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Study demonstrates CO2 savings of “holistic resource systems”

Envirotec Magazine

Commissioned by recycling equipment manufacturer TOMRA, and carried out by London-based consultancy for sustainability Eunomia, the report says that a reduction of 2.76 Commissioned by recycling equipment manufacturer TOMRA, and carried out by London-based consultancy for sustainability Eunomia, the report says that a reduction of 2.76

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Is global plastic pollution nearing an irreversible tipping point?

Envirotec Magazine

As of 2016, estimates of global emissions of plastic to the world’s lakes, rivers and oceans ranged from 9 to 23 million metric tons per year, with a similar amount emitted onto land yearly. “The world promotes technological solutions for recycling and to remove plastic from the environment.

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China’s new frontier for VOC regulations

GreenBiz

For any company operating in or with significant supply chain exposure to China, building an understanding of the national and local regulatory landscape and best practices related to VOC mitigation recently has become a vital step to reducing the risk of business interruption arising from environmental enforcement that began in 2016.

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Will China’s crackdown on ‘foreign garbage’ force wealthy countries to recycle more of their own waste?

Green Technology

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. The world’s recycler. Geyer et al.,

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These climate advocates don’t care about your carbon footprint. They care about whether you vote.

Grist

.” Nathaniel Stinnett, executive director of the Environmental Voter Project The spotlight When Molly Kawahata worked as a climate adviser to the Obama White House, she remembers interns being horrified that they had no recycling bins in their office. Stinnett worked for over a decade as a political campaign adviser in the early 2000s.

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Petrochemical sector handed $759 billion estimate for net zero transition

Business Green

The increased sophistication of a future circular economy was emphasised earlier this month as BP inked a 10-year offtake deal to secure the output of a facility designed to convert hard-to-recycled waste plastics into petrochemical feedstocks. It is currently being developed by Clean Planet Energy at a site on Teesside.

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Petroleum Association and Controversial Waste Management Firm Sponsoring Events at Flagship Environmental Journalism Conference

DeSmogBlog

It is also active in political lobbying, spending a total of $17.5 Veolia was also embroiled in a lead contamination scandal in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where tests in 2016 found that lead levels in the city’s drinking water had exceeded federal standards for the first time on record.

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