GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The leader in water, hygiene and energy services sells to a diverse collection of institutions such as hospitals, food and beverage providers, as well as heavy industry including power plants and plastic manufacturers. Ecolab says it helped its customers save enough water in 2018 equivalent to the needs of 600 million people. Company profile.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In addition to these financial risks, greenwashing can also harm businesses by: Exposing employees and consumers to toxic, dangerous, and environmentally damaging products by not investing in the appropriate health and safety measures as a true sustainable business would. Legal conviction by The Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

A new report from the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has this week warned that one third of the world's countries still have no legally-mandated outdoor air quality standards in place, and even where such laws exist standards vary widely and often misalign with World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Elsewhere in Europe, AXA-director, Patrizia Barbizet, has been director of the European oil giant TotalEnergies since 2008. And between 2008 and 2010, Everest Re director John J. AXA did not respond to a request for comment in time for publication. Coal Connections. Links to Lobbying.

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Business Green

JULY 9, 2020

NHS Sustainability Day campaign launches annual impact report as work continues by expert panel commissioned by NHS England to investigate into how and when the health service can meet net zero. The group was convened in January, as NHS England launched an intiaitve dubbed For a Greener NHS, in a bid to tackle the 'climate health emergency'.

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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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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The for-profit firm Scivera , launched in 2008 in Charlottesville, Virginia, offers a subscription database SciveraLENS, with color-coded grades for chemicals based on their inherent hazards. A view inside a ChemFORWARD display of dimethyl phthalate, used in plastics. That could bring more of the plastic industry onboard, he added.

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Business Green

MAY 21, 2020

million tonnes of annual emissions since 2008. The sector had previously set its sights on delivering some fairly modest emissions reductions by the early 2020s, and had made little if any progress in reducing its 5.7 If you remove livestock from the system, you then become reliant on chemical fertilisers," she contends.

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Soil Agriculture Climate change Government 101

Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 3, 2021

In 2018, the issue of single-use plastics came to the forefront and captured the world’s attention. They contain organic matter (such as resin and brominated flame retardants), chemical residuals and heavy metal elements that can be seriously damaging to the environment and human health. Positive steps forward.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 6, 2020

Starbucks is putting public health first until the coronavirus situation improves. The program became more formalized in 2008, when the company set a goal of serving 25% of all beverages in either personal or “for here” cups by 2015. and Canada offices. As new developments unfold in the epidemic, Starbucks will modify its response.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

The leader in water, hygiene and energy services sells to a diverse collection of institutions such as hospitals, food and beverage providers, as well as heavy industry including power plants and plastic manufacturers. Ecolab says it helped its customers save enough water in 2018 equivalent to the needs of 600 million people.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

And despite its many shortcomings, plastic continues to take market share from leather. We anticipate that many consumers will shift to animal-free food products if those products begin to meet or exceed their animal-based alternatives on key areas like cost, taste, functionality, convenience, and health. Food may be next.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Maybe however the best argument is not climate-change, animal suffering, health or low costs. These printers are similar to regular 3D printers, print food instead of plastic. Next to reducing precious food waste, integration of food printers integrated with other health sensors might lead to improved healthcare.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, or TCEQ, has not told residents about the health risks they face. TCEQ documents obtained by Public Health Watch show that some of those early readings were double the level Texas considered safe at the time. Emerging research also connects it to diabetes and reproductive problems.

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Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 91

Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The world produces 381 million tonnes in plastic waste yearly - for context, this is roughly the weight of two-thirds of the world's population, every year, with just one company, Coca Cola, producing over 3,000 plastic bottles every second. Coral is 20 times more likely to become diseased upon coming into contact with plastics.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 18, 2021

x Mylea Better Shoes are made from mushroom leather NetZero, the company behind the orbs, began in 2008 when two scientists came up with a blend that boosts the carbon absorption of all living plants. Additionally, the mycelium orbs are pet and human friendly and require zero maintenance. Related: Bro.do

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

It taught Esso and other Standard Oil companies how to sell derivative products (like plastic and pesticides) that made the company and the brand a household name in the minds of the public. The campaign ran for 17 years in the 1940s and 1950s, at the time an unheard length of time for an ad campaign. In its day, “Quick, Henry, the Flit!”

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Quit single use plastic, My low key cocaine habit. The 'long 90s' of idealism, hedonism, and relative peace is on its death bed, where it will remain until the financial crash of 2008 administers the final rights. Too late to save the environment. None of my friends are okay. Everyone is rightly worried about what comes next.

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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2020

The built environment is consistently cited as one of the key levers that can address all three priorities at once: jobs, climate and health. Tim Crosland, Director of Plan B, said: "In 2008 the CCC advised the Government that 4C was the threshold of "extreme danger", to be avoided at all costs.

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Climate change Carbon-negative Government Policy 86

Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

The Fundamentals of Circular Packaging (Workshop): An increase in consumer awareness, corporate engagement and regulatory action has led more companies to set ambitious goals to reduce and reimagine their use of plastics and packaging. Thanks to new regulatory incentives and technologies, the carbontech market is now taking off.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 21, 2021

We’re using more plastic. In the 1970s, 35 million tonnes of plastic was produced globally, mounting to 381 million tonnes in 2015. In 2008, Earth Day galvanized millions of people across the globe in the Call For Climate campaign. A Plastic Ocean. How to Give Up Plastic , Will McCallum. kg/person in 1970 to 43.22

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 18, 2022

We’re using more plastic. In the 1970s, 35 million tonnes of plastic was produced globally, mounting to 381 million tonnes in 2015. In 2008, Earth Day galvanized millions of people across the globe in the Call For Climate campaign. A Plastic Ocean. How to Give Up Plastic , Will McCallum. kg/person in 1970 to 43.22

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Earth Day Politics Global warming Climate change 78

Mr. Sustainability

JUNE 27, 2020

I feel like the 2008 financial crisis was just a dry run for this.” So was the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in 2008. For example, DSM, a Dutch multinational corporation active in the fields of health, nutrition and materials, is investing heavily in bio-based ethylene as a replacement for fossil products including plastics.

Energy 78

Energy Energy Fossil fuels Investment 78

Sustainability Consulting

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The last decline in CO2 emissions was during the 2008 recession. Nevertheless, CO2 emissions are expected to drop up to 10% in 2020, according to a projection by the Energy Information Administration. The decrease is due to the COVID-19 pandemic which shut down the US economy for several months.

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