFA 2022 in Berlin on September 1, 2022. HMD Global has positioned the Nokia X30 as its most eco-friendly handset ever while being powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 695 5G SoC, features a 6.43-inch AMOLED display. Nokia now seems to be gearing up to launch the Nokia X30 5G smartphone in India, according to a tweet by HMD Global's Vice President for India & MENA, Mr. Sanmeet Kochhar.In the tweet, HMD Global's Vice President for India & MENA Mr. Sanmeet Kochhar, confirmed that the Nokia X30…

Samsung Electronics said it aims to broaden the use of eco-conscious materials to all its smartphone products in the coming years.The world's largest smartphone maker said it plans to use recycled plastic materials in all its new flagship Galaxy smartphones and stop using plastics in packaging by 2025, reports Yonhap news agency.It also aims to use 100% recycled plastic parts in all of its smartphone products by 2050."You might question what impact our campaign can have on the Earth's environment, but it is quite a…