2022 Electricity Recycling 
Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
The transition to electric vehicles (EVs) is necessary to decrease climate-changing emissions. These materials are primarily supplied through two sources: 1) newly mined or 2) recovered by recycling batteries already in circulation. This is in stark contrast to a future without high recycling rates. Recycling has many benefits.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 8, 2023
Electric transportation is essential for a cleaner and healthier world. Replacing gasoline vehicles with electric can reduce emissions that cause climate change and illnesses. Researchers like me are putting a microscope to the electric vehicles (EVs) because, as with any extraction and manufacturing, there are associated impacts.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
Recovering these materials from retired electric vehicle (EV) batteries is an alternative source to mining. Essentially, the materials recovered through battery recycling can replace future material supply that would otherwise need to be extracted from the earth to meet demand.
PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 24, 2024
Learn how this Benton, Columbia County-based manufacturer has implemented system controls, electricity management programs, waste heat capture, air quality upgrades, and recycling programs to boost efficiency and sustainability.
Union of Concerned Scientists
DECEMBER 12, 2022
A wind turbine includes a foundation, a tower, electrical wiring, a nacelle between the blades, and the blades themselves. Can wind turbine blades be recycled? The good news is the steel, iron, aluminum, copper, concrete, and electronic components of wind turbine foundations, towers, and wiring can be completely recycled.
Union of Concerned Scientists
DECEMBER 22, 2022
Sleek solar panels forged from silver and silica from the depths of the Earth translate the sun’s blindingly fiery light energy into electricity. While most energy storage for the US electricity grid today is in the form of pumped hydro systems , batteries are a growing piece of the storage pie. Batteries help store surplus energy.
Union of Concerned Scientists
OCTOBER 16, 2023
At that time, even the largest solar arrays in the world measured only in the hundreds of kilowatts, enough to generate the equivalent of the electricity needs of just a few tens of thousands of US households. Last year, solar accounted for almost 5 percent of US electricity. Single projects can be hundreds of megawatts.
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