It’s a mega-recycling effort: A crew of 60 men use blow torches and winches to break down a ship that had carried liquid natural gas. Tons of metal parts will be harvested to resell overseas. This photo by George Steinmetz, from the Bay of Bengal in Bangladesh, is the overall winner in the 2026 Siena
The iron and steel industries are among the biggest polluters in the world. Plenty of startups have tried to cut the industry’s emissions, mostly by developing new ways to make the metals. Helix Carbon thinks those startups have been going about it all wrong. “Any attempt to decarbonize the steel industry without dealing with the
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Here we develop an integrated modelling framework to project PV waste generation across 32 global regions and to quantify the environmental and economic benefits of alternative recycling strategies that will inform policy design (Extended Data Fig. 1 and Supplementary Table 3). The framework consists of three interconnected components. First, material price trajectories are generated and
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Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. TOTOTO It is surprising that Australia still does not have a proper solar panel recycling industry (“Solar panel recycling plan in limbo”, July 19). According to solar experts at UNSW Sydney, up to 95 per cent
