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  • What’s REEally Happening with Rare Earths?
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    What’s REEally Happening with Rare Earths?

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    By Diana Rasner
    October 9, 2025

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  • An Overview of the Global Battery Recycling Industry
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    An Overview of the Global Battery Recycling Industry

    Over the past three years, battery recycling has received heightened attention, raising critical questions: What is…

    By Parker Bovee
    August 21, 2025

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  • A 21st Century Guide to Avoiding Wastewater Disaster
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    A 21st Century Guide to Avoiding Wastewater Disaster

    Globally, 80% of wastewater returns to ecosystems without any treatment or reuse. A large share of…

    By Parker Bovee
    June 26, 2025

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  • Every Drop Counts: Navigating Water Challenges in Manufacturing and Data Centers
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    Every Drop Counts: Navigating Water Challenges in Manufacturing and Data Centers

    On April 10th, Cleantech Group hosted the panel “Every Drop Counts: Navigating Water Challenges in Manufacturing…

    By Parker Bovee
    April 24, 2025

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  • PFAS Destruction
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    PFAS Destruction

    PFAS, sometimes known as forever chemicals, are a family of over ten thousand compounds with remarkable…

    By Parker Bovee
    March 26, 2025

    5 min read

  • AI in Waste Sortation: Robotics, Algorithms, & More
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    AI in Waste Sortation: Robotics, Algorithms, & More

    What Drives Automation in Waste Management? Innovation in waste management comes in bursts. Today, the promise…

    By Parker Bovee
    February 18, 2025

    5 min read

  • Textile Recycling: Emerging Ecosystem Pursuing Daunting Waste Challenges
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    Textile Recycling: Emerging Ecosystem Pursuing Daunting Waste Challenges

    The textile industry is responsible for an estimated 6% of landfill volume, 10% of global emissions,…

    By Parker Bovee
    December 19, 2024

    5 min read

  • Asia Pacific’s Cleantech Investment Monitor
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    Asia Pacific’s Cleantech Investment Monitor

    Asia-Pacific’s cleantech dynamic through 2024 has marked an ecosystem preparing for a pivot to the next…

    By Anthony DeOrsey
    November 12, 2024

    5 min read

  • 2024 Cleantech 50 to Watch
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    2024 Cleantech 50 to Watch

    It is our pleasure to bring you this sixth edition of the Cleantech 50 to Watch.…

    By Anthony DeOrsey
    October 16, 2024

    5 min read

  • Solvent Dissolution, Next Gen Advanced Plastic Recycling
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    Solvent Dissolution, Next Gen Advanced Plastic Recycling

    The State of Plastic Recycling  Plastic production is expected to double by 2050. Similarly, plastic-related emissions…

    By Parker Bovee
    October 9, 2024

    5 min read

  • Plasma x Chemicals Production for Efficient Electrification
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    Plasma x Chemicals Production for Efficient Electrification

    Plasma is popping up in all kinds of places in the cleantech world. We’ve long seen…

    By Ian Hayton
    October 2, 2024

    5 min read

  • What Are PFAS?
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    What Are PFAS?

    PFAS is an abbreviation for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances. They are man-made chemicals widely used in…

    By Parker Bovee
    September 23, 2024

    5 min read

  • Why is Polypropylene (PP) So Difficult to Recycle?
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    Why is Polypropylene (PP) So Difficult to Recycle?

    Polypropylene (PP) is one of the most common plastic types in the world. In the U.S.,…

    By Parker Bovee
    August 28, 2024

    5 min read

  • Battery Recycling
    Cross-Sector Insights, Materials & Chemicals, Waste & Recycling

    Battery Recycling

    From 2023 to 2040, global demand for lithium will grow 870%, 210% for nickel, 390% for…

    By Parker Bovee
    June 27, 2024

    5 min read

  • Battery Recycling and Materials Innovation in APAC
    Materials & Chemicals, Waste & Recycling

    Battery Recycling and Materials Innovation in APAC

    The APAC region has for years shown strength in production of finished electric vehicles (EVs) and…

    By Parker Bovee
    May 28, 2024

    5 min read

  • Cleantech Trends in APAC: A Look Back at 2023 and Forward to 2024
    Agriculture & Food, Asia, Energy & Power, Materials & Chemicals, Resources & Environmental Management, Transportation & Logistics, Waste & Recycling

    Cleantech Trends in APAC: A Look Back at 2023 and Forward to 2024

     Our annual APAC Cleantech 25 was released on April 18th, 2024 – this is always a…

    By Anthony DeOrsey
    May 15, 2024

    5 min read

  • How Industrial Waste is Enabling Carbon Mineralization
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    How Industrial Waste is Enabling Carbon Mineralization

    There’s a lot of buzz around high-quality carbon capture technologies, but it seems like they’re always…

    By Buff López
    April 25, 2024

    5 min read

  • Where Plastic Recycling Innovation is Today
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    Where Plastic Recycling Innovation is Today

    Plastic production is expected to double by 2050. Similarly, plastic emissions from production and disposal are…

    By Parker Bovee
    March 21, 2024

    5 min read

  • How Can We Address Water Scarcity and PFAS?
    Resources & Environmental Management, Waste & Recycling

    How Can We Address Water Scarcity and PFAS?

    Water scarcity will continue to be an economic and environmental challenge in the coming years. The…

    By Zainab Gilani
    February 8, 2023

    5 min read

  • Cleantech 50 to Watch Case Study: Dioxycle
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    Cleantech 50 to Watch Case Study: Dioxycle

    Solution:  Dioxycle is a developer of integrated modular electrolyzer systems to capture and convert industrial carbon…

    By Anthony DeOrsey
    November 30, 2022

    5 min read

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