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Investigation reveals almost 130,000 tonnes of carpet incinerated annually

Envirotec Magazine

CRUK, which includes John Lewis as one of its members,[i] launched in 2008 with the aim of diverting carpet from landfill and recovering raw materials.[ii]. The current system means society is throwing away or burning billions of pounds of valuable materials, while polluting the environment and negatively impacting on human health.

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A Poisoned Chalice: Curious case of glamour and deterioration of Punjab post Green Revolution

The Environmental Blog

With a planned and targeted strategy we achieved that and beyond, and state of Punjab was poster boy of this widely hailed success story but it came at the harrowing cost of human lives and health. It came, and came at the harrowing cost of human lives and health, scarring families for generations. kms of area holding approx 26.12-million-acre

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Looking back on the future

Envirotec Magazine

Societal collapse doesn’t seem to necessarily mean the end of everything, though, as in: the breakdown of law and order, and the sort of Hobbesian world depicted in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. The only effective dips to emissions have been due to economic slowdowns,” in 2008 and in 2020 as a result of the Covid lockdowns.

COP 130
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Looking back on the future

Envirotec Magazine

Societal collapse doesn’t seem to necessarily mean the end of everything, though, as in: the breakdown of law and order, and the sort of Hobbesian world depicted in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. The only effective dips to emissions have been due to economic slowdowns,” in 2008 and in 2020 as a result of the Covid lockdowns.

COP 130
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Danone's Eric Soubeiran: 'The food system is broken'

GreenBiz

Earlier this year, Danone became the first listed company to become an "enterprise à mission," a new type of corporation created by a 2019 French law. Workers fills up milk storage tank at a Danone dairy plant in Normandy, France, April 2008. Cecilia Keating. Mon, 07/20/2020 - 00:30. Sponsored Article. Source: Photoagriculture.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

Spending the past year as Ecolab’s president and COO, he joined as an executive vice president in 2008 after capping off 15 years as Nestlé’s head of corporate sales in Europe. Vas" Narasimhan views this moment as the best to be alive, partly because science promises to advance health by unlocking genetic mysteries that have built up over 3.7

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Danone’s Eric Soubeiran: ‘The food system is broken’

AGreenLiving

Danone’s Eric Soubeiran: ‘The food system is broken’ Cecilia Keating Mon, 07/20/2020 – 00:30 Earlier this year, Danone became the first listed company to become an “enterprise à mission,” a new type of corporation created by a 2019 French law. “You showed evidence that finance can change the world.