Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Nearly half of all businesses (46%) across the UK have ‘recycling food waste’ at the top of their priorities to reduce their organisation’s carbon footprint, according to new research. The 10 main business priorities to reduce carbon footprint: Recycling food waste (46%). Reducing use of plastic (35%).

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Conspectus of Biomedical Waste Management. Although the economy is restoring to an extent but an exponential escalation in the biomedical waste generation has posed severe persisting health hazards and environmental threats. 2] Since March 2020, the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has issued periodic guidelines under the.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 27, 2020

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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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 15, 2021

A newly constructed, fully automated mixed waste sorting plant in Stavanger, Norway – a region that showcased an “exemplary model of the Holistic Resource Systems framework”, according to the study. Now is the time for real action to ensure societies stop wasting resources with all the related negative consequences.

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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. The waste exports to Turkey from the U.K.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Our current economic model is based on extraction and waste. This take-make-waste economic model fundamentally cannot work long term. This model, known as the circular economy, could help tackle the world’s biggest challenges, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, waste and pollution.

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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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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

OCTOBER 18, 2019

The firm’s winning idea is a gelatine-based alternative to conventional leather, which is made from low-value gelatine waste from the meat and leather industries, such as skin and bones. ” The material comes on rolls to allow rapid cutting, and to minimise waste. .”

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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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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. The study was a sequel to 2015 research, which had given a rough estimate of the waste contribution by the U.S. million metric tons of plastic to the oceans in 2016.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2020

While the core function of the metals recycling process has remained constant over thousands of years, the industry has undergone significant changes as the volume of waste metals we treat has grown. Economic growth has driven ongoing demand for waste metals since 2000. How much is used worldwide? Advances in recovery technology.

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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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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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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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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. Indeed, only 8.4

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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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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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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. All offices, including the D.C.

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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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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. About Brightmark: Our planet is in need of environmental solutions, and we don’t have time to waste. Today, there are brilliant people creating solutions at Brightmark that can change our course and renew our world.

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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 More than 90% of what we take from the Earth to fulfil our needs and wants goes to waste, with just 8.6% billion last year. of materials cycled. Gt of emissions and 3.4 Gt of materials. ?

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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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Grist

JANUARY 8, 2021

What I’d love to do is turn it into a blade waste brokerage business,” Nagle said. Nagle’s blades-to-bridges dream is part of an emerging effort to find creative ways to deal with blade waste, a fast-growing part of the overall waste stream that poses unique challenges. Unfortunately, in the U.S. Bank’s team is betting we can.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

A leading UK and European recycling company was fined £20,000 at Airdrie Sheriff Court on 16 November after Scotland’s environmental regulator, SEPA, uncovered what it described as the largest single illegal export of household waste from Scotland. Sentencing was deferred until 16 November. Details of the case.

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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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Green Tech Challenge

MAY 3, 2019

increase from 2016. Every year, an additional 8 million tonnes of plastic is deposited into the ocean. While ocean clean-up, a reactive solution, is helping to restore the ecosystem, it will be in vain if plastic going into the ocean is not diverted. Innovators have been coming up with substitutes for plastic products.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 8, 2021

Innovate UK launched Women in Innovation in 2016, after research revealed that just one in seven applications for Innovate UK support came from women. Natasha Boulding (27) from Durham, created Plastech to transform plastic waste into aggregate, producing carbon negative concrete blocks. Jacqueline Morrison.

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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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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

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 16, 2022

To give you some perspective on the importance of sustainability in the sports industry we consider the carbon footprint of the 2010 South Africa World Cup, the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, and the 2016 Rio Olympics together. Optimize food and waste management by practicing good inventory management. Look to eliminate plastic.

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Green Technology

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Ferguson first set a carbon reduction goal in 2016 and is working toward a greener tomorrow. Newly designed high-efficiency fixtures and systems provide the same comforts as their wasteful counterparts. The reasons to avoid disposable plastic are endless. Let’s not forget plastic tableware.

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Business Green

MAY 20, 2021

Reports suggests Turkish government will follow in the steps on China and impose a moratorium on imports of British plastic waste. Turkey is set to ban imports of most plastic waste following a Greenpeace investigation that exposed mountains of British recycling being illegally dumped and burned on beaches and roadsides in the country.

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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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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

In Beck’s mind, too , forwarding-thinking companies should look at natural resources not just as consumables but as recyclable goods, and then design systems and products in a way that eliminates waste. Nearly a century ago, Ecolab sold dishwasher soap with a dispenser described as its first effort to reduce waste.

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Unsustainable

AUGUST 20, 2019

In addition, it takes “an average of 5 litres of water to produce one piece of A4 paper”, “50% of the waste of businesses is composed of paper”, “recycling 1 ton of paper saves around 682.5 Consequently, deforestation is one of the biggest issues connected to using virgin paper. offices use 12.1

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