GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The automaker’s sustainability goals include sourcing energy only from renewable sources and getting at least half the materials in its vehicles from recycled, bio-based or renewable origins — by 2030 in the U.S. and globally by 2040. Ecolab says it helped its customers save enough water in 2018 equivalent to the needs of 600 million people.

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2021

Research reveals that just 19 policies have been introduced to tackle negative impacts of fast fashion since 2007 - compared to 689 to try and tackle obesity. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) was considering a request for comment at the time of going to press.

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Business Green

APRIL 3, 2022

As well as green service changes to Google Maps, Flights and Hotels, a new upgrade to Google Business Profiles enables firms to promote the recycling facilities they offer, explains Google's EMEA president Matt Brittin. Across the world, people are voting with their feet for sustainable choices.

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Fashion Recycling Recycling Carbon-neutral 36

AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

As a company, Google claims to be carbon neutral since 2007 and has set a goal to be carbon-free by 2030. Carpet made from recycled materials and energy-efficient lighting illuminate the focus on eco-friendly interior design. Green Building Council.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Roughly $447m of the net proceeds had been allocated by the end of 2019, the US food and drinks giant said, with roughly $200m being earmarked for sourcing recycled polyethylene terephthalate (rPET) plastic for the company's North American operations.

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Sustainability Plastics Solar Power Recycling 50

Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

A leading UK and European recycling company was fined £20,000 at Airdrie Sheriff Court on 16 November after Scotland’s environmental regulator, SEPA, uncovered what it described as the largest single illegal export of household waste from Scotland. It was loaded inside 51 forty-foot shipping containers destined for recycling in China.

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Grist

MARCH 13, 2024

These tiny bits of plastic end up clogging oceans. A lot of attention has focused on phasing out single-use plastics , which create visible plastic pollution and release microplastics when they break down. The bits of plastic shed from synthetic textiles have their own term: microfibers.

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Green Tech Challenge

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

While the US remains the top producer of e-Waste, more than China, EU nations also have trouble in recycling digital items. A separate report in 2015 said that only a third of Europe’s e-Waste is recycled. In fact, their ‘O2 Recycle’ program has recycled more than 2 million devices to date.

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2021

New research commissioned by Hubbub and released this week reveals that since 2007, only 19 policies have been published to tackle the environmental damage and human rights abuses of the fashion industry. textile choice, production and lack of recycling.? Only one policy contained any detail of cost or timeframes. There are also?broader

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Fashion Government Policy Carbon-negative 44

Green Business Bureau

JULY 8, 2021

In order for a marina to become sustainable they must consider: Recycling shrink wrap. Prioritizing recycling . Landfill pollution – Plastic shrink-wrap, bottles, packaging and materials are not being properly recycled and disposed of. Prioritize Recycling . Recycle Your Shrink-wrap.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2022

Dutch firm Avantium manufactures plant-based plastics from fructose, and is also exploring captured CO2 as a future feedstock for fossil-free materials. Plastics are everywhere, and the problems they pose are well documented. Plastics are now in our food, our drink, the air we breathe, and almost every product we buy.

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Plastics Europe Recycling Recycling 36

AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

” The automaker’s sustainability goals include sourcing energy only from renewable sources and getting at least half the materials in its vehicles from recycled, bio-based or renewable origins — by 2030 in the U.S. and globally by 2040. Zimride merged into Lyft in 2013, its vehicles announced by a fuzzy pink “grill-stache.”

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Terra Infirma

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Frankly, outside the City, the economy of 2012, say, didn’t look much different from the economy of 2007 and embracing Sustainability remained the domain of just a few pioneering corporations. Most local authorities now collect all plastic pots, tubs and trays except for black ones which cannot easily be sorted by optical sensors.

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Sustainability Politics Plastics Climate change 45

Business Green

JULY 22, 2022

He participated in the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore. The same holds for solid waste generation, eliminating the single-use growing media and plastics common in indoor operations. Shawn Cooney has high hopes that things will continue to change. "I

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Sustainability Transportation Carbon-negative Policy 82

Clean Energy Trust

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Already beset by plastic waste problems , Point Nemo’s once pristine environment is increasingly becoming a junkyard. It costs much less, if anything, to simply let a dead satellite drop back down by itself and mostly burn up than to remove it from space intact for proper disposal or recycling.

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