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Frontline Communities Launch Hunger Strike to Protest Plastics Giant Formosa

DeSmogBlog

Communities around the world impacted by the plastics giant Formosa are launching a global hunger strike on October 31. In 2019, nearly 8,000 victims of the spill filed a lawsuit in Taiwan against Formosa Plastics Group. Our understanding is the hunger strike relates to an incident which happened in 2016, in Vietnam.

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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. A boom is filled with plastic, and yet was only able to collect small amounts of it due to much of the debris passing it by. km2 to 0.77km2.

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Recycling food is top of UK businesses’ green agenda

Envirotec Magazine

A study of 200 UK businesses conducted by Keenan Recycling, suggests that companies are more concerned about recycling food waste, than they are plastic and cardboard, (19%). switching to electric vehicles, (16%) or decreasing use paper and print materials, (10%) when it comes to its green agenda. Reducing use of plastic (35%).

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Surveying the scrap metal landscape

Envirotec Magazine

Metal recycling has created vital secondary raw materials for the smelting of new materials since metal usage began. While the industry was knocked back by the financial crisis in 2008, usage and consumption of waste metals has recovered and since risen considerably. Today’s challenges and tomorrow’s solutions.

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#Greentown10: Greentown Launch Propels Startup-corporate Partnerships to Commercialize Climatetech

Greentown Labs

Corporates unlock key opportunities for climatetech deployment at scale, due to their capital, purchasing power, and market access—especially given that climatetech is a largely B2B industry with high capital requirements. 2016 SunRISE I (2016). Sector: Electricity. Sector: Electricity. Sector: Electricity.

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From bladder-powered energy storage to a green dishwasher called Bob: The best of clean tech at CES 2022

Business Green

On offer were a raft of clean tech innovations, from the latest smart home gizmos through to the world's most powerful e-bikes and e-scooters. Bladder-power underwater energy storage.

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Which countries are winning the war on waste?

Envirotec Magazine

A glass waste worker in a recycling facility in Sofia, Bulgaria in May 2016. Waste recovery within municipal waste includes recycling, composting, and incineration with energy. Estonia’s landfill usage has increased by 16 percentage points over the last five years. Sweden (99%). Denmark (98%). Belgium (98%). Netherlands (98%).

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