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There's still a long way to go, but it aims to end the disposal of toxic batteries at landfill sites and recover valuable elements that are in limited supply: copper, cobalt, nickel, manganese and the so-called metal of the decade, lithium.
Ravitch, a former Goldman Sachs banker for 16 years, before he co-founded Raine in the aftermath of the global financial crisis, expects increased cross-border deals in the region, home to about 650 million people.

"We recognise this has presented issues for the recycling industry as it scales up and adjusts to a role in product stewardship with its increased focus on transparency and accountability," he wrote in a report on the scheme's first six months of operation.

"This growth is also leading to concerns about the impact of new energy systems on the long-term availability of resources and the economic and environmental impacts of the extraction and use of critical metals and other elements.

Look at all this Koopa muscle I've packed on, and this flowing mane didn't just appear overnight. Do you have any idea how long it took me to breathe fire?' he joked. 'I had to go learn it from Gene Simmons of Kiss! 

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The scheme is focused on making it ultra-convenient for Australian consumers to recycle batteries and drastically reduce the estimated 90 per cent of batteries that wound up in landfill before the scheme began.
"This is the last major market in the world, where you can see a free for all between Alibaba, Tencent, Bytedance on one hand, and the likes of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Netflix on the other," said Joe Ravitch, Raine's co-founder and partner.

The company has since overhauled its management in an effort to reverse years of languishing sales and has been bolstering its e-commerce capabilities as online shopping accelerated during the pandemic.

'We have been working on this movie, together with Chris Meledandri from Illumination, for a long time, from brainstorming and all the way through production. The time flew by as we were having fun figuring out how to depict the Super Mario characters and world.'

'And then it first came out on Nintendo and I played that, maybe years of my life. It's an honor, truly to be able to speak to the man who created those memories for me, and it's an honor to work alongside. It's been a lifelong dream of mine to become Mario.' 

'And all this hard work's been worth it though, I am so proud to have been able to collaborate with you and Miyamoto-san, as well as the entire Nintendo and the Illumination team on this cinematic experience.

Mei said the trend of Chinese entrepreneurs setting up base in Singapore as a beachhead for Southeast Asia, was likely to bring capital and new business opportunities in sectors such as digital media and gaming.

"The scarcity of capital in an era of volatility, rising interest rates and inflation, Pkv Poker will create investment opportunities and require companies to be more strategic," Ravitch told Reuters in an interview on the sidelines of the Forbes Global CEO Conference.

SINGAPORE, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Southeast Asia's digital media and tech sectors, underpinned by young consumers and one of the fastest growing internet markets, had drawn U.S.
investment bank Raine Group to expand in the region, senior executives said.

'It's been nearly 40 years since the first original Mario Brothers was released in Japan,' he said in a video which aired before the sneak peek. 'Today, lots of people from around the world are playing Mario games.

This is not the first film adaptation of the beloved video games, with a live-action film starring Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo released in 1993. However the film, Super Mario Bros., bombed at the box office and opened to dire reviews.