Business Green

MARCH 4, 2020

Water UK, which represents more than 25 water and wastewater companies across the UK, said the sector had already cut its emissions by 43 per cent since 2011 "despite a growing population and the impacts of climate change". The issue is a genuine emergency, we have no time to waste.".

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Living Green Technology

NOVEMBER 26, 2016

Electronic waste is commonly referred to as e-waste, and is used to describe electronic products that are unwanted, obsolete, and/or aren’t working properly anymore. Many think that e-waste can be treated similarly to regular waste when it comes to recycling.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 17, 2020

The aspiration for a growing number of them is “zero waste.” The aspiration for a growing number of them is “zero waste.” Another vivid example: plastic that has been used to wrap meat, which cannot be sent to traditional facilities without first being decontaminated.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The £1 million fund was made possible by the sales of 10p plastic bags through the John Lewis Partnership. ” Saskia Restorick, Director at Hubbub said: “The four projects, while very different in nature, shared an ambition to bring innovative, creative and entrepreneurial approaches to designing out waste in their respective sectors.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

First, it’s zero waste. O’Grady: I lost my dad in 2011 after a 10-year battle with colon cancer. O’Grady: I have been really passionate about sustainability since high school where I first started advocating around climate change and waste, so I knew starting my own business that it had to be low-to-no waste.

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 9, 2024

That’s why Greentown and Saint-Gobain partnered to launch Go Build 2023, which specifically sought innovations to extend product life cycles, find alternative raw materials, and enable technologies for waste revalorization. develops an ultra-lightweight, flexible solar technology for the built environment. Hempitecture (Ketchum, Idaho, U.S.)

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

First, it’s zero waste. O’Grady: I lost my dad in 2011 after a 10-year battle with colon cancer. O’Grady: I have been really passionate about sustainability since high school where I first started advocating around climate change and waste, so I knew starting my own business that it had to be low-to-no waste.

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Greentown Labs

MAY 18, 2021

May 18, 2021 — Greentown Labs , the largest climatetech startup incubator in North America, and Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation (MCHC) have selected six startups for the KAITEKI Challenge that are innovating in the areas of alternative proteins, plastics, and packaging. This enables supply chain improvements and reduction of waste.

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Living Green Technology

NOVEMBER 26, 2016

These come as a result of a new waste transfer station, as well as a way to offset costs from its discount program for low-income residents. Additionally, the plastic bags ban is working well, seeing a 58% reduction in plastic bags being disposed of since 2011. Overall, recycling in Seattle has gone up by 20% since 2003.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

“It is likely that the majority of microplastics come from the fragmentation of larger pieces of plastic litter in the environment,” says a 2019 report from the Royal Society,1 and the tendency of discarded litter to degrade or fragment is helped along by things like UV radiation, physical erosion and temperature changes.

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Greentown Labs

JULY 12, 2022

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. Carbon is a waste product, suspended in the air we breathe,” said Pat Sapinsely, Managing Director of the Urban Future Lab.

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Sustainability Consulting

MARCH 11, 2021

companies are publishing a sustainability report, up from 86% in 2018, and 20% in 2011. · There is also progress in sustainable aviation fuel, which can be made from used fats, oil and agricultural waste. S&P Global Trucost found that: · 90 percent of U.S. 53% of revenues of major U.S. For the first time major global and U.S.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 3, 2021

In 2018, the issue of single-use plastics came to the forefront and captured the world’s attention. But what about the arguably even more concerning challenge of tackling electronic waste (or ‘e-waste’)? The world currently produces up to 50 million tons of e-waste a year (and only 20% of this is formally recycled).

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Grist

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

” Last January, as a sophomore, she started the Menlo-Atherton Reusables Club — a student group focused on policy changes that target plastic waste in San Mateo County, California. ” Jenni Vanos and David Hondula first met at the 2011 International Congress of Biometeorology in Auckland, New Zealand.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

They are metals and plastics or whatever. That would include plastics that are recyclable. So, I just see the obvious, like when I first said "waste equals food." Teaching a group of sixth graders about systems design, 2011. The idea that these inanimate objects have a life is a bit odd when you think about it.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 3, 2024

Of the 64 total board members at Omnicom Group , WPP , Interpublic Group (IPG), Publicis Groupe , Dentsu and Havas , 32 have significant experience in carbon-heavy sectors such as fossil fuels, fossil fuel financing, plastics, utilities, and aviation. Twenty-two are still serving in roles at such companies.

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GreenBiz

MAY 27, 2020

Fast fashion and high-performance fabrics have compounded waste by accelerating the output of apparel that's virtually impossible to recycle. The problem is shared across industries, including in electronics, which make up the world's fastest-growing waste stream. It feels like we’ve moved to this throwaway society.

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Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2022

The brands "can use plastics to make fibers, but they don't have a solution for fiber-to-fiber recycling at scale," Emmanuel Ladent, Carbios CEO, said in an interview. The company expects the facility, which will recycle local plastic waste, to begin operations in 2025. A 'truly circular' solution.

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Business Green

JANUARY 27, 2020

As such the supermarket plans to start off with what it knows it can do, including switching all stores to LED lighting by 2022, improving the energy efficiency of its fridges, switching to a zero emission fleet, and halving the amount of plastic packaging it produces by 2025.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Hotspots of plastic pollution also reflect the patterns of local deposition, waste management and accumulation,” Hardesty continued. “By By identifying these locations using real data, local decision makers can assess opportunities on where and how to implement effective policies to reduce plastic in the environment.”.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2020

We are working with CO2, but for other companies it could be other types of pollution, such as plastic waste.". For example, in the UK two semi-detached demonstration homes co-developed by Velux in Northamptonshire in 2011 were among the first in the country to meet the government's Zero Carbon Standard for Homes.

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Elemental Excelerator

MAY 11, 2022

Back in 2011, Breakthrough Institute published a report articulating something that the climate tech sector long knew: climate tech companies face more hurdles on the way to success than other types of tech companies. Ultimately, they need to become market leaders supplanting fossil fuels, plastic, and other extractive practices.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

billion tons of plastic. Of the waste generated from that plastic, less than a tenth of that has been recycled, researchers estimate. Plastic inhabits the oceans, building up in the guts of seagulls and great white sharks. At the end,” he added, “you have exactly the same quantity of plastic waste.”.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Independent directors can hold companies' feet to the fire on plastics - they owe it to their shareholders as well as the planet, argues Planet Tracker's John Willis. In light of this, it is crucial that the key players within the plastics industry make an urgent commitment to changing their practices. A problem on the rise.

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 23, 2020

In 2019, BASF partnered with us to run the Circularity Challenge , a startup-corporate partnership accelerator program focused on breakthroughs in the plastics, energy storage, and recycling value chains to advance a circular economy. WS: As one example, we were a founding member of the Alliance to End Plastic Waste.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 1, 2020

How hard would it be to say no to single-use plastics for an entire month? People who sign up for Plastic Free July are about to find out. The global movement is asking people around the world to be part of the plastic pollution solution. Plastic Free July started back in 2011.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

By joining forces, water firms - which produce almost a third of UK industrial and waste process emissions - said they expected to reduce the industry's greenhouse gas emissions by 10 million tonnes over the next decade, while supporting the development of green jobs and skills.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 31, 2019

According to the TED blog, only four TED Talks specifically on climate change were posted in 2010 and 2011, although speakers mentioned the phenomenon. disasters included Hurricane Sandy in 2012 and the Missouri tornadoes of 2011. But awareness of ocean plastic also grew. billion in damages. Notable U.S. Images via Shutterstock.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

With backing from across the sector, the new AdGreen initiative aims to provide benchmarks for cutting CO2 and waste from TV ad production. I think the main considerations for us are around transport and energy use, then after that it would be waste," explains Coombes, whose official role is industry sustainability lead for AdGreen. "We

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Energy Innovation

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Less widely recognized threats, like dissolved metals and other molecular health hazards, lurk in runoff from industrial sources, home waste, and building materials. Large Wildfire Trends in the Western United States, 1984-2011,” Geophysical Research Letters 41, no. million related deaths across the globe each year. Dennison et al.,

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Business Green

MAY 29, 2020

Fast fashion and high-performance fabrics have compounded waste by accelerating the output of apparel that's virtually impossible to recycle. The problem is shared across industries, including in electronics, which make up the world's fastest-growing waste stream.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Not only that, but the location Moonachie, New Jersey was specifically chosen in 2011 and has housed the floats and supplies for the past ten years in the state-of-the-art and LEED-certified facility. Reducing waste and being energy-efficient is engrained in the company mission. Read more:Â .

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

They are metals and plastics or whatever. That would include plastics that are recyclable. So, I just see the obvious, like when I first said “waste equals food.” The idea that these inanimate objects have a life is a bit odd when you think about it. They are not biological items. Fugitive carbon, no.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 9, 2023

E.g. raw material and energy use, atmospheric emissions, water emissions, and waste. Hence MFA is often applied to identify process waste and system inefficiencies. emissions, waste) associated with the production and consumption of goods and services. It involves identifying the environmental inputs (e.g.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 27, 2020

Fast fashion and high-performance fabrics have compounded waste by accelerating the output of apparel that’s virtually impossible to recycle. The problem is shared across industries, including in electronics, which make up the world’s fastest-growing waste stream. It feels like we’ve moved to this throwaway society.

Recycling 28

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AGreenLiving

MAY 27, 2020

Fast fashion and high-performance fabrics have compounded waste by accelerating the output of apparel that’s virtually impossible to recycle. The problem is shared across industries, including in electronics, which make up the world’s fastest-growing waste stream. It feels like we’ve moved to this throwaway society.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Benzene is a colorless, sweet-smelling chemical found in crude oil and products including gasoline, solvents, plastics, paints, adhesives and detergents. As the global demand for plastics has grown, Texas also has become a hub for the petrochemical industry, which uses benzene in its production processes. He wouldn’t call personally.

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