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A Texas Shrimper Led a Fight to Stop Plastic Pollution. Now She’s Won the “Green Nobel Prize”

DeSmogBlog

Wilson’s $50 million settlement with Formosa Plastics Corp. – Her remarkable achievement and ongoing commitment to fighting plastic pollution demonstrates the power of grassroots action to create concrete change.” A state wastewater discharge permit barred Formosa Plastics from discharging the nurdles into local waters.

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The U.S. Plastics Pact launches new initiative to redesign the plastics value chain at Circularity 20

GreenBiz

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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SteamIQ Tackles Our Big Steam Problem

Greentown Labs

He spun out the company as SteamIQ in October 2017. The company works with a variety of organizations, including universities, but has found the biggest market in customers that use steam in their industrial processes—such as food, pharmaceuticals, plastics, and refineries. Located in Somerville, Mass.,

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There’s gold (and lithium and cobalt) in all those EV battery packs

The Verge: Energy

In North America specifically, we’ve seen both private and public funding go towards individual recyclers looking to expand existing plants or support the construction of new facilities.” “There’s been significant investment flowing towards building recycling capabilities across the world in recent months.”

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Today’s wind turbine blades could become tomorrow’s bridges

Grist

According to the Electric Power Research Institute , blade sizes have “increased dramatically” in recent years, from an average diameter of 145 feet in 1997 to 367 feet in 2017. And the tough, fiber-reinforced plastics blades are made of don’t break down easily once they’re in the ground.

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#Greentown10: 10 Years of Partnerships for Climate Action

Greentown Labs

Member-partner collaborations run the gamut, from a global commercial agreement between Salient Predictions and BASF , to a pilot project between Raptor Maps and Enel , to a customer deal between SteamIQ and Toray Plastics that also involved National Grid. becomes the first major financial organization to partner with Greentown.

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How Dell and Levi's envision the future of repair

GreenBiz

Only 20 percent of e-waste is recycled, according to a United Nations University report in 2017. The senior vice president of Dell’s Experience Design Group recently visited a new Wistron electronics recycling plant in Dallas, one of the largest in North America.

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