The Tortoise Recycling Decarbonization Index℠ is designed to track the performance of publicly traded companies involved in waste-to-energy and recycling technologies as part of the global decarbonization mega trend.

Index Stats as of 9/23/2024:

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Price Return Ticker

RECYCL

Total Return Ticker

RECYCLT

Base Date

1/31/2022

Inception Date

1/31/2022

Calculated by

Solactive AG

Rebalancing

Semi-annually

Number of Constituents

35

Market Capitalization

$679 billion

Average Constituent Size

$19,395 million

Median Constituent Size

$4,090 million

Overview

Waste-to-Energy is the process of generating energy from waste such as garbage, animal manure, agriculture products and/or animal fats and thus includes companies that primarily produce renewable natural gas and diesel as well as ethanol. Recycling includes companies that recycle plastic waste, lithium-ion batteries as well as carbon capture sequestration.

Key Eligibility Requirements

  • Decarbonizing waste-to-energy and recycling: Companies that derive revenue, operating profit, own assets or capital expenditures in decarbonizing waste-to-energy and recycling related businesses included in the TortoiseEcofin proprietary database of 462 global energy companies with an aggregative market cap of $8.0 trillion.
  • Market capitalization:Companies must have a total equity market capitalization of at least U.S $200 million for two consecutive quarters at the time of inclusion in the index.
  • Trading volume: companies must have a minimum U.S. $1 million average daily trading volume for 3 months before the index screening date.
  • Listing exchange: : In the developed markets, companies must list their shares on one of the stock exchanges in the U.S., Europe, the Tokyo Stock Exchange, or on stock exchanges in Australia, Israel, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore or Canada. In the developing markets, companies must have their shares listed on a stock exchange in one of the following countries:  Brazil, Chile, China, Czech Republic, Hungary, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Philippines, Poland, Russia, South Africa, Taiwan, Thailand, or Turkey.
  • No individual security in the index may be more than a 7% weight of the total index market cap as of the reference date

 

Performance

Index Performance (as of 6/30/2024) 1 Year Since Inception
Total Return -24.35% -10.63%

Net Total Return History

(as of 10/03/2024)

Price Return History

(as of 10/03/2024)

Constituents

Sector Allocations

As of latest rebalance date (9/23/2024)

Top 10 Constituents

As of most recent rebalance date (9/23/2024)
Date Index Weight
Energy Absolute PCL
6.1%
Ambipar Participacoes e Empreendimentos S/A
5.3%
Green Plains Inc
5.0%
Ameresco Inc
5.0%
Darling Ingredients Inc
4.9%
Date Index Weight
Neste Oyj
4.9%
Montrose Environmental Group Inc
4.9%
Clean Harbors Inc
4.8%
PureCycle Technologies Inc
4.7%
Umicore SA
4.6%

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