'Huge potential': How resource efficiency efforts could curb corporate supply chain risks

Michael Holder
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Recycling and reuse of EV batteries, solar panels, and wind turbines could vastly reduce reliance on imported products and materials from China, according to Green Alliance analysis

The UK's green economy will face a serious raw material supply crunch unless action is taken now to boost energy and resource efficiency while ramping up recycling rates for critical components contained...

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