US: Institute focused on recycling/reusing materials launched

26 January 2017

As part of the Manufacturing USA initiative, the Energy Department has announced its new Reducing Embodied-energy and Decreasing Emissions (REMADE) Institute. REMADE will leverage up to $70 million in federal funding, subject to appropriations, and will be matched by $70 million in private cost-share commitments from over 100 partners. The REMADE Institute will focus on driving down the cost of technologies needed to reuse, recycle and remanufacture materials such as metals, fibers, polymers and electronic waste and aims to achieve a 50% improvement in overall energy efficiency by 2027. These efficiency measures could save billions in energy costs (News Item Energy Department, 4 January 2017).
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