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Greentown Go Build 2023 with Saint-Gobain Announces Startup Cohort

Greentown Labs

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. 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

Researchers have tried several different reuse approaches for addressing the growing global plastic waste stream. Waste plastics may also contain undesirable components. Pyrolysis is a different approach that involves the thermal degradation of plastic waste in the absence of oxygen to produce a liquid oil.

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

AGreenLiving

Eco-fashion has come leaps and bounds in recent decades, but one environmental clothing organization has spent years addressing the global textile waste crisis through an annual fashion event showcasing emerging eco-friendly designers. Let’s take a look at the winners!

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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. 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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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. “Carbon is a waste product, suspended in the air we breathe,” said Pat Sapinsely, Managing Director of the Urban Future Lab. Capro-X (Ithaca, New York, U.S.)

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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.