GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

They've innovated on raw materials, resulting in Aquafil's Econyl yarn that it recycles from ghost fishing nets, carpet fluff and other would-be waste. How can other companies find success in winning over their suppliers toward eliminating the very concept of waste in their products? Instead of oil, we use waste," he said.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Carpet waste is a huge issue in UK, as an area the size of Birmingham is thrown away every year. Carpet Recycling UK, a trade association set up to encourage carpet recycling, oversees 73% of diverted carpet waste being sent to incineration at an approximate climate cost of £16.5 Less than 2% of carpet waste is actually recycled.

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GreenBiz

MAY 18, 2020

This is a longstanding practice for Intel, something the company has done since 2008. It will work with personal computer manufactures to create "the most sustainable and energy-efficient PC in the world — one that eliminates carbon, water and waste in its design and use." . One company can’t solve climate change’.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2020

While the core function of the metals recycling process has remained constant over thousands of years, the industry has undergone significant changes as the volume of waste metals we treat has grown. Economic growth has driven ongoing demand for waste metals since 2000. How much is used worldwide? Advances in recovery technology.

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Charged

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Not only is the material waste reduced to zero, but energy consumption and floor space are significantly lower, and subsequent cleaning processes are not required.”. Since 2008, bdtronic has offered different machine concepts for the impregnation of EV motors, especially with the trickling process.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 14, 2021

Adopting best management practices for environmental improvements, Butler Farms chose to cover its pig waste lagoon in 2008 so that as well as significantly reducing odours, methane could be safely flared off. So, we’re starting to look at introducing food waste.” It’s a never-ending learning process”, says Tom.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 2, 2020

But given that real-life disposal options are likely to be safer than those modeled in the study (all modern landfills have a lining, for example), the research bodes well as the renewables industry takes stock of what to do with a growing mountain of waste from end-of-life assets. Solar's recycling options. Elsewhere, the U.S.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 16, 2020

The electronic waste collection conundrum Heather Clancy Thu, 07/16/2020 – 01:15 The primary reason I started covering the business of sustainability during the 2008 financial crisis wasn’t just because I was laid off from my position as editor of a technology trade publication. First, some stats.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 27, 2023

A few weeks ago, a geothermal project at the site of waste incineration plant by Lounavoima set a new record with the drilling of a thermal well to a depth of 2008 meters. Drilling to this depth allows for much greater thermal output and thermal storage capacity for the waste incineration plant.

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Greenability Magazine

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Like yard waste, holiday trees and greenery are banned from landfills in Missouri and are discouraged from being deposited into Kansas landfills. Archie, MO — Yard waste collection site, 401 S. Belton, MO — Lawn-Corps, 2008 E. Freeman, MO — Yard waste collection site, 105 E. Olathe, KS — Yard Waste Facility, 1100 N.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

The brewing giant published its latest joint sustainability and financial report on Friday, confirming the Dutch beer brand has cut carbon emissions by volume from its breweries almost in half since 2008, having already exceeding its 2020 target to achieve a 40 per cent cut four years ago. Against its 2030 target to use 2.8

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2019

According to a national study by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, concern about the environment is currently polling at its highest level since 2008. As many vehicles in its fleet weigh up to 40 tonnes, idling leads to significant amounts of wasted fuel. Smart routing. Going paperless.

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The Environmental Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

On the other hand Pakistan has a long history of floods and floods of 1928, 1929, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1973, 1976, 1988, 1992, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2001, 2008, 2010, and recent 2020 share the saddest events with tremendous damages in the country. Glaciers are receding and wasting at a global level, which shows the sign of Global warming.

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Living Green Technology

DECEMBER 14, 2020

They've also kept over 100 tons of food waste out of landfills, and saved 25,000 gallons of water by saving rainwater. Purdue has over 200 recycling centers on campus in an effort to reach its goal of 65% solid waste recycling. The university received a 52% diversion rate, recycling 8,400 tons of materials. Purdue University.

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Greenability Magazine

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Like yard waste, holiday trees and greenery are banned from landfills in Missouri and are discouraged from being deposited into Kansas landfills. Archie, MO — Yard waste collection site, 401 S. Belton, MO — Lawn-Corps, 2008 E. Freeman, MO — Yard waste collection site, 105 E. Olathe, KS — Yard Waste Facility, 1100 N.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Around half of all WEEE plastics generated in Europe do not enter official WEEE collection channels, ending up in the waste bin, processed at substandard recycling facilities, or exported outside Europe. • . • Approximately 2.6 Restricted BFRs (e.g. fillers), are sorted out during the conventional density-based recycling process.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 28, 2022

One study reports that the amount of meat eaten each day per person fell by 17 per cent on average in the UK between 2008 and 2019. Household budget surveys show just a three per cent decline in meat purchases in the UK from 2008 to 2019. But the amount of food that is wasted can also interfere with the accuracy of dietary data.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Achieving its flagship goal will see the firm reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 50 per cent against a 2008-9 baseline, building on the 26 per cent reduction that had been reached by the end of 2020.

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Greenability Magazine

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

City Council passed Resolution 200005 directing the city to update the 2008 Climate Protection Plan to include new greenhouse gas reduction goals, resiliency and equity. In 2020, the K.C.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Numerous studies show that companies with strong CSR goals and focus outperform their counterparts during economic downturns, including the 2008 recession. I started as CSO during the height of the 2008 recession. Trisa Thompson, a lawyer and former chief responsibility officer at Dell Technologies, advises to start with the data.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 3, 2020

After the 2008 economic recession, I led a study to show that companies generally scaled down sustainability programs during periods of lowered financial performance, but they did so rather selectively. Many may find their companies’ post COVID-19 business strategies are no longer aligned with ongoing or planned sustainability programs.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

In a general sense, waste heat is everywhere: the heat your car engine generates, for example,” said Mark Lee, head of UT Dallas’s Department of Physics and author of the report. Too much waste heat is used, and, as that hot-to-cold margin drops, you can’t generate as much thermoelectric power. That heat normally dissipates.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 11, 2021

No small act of improvement is wasted in this effort, so how much are you willing to contribute to building the future we want? One organization that is near and dear to my heart is Ideas For Us , a U.N.-accredited accredited NGO that works to develop, fund and scale local solutions that advance the Sustainable Development Goals worldwide.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Lay it on the line – reduce travel, go green energy, transition away from gas heating, reduce waste, recycle. There’s a lot of speculation on carbon at the moment and it feels like 2008 all over again – where it’s so new and complex and changing so quickly that there is limited understanding. People always want choice.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Transporting people and things around the world sustainably and managing the world's waste are some of today's most complicated and pressing challenges. So, too, is the scale of the waste problem - globally, we are creating 2.01 billion metric tons of municipal solid waste annually.

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Terra Infirma

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

People knew that Sustainability was important (or they wouldn’t have wasted so much of both our time), but it wasn’t that important. To take one measure, as I type the carbon intensity of the UK electricity is about 124gCO2/kWh, less than a quarter of what it was in 2008. So if it was tough then, why so different now?

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Business Green

JULY 18, 2022

The company conducted its first biofuel test flights as far back as 2008 and gained approval for commercial SAF use in 2011. This partnership with Boeing will expedite SAF availability around the globe, advance policies that ensure sustainability and foster environmental justice, and cultivate local economies.".

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Living Green Technology

JULY 31, 2017

They've also kept over 100 tons of food waste out of landfills, and saved 25,000 gallons of water by saving rainwater. Purdue University Purdue has over 200 recycling centers on campus in an effort to reach its goal of 65% solid waste recycling. The university received a 52% diversion rate, recycling 8,400 tons of materials.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

McDonald’s straws were still contributing to our waste problem using a linear economy rather than a circular one. A small reduction in plastic consumption and waste (although a step in the right-direction) should not be applauded as a sustainable move without addressing the wider challenges just mentioned.

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Planet Pulse

JANUARY 16, 2020

Since being launched into sun-synchronous orbit aboard the Dnepr rocket in Kazakhstan in 2008, the five RapidEye satellites have: Orbited the Earth more than 305,000 times. Over the course of a decade, Switzerland’s Pizol Galcier wasted away, transforming from an active glacier into scattered snow fields. All Rights Reserved.

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Business Green

JANUARY 4, 2021

This is markedly different to how businesses responded to the 2008 financial crash, when sustainability largely fell off the agenda for leadership teams. The disruption caused by extreme climate change falls into the same category and leading companies have intensified ambitions to reduce carbon. The importance of collaboration is clear.

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GreenBiz

MAY 12, 2020

Consider that the cosmetics industry brings in a booming $500 billion every year and imagine the waste created by default. As businesses, we can manufacture and sell products with no packaging, create closed-loop recycling systems and collaborate with suppliers to create innovative solutions for reducing waste — all while thriving.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 3, 2021

But what about the arguably even more concerning challenge of tackling electronic waste (or ‘e-waste’)? Recycling e-waste involves a combination of processes, including manual and mechanical dismantling, size reduction, sending hazardous waste for final disposal, and processing metal components. And things are looking up.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

After the painful financial crash of 2008/9, the political atmosphere in Ireland ahead of the lifting of quotas was febrile. This is to be fuelled by a combination of slurry, food waste and grass, thereby allowing livestock farmers to reduce the density of their herds. Irish Agriculture.

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Terra Infirma

MAY 5, 2020

There’s an old saying ‘don’t let a crisis go to waste’ and there are plenty of voices calling for the current disruption to be used to build a new, better future. Alongside a myriad of activist voices, we’ve had a heavyweight study from Oxford University making the case for a green stimulus.

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Sustainability Transportation Climate change Government 61

AGreenLiving

MARCH 2, 2020

Specifically, Sainsbury’s cut the number of bags they gave away by 58% in the two years that followed the campaign, giving out 312m fewer bags in 2008 than 2009 and saving 13,200 tonnes of virgin plastic over two years.” According to a press release from the company, “The British Retail Consortium estimated that in 2006, the U.K.

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Plastics Recycling Recycling Carbon-neutral 28

AGreenLiving

MARCH 2, 2020

Specifically, Sainsbury’s cut the number of bags they gave away by 58% in the two years that followed the campaign, giving out 312m fewer bags in 2008 than 2009 and saving 13,200 tonnes of virgin plastic over two years.” According to a press release from the company, “The British Retail Consortium estimated that in 2006, the U.K.

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