Union of Concerned Scientists
DECEMBER 12, 2022
In 2010, China was producing 95% of rare earth elements , but since 2016 has decreased rare earth element mining down to 60% of world production today. Recycling rare earth elements. Supporting rare earth element recycling. In Baotou, Inner Mongolia, 1 in 7 Baotou residents—a city of several million—has cancer.
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
In 1992, after five years of research, China decided to cooperate with Russia on the construction of an experimental fast reactor (CEFR), with the ultimate goal of pursuing a closed nuclear fuel cycle —a process in which spent nuclear fuel is reprocessed and recycled to extract usable materials for further energy production.
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Environmental News Bits
AUGUST 17, 2022
Circular, launched in June and based in Palo Alto, California, is an online marketplace for buyers and sellers of post-consumer recycled plastic. Cirplus has been doing that since 2018 out of Hamburg, Germany.
Circle of Blue
OCTOBER 27, 2021
The Idaho capital wants to begin recycling wastewater for industrial use and divert a portion of the recycled water to replenish its aquifer. But widespread floods during Hurricane Matthew, in 2016, lifted the issue to new prominence. “It High tides and higher waters have always been problems for Virginia’s largest city.
PA Environment Daily
JULY 2, 2024
Council will also hear a presentation on critical and rare earth minerals recycling. Wolf’s 2016 Pipeline Task Force Report. DEP’s Citizens Advisory Council is scheduled to meet on July 9 to continue its discussion of proposed Hydrogen Hubs, this time with a focus on pipelines. Read more here. Read more here.
Legal Planet
JULY 28, 2022
The Bureau of Reclamation got $250 million for desalinization and a billion for water recycling and reuse. There’s people living in Livingston Parish, for example, flooded in 2016, whose lives — everything in their life was destroyed,” he said. Bill Cassidy helped write the resilience provisions of the bill.
Nanotech
SEPTEMBER 10, 2024
(Keurig®) with making inaccurate statements regarding the recyclability of its K-Cup® single-use beverage pods. To settle SEC’s charges, Keurig agreed to pay a $1.5 million civil penalty.
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