Terra Infirma

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

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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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

At these sites, plastics recovered from end-of-life vehicles (auto shredder waste) and waste electrical goods are refined into high-quality recycled engineering polymers that match virgin material quality for use in a wide range of new products. For more information, visit www.axiongroup.co.uk.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Around half of all WEEE plastics generated in Europe do not enter official WEEE collection channels, ending up in the waste bin, processed at substandard recycling facilities, or exported outside Europe. • . • Approximately 2.6 Restricted BFRs (e.g. fillers), are sorted out during the conventional density-based recycling process.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 15, 2021

An example is BS EN 858-2:2003 which details the preferred maintenance schedule for oil separators. For an outlay of under £1,000, the alarm not only enhances a site’s environmental credentials, but it also reduces waste management costs over time, with a potential payback in just eight months.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 26, 2024

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.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

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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Business Green

MAY 20, 2024

I got more and more interested in how to make buildings as sustainable as possible until this became the main focus on my role when I joined Verco (known as Energy for Sustainable Development at the time) as a sustainability consultant in 2003. Infrared vision to see energy wasted by poorly insulated buildings.

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Living Green Technology

NOVEMBER 26, 2016

These come as a result of a new waste transfer station, as well as a way to offset costs from its discount program for low-income residents. Overall, recycling in Seattle has gone up by 20% since 2003. 27 different recyclers seem to have sent electronic waste to countries where importing US e-waste is illegal.

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Grist

JANUARY 12, 2022

Here’s the idea: Take a petrifilm — it’s a little sheet of paper that microbes like yeast and mold like to grow on — and expose it to smoke from different types of burning yard waste. And all she could find was Mims’ study from 2003. Then, compare that to another petrifilm that’s exposed to normal air.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 10, 2021

Following the phasing out of PFOS production in the US and Europe from 2003, an increasing number of alternative ‘regrettable’ replacement PFAS have been synthesized for multiple applications. Foam fractionation is an innovative approach to the selective removal of PFAS from aqueous wastes as a concentrated foam.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern wasted little time raising the stakes in her nation’s fight against climate change after handily winning re-election in October. has orchestrated collaborative initiatives targeting everything from plastics to food waste and bringing together large companies, NGOs and policymakers.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

You mean you can manufacture much more cleanly and with less waste? One of the advantages of additive manufacturing besides less waste, is less space in that your facilities can be quite small compared to traditional manufacturing environments. And the parts you make can be optimized for weight savings and performance? About Sintavia.

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Greentown Labs

AUGUST 19, 2021

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.

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Living Green Technology

APRIL 1, 2016

Their various food recovery programs recover leftover concession food after games, feed them to the needy and thus reduce almost 100 tons of waste from their venues. Philadelphia Eagles Philadelphia Eagles have been committed to their Go Green program to reduce their environmental impact since 2003. of their waste.

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R-Squared Energy

MAY 4, 2021

Bush in his 2003 State of the Union address. Thus, a car running on hydrogen is primarily emitting water vapor as a waste product. Hydrogen was thrust into the spotlight as a promising clean energy source by President George W. Since then, billions of dollars have been invested in an attempt to realize this vision.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 29, 2020

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?

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R-Squared Energy

JUNE 14, 2020

Bush touted the potential for a “hydrogen economy” in his 2003 State of the Union address. The natural gas entering the SMR is split before desulfurization, with a small amount of flow mixing with the PSA waste gas and being combusted to provide the high temperatures needed for the reaction. President George W. Hydrogen Production.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The city of Oakland in California has a long history of setting climate and sustainability goals, and in 2003 adopted a green fleet policy. It takes waste grease and oils from local businesses and its partner Neste converts them to renewable diesel, which then powers many of Oakland's trucks. City of Oakland.

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Energy Innovation

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Less widely recognized threats, like dissolved metals and other molecular health hazards, lurk in runoff from industrial sources, home waste, and building materials. Similarly, a 2003 fire near Canberra, Australia, cost the city nearly US$40 million to restore water utilities. million related deaths across the globe each year.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

To make it usable as a fuel, hydrogen must be separated from water, coal, natural gas or animal or plant waste. Back in 2003, the Bush administration dedicated $1.2 In terms of emissions, burning hydrogen for energy doesn’t hurt the environment, as the only byproducts it releases are heat and water. billion for hydrogen research.

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Better Ventures

JANUARY 15, 2020

in 2003 (cumulatively) to under $1,000 today, a reduction far outpacing Moore’s Law. The advantages of cell-free over whole-cell fermentation include lower energy consumption, less waste, and eliminating the risk of strain migration over time.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

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.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

On a quest to tame these inaccuracies, in late 2011, he proposed a simple technical fix that he claims will “result in more accurate billing, extended meter lives, reduced landfill waste, and a more efficient utilization of [utility] personnel.”. million profit margin increase for company shareholders in 2003.

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Business Green

APRIL 18, 2022

Despite the (slow) migration to electric-powered cars, consumer trends are making driving even more wasteful and unequal. London, an early pioneer of this strategy, has reduced city centre traffic by a whopping 33 per cent since the charge's introduction by the city's first elected mayor, Ken Livingstone, in February 2003.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

In a video recording of the event , Cole asserted that where fossil fuel energy is extracted, refined, transported, used to generate power, and disposed of in toxic waste dumps, it “is highly correlated to low income communities and communities of color.”. In 2003, intruders broke into the office of CRPE, the small nonprofit Cole had founded.

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Low Impact

JUNE 6, 2021

Also, if a state’s money was a useful commodity (precious metal) – the state would be on a constant quest for precious metal – a waste of energy and resources. Internal fiat money couldn’t be stolen in war, couldn’t leak out of the country for luxury goods from abroad, and as much could be produced as the ruler wanted.

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Mearth

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

We present recycling and waste service options for giant scale through to boutique purchasers in business, industrial, building and residential markets. Your Request which opened for enterprise in September 2003 has 150 franchisees. Only the best products and supplies are used and our service and workmanship is second to none.

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