Business Green

MAY 10, 2021

Online electricals retailer AO has announced it will recycle plastic from old fridges for use in energy saving ventilation products, as part of a new effort to cut down on waste and establish a more circular business model. AO opened its first recycling facility in 2017 and now recycles more than 1.2

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

NatWest calculated that a lack of recycling options for plastic payment, gift, and loyalty cards has created over 380 tonnes of plastic waste since 2017. After pickup, plastic waste is transported to a recycling facility via an electric vehicle, where the first cards will be repurposed into hats and socks for London's homeless.

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Business Green

MARCH 13, 2020

The company said it would also use recycled materials "wherever possible" to combat landfill waste, and step up its focus on improving the durability, reuse, and recyclability of its travel bags and suitcases, while improving access to repair services for consumers. "How

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 17, 2020

The aspiration for a growing number of them is “zero waste.” The aspiration for a growing number of them is “zero waste.” “That’s the one material that we have not found the perfect solution for at this point, whether it be at a plant or at your home,” he said.

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Grist

JANUARY 8, 2021

With 11,000 tons of blades expected to be decommissioned across Ireland by 2025, there should be no shortage of material to work with. What I’d love to do is turn it into a blade waste brokerage business,” Nagle said. Co-processing is the best thing that can be done with blade waste right now that’s viable,” Nagle said.

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Unsustainable

JANUARY 27, 2020

Waste Management: Why we should not only focus on zero waste, but also on how to handle the waste we do produce. By Susanne van Gendt While going zero waste is becoming more and more popular, the trash-avoiding movement leaves behind a majority of the population that is less preoccupied with their waste.

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Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 1, 2021

Northvolt is aiming for 50% recycled material in new cells by 2030. The reason to start recycling in Norway is due to the fact that the country remains years ahead of others in terms of EV adoption, which also means that she will be the first country to experience significant volumes of EV batteries reaching end-of-life.

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Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 1, 2021

Northvolt is aiming for 50% recycled material in new cells by 2030. The reason to start recycling in Norway is due to the fact that the country remains years ahead of others in terms of EV adoption, which also means that she will be the first country to experience significant volumes of EV batteries reaching end-of-life.

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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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AGreenLiving

JULY 28, 2021

Footwear is a major source of post-consumer waste. Another daily-use product, coffee, also contributes to environmental waste to the tune of around 25 billion kilograms annually. The technology developed by the company results in a patented, high-tech footwear material that is used to make the certified vegan boots.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 23, 2022

Winners of the Plastics Recycling Awards Europe 2022 were announced on 23 June at the Plastics Recycling Show Europe in Amsterdam. Launched in 2017, the awards have witnessed a dramatic and inspirational rise in the circular use of plastics through increased recycling and recyclability over the last the five years, said the organisers.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

recycling market has been in free fall since 2018, when China, Malaysia, Thailand and other Southeast Asian countries announced that they would no longer import many types of recyclable material scraps. percent of all the plastic produced in 2017 eventually got recycled, according to the U.S. Of course, the U.S.

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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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GreenBiz

MAY 27, 2020

Fast fashion and high-performance fabrics have compounded waste by accelerating the output of apparel that's virtually impossible to recycle. The problem is shared across industries, including in electronics, which make up the world's fastest-growing waste stream. It feels like we’ve moved to this throwaway society.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 14, 2021

The National Hard Hat Recycling Scheme recently celebrated three years in operation. It was introduced in November 2017, with the intention of providing a user-friendly method for old hard hats to bypass traditional waste disposal routes, thereby ensuring end-of-life hats could go directly into reprocessing.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 27, 2020

Reduce waste – Did you know that 30% of municipal solid waste is made up of packaging waste ? Restaurants play a big role in this as you not only contribute to waste from items higher up in your supply chain, but also most of your take-out boxes, bags, and containers. About the Author.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Because of our scale, we know it’s our responsibility to address textile waste and then overall be thinking about how to keep products in use for the long term, and to design out waste from the beginning,” said Jeannie Renne-Malone, who has served as the vice president of global sustainability at VF Corp since Sept.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2020

For textile waste generated in Europe, for example, an average of only 5-10 per cent was suitable for reuse within the continent, according to Swedish research institute Mistra Future Fashion. In order to stem the global flow of textile waste, an alternative to reuse must exist. Welcome to the lab.

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Sustainability Consulting

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

plastics, mixed paper, and other materials in 2017 , the actual products and packaging that actually gets recycled changed dramatically, and not for the better. So what happens as the overseas demand for recyclables declines and US policies continue to fluctuate? Stanford is striving for zero waste by 2030.

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Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2022

At the same time, Carbios has partnered with PET manufacturer Indorama Ventures to build and operate the world's first commercial-scale bio-recycling plant for PET-based plastic in Lunéville, a commune (or township) in the Meurthe et Moselle region of France. In the traditional recycling world, the solutions are not circular.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Often when products claim to be made from recycled materials , companies are only talking about the bulk of the item. Most of the backpack, such as the outer shell, side panels and webbing, is made from recycled PET bottles, but the rest comes from recycled textiles like nylon, fleece and felt.

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Business Green

MAY 29, 2020

Fast fashion and high-performance fabrics have compounded waste by accelerating the output of apparel that's virtually impossible to recycle. The problem is shared across industries, including in electronics, which make up the world's fastest-growing waste stream. The rest get separated and sent around the planet for handling.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

These range from upstream measures (such as reduction of plastic at source, product redesign, and re-imagination of delivery and consumption models) to downstream solutions (such as collection, recycling, and clean-up of existing plastic waste). But some solutions are more financially and technologically viable than others.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

recycling market has been in free fall since 2018, when China, Malaysia, Thailand and other Southeast Asian countries announced that they would no longer import many types of recyclable material scraps. percent of all the plastic produced in 2017 eventually got recycled, according to the U.S. Of course, the U.S.

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AGreenLiving

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.

Sustainability 28

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AGreenLiving

MAY 27, 2020

Fast fashion and high-performance fabrics have compounded waste by accelerating the output of apparel that’s virtually impossible to recycle. The problem is shared across industries, including in electronics, which make up the world’s fastest-growing waste stream. It feels like we’ve moved to this throwaway society.

Recycling 28

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AGreenLiving

MAY 27, 2020

Fast fashion and high-performance fabrics have compounded waste by accelerating the output of apparel that’s virtually impossible to recycle. The problem is shared across industries, including in electronics, which make up the world’s fastest-growing waste stream. It feels like we’ve moved to this throwaway society.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2023

Now part of cosmetics group Natura&Co following its 2017 acquisition, the certified B-Corp has reached an "interesting tipping point" on its net zero journey and is seeking to ramp up its focus on circularity across its 3,000 locations, according to global sustainability and activism director, Chris Davis.

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 30, 2020

On April 13, 2017, she addressed a large crowd at the "Stand Up to Trump" rally in front of the White House in Washington, D.C., This business plan along with his VR projects allowed him to win the World Series of Entrepreneurship competition in 2017. Obama eventually authorized $100 million to fix the crisis.

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Unsustainable

AUGUST 13, 2019

words Ashita Parekh The issue of waste disposal and contamination has become a fast growing global epidemic that threatens the lives of humans as well as millions of species of flora and fauna around the world. Global annual waste generation is expected to rise to 3.4 billion tonnes, from 2.01 billion tonnes , over the next 30 years.

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