If food scraps from households are composted, should that count in the nation’s recycling rate? What if they’re fed to livestock or processed in anaerobic digesters? Those are just a couple of the many questions the EPA is grappling with …
Month: May 2021
In 2019, across the U.S. 80 million tons of food went unsold or uneaten. Wasted food has both environmental and economic impacts. It accounts for approximately 4 percent of greenhouse gas emissions and 2 percent of U.S. gross domestic product. …
With the proliferation of lithium-ion-powered electronics and vehicles over the past decade, the race to address the environmental and regulatory challenges of spent batteries continues to accelerate. Current estimates show only 5% of lithium-ion ba … Read More…
TORONTO–Li-Cycle Corp. (“Li-Cycle” or “the Company”), an industry leader in lithium-ion battery resource recovery and the largest lithium-ion battery recycler in North America, today announced that the Company will build its third comme … Read More…