Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 25, 2024
Legislators in Europe seem to be keeping a closer eye on microplastics, with the introduction of European Union (EU) Regulation 2023/2055 in September being a recent milestone. While microplastics are useful, scientists, governments and consumers now recognize them as a major threat to the environment.
Grist
OCTOBER 17, 2022
But unfolding alongside the “macroplastic” pollution crisis is another threat caused by much smaller particles: microplastics. Microplastics — tiny plastic fragments that are less than 5 millimeters in diameter, a little less than one-third the size of a dime — have become ubiquitous in the environment.
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Greentown Labs
MARCH 26, 2024
Buildings Carbon Negative Solutions is creating smart-city-ready, carbon-negative concrete products. Puro Renewables upcycles carbon-negative biowaste to reduce the amount of fossil-fuel-based resin and carbon footprint associated with typical plastic products. It’s participating in Year 2 of ACCEL.
Envirotec Magazine
MARCH 23, 2023
European legislative bodies have mobilized themselves en masse since March 2022, which is when several proposals aimed at product sustainability saw the light of day, most notably a circular economy business model.
DeSmogBlog
JANUARY 4, 2024
Independent agency M&C Saatchi won an award for its plastic pollution awareness campaign The Plastic Forecast , made for Australian philanthropic organisation the Minderoo Foundation, which visualises the weight of microplastics falling from the sky in raindrops on a given day.
Business Green
JANUARY 6, 2022
These are my top five sustainable innovations to watch in 2022 - exciting companies that are changing manufacturing processes and developing greener technologies: 1. This reduces water and carbon footprints, and the need to keep buying new clothes. It addresses the issue through electrostatic capture of carbon dust from tyres.
Green Business Bureau
JANUARY 18, 2023
Eras in the Earth’s history are defined by major climactic events and distinguished through the fossil record, carbon dating, and other methods. The Holocene. The Anthropocene. The next question when determining if we have entered the Anthropocene is determining when it began.
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