Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 8, 2024

The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) published the Scottish Waste From All Sources 2022 Official Statistics on 26 March, which provide details on waste from Scottish households, businesses and public services. million tonnes of waste, with 62.3% of all wastes ending up in landfill, for an all-time low figure of 2.30

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GreenBiz

JUNE 17, 2020

How Perdue, Smithfield and Silver Fern Farms are reducing packaging waste. Food companies have a dual responsibility when it comes to waste reduction aspirations: optimizing their operations to minimize food waste while reducing the amount of other materials — especially the waste associated with packaging — sent to landfill.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Despite the numerous residential fertilizer ordinances passed since 2011, water quality, harmful algal blooms, and seagrass loss, which has resulted in mass deaths of the threatened Florida manatee, have continued to worsen.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The figures provide detail on household waste collected across all local authorities during 2021, as well as waste landfilled and incinerated in Scotland in 2021. Standout findings include: Scottish 2021 household waste figures reflect the reality of easing pandemic restrictions. million tonnes of household waste (0.45

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 13, 2023

An exploded view of an EV battery: Researchers have demonstrated a method to upcycle end-of-life battery waste into materials that can be used for ‘next generation’ battery cathodes. For recycling experts, the challenge is to design recycling processes for lithium-ion batteries when they reach the end of their useful life.

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Business Green

JULY 21, 2021

Major new study from WWF argues previous food waste data is based on a major underestimate, thanks to huge amounts of food lost before it leaves the farm. The study, which is titled Driven to Waste and has been produced in partnership with supermarket Tesco, calculates that 1.2 It highlights how a total 4.4

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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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Business Green

JANUARY 28, 2020

The food and drink industry is on track to hit its emissions and water goals, but efforts to halve food waste by 2030 need to be redoubled. However, further work needs to be done to accelerate progress to curb food waste and engage more companies with sustainability goals, the report shows. target baseline of 2011.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 1, 2020

In an industry notorious for food waste, award-winning chef Douglas McMaster has achieved the seemingly unattainable — Silo , the world’s first zero-waste restaurant. Launched in Australia in 2011, Silo was heralded as the world’s first zero-waste restaurant. Its success spurred the creation of a branch in Brighton, U.K.,

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 15, 2021

SEPA said its specialist officers had carefully assessed the monitoring technique being used to remediate the site and responsibly manage the waste, and that they would be present on site every day to ensure permit conditions are fully complied with and that public health is protected during the operation.

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The Guardian: Energy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

On 24 August, Japan began discharging into the Pacific some of the 1.34m tonnes of wastewater that has collected since a tsunami crippled the facility in 2011. Continue reading.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 16, 2019

In 2011 the Government called for retailers to reduce peat use by 2020, but industry has shown lack of commitment to embrace these ambitions. Compost no longer needs to include peat as there is already a rich supply of natural green waste on our doorsteps which can match its planting properties pound for pound.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 15, 2021

Japan has ended years of speculation over the fate of radioactive wastewater stored in tanks at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant since the 2011 disaster. The main source of radioactive contamination is the residual nuclear fuel from the three nuclear reactors which overheated during the 2011 disaster.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2022

This work is covered by regulations including the Environmental Protection Act 1990, the Pollution and Control (Scotland) Regulations 2012, and the Waste Management Licensing Regulations 2011.

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Planet Pulse

JANUARY 16, 2020

Here is a series of images collected as a tribute to RapidEye’s contributions: From June 2011 to April 2012, Puyehue-Cordón Caulle covered 16 square kilometers of the Andes in a lava flow about 30 meters thick. These RapidEye images show the area shortly before the eruption—on March 24, 2011 and eight years later on March 10, 2019. (c)

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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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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

At these sites, plastics recovered from end-of-life vehicles (auto shredder waste) and waste electrical goods are refined into high-quality recycled engineering polymers that match virgin material quality for use in a wide range of new products. She says Axion’s ‘friendly and co-operative team’ makes her job all the more enjoyable.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 26, 2024

This is where CarbonScape comes in with a biographite alternative, produced from forestry and timber industry by-products – i.e. wood chips from forestry waste. I led on the creation of a successful energy franchise within the investment bank, raising >$1 billion in new equity for various ASX listed energy companies from 2001 to 2011.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Six years after breaking ground, CopenHill — a waste-to-energy plant topped with a year-round ski slope — is officially open, marking a major milestone in Copenhagen’s journey to becoming the world’s first carbon-neutral city by 2025. Ski atop the worlds cleanest waste-to-energy plant in Copenhagen. and Soren Aagaard.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 14, 2021

In a bid to reduce its impact on the environment, Butler Farms developed its own pig-manure-powered biogas operation in 2011. 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.

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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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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.” The designation indicates that 100 percent of the waste stream at the facility is reused, recycled or incinerated for energy. For this particular facility, that translated into 8.3

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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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R-Squared Energy

OCTOBER 15, 2021

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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Terra Infirma

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

On Wednesday night, with my political hat on, I proposed a motion to Newcastle City Council for zero waste by 2030. And this afternoon, I’m taking part in an IEMA Net Zero Roundtable. People are losing their fear of zero.

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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. With incubators in Somerville, Mass.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 22, 2021

RNG is created by capturing methane from existing sources of waste – such as animal manure, garbage or wastewater – which is then processed and repurposed as a clean energy source. David Cox co-founded the Coalition for Renewable Natural Gas in July 2011 and serves its members as CFO. homes and businesses.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Drillers are using ever-increasing amounts of water and sand in order to produce the same volume of gas, with a corresponding rise in the levels of solid and liquid waste created. Fracked Gas: Using More and More Water, Creating More and More Waste. But what does RSG really mean? per 1,000 gallons.”

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 22, 2021

The bank was established along with the Border Environment Cooperation Commission in 1994 under the original North American Free Trade Agreement and tasked with implementing drinking water, wastewater, and solid waste infrastructure projects. The bank’s $2.7 billion in paid-in and callable capital was to be used to finance these projects.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

.” 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. Customized report

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Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 11, 2023

converts organic waste into high-performance, insulating, greaseproof, and biodegradable packaging materials. Universal Matter (Burlington, Ontario, Canada) develops a proprietary Flash Joule Heating process that converts carbon waste into high-value and high-performance graphene materials to efficiently create sustainable circular economies.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Fresh from discussions with colleagues about how to use pricing mechanisms to reduce overall road transport energy demand in the context of a shift towards electric vehicles, my thoughts turned to what would have accrued to the Treasury if fuel duty hadn't been ‘frozen' back in 2011. pence per litre for both petrol and diesel.

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2023

A voluntary approach to ending the use of peat in horticulture was agreed with the professional horticultural sector in 2011, but this did not succeed. We're particularly keen to explore whether a sufficiently high volume of well-composted waste derived material could be used at the scale and quality required by the industry."

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

In Japan, a new green hydrogen plant, one of the world’s largest, just opened near Fukishima — an intentionally symbolic location given the plant’s proximity to the site of the 2011 nuclear disaster. It will be used to power fuel cells, both in vehicles and at stationary sites.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 15, 2020

According to a 2011 paper by researchers at National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), strategies for better indoor air quality can exist in conjunction with energy efficiencies including envelope airtightness, heat recovery ventilation, demand-controlled ventilation and improved system maintenance.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 17, 2020

Under a landmark 2011 state law, ComEd has spent $2.6 But the same law allows the utility to file its capital plans under formula rate updates which give the Illinois Commerce Commission little power to alter them, beyond reviewing spending after the fact for impropriety or waste. ComEd is also struggling to justify its $9.53

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