GreenBiz

JULY 16, 2020

The electronic waste collection conundrum. Quite simply, I had become obsessed with the tech industry’s then-blasé attitude about the seemingly intractable problem of electronic waste. . Quite simply, I had become obsessed with the tech industry’s then-blasé attitude about the seemingly intractable problem of electronic waste. .

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Renew Economy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Waste Expo Australia, the foremost gathering of waste management and resource recovery professionals in the country, launches 2022 conference agenda. The post Waste Expo 2022 launches Agenda, open for registration appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Image credit: Marmalade Photos / shutter stock.com By Ray Purdy, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in Environmental Law, University College Dublin, writing in The Conversation The new BBC podcast, Buried , by investigative journalists Dan Ashby and Lucy Taylor, is a compelling look at how criminals are infiltrating the UK waste disposal system.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 8, 2024

The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) published the Scottish Waste From All Sources 2022 Official Statistics on 26 March, which provide details on waste from Scottish households, businesses and public services. million tonnes of waste, with 62.3% Scotland generated 10.16 million tonnes.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

The city of Prague is to pilot dynamic waste collection via automated collection routes. Seemingly impressive in scale for a trial of this kind – encompassing over 130k bins and 150 collection vehicles – the project is anticipated to deliver improvements in efficiency and environmental impact for waste collection.

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Energy Central

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

By EDF Blogs By Aaron Wolfe, Ari Pottens , and  Scott Seymour EDF economic analysis found that in 2022 oil and gas operators across Alberta wasted $671 million in natural gas, costing the provincial government over $120 million in lost royalties and uncollected corporate taxes.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2023

Waste at the site caught fire, belching acrid smoke into the sky. The owner of a skip-hire company in north Kent has received a custodial sentence after the harmful way he handled waste on the banks of the River Thames. Not only did he charge customers but treated waste illegally.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Researchers in Turkey have proposed a new sustainable solution for winery waste. The confectionery industry was valued at $187 billion in 2022 and is expected to grow. Filtered wine lees (image credit: Dr Gülce Bedis Kaynarca). However, until now, the use of wine lees in gelatine-based confectionery has not been reported.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Since 2022, the site has been primarily focused on nuclear waste processing and storage, and nuclear decommissioning (image credit: Dom Crayford , CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Processing nuclear waste is an enormous challenge for human civilisation. The Sellafield site in Cumbria, by night. license ).

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Recycling and resource management firm Viridor has unveiled its “Vision for Zero” – a plan to reduce (to zero) the amount of plastic waste exported from the UK. If five state-of-the-art plastic recycling plants, similar to the Avonmouth plant, were built, plastic waste exports from the UK could end. An estimated c.1.3[i]

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Energy Central

AUGUST 12, 2022

The developments that are needed in technology, financing and infrastructure to fast track the growth of the industry in a carbon free world SAE Media Group is delighted to present the return of the 15th annual Energy from Waste conference taking place on the 5 -6 December 2022 back in London, UK.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

8, 2022, that should help further the growth and development of its connected device platform. Apkudo announced a $14.4 million growth funding round on Feb.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 17, 2020

How Perdue, Smithfield and Silver Fern Farms are reducing packaging waste. Food companies have a dual responsibility when it comes to waste reduction aspirations: optimizing their operations to minimize food waste while reducing the amount of other materials — especially the waste associated with packaging — sent to landfill.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 8, 2022

A UK-based demonstration plant that generates industrial biotechnology sugars and other recycled material streams from the paper and card in mixed household waste has come online in May 2022. The products will be used in the production of several high-performance bio-based materials. Watch this space!”.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 19, 2023

It's the quarterly roundup of what the big food and agriculture players were up to at the end of 2022.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2023

Drainage and wastewater expert Lanes Group writes We are so pleased with the success of Unblocktober 2022, and the efforts that people made to change their habits and help the environment. We had 38,784 people within businesses who made the Unblocktober pledge across 289 organisations, as well as 4,601 individuals signing up.

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The Environmental Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2022

However, the most important one is waste management and recycling. According to Statista, worldwide municipal solid waste generation is expected to grow by 70% to 3.4 As per OECD, 22% of plastic waste is mismanaged, and only 9% is recycled globally. Only a fraction of the waste is actually reused, and the rest is incinerated.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 17, 2022

The UK government announced new environmental targets in four key areas of air quality, water, waste reduction and woodland cover on 16 March. These targets need to be laid as draft Statutory Instruments by 31 October 2022, says the consultation document , and will come into force once approved by Parliament. Residual waste.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2023

A new campaign calls for multi-sector collaboration to tackle the e-waste crisis and drive behaviour change amongst young people. Despite a growing e-waste crisis, 45% of young people have never recycled a phone. Despite a growing e-waste crisis, 45% of young people have never recycled a phone.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

An 11-strong European consortium has secured funding for a project to demonstrate the commercial feasibility of generating waste sugars derived from household waste and producing a range of high-performance bio-based materials and products. Reduce environmental plastic pollution levels. vamos_bbi.

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altenergymag

MAY 31, 2023

With a CAGR of 4.71% from 2022 to 2030, the market for waste-to-energy is anticipated to reach around US$ 85.18 Landfills are overflowing and the ecosystem is suffering as a result of global overconsumption, posing a severe threat to environmental sustainability. billion by that year.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Set to be finalized in early 2022, the GBF’s draft sets out targets for protecting marine and land habitats, reducing pesticides and plastic waste, and increasing investments.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 29, 2023

A new adhesive derived from materials including food waste should enable 90 percent of engineered wood products, such as furniture and construction boards, to become fully recyclable and help to develop a circular economy in this sector, says the firm marketing it.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The Automotive Shredder Residue (ASR) project is presented as a cutting-edge circular economy solution for a normally landfilled waste material. A seemingly ground-breaking solution allows hard-to-recycle automotive shredder residue (ASR) to be used to deliver renewable energy and reduce waste-to-landfill.

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2024

UNEP global food waste index lays bare scale of food loss and waste worldwide and its dire impacts on the economy, climate, and nature

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The Environmental Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

But some companies are setting a trend for aiming to become net zero by the end of 2022. Crystal Doors were named Manufacturer Of The Year at the 2021 Business Green Leaders Award and Small Business of the Year at the Sustainability Leaders Awards 2021 due to their dedication to being net zero by 2022.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Mercers, which is based in Bolton, transforms plastic packaging waste into 100 per cent recycled damp-proof membrane. The new, high-tech equipment will allow it to recycle up to 50,000 tonnes of plastics each year, making sure that UK waste is dealt with responsibly in the UK. Thanks to an injection of £6.1

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Greentown Labs

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Seventeen startups joined our community in the final months of 2022, working on innovations as diverse as a smart nanocoating to keep products fresh, an autonomous waste-sorting system, and drinking water drawn from air’s humidity. We’re thrilled to support these groundbreaking climatetech startups—let us introduce you! Transportation.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 31, 2020

Joseph Doherty of Re-Gen Waste Ltd. Joseph Doherty, MD of Re-Gen Waste, which provides materials recovery facilities for Council waste in the UK, has questioned the wisdom of Government plans to scrap the lower rate of fuel duty on red diesel from April 2022, which he says will add an extra £200,000 per annum cost to his company’s fuel bill.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 25, 2023

Now that 2022 is over, we’d like to take this time to recognize some of our member companies via our fourth Annual “ Best of GBB ” Awards. The recycling of toilet waste using a biodigester – which biologically digests organic material without the use of chemicals. Fitting toilets with small tanks and dual flush capability.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 15, 2023

million people and are forecast to generate $827 billion in 2022. Due to a mix of genuine care about the planet and expectations from customers for businesses to contribute, franchises are facing increasing pressure to do their part in helping to reduce waste and lower carbon emissions. with an emphasis on quick service restaurants.

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Fourteen startups joined our community in the third quarter of 2022, working on innovations as diverse as a carbontech solution for aluminum manufacturing, an AI platform for tracking scope 1 and scope 3 vehicle emissions, and waste-biomass-turned-biochar for replacing cement. Manufacturing.

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Greentown Labs

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Department of Energy to extract nickel and magnesium from mining waste. Greentown alum Biobot Analytics ’ wastewater monitoring platform made TIME’s list of the Best Inventions of 2022 , in the Social Good category. The post Greentown Labs Member Milestones — November 2022 appeared first on Greentown Labs. seed round.

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Greentown Labs

JULY 27, 2022

Kanin Energy is partnering with Tallgrass to develop four waste-heat-to-power clean energy projects. MicroEra Power was awarded a pilot project with Burlington Electric Department through the DeltaClimeVT Energy 2022 accelerator. Salient was a winner of the 2022 Zurich Innovation Championship’s sustainability category.

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Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Next Rung Technology entered a strategic three-year partnership with C-Green to help deploy C-Green’s solution for sustainable handling of wet organic waste. Kanin Energy CEO Janice Tran was selected for the 2022 Mária Telkes Fellowship Cohort. Pressure Corp is fundraising on fellow Greentown member Raise Green ’s platform.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 31, 2022

Here are some 2021 highlights and a preview of what’s to come in 2022. We have a couple of spots still open for 2022. Coming in 2022. We are super excited about several new projects being launched in 2022. The post Thank You To GBB Members 2022 appeared first on Green Business Bureau. Best of GBB Award Winners.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 31, 2022

Here are some 2021 highlights and a preview of what’s to come in 2022. We have a couple of spots still open for 2022. Coming in 2022. We are super excited about several new projects being launched in 2022. The post Thank You To GBB Members 2022 appeared first on Green Business Bureau. Best of GBB Award Winners.

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