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Extra 823 million plastic bottles will be produced under proposed DRS, warns aluminium packaging recycling group

Envirotec Magazine

· Aluminium packaging recycling body urges caution to avoid unintended consequences of a DRS. · Two thirds of shoppers will switch from buying infinitely recyclable cans to plastic bottles. · One in five people will lose their deposit as they continue recycling at home. 2004: Can sales dropped from 6.1

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Parliamentary recognition of the importance and decline of invertebrates

Envirotec Magazine

Both the diversity and abundance of insects are in decline with data collected by the Bugs Matter survey suggesting that the abundance of flying insects has fallen by 64% between 2004 and 2022, with similar trends have been detected by scientific studies around the world.

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Waste & Recycling Innovations • 4/21/21

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

California’s ambitious goal of reaching 75% recycling by 2020 was unsuccessful – the state has only achieved 37% in 2019 ( 1 ). Michelle’s background is in business development and strategy, where at Compology she helps her clients to meet their aggressive sustainability goals while saving money on their waste and recycling operations.

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Colorado Governor signs law to define some pumped hydropower as renewable

Renewable Energy World

In 2004, Colorado passed the first voter-led RES in the U.S., The legislature has increased the amount of renewable energy required three times since 2004, including HB10-1001, which required investor-owned utilities to generate 30% of their electricity from renewable energy by 2020, of which 3% must come from distributed energy resources.

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How to Build and Retrofit a Sustainable Home

Green Business Bureau

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).

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Graphene-based packaging presented as first truly biodegradeable and compostable alternative to plastic

Envirotec Magazine

.” The biopolymers are combined with graphene, a variant of carbon (or allotrope , to be precise) whose modern rediscovery and isolation at the University of Manchester in 2004 led to a Nobel Prize.

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There’s nothing worse than environmentalists encouraging climate inaction

Terra Infirma

More importantly individual action influences others – I was one of a few in my street who did kerbside recycling when it was first introduced, but it steadily increased until now everybody does it. If you install solar panels or a heat pump, it helps reduce the cost of future systems to encourage others to do likewise.