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Greentown Go Build 2023 with Saint-Gobain Announces Startup Cohort

Greentown Labs

Carbon Upcycling Technologies (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) is a circular-decarbonization solution for hard-to-abate industries–-utilizing low-purity industrial CO 2 and industrial byproducts to decarbonize cement. manufactures and distributes biobased building materials, including a low-embodied-carbon insulation.

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Report details progress with four trailblazing circularity projects, one year on

Envirotec Magazine

Each cup is predicted to contribute 99 times less carbon over its lifetime 2 (compared to boiling a traditional cup) and avoids the need for 2,860 disposable period products 3 per person over a lifetime of periods. Launched in June, the self-sanitising period cup has achieved several ISO standards to prove its safety and effectiveness.

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The Carbon to Value Initiative Announces Year Two Startup Cohort for Carbontech Accelerator Program

Greentown Labs

Carbon Upcycling Technologies (Calgary, Canada) utilizes point-source CO2 and mineralizes it with waste materials to create supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) that can be used in building materials. develops polymers for gas separation, enabling membrane-based carbon capture applications. Somerville, Mass.

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The Carbon to Value Initiative Announces Year Three Startup Cohort for Carbontech Accelerator Program

Greentown Labs

delivers a solution for carbon capture using dry granular metal carbonate (GMC) purification technology with integrated measurement, reporting, and verification. delivers a solution for carbon capture using dry granular metal carbonate (GMC) purification technology with integrated measurement, reporting, and verification.

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Is Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade destroying the environment?

AGreenLiving

As for the material of the balloons themselves, they’ve received an environmental upgrade from the original rubber to a polyurethane fabric that can be upcycled in a variety of ways. After all, just transporting three million people into the area will leave a carbon footprint. Of course, durability is an important factor too.