Around 9m tonnes of lithium batteries become essentially unusable every year and are incinerated or sent to landfill. Nottingham Trent University’s Advanced Design and Manufacturing Engineering Centre (ADMEC) have been awarded a £582,000 grant as part of a Europe-wide effort to mitigate this waste.
Seven Just Stop Oil protestors have been found guilty of aggravated trespass after blocking the distribution of oil from the Esso Fuel Terminal in Birmingham for 12 hours last year. Two others were found not guilty.