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How to Build and Retrofit a Sustainable Home

Green Business Bureau

Recycling metal rather than using virgin ore helps preserve natural resources and saves energy. Cascade Steel’s electric arc furnace (EAF) is more energy efficient and environmentally-friendly than traditional blast furnaces. RECYCLED PLASTIC. RECYCLED STEEL. Arqlite , a member of the U.S.

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Waste & Recycling Innovations • 4/21/21

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Tom leads Brightmark’s plastic feedstock supply efforts in North America. He has spent over 25 years in business and project development. His life mission has been to improve our environmental footprint and is passionate about enabling innovative technologies through project finance; first in energy and now plastic waste.

Waste 52
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A Texas Community Is Being Bombarded by Cancer-Causing Benzene. State Officials Have Known for Nearly Two Decades

DeSmogBlog

Today K-Solv is legally allowed to release almost 20 times more volatile organic compounds — a class of chemicals that includes benzene — into the air each year than it did back then. Benzene is a colorless, sweet-smelling chemical found in crude oil and products including gasoline, solvents, plastics, paints, adhesives and detergents.