Business Green

MARCH 2, 2022

The flow of plastic into the environment must be stopped before it’s too late, and a legally-binding global UN treaty backed by business is key to making this happen, writes Unilever's Richard Slater. Consumer goods companies - including Unilever - are big users of plastic. The problem is actually getting worse.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 15, 2021

The incineration or landfilling of plastics and other high carbon materials generate unnecessary greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In February 2016, the government of Lithuania implemented a “deposit return system”, to give consumers an incentive to return used beverage containers for recycling. Best practice DRS – Lithuania.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Concerns about air quality, which has already begun declining nationally since 2016 , are growing rapidly for those living in the shadow of Shell’s $6 billion plastics plant under construction along the Ohio River in western Pennsylvania’s Beaver County. There is a certain degree of sick irony about that.”.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 18, 2021

’s plastic waste was sent to Turkey last year, according to a Greenpeace U.K. This is equivalent to 210,000 metric tons of plastic waste. ’s recyclable plastic that is sent to Turkey is either burned or ends up in landfills , roadsides and bodies of water. produces the most plastic waste per person after the U.S.

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Terra Infirma

MARCH 25, 2024

So I got hold of a copy of Chouinard’s book Let my people go surfing: the education of a reluctant businessman – originally published in 2005 and updated in 2016 – and I dug in. The book is split into two sections: History and Philosophy. The History section was by far my favourite.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

is contributing up to five times more plastic pollution to the oceans than previously thought, according to a follow-up study published in Science Advances. million metric tons of plastic to the oceans in 2016. million metric tons of plastic to the oceans in 2016. Read more:Â .

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The Environmental Blog

MARCH 12, 2021

For example, you might find that a huge amount of plastic is simply ending up in the general waste and not getting recycled. of business waste was recycled in 2016 and 44.9% Ditch plastics and consider using reusable glass containers. According to recent government statistics, just 48.5% of household waste.

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Unsustainable

OCTOBER 12, 2019

The banning of disposable plastic water bottles is the most reasonable, sustainable, and conscientious plan for the future; and this ban should begin now. Furthermore, there is no simple solution to this issue, as plastic is produced by many different industries for many different purposes. In 2014-15, in Australia, around 2.5

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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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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 28, 2020

A view inside a ChemFORWARD display of dimethyl phthalate, used in plastics. These include ortho-phthalate plasticizers found in flexible toys, UV-blocking oxybenzone in sunscreens and halogenated flame retardants in electronics. That could bring more of the plastic industry onboard, he added. "If Data driven.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Plastics Pact launches new initiative to redesign the plastics value chain at Circularity 20. recycling system had been a mess for far longer — seeing as the country never fully developed the infrastructure to recycle anywhere near the amount of plastic waste it produces. Plastics Pact. Holly Secon. Of course, the U.S.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 30, 2019

We’ve all been guilty of buying an unsustainable beverage every once in a while, but when faced with the perplexing conundrum of whether to grab that plastic bottle or aluminum can, which do you believe to be more environmentally-friendly ? By the 1960s, the first occurrence of plastic pollution in the oceans was recorded.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

2020 was, along with 2016, the joint hottest year on record ever — closing out the warmest decade on record ever. Launched in 2018 with the Canadian and UK Governments, GPAP is now helping countries across ASEAN and West Africa to tackle ocean plastic waste. The state of the planet. Global average temperatures are now about 1.2

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

All 36 water samples collected around Europe, including in the Baltic Sea, the English Channel, along the Atlantic coastline and in the Mediterranean Sea, were found to contain microfibres – tiny plastic fibres that enter the environment from manufacturing, washing and wearing synthetic clothes.

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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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Greentown Labs

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

And reduce plastic waste, while we’re at it? Across these applications, MettleWood could replace significant portions of the steel, concrete, and hard plastics used in buildings today, leading to meaningful decarbonization. InventWood was founded in 2016 as a faculty-led spin-off company of the University of Maryland.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2023

They found the site stacked with large piles of waste like wood and plastic, along with a significant amount of crushed waste, known as trommel fines. After believing Selby was handling waste illegally on the industrial estate in late 2020, investigators made a series of visits to confirm their suspicions.

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2021

The funding comes through Innovate UK's Women in Innovation programme, which was launched in 2016 after research revealed just one in seven applications for Innovate UK support came from women. "As

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Business Green

MAY 25, 2022

The study, Who finances the plastic flood? The money behind INEOS and Borealis , argues demand for plastic is set to fall in the coming years due to incoming laws aimed at curbing plastic use, and that therefore banks are putting their investments at risk. The whole supply chain is a plastic producer's problem.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

In the plastics sector, more than 1,000 organizations have united behind, and are working towards, a common vision of a circular economy for plastics. Broader reporting frameworks, such as the Global Reporting Initiative, also have started to embed concepts of the circular economy.

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Fairsnape

OCTOBER 4, 2019

And, worryingly, reports no significant improvement since the 2016 State of Nature report, that labelled the UK as “among the most nature-depleted countries in the world”. Yet today’s State of Nature report paints a dire picture of decline and loss of so many species and habitats.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2020

Once metals are shredded, the residual stream that remains can contain materials including plastics, foam, glass, wood, textiles, rubber and more. to 92.25% in 2016 – under the 95% target. Two decades ago, this residue would have been commonly landfilled or incinerated due to the logistics and cost of recovery.

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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.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 26, 2020

Where there's hope for speeding up business action on plastics. 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. Plastics Pact by EMF, The Recycling Partnership and WWF. Elsa Wenzel.

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Green Technology

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

In July 2017 China, which is by far the world’s largest importer and recycler of scrap metals, plastic and paper, notified the World Trade Organization that it planned to effectively ban imports of 24 types of scrap , which its environment ministry called “foreign garbage,” by the end of the year. Plastic scrap is especially problematic.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JUNE 26, 2020

Various open positions at Brightmark HQ in San Francisco and at our Plastic Renewal Plant in Ashley, Indiana. We started in 2016 as a group of engineers who decided to turn our attention from other corporate ventures to being part of some of the most transformative innovations in our fight for the environment.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 3, 2021

Such practices include installing sensor-controlled lights and faucets, establishing battery recycling stations, launching organization-wide recycling programs, and reducing unnecessary waste from paper, plastic and other disposable materials.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2019

It acknowledged that plastic particles from tyres are also deposited into sewers and lead to harmful consequences to marine wildlife and aquatic food chains. The Government’s announcement warned that particles are entering the airstream and having a detrimental impact on human health for drivers, passengers and bystanders.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2022

billion tonnes in 2016 but passed 100 billion in 2019 and is estimated at 101.4 Use again – for example, using recycled metal and plastics to make vehicles and recycling vehicles at the end of their life could save 1.5Gt of emissions and 3.33Gt of materials. “By billion last year. of materials cycled. Gt of emissions and 3.4

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 20, 2020

But a new study of plastic in the Atlantic Ocean reveals the pollution problem is ten times worse than scientists suspected. The study, just published in Nature Communications , uses data collected in fall 2016. The amount of plastic has been massively underestimated,” said Katsiaryna Pabortsava, lead author of the study.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 30, 2021

It’s been publishing chemical report cards since 2016, tracking the biggest retailers in the U.S. Nearly 70% of the 43 retailers graded in the last report, published in 2019, had improved their score by reducing plastics or toxic chemicals or improving policies concerning chemicals. and Canada. Fewer retailers are failing.

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

2016 SunRISE I (2016). Topic: Plastics, energy storage, and recycling value chains. Topic: Sustainable consumption in proteins, plastics, and packaging. Collaborator: Fraunhofer TechBridge, an expert in technical validation, was a key collaborator on the first three Launch programs. Sector: Electricity.

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Charged

AUGUST 25, 2020

The earliest ones—we drove a 2016 BMW 330e and a prototype 2016 X5 xDrive 40e—were so sensitive that even a whiff of uphill slope could cause the engine to flip on. BMW was the most adventurous of German makers in electric cars 10 years ago, but it hit the Reset button hard on its electrification efforts in 2016.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Called “Ricicli + Viaggi” (or the “Recycle + Travel” program), consumers who recycle empty plastic bottles earn credits toward free public transportation travel tickets. Commuters who recycle empty plastic bottles via a designated compactor will then earn accrued credit-points, redeemable as free digital travel tickets.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2020

A glass waste worker in a recycling facility in Sofia, Bulgaria in May 2016. They also use several different bins to enhance recycling efficiency, including black for general waste, blue for paper, yellow for plastic, white for clear glass, green for coloured glass and brown for composting.

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Green Market Oracle

MARCH 4, 2020

percent from 2016 to 2021. Technologies that draw-down carbon represent a massive economic opportunity. The global carbon capture and sequestration market is projected to reach USD 8.05 billion by 2021, representing a compounded annual growth rate of 13.6 Subscribe in a reader

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The untreated and improperly managed biomedical waste comprising of personal protective equipment (PPE), face masks, face shields, gloves, plastic coverall, head cover, hazmat suit, shoe covers, syringes and miscellaneous medical equipment used by the patients and healthcare workers has the potential of spreading various types of infections. [1]

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