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How to Reduce Your Business Waste In 2021: Top Tips

The Environmental Blog

of business waste was recycled in 2016 and 44.9% Even consider how you can use biodegradable and compostable packing materials instead. ’ Paper is indeed biodegradable, but that’s certainly no reason to waste it. .’ ’ Paper is indeed biodegradable, but that’s certainly no reason to waste it.

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All Eyes on Marine Plastic From Orbit

Planet Pulse

New research combining Planet’s high cadence satellite imagery and other innovative technologies has successfully found the sources and pathways of plastic pollution in the Caribbean Sea. Over the course of 2016 to 2018, the total area of plastic debris detected skyrocketed from 0.23 The study by Kikaki et al. km2 to 0.77km2.

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A Panacea for Biomedical Waste Management?

The Environmental Blog

2] Since March 2020, the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has issued periodic guidelines under the. The Biomedical Waste Management Rules 2016 entail the healthcare facilities to follow a color-coded segregation structure for waste disposal and hand it within 48 hours over to treatment facilities.

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The Blue Economy: Importance of Ocean Conservation

Green Tech Challenge

increase from 2016. The sustainability of this growth is however compromised by overfishing and rising ocean pollution. Pollution from litter, sunscreen chemicals, and boats making day trips to the island in large numbers (200 boats and 5000 tourists per day) had gradually damaged 80% of the island’s ecological system.

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Today’s wind turbine blades could become tomorrow’s bridges

Grist

If you are talking about a sustainable, renewable fuel source, it’s not appropriate to then pollute the environment with materials that are decommissioned,” Bank said. They are very difficult to move around, and they are not biodegradable,” Bank said. Since 2016, Re-Wind, a collaboration among researchers in the U.S.,

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Where there's hope for speeding up business action on plastics

GreenBiz

Its landmark report, "The New Plastics Economy," sounded the alarm in 2016 that if "business as usual" continues, by 2025 the ocean may hold more plastic than fish by weight. Only five years ago, few corporate leaders had plastic pollution on their official radar. Chief marketing officers.

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Eco Friendly Retail Packaging Complete Guide (Sustainable Packaging Innovations)

Green Business Bureau

Polluting packaging agents build up to foul habitats and ecological systems, creating unstable environments which threaten human well-being and security. Pollution : Uncontrolled disposal. Glass is non-biodegradable, and there are no biodegradable alternative materials on the market. Material recycling and recovery.