Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Zero Waste Scotland, Scotland’s circular economy experts, and the National Bed Federation (NBF) are to work together on a three-year research project to increase mattress recycling and encourage more sustainable design. We understand that less than 1% are being collected for recycling.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

An example of a pit latrine, where human waste is deposited in the soil where nature is able to safely sanitise it (image credit: Dr Simon Willcock, Bangor University). This includes pit latrine waste that gradually filters through the soil — a natural process that cleans it before it reaches groundwater.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Franchise owner Ingka Group surpasses food waste reduction target set in 2017 after implementing rigorous AI measuring and reporting system. IKEA franchise Ingka Group has slashed food waste by 54 per cent across more than 400 stores worldwide, which it claims has helped save around 36,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

A waste collection vehicle. It will manage waste collection and sortation as well as materials to be recycled from households in the region. Its daily processing capacity is up to 84 tonnes of waste. By 2025, it’s intended that the MRF will collect annually 23,000 tonnes of waste, including 3,300 tonnes of plastic.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Recycling technologies for end-of-life lithium ion batteries (LIBs) are not keeping pace with the rapid rise of electric vehicles, storing up a potentially huge waste management problem for the future, according to a new study. To recycle these efficiently, they must be disassembled and the resulting waste streams separated.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2024

Year-on-year, despite increases in material being recycled in the UK, quantities of plastic waste exported for recycling from England have increased by more than 10% to just over 600,000 tonnes. This also means that just short of 1 million tonnes of plastic has been sent to Turkey for recycling since 2017.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 31, 2022

Waste was splattered on the floor and walls, even around the electrical panels. All that s**t is dripping down on you,” says Torbett, a 51-year-old former employee of Austin Master Services, a radioactive oilfield waste facility in Martins Ferry, Ohio.

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

In addition to the obvious benefits of increased convenience and flexibility for participants, virtualizing these meetings thus saves not only money but also resources, time, emissions, and waste. The post Sustainability in Healthcare: How Telemedicine and Virtual Meetings Reduce Emissions and Waste appeared first on Green Business Bureau.

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Green Tech Challenge

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

As modern society becomes dependent on technology, the amount of electronic waste will continue to increase. A global study revealed that the world’s e-Waste is expected to grow by 33% this year or reach 72 million tonnes (65 million metric tonnes). A separate report in 2015 said that only a third of Europe’s e-Waste is recycled.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

category, for exploiting previously unused waste heat from two furnaces for electricity generation. After successfully implementing its initial energy efficiency measures, the company then pursued the objective of extending the waste heat usage already achieved, but limited to production, to its firing processes.

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Living Green Technology

JANUARY 4, 2018

The Seattle Mariners beat out the San Francisco Giants and the rest of the MLB to win the 2017 Green Glove Award. The Mariners stood out in 2017 for the team's recycling efforts at Safeco field. 96% of the stadium's waste was recycled, which is the highest waste diversion rate in the league.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Supermarket giant takes step forward with plans to cut waste from all its stores by 2025. We all need to see waste as a resource to be repurposed and reused," said said Jamie Winer, sustainability procurement director at Morrisons.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 25, 2022

Activists and scientists have found alarming levels of radioactivity in samples collected along the road and soils outside Austin Master Services, an oilfield waste processing facility with a history of sloppy practices in eastern Ohio. Over the years, conditions at Austin Master have raised concerns from inspectors and advocacy groups alike.

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U.S. Green Technology

MARCH 5, 2021

Back in 2017, there are around 350,000 Instagram posts tagged as “zero-waste.” ” Add to that the zero-waste blogs and websites that are sprouting left and right. Consumers these days also have an increasing option of zero-waste products, from beauty and hygiene to household items.

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2020

The volume of waste produced in England has remained largely the same for the past five years, presenting fresh questions as to how government, businesses, and households can successfully curb waste levels. The report also notes that raw material consumption dropped between 2013 and the end of 2017.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2023

A recycling site in Sweden will process 125,000 tons of end-of-life batteries and battery production waste each year, making it the largest plant of its kind in the world, according to Swedish battery developer Northvolt, which is working with industrial technology firm ABB on the project.

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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. Science Advances, July 19, 2017, CC BY-NC.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Back in 2017, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation tapped on large brands such as Burberry, Gap and H&M to make fashion circular — ensuring that clothes are made from safe and renewable materials, establishing new business models to increase their use and developing systems that would enable more old clothes to be turned into new garments.

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2020

The volume of waste produced in England has remained largely the same for the past five years, presenting fresh questions as to how government, businesses, and households can successfully curb waste levels. The report also notes that raw material consumption dropped between 2013 and the end of 2017.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 3, 2020

Founded in 2017, unspun is a denim company that specializes in customized, automated and on-demand manufacturing, designing out inventory altogether. We don't have inventory, which decreases waste and emissions. We started with the hardware in 2017 and still haven't commercialized on it — but hopefully we will in the next six months.

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Business Green

AUGUST 17, 2021

Glenmorangie said it initiated DEEP in a bid to enhance local marine biodiversity and reverse the effects of organic waste from the distillery that ends up in local waters, as just one oyster is able to purify up to 200 litres of water a day. The oyster reef is expected to help mop up the final five per cent.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 12, 2024

The previous year, 2017, saw the launch of what was (at the time) the largest mobile carbon filter on the market, the VOCSorber 30, designed primarily for demanding landfill gas (LFG) purification applications.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 2, 2020

The investment brings Macquarie's investments in the energy, waste, solar PV and onshore and offshore wind sectors to more than £1.5bn, according to the firm. Viridor is helping to power communities across the UK whilst reducing the amount of waste sent to landfill each year," Henschel said.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 22, 2020

Separating recyclable materials in a local cooperative in the Glicerio neighborhood in São Paulo in 2017: The report also points to a number of encouraging ‘bottom-up’ initiatives, that are advancing circularity in certain regions of the world. billion tonnes in 2017, the latest year for which data is available. 1] Materialflows.net.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 28, 2019

Information and awareness are key to educating the public to understand the important role we all need to play in responsibly recycling our e-waste. Establishing new recycling habits to capture the many types of waste electrical and electronic products needs to be a priority. ”

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Business Green

JULY 16, 2021

UK recycling levels remain stuck in the slow lane, with the latest official government statistics released today confirming the recycling rate for waste collected from households across England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland stood at 46.2 Meanwhile the enormous waste mountain continues to grow.". per cent, and Scotland on 44.9

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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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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Is There a Role of Waste to Energy in the Circular Economy? Americans create a lot of solid waste – to the tune of 268 million tons in 2017 alone. While many localities and companies are championing zero-waste plans to divert materials that have a second life (think recycling, reusing and composting), the majority of U.S.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2022

A significant portion of the world’s plastic waste ends up being exported to countries bordering the Indian Ocean. Due to ineffective waste management, around five million tons of plastic waste are discharged into the marine environment from China and the Indonesian archipelago every year (model-based estimate from 2017).

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Greenability Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2021

While Kansas City Chiefs’ fans are gearing up for a new season, management is working behind the scenes on partnerships for energy efficiency, waste reduction and social justice issues. Initiating the “Extra Yard for the Environment” program in 2017 to promote sustainability across the stadium and community.

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GreenBiz

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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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 13, 2022

Arsenic and other unwanted heavy metals were often deposited in mine waste tips close to the mine from which they were extracted. Middleton et al [2017] found that 69% of soils in Cornwall exceed the C4SL for Arsenic under the “Residential with Homegrown Produce” setting. In fact, a study by R.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2022

They are creating dangerous amounts of plastic waste in the oceans, and contributing to the sewer blockages and breakdowns that cause so many problems for people across the UK every day. “At At this point, microplastics have become so deeply embedded into the global environment that they can never be removed.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Nighttime view of a waste incineration plant in Oberhausen, Germany. John Whitehurst, UK business manager with minerals and lime producer Lhoist, offers predictions on how new recycling and reuse targets will affect the types of waste being produced. The changing shape of waste. The waste is shredded, baled and ready to go.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

First, it’s zero waste. Fortunately, I found our amazing illustrator, Summer Ortiz Ross, back in 2017 and have worked with her since day one of Thoughtful Human. Thoughtful Human makes zero-waste cards for every occasion. Ali O’Grady’s business Thoughtful Human is different from other greeting card companies.

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Charged

MARCH 7, 2024

Back in 2017, he gave a presentation on the future of trucking, in which he discussed electrification, vehicle autonomy and other technologies that seemed at the time like ideas from the pages of Asimov, Clarke or Bradbury. Rick Mihelic is Director of Emerging Technologies for the North American Council for Freight Efficiency (NACFE).

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