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VOCs landmark: Firm marks 20 years of mobile carbon filter rentals

Envirotec Magazine

CPL had been selling carbon filters prior to this date, but 2003 was when they designed a genuinely portable unit and began the transition into a true ‘carbon & service’ business.

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Secrets for circular supply chain partnerships from Interface and Aquafil

GreenBiz

They've innovated on raw materials, resulting in Aquafil's Econyl yarn that it recycles from ghost fishing nets, carpet fluff and other would-be waste. How can other companies find success in winning over their suppliers toward eliminating the very concept of waste in their products? Instead of oil, we use waste," he said.

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Some Sustainability fads deserve to die, others not so much…

Terra Infirma

Here are three I still hold a flame for: Industrial Symbiosis: in 2003, I stumbled on some WBCSD projects involving something called Industrial Symbiosis – the idea of one industry’s waste being seen as the raw material for another. What about those great ideas which have faded away?

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Biographite and the changing battery market

Smart Energy International

This is where CarbonScape comes in with a biographite alternative, produced from forestry and timber industry by-products – i.e. wood chips from forestry waste. Having married a New Zealander in 2003, we decided to both have a career break in late 2011 and move to New Zealand. We love it here. Elon Musk did.

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Will China’s crackdown on ‘foreign garbage’ force wealthy countries to recycle more of their own waste?

Green Technology

recycling facilities and send more waste to landfills. Waste Dive, the must-read daily bulletin of waste-related news, named the initiative “Disruptor of the Year.” based waste collectors, selling scrap to a broker to be shipped to China is cheaper than sending it to recycling facilities at home. Geyer et al.,

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

It mass-produced the first electric car in the 1990s, then literally crushed most of them in 2003. In Beck’s mind, too , forwarding-thinking companies should look at natural resources not just as consumables but as recyclable goods, and then design systems and products in a way that eliminates waste. LinkedIn | Personal website.

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An Open Letter: The Texas Energy Transition—The Greentown Labs Community Offers Pathways to a Resilient and Sustainable Energy Future

Greentown Labs

Warning signs were dismissed, as they have been elsewhere: consider the Northeast’s heat-triggered cascading grid outages in 2003, grid failures resulting from hurricanes Katrina (2005), Sandy (2012), and Maria (2017), California’s rolling summer blackouts, and countless related incidents.