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Embracing Sustainable Living: A Guide to Establishing Eco-Friendly Practices in Canada

The Environmental Blog

From reducing carbon footprints to minimizing waste, there are numerous steps one can take to establish a more sustainable and environmentally conscious lifestyle. Energy-Efficient Homes One of the most impactful steps towards eco-friendly living in Canada is ensuring that your home is energy-efficient.

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The HVAC Industry: Upcoming Trends for Technicians

The Environmental Blog

Do you work in the HVAC industry? While they do their job well, duct systems can run into issues like cracked pieces or mildew build-up. Using energy-efficient features. This relies on a large outdoor unit to power up to five indoor ones. . Many HVAC users like the idea of monitoring their systems via their phones.

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Waste Management Checklist: 26 Tips For Minimizing Waste

Green Business Bureau

Achieve zero waste with our waste management checklist. The ultimate goal of this waste management checklist is to achieve zero waste. By zero waste, we mean the conservation of all resources utilizing responsible production, consumption, reuse, and recovery of products, packaging, and materials.

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Inside Eastman’s moonshot goal for endlessly circular plastics

GreenBiz

At first glance, the sprawling industrial site, covering roughly 900 acres in Kingsport, Tennessee, appears to be just another chemical manufacturing facility. There are hundreds of buildings and countless miles of pipes, conveyors, distillers, cooling towers, valves, pumps, compressors and controls. Joel Makower.

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Hotel Sustainability & Waste Management: Reducing Food, Water and Plastic Waste

Green Business Bureau

Hotels require a vast amount of energy and resources in order to run, and with this comes an equally vast amount of waste generated. Having strategies in place to manage, reduce or eliminate waste is essential. Minimize Food Waste. Food waste reduction programs can be organized into four steps: Conduct A Food Waste Audit.

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Firms selected to pitch at climate tech innovation event

Envirotec Magazine

Entrants in the final furlong include an on-demand clothing manufacturing technology that eliminates 20 billion unsold garments each year, 100% compostable protective packaging that replaces single use plastic, and an Oxford University spin-out that changes the way valuable metallic resources are mined, refined, recycled, and processed.

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PRN proposals: A welcome raising of standards (comment)

Envirotec Magazine

Joseph Doherty is managing director of waste management services firm Re-Gen Waste. He was also a Committee Member on Defra’s Advisory Committee on Packaging. Joseph Doherty of Re-Gen Waste welcomes the consultation on the Packaging Recovery Note (PRN). It builds confidence. An integrated system.

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