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Battery recycler to build US manufacturing site

Published: September 16, 2021
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Rendering of Redwood Materials facility.

Redwood will announce the site of the company’s U.S. battery manufacturing facility early next year. | Courtesy of Redwood Materials

Battery recycling company Redwood Materials this week announced it will construct a battery production plant in North America.

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CRT cleanup to begin at former DP Electronic Recycling site

Published: September 10, 2021
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CRT television tube on black background.

URT plans to remove the first load of CRT material on Sept. 17 and then haul out three loads a week. | underworld / Shutterstock

Universal Recycling Technologies has been hired to clean up 1.7 million pounds of CRT materials abandoned by a closed Wisconsin e-scrap company.

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Pacific Northwest processor opens new facility

Published: September 10, 2021
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E-scrap for recycling.

With a Sept. 7 facility opening in Spokane Valley, Wash., Total Reclaim now has five locations. | Koy Hipster / Shutterstock

A new Total Reclaim e-scrap plant in eastern Washington will dismantle and aggregate a variety of equipment types before shipping material to Seattle for further processing, according to the company.

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Reverse logistics firm acquires e-scrap processor

Published: September 10, 2021
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Rebranded as Green Wave Electronics, the combined business will expand into new e-scrap collection markets. | Blue Planet Studio / Shutterstock

Atlanta-based QGistix recently purchased Green Wave Computer Recycling, an Indianapolis recycler, and will rebrand as Green Wave Electronics.

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Battery recycling firm to build Alabama processing plant

Published: September 10, 2021
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EV battery pack.

Li-Cycle’s Alabama facility has an initial planned capacity of about 5,500 short tons of lithium-ion batteries per year. | Sergii Chernov / Shutterstock

Li-Cycle will site a lithium-ion battery facility in Tuscaloosa, Ala., the latest node in the company’s planned hub-and-spoke model for recycling batteries in North America.

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