Lidl reveals how it has slashed food waste by 43 per cent since 2016
Business Green
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
'Good Food' report confirms sharp fall in food waste and plastic packaging for budget supermarket
Mayor of London unveils £3.1m urban tree planting funding package
Business Green
JULY 27, 2022
The "massive" tree planting package is aimed at protecting and future-proofing London against the worsening impacts of climate change, and comes in response to the record-breaking 40C temperatures across England which led to a spate of devastating fires across the capital last week. The Mayor of London has pledged a further £3.1m
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Amazon Clicks Buy on 615 Megawatts of Large-Scale Solar
GreenTechMedia
MAY 21, 2020
since 2016, when it was the largest annual purchaser, according to the Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance. In 2016, companies acquired 1.54 Amazon’s plans to reach net-zero include the emissions the company and its supply chain directly produce, such as through the manufacturing of packaging and the delivery of packages.
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Zero food miles, zero packaging and plenty more: in praise of allotments
Low Impact
AUGUST 12, 2020
Recent research from the University of Sheffield’s Institute for Sustainable Food focusing on allotment space across ten UK cities revealed that land dedicated to allotments declined by 65% from a peak between the 1940s and 1960s through to the 2016.
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How to Reduce Your Business Waste In 2021: Top Tips
The Environmental Blog
MARCH 12, 2021
of business waste was recycled in 2016 and 44.9% Reduce your packaging. According to a Reuters special report, with the increase of home delivery, online shopping, and takeaway food delivery since the pandemic started, we’ve generated more waste from plastic packaging than ever before. of household waste.
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'The world is moving on': Coca-Cola's Therese Noorlander on plastic, packaging, and youth activism
Business Green
OCTOBER 21, 2020
Having been crowned the most polluting brand in the world for two years running by the Break Free from Plastic campaign in its global audit of plastic waste, the firm also last year revealed it produces three million tonnes of plastic packaging a year, or the equivalent of 200,000 bottles a minute.
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Andrew Coyne Helped Run Charity That Gave $6.4M to Climate Crisis Denial Groups
DeSmogBlog
MAY 7, 2024
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.
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Chitty-chitty-pop-bang! Are noise cameras ready to tackle UK traffic?
Envirotec Magazine
APRIL 23, 2024
The whole system is packaged within a metal enclosure, which also contains processing and data transmission. Sometimes images were blurry,” concluded the report, “but the overall quality of the evidence package allowed for vehicle types and the excessively noisy vehicle to be identifiable.”
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China’s new frontier for VOC regulations
GreenBiz
MARCH 23, 2021
Industries getting particular focus when it comes to VOC management in China include electronics, packaging and printing, pharmaceuticals, petrochemical, chemical, industrial coating, oil storage and transportation. Air emission reform in China. More than a decade ago, national policies laid the groundwork for reducing air emissions in China.
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Sponsored content: Green chiller is cool choice
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 12, 2020
GEA, a specialist in supplying high-tech processing, packaging and refrigeration kit for the food industry, has teamed up with German company AGO to supply the Absorption Chiller for Mackie’s plant. AGO has only carried out two projects in the UK so far using this technology and both times GEA was the refrigeration contractor.
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Study demonstrates CO2 savings of “holistic resource systems”
Envirotec Magazine
JULY 15, 2021
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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Environmentally friendly leather wins European circular economy startup award
Envirotec Magazine
OCTOBER 18, 2019
“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.” Differently coloured trustmarks indicate whether products and/or packaging are free of plastics and microplastics or are made of recyclates.
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Michigan Utility DTE Ordered to Seek Out More Renewables
GreenTechMedia
FEBRUARY 24, 2020
The order caps a lengthy and contentious battle over DTE’s long-range IRP, which it and Consumers were required to develop for the first time under Michigan’s comprehensive 2016 energy law. A PSC administrative law judge ruled in December that this was a violation of the 2016 state law that set up the IRP process.
SkyH2O Plans to Build 100+ ‘Micro-wateries’ Over Five Years Using Atmospheric Water Generation
Greentown Labs
OCTOBER 4, 2023
When California suffered an extreme drought in 2016, von Welczeck decided to focus his next venture on addressing water scarcity. Like at today’s gas stations, ancillary services will also be offered—from EV-charging to sustainably packaged food and coffee.
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How effective stakeholder engagement shaped Samsonite’s ESG strategy
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
With Our Responsible Journey, Samsonite strives to lead the lifestyle bag and travel luggage industry across key sustainability indicators, including the use of recycled materials in its products and packaging and achieving carbon neutrality across its owned and operated facilities.
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Germany Settles Nuclear Phaseout Legal Disputes for $2.9B
GreenTechMedia
MARCH 5, 2021
billion) compensation package will be awarded to RWE and Swedish firm Vattenfall. In 2016 and 2020, the Federal Constitutional Court in Germany indicated compensation for lost power generation was fair. The majority of the €2.4 billion ($2.9 Vattenfall will receive €1.425 billion and RWE €880 million.
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Whirlpool Corporation refreshes climate ambition with 2030 net zero target
Business Green
MAY 7, 2021
The new goals are a significant step up for the domestic appliance maker, which just last summer pledged to halve emissions from its plants and operations by 2030 against a 2016 baseline. Whirlpool has also pledged to enhance its environmental footprint by curbing plastic pollution and extending the life of its products.
Illinois Opens Narrow Window for Critical Solar, Nuclear Relief Bills to Pass
GreenTechMedia
MAY 14, 2020
CEJA is backed by a group of environmental, consumer and labor groups that supported 2016 legislation that set a goal of 4.3 Their alternative, dubbed “Path to 100,” is more tightly targeted at renewing the solar energy incentives created by the 2016 Future Energy Jobs Act that are now running out of funding.
Diesel-fuelled UK rail investment plans condemned as 'missed opportunity'
Business Green
JANUARY 25, 2021
Transport secretary Grant Shapps announced £794m investment package over the weekend in two rail routes that closed 50 years ago, but campaigners have criticised the plans for relying on diesel engines.
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InventWood Takes on the Buildings Sector’s Emissions with Superpowered Wood
Greentown Labs
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Another possible application of this insulative technology is to replace polystyrene packaging, Cable says. This wood technology also has the wide-ranging potential to replace various plastics, including in electronics and packaging. InventWood was founded in 2016 as a faculty-led spin-off company of the University of Maryland.
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The Corona Virus Reduces China's Emissions by 25 Percent
Green Market Oracle
FEBRUARY 24, 2020
In the period between 2014 and 2016 China canceled many coal plants and installed scrubbers on 80 percent of existing plants to reduce sulfur dioxide, nitrous oxide and other hazardous emissions. A BloombergNEF report found that of the 385,000 electric buses in the world in 2017, almost all of them were in China.
Arizona Outlines Possible Path to 100 Percent Clean Power by 2050
GreenTechMedia
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
The newly approved changes will boost those targets dramatically for investor-owned utilities Arizona Public Service and Tucson Electric Power, mandating a 50 percent cut in carbon emissions from 2016 to 2018 average levels by 2032 and a 75 percent cut by 2040. New targets for distributed storage, long-term renewables planning.
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Smart Energy Finances: COP27 climate finance reports
Smart Energy International
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
A technical report on progress towards jointly mobilising $100 billion per year also found that the energy sector accommodated the vast majority of climate financing during the targeted period 2016 to 2020, with energy and transport amounting to a combined 46%. The financial package, of which $2.5 The financial package, of which $2.5
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Investors welcome fresh HSBC pledges to beef up climate policies
Business Green
MARCH 16, 2022
A group of activist investors have today confirmed that they have withdrawn a resolution calling o n HSBC to strengthen its climate policies, after the bank agreed to a new package to measures designed to accelerate its transition to a net zero emission portfolio.
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L'Oréal embraces environmental labelling under revamped sustainability strategy
Business Green
JUNE 25, 2020
2030 sustainability vision launched today by the beauty giant includes pledges to use only recycled or biobased packaging by the end of the decade and achieve carbon neutrality across its sites by 2025.
Green Growth: New report shows how leading European companies are thriving and making climate progress
EDF + Business
FEBRUARY 7, 2024
The new report highlights inspiring, regionally diverse examples from the packaging, steel, cement, agri-food, transport, and retail sectors showing businesses which are advancing ambitious goals through circularity, innovation and new partnerships to slash emissions and thrive in the European economy. billion in 2023.
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UK electric car sales surge despite bleak period for car market, figures show
Business Green
OCTOBER 6, 2020
Pure electric vehicle sales are up 664 per cent since 2016 while diesel sales are down 75 per cent through the same period, according to SMMT. Overall, pure EV sales are up a whopping 664 per cent since 2016, while diesel sales have plummeted 75 per cent over the same period, today's data from the trade association shows.
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Germany Set to Start Coal Phaseout Tenders Amid Legal Challenge
GreenTechMedia
AUGUST 26, 2020
There are also compensation packages for workers in mines and power plants who lose their job as a result of the coal exit laws. State Aid approval of a previously completed round of German coal closures, which paid lignite plants to go on standby, was approved in 2016. These will be held sporadically through 2024.
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Government reveals plans to accelerate low carbon heating rollout
Business Green
APRIL 28, 2020
The government has today unveiled a wide ranging package of proposals aimed at accelerating the much-needed decarbonisation of the UK's heating systems, setting out plans to replace the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme for homes and businesses over the coming years.
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Siemens Gamesa Cuts 266 Jobs as Onshore Wind Restructuring Continues
GreenTechMedia
JANUARY 14, 2021
The company will offer severance packages to 215 employees in La Coruña and 51 in Cuenca. where safe-harbored projects with federal Production Tax Credits lined up are essentially being built using plans from 2016. The latest generation of Siemens Gamesa onshore turbines has a rated capacity of 5.8
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What can we learn from the Oldsmar water supply hack?
Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 25, 2021
Our approach when working with customers on existing systems is to help them understand where the greatest risks are and suggest a package of improvements that will achieve the best cost-benefit ratio until it is time for replacement. The guiding principle is that if it is not secure, it is not safe.
Greentown Labs Announces Go Make 2022 with Mitsubishi Corporation (Americas), Supported by the M-Lab Companies
Greentown Labs
MAY 24, 2022
From production to packaging and distribution, each stage of the supply chain needs robust climatetech innovation. More specifically, Go Make 2022 is interested in solutions across supply chain management; packaging products and materials; alternative foods and ingredients; and green fleets and battery management. Somerville, Mass.
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Business must back a historic plastic treaty
Business Green
MARCH 2, 2022
From ice cream to shampoo, much of what we sell comes packaged in plastic. More than 80 per cent of people worldwide favour products with less plastic packaging, according to an IPSOS poll published last week. And we will ensure that our plastic packaging is designed to be fully reusable, recyclable or compostable.
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Jordan Peterson’s New Online School Will Be Rife with Climate Crisis Deniers
DeSmogBlog
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
Michael Shermer speaking at the 2016 FreedomFest in Las Vegas, Nevada. I believe that there will always be environmental problems and that we can nearly always solve them with improved knowledge, science, and technology.”
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Which countries are winning the war on waste?
Envirotec Magazine
OCTOBER 28, 2020
A glass waste worker in a recycling facility in Sofia, Bulgaria in May 2016. Data compiled by packaging retailer RAJA – presented in October – offers a picture of how well different countries are performing in the management of waste.
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Lessons from 3 emerging bio-based material technologies
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 19, 2021
Turning mycelium into packaging that’s 'compatible with the planet'. The company’s first technology, MycoComposite, precipitated the subsidiary Mushroom Packaging , which I discussed with Ecovative’s business development lead, Meghan Olson. Turning algae into straws that are 'designed to disappear'.
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Hanwha Q Cells to Buy Storage Software Startup Geli to Tackle C&I Market
GreenTechMedia
AUGUST 6, 2020
In 2016, Seattle-based startup 1Energy was acquired by Doosan. ” 'Must-Have Capabilities' Unlike most energy storage vendors offering combined software-hardware packages, Geli took a standalone software-as-a-service approach, integrating with a variety of battery and inverter systems and project developers.
Food labels behavioural campaign signs up major brands
Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 14, 2022
Having the “Look, Smell, Taste, Don’t Waste” labelling across all our Onken packaging continues to help people feed their inner happiness and help prevent food being thrown away unnecessarily.”
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BT pulls in £5.5bn from helping customers cut 13 million tonnes of CO2
Business Green
MAY 21, 2020
The annual report revealed BT has now achieved a 42 per cent reduction in carbon intensity since 2016/17, putting it broadly on track to deliver on its science-based target to reduce its 2016 emissions by 87 per cent by the end of the decade.
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Toxic chemicals report card grades top retailers
AGreenLiving
MARCH 30, 2021
It’s been publishing chemical report cards since 2016, tracking the biggest retailers in the U.S. Of the original group of 11 retailers included in the 2016 report card, their average grade improved from a D+ to a B-. Toxic-Free Future is behind the Mind the Store campaign. and Canada. Fewer retailers are failing.
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Greentown Go Make 2022 with Mitsubishi Corporation (Americas) Announces Startup Cohort Focused on Supply Chain Decarbonization
Greentown Labs
OCTOBER 20, 2022
From production to packaging and distribution, each stage of the supply chain needs robust climatetech innovation to make a net-zero future a reality. Nfinite Nanotech (Waterloo, ON, Canada): Smart nanocoating that enables sustainable packaging to keep products fresh and eliminate waste at scale. ? Asahi Kasei America Inc.,
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Toxic chemical cocktails found at over 1,600 river and groundwater sites across England
Envirotec Magazine
MAY 25, 2023
On the small-scale from the toiletries, food packaging, clothing and other goods we use individually, to large-scale industrial, medical and food production, we are creating an ever-growing chemical cocktail in our rivers. Data was analysed from between 2016 to 2022.
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What does “clean beauty” mean? New framework gives a path forward
EDF + Business
MARCH 25, 2021
Social media mentions of #cleanbeauty grew 623% between 2016 and 2019, and the growth in prestige beauty skin care labels that positioned themselves as clean grew nearly 40% in one year. Commit to continuously challenging your business and your suppliers to offer the safest possible products and packaging for your customers.
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The landmark trial that could determine who pays to rid America’s drinking water of PFAS
Grist
JUNE 2, 2023
David Peters’s nightmare began on a Monday in the spring of 2016, just before the end of the work day. But in May 2016, days before the legislative aide called Peters, the U.S. The city’s goal since 2016 has been to get PFAS contamination in its drinking water supply to “non-detect,” or as close to zero ppt as possible.
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