Circular Economy News
Read news stories covering a circular economy for energy materials, one of NREL’s
critical research objectives.
Dec. 18, 2023
Piles of cardboard and paper littering America's landfills represent $4 billion in lost economic value, according to a new analysis by researchers at NREL.
Nov. 15, 2023
NREL's far-reaching research on batteries helps ensure their safety, longevity, and sustainability through reuse and recycling, minimizing the environmental impact of recycling processes, and investigating how to scale up recycling from benchtop testing to industrial scenarios.
Nov. 14, 2023
Photovoltaic (PV) electricity generation is essential for achieving decarbonization targets and mitigating climate change.
Nov. 2, 2023
A new ion exchange model can help utilities and researchers simulate and study different system designs to remove forever chemicals from water.
July 12, 2023
The newly launched Wind Turbine Materials Recycling Prize, a $5.1 million competition administered by NREL, aims to help the country develop a cost-effective and sustainable domestic recycling industry for two high-impact categories of wind turbine materials to create a circular U.S. wind energy economy.
Jan. 17, 2023
Researchers at NREL examined the benefits and trade-offs of current and emerging technologies for recycling certain types of plastics to determine the most appropriate options.
