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New campaign looks to build on booming organic market

Business Green

Soil Association reveals that lockdown sparked a sales surge for organic certified products. New data shows that sales of organic food in supermarkets have seen the biggest jump since December 2016, with year-on-year growth hitting more than six per cent.

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Andrew Coyne Helped Run Charity That Gave $6.4M to Climate Crisis Denial Groups

DeSmogBlog

From 2006 until the board was disbanded in 2016, those tax records reveal, the foundation gave hundreds of thousands of dollars in charitable donations annually to Canadian think tanks with long records of questioning the science of climate change and attacking government policies that could address the crisis. They in turn belong to a U.S.

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Circular solution for screenings?

Envirotec Magazine

Moreover, spent biochar can be used to enhance the quality of biosolids, an organic fertiliser that many treatment plants produce, and which is applied to soils where it sequesters carbon for centuries. Untreated screenings are also a source of methane emissions, a greenhouse gas that is 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide.

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Study demonstrates CO2 savings of “holistic resource systems”

Envirotec Magazine

In February 2016, the government of Lithuania implemented a “deposit return system”, to give consumers an incentive to return used beverage containers for recycling. TOMRA supported Lithuania with the implementation of their new container deposit system, launched in February 2016 with a tight ramp-up timeframe.

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Solar Panel Landfill Deemed Safe as Recycling Options Grow

GreenTechMedia

Europe's big idea, small volumes. still lags behind Europe on solar recycling. Even with this regulatory pressure, cost-effective solar recycling remains a challenge in Europe, as in the U.S., Europe only has one dedicated PV recycling plant so far. With all this, the U.S. Collected modules awaiting recycling.

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The Ocean Race reports on microfibres in European seas

Envirotec Magazine

The Baltic Sea had the highest levels of microplastics in Europe, double the amount in the Mediterranean?. • The impact of the climate crisis on Europe’s seas was also measured. The Ocean Race Europe took place in May and June 2021, starting in Lorient in North West France and finishing in Genova, Italy.

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Aviation is plotting a sustainable course

GreenBiz

In 2016, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a U.N. United Airlines began buying SAF in 2013, and in 2016 became the first airline to use SAF on a continuous basis. Regardless, pressure has been on aviation to join other sectors in dramatically cutting greenhouse gas emissions.

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