Remove Legal Remove Resource Remove Supplies Remove Waste
article thumbnail

Euro Manganese enters offtake term sheet with battery-maker Verkor

Green Car Congress

Located approximately 90 km east of Prague , the Chvaletice Manganese Project entails re-processing a significant manganese deposit contained in waste (tailings) from a decommissioned mine that operated between 1951 and 1975. The Chvaletice resource is the only sizeable, classified resource of manganese in the European Union.

article thumbnail

Automotive industry develops new guidance for measuring recycled content of automotive products

Green Car Congress

Striving to eliminate waste and optimize use of sustainable materials in automotive operations and products is a key priority for our member companies. With more than 4,000 member companies, AIAG provides a legal, non-competitive forum for collaboration on innovative solutions to common industry issues.

article thumbnail

Li-Cycle receives conditional commitment for $375M loan from DOE ATVM program

Green Car Congress

The conditional commitment follows DOE technical, market, financial and legal due diligence and marks another significant milestone endorsing Li-Cycle’s development of the first commercial hydrometallurgical resource recovery facility in North America, located near Rochester, New York. Li-Cycle Holdings Corp.

Li-ion 199
article thumbnail

Rio Tinto declares maiden ore reserve at Jadar; major potential source of battery-grade lithium carbonate

Green Car Congress

Rio Tinto disclosed to the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) a maiden Ore Reserve and updated Mineral Resource at its 100% owned Jadar lithium-borates project in western Serbia. Ore reserves are valuable and legally, economically, and technically feasible to extract. Mineral Resources are reported exclusive of Ore Reserves.

Carbon 170
article thumbnail

TU/ecomotive develops waste-free car with UBQ: Luca

Green Car Congress

With this zero-waste car, the team wants to show that waste can be a valuable material with a multitude of applications. Luca, the world’s first Zero-Waste car. During the UBQ conversion process, the unsorted residual waste stream is reduced into its more basic natural components. Photo by Bart van Overbeeke.

Waste 418
article thumbnail

Massachusetts sets state GHG emissions limit for 2020 at 25% below 1990 levels, releases plan with additional measures, including Pay As You Drive auto insurance

Green Car Congress

The 136-page Clean Energy and Climate Plan for 2020 contains a portfolio of established and new measures that reduce energy waste, save money, and stimulate the adoption of clean energy technologies, thereby creating jobs at the same time that they reduce GHG emissions. Transportation. The state is targeting a 7.6%

article thumbnail

Obama Announces Steps to Boost Biofuels, Clean Coal; RFS2, BCAP, BIWG and Carbon Capture and Storage Task Force

Green Car Congress

One of the things that we’re going to be talking about today is investing in the kind of technology that will allow us to use coal, our most bountiful natural resource here in the United States, without polluting our planet. The new approach requires strong management for results using a regional supply chain systems approach.

Obama 218