The Environmental Blog
JANUARY 18, 2022
This includes using recyclable fabrics and has a minimal impact on the environment. Also, the fabrics assessed must have a little-to-no effect on farming, soil, natural habitats, greenhouse gas emissions, and water and microplastic pollution. It also uses significantly less energy and water to manufacture and make clothing.
Planet Pulse
OCTOBER 27, 2020
2020) not only shows how satellite remote sensing is an efficient and cost-effective tool for monitoring plastic debris, but it also shows the value of integrating satellite information into future ocean clean-up and protection efforts. The study by Kikaki et al.
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Business Green
JANUARY 6, 2022
Innovate UK's Jonny Voon explores some of the most exciting green ideas this year, ranging from UK lithium mining and plastic recycling breakthroughs, clothing that 'grows' with the children wearing it. Impact Recycling. Currently, only up to 15 per cent of plastic is recycled. tonnes of CO2 for every tonne of plastic recovered.
Green Business Bureau
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
RECYCLED STEEL. Recycling metal rather than using virgin ore helps preserve natural resources and saves energy. In fact, creating products from recycled steel utilizes 40% less water and reduces mining wastes by 97%. RECYCLED PLASTIC. BIO-BASED AND RECYCLED INSULATION. minority and women-owned suppliers).
Envirotec Magazine
DECEMBER 1, 2021
Because of their low cost, durability and versatility, plastics are everywhere–including in the environment–and only 9 percent of the plastic ever generated has been recycled. There is an urgent need to take actions like limiting global virgin plastic production from fossil fuels and designing products and packaging for recyclability.”.
Business Green
APRIL 11, 2021
There is growing scientific concern about the environmental and health impacts of microplastics which are being discovered in the remotest areas of the earth and in food chains. The research studied the impact on the mussels and how the microplastics could be captured ensuring they didn't get released into the marine environment.
Grist
JULY 21, 2022
From large pieces, such as bottles, cups, and even a Smurf action figure, to tiny microplastics — fragments, films, fibers, or foams less than 5 mm long — plastic is one of the most common pollutants this group will find, mirroring what cleanup crews regularly see across the country. We found microplastics everywhere,” Granek says.
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