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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. develops an ultra-lightweight, flexible solar technology for the built environment. Endeavor Composites, Inc. Knoxville, Tenn.,

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

Envirotec Magazine

Key outcomes from each project are detailed below: DAME – Helping menstrual cups go mainstream   The perfect circular sustainable period product, the menstrual cup, has existed for decades, yet it remains a niche product that only 5% of people with periods use. 1 DAME aimed to break down the barriers to using menstrual cups.

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A Novel Solution To Plastic Pollution

R-Squared Energy

Aduro Clean Technologies of Sarnia, Ontario, was founded in 2011 with a focus on upgrading bitumen, which is a semi-solid form of petroleum found in abundance in Canada. In other words, upcycling waste plastics is self-sustaining. When applied to plastics, it is Hydrochemolytic Plastics Upcycling (HPU).

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The 2019 Redress Design Awards showcased the very best of emerging eco-designers

AGreenLiving

Known for its work in reducing textile waste in the fashion industry, Redress has just hosted its 2019 Design Awards — the world’s largest sustainable fashion design competition. Let’s take a look at the winners! The runner-up of the 2019 event was Spanish designer Orsola de Castro.

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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. Greentown Labs is a community of climate action pioneers working to design a more sustainable world. About Greentown Labs.

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

Greentown Labs

deploys a biorefining platform that upcycles organic waste to fatty-acid biochemicals that can be used in a wide range of applications. As an integral part of Tandon’s Sustainable Engineering Initiative and NYU Tandon Future Labs network , the UFL is home to programs focused on policy, education, and market solutions for the green economy.

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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. Macy’s sustainability practices It’s no surprise the organization continues to evolve the parade in alignment with the needs of the planet.