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Waste & Recycling Innovations • 4/21/21

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Join our discussion around transforming the waste industry with technology, passion, and people. All are invited: municipalities, waste haulers, waste industry leaders, companies seeking to improve their waste solutions, and citizens interested in being more informed on what happens to their waste. Michelle Bard.

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AeroFarms is trying to cultivate the future of vertical farming

Business Green

AeroFarms was founded in 2004, and its products are sold in 200 grocery stores across the Northeast including Whole Foods. There's the soil degradation side. There's the food waste side," he said. It operates one vertical farm in New Jersey, with more on the way. So it's doing wonderful things there.". There's the energy side.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

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. Nearly a century ago, Ecolab sold dishwasher soap with a dispenser described as its first effort to reduce waste.

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Where Does All The Radioactive Fracking Waste Go?

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On May 8, 2017, a drum of radioactive oilfield waste from Australia arrived at a remote West Texas disposal site operated by local oil and gas environmental services company, Lotus LLC. This drum of waste entered the United States aboard a Singapore Airlines cargo jet, appropriately packaged in a steel drum.

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How to Select a Sustainability Certification for Your Business

Green Business Bureau

Established in 2004, GBI has since become a leader in advancing green building practices and developing a range of resources for those interested in sustainable building. Organic textiles must meet GOTS criteria throughout the entire chain of production – from harvesting of raw materials to post-consumer waste disposal.

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Revealed: How Big Dairy Is Milking Net Zero

DeSmogBlog

In these systems, dairy herds cover wide areas, eating as they go and leaving their waste on the ground where it fertilises the soil. “Low productivity systems” tend to be managed by pastoralists and small farmers who handle most dairy production in low and middle-income countries like Kenya, Nepal, and Mongolia.

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SDG15: The fight for life on land

Business Green

When well managed the land helps regulate water and air quality, sequester and store carbon, and minimise flood and soil erosion risks. Soil erosion, wildfires, floods, monocultures, and pollution can all pose a serious threat to life and the viability of the economies and communities that are dependent on the land.