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Comment: Pay-as-you-throw can drive the circular economy

Envirotec Magazine

It’s crucial that we break this cycle. Extracting raw materials has an impact on climate, as do the manufacturing processes that we use to make products. Extracting raw materials has an impact on climate, as do the manufacturing processes that we use to make products. At every stage, we must look for more sustainable ways to do things.”

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EU Plans to Measure True Climate Impacts of LNG Imports From US Fracked Gas

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 5 mins With growing evidence that the climate impacts of natural gas are comparable to coal, the European Commission is planning to study ways to reduce methane emissions across the life cycle of natural gas production and consumption, with potential implications for fracked gas producers in the U.S.

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New Satellite Data Reveals Dangerous Methane Emissions in Permian Region

DeSmogBlog

is leaked throughout the production cycle, which appears to be confirmed by this new research. Tags: Bridge Fuel methane natural gas emissions Permian In December DeSmog reported on the work of Robert Howarth, a biogeochemist at Cornell University , who has been studying the methane emissions of the oil and gas industry.

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El Niño could cost the global economy $3 trillion

Grist

Those impacts come with a surprisingly steep price tag, according to the study, which was published in Science on Thursday. By the end of the century, El Niño cycles may spur a whopping $84 trillion in economic losses. “El The researchers analyzed two previous El Niño cycles in 1982 and 1997. It hits and lasts for a while.”

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MSU provides recycling boost at Brighton train station

Envirotec Magazine

The new unit will segregate, wash, compact, bale, weigh and electronically tag all waste from Brighton station, as well as all Southern and Thameslink trains running to and from the city, in partnership with innovative sustainability start up, The Green Block.

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Brompton unfolds plans for bike subscription service

Business Green

Folding bike maker's new subscription service is geared at the growing number of people who have embraced cycling during the pandemic. British bike maker Brompton is set launch a subscription service next month amid a surge in the popularity of cycling during the pandemic.

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A glimpse of the 15 minute city in Paris

Terra Infirma

We had an amazing time wandering the streets arm in arm, sampling the pavement cafes and ignoring the price tag… What we did notice were the emerging signs of Mayor Anne Hidalgo’s famed ’15-minute city’: the idea that most of your needs – work, shop, play – should be within a 15 minute walk or cycle ride of your abode.