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How to Reduce Your Business Waste In 2021: Top Tips

The Environmental Blog

“Businesses have a big impact on how well recycling in the UK is shown so it is important for them to set the trend and reduce and improve their waste and recycling in the most efficient and eco-friendly way possible,” says recycling experts QCR Recycling Equipment. Optimise your recycling habits.

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A Panacea for Biomedical Waste Management?

The Environmental Blog

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. At a preordained timetable, municipal department trucks accumulate the waste and transport it to the recycling centers. With PWC 4.0

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Environmentally friendly leather wins European circular economy startup award

Envirotec Magazine

The textile is seemingly produced without the use of toxins and is “organic and biodegradable.” “Initially the focus was more on the medical industry but the idea of using the same technology for producing leatherlike textile came up in spring 2016.” “With our technology we can give that waste a new life.”

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

Grist

Meanwhile, General Electric recently announced it has begun turning decommissioned wind turbine blades into cement, while scientists at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory are cooking up new materials that could make the blades of the future far more recyclable than today’s state of the art. Bank’s team is betting we can.

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All Eyes on Marine Plastic From Orbit

Planet Pulse

Over the past 60 years, the accumulation of plastic debris has led to the formation of garbage patches—massive gyres of non-biodegradable plastic—and tons of microplastic seafloor sedimentation across global seawaters. Over the course of 2016 to 2018, the total area of plastic debris detected skyrocketed from 0.23 km2 to 0.77km2.

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The Blue Economy: Importance of Ocean Conservation

Green Tech Challenge

increase from 2016. Recycling, when practised as an end to end solution, has proven effective. By recycling plastic waste into eco-fuel, the start-up created a sustainable waste management solution which enables customers to reduce gas emissions, while generating revenue and creating jobs. Thailand earned US57.5

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Top 5 Eco-friendly Accessories for Electronics

The Environmental Blog

They are made from recycled, plastic-free materials (and even sometimes pressed coffee or wood) which make them biodegradable. The greener wooden watch has been around for a while, and we are glad to report that no trees are being cut down, as recycled timber is being used to make these watches. Green Smartwatch/ Wooden Watch.

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