Most companies are fumbling their 2025 plastic waste targets
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 3, 2023
The world is off track to tackle plastic pollution. Here's what business must do now, according to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.
Mercury pollution at Eraring power plant rose 130% in 12 months
The Guardian: Energy
APRIL 3, 2024
Origin Energy’s 2,880-megawatt Eraring power station, slated by the company to close in August 2025, reported mercury pollution jumped 130% in 2022-23 compared with the previous year, according to data from the national pollution inventory. The heavy metal permanently damages brains and kidneys, especially those of children.
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Strengthen red route pollution monitoring to save lives, says London air report
Envirotec Magazine
MARCH 23, 2022
The London Assembly Environment Committee launched ‘Clean Air for all Londoners’ – a report on air pollution in the capital – on 23 March. A regular report should be produced on the changes in pollution on London’s main roads. And we have the stark evidence that air pollution is particularly damaging to children’s health.”.
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The more plastic companies make, the more they pollute
Grist
APRIL 24, 2024
The more plastic a company makes, the more pollution it creates. That finding “shook me up a lot, I was really distraught,” said Win Cowger, a researcher at the Moore Institute for Plastic Pollution Research and the study’s lead author. More than 1 in 10 of the pieces came from Coca-Cola, the top polluter by a significant margin.
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Is global plastic pollution nearing an irreversible tipping point?
Envirotec Magazine
JULY 2, 2021
According to the authors, plastic pollution is a global threat, and actions to drastically reduce emissions of plastic to the environment are “the rational policy response” Plastic is found everywhere on the planet: from deserts and mountaintops to deep oceans and Arctic snow.
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Tannins: A possible answer to microplastic pollution?
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 21, 2023
He noted one study which found that virtually all tap water is contaminated by microplastics, and other research which states that more than 10 billion tons of mismanaged plastic waste will be dispersed in the environment by 2025. Most solutions proposed so far are costly or difficult to scale up.
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A tech-backed mission to monitor methane pollution launches today
The Verge: Energy
MARCH 4, 2024
Image: MethaneSAT via EDF A mission to map and track global methane pollution, a powerful greenhouse gas, is scheduled to launch today after years of collaboration between some of the biggest names in tech. Google announced a partnership with EDF last month to create a global map of methane pollution from oil and gas infrastructure.
Higher air pollution days trigger hundreds of cardiac arrests and hospitalisations for strokes and asthma
Envirotec Magazine
OCTOBER 21, 2019
New data from King’s College London show 124 additional out-of-hospital cardiac arrests and 424 hospital admissions for stroke and asthma on higher pollution days. one of the most dangerous forms of pollution. Since these avoidable deaths are happening now – not in 2025 or 2050 – together we need to act now. “So
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UK housebuilders to face 'zero carbon ready' standard from 2025
Business Green
JANUARY 20, 2021
Government confirms Future Homes Standard will apply to any new homes built from 2025, delivering a major uptick in the pace of the shift away from gas boilers - but campaigners are left disappointed by failure to adopt more rapid timetable.
Graphene acid helps remove heavy metal pollutants from water
Envirotec Magazine
MAY 26, 2021
Researchers at Palacký University Olomouc in the Czech Republic, have seemingly shown that graphene decorated with carboxylic groups extract has the potential to remove different types of metallic pollutant from water. The researchers are part of an EU-wide collaborative research effort known as the Graphene Flagship.
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3M pledges to stop making 'forever chemicals' by 2025
Business Green
DECEMBER 21, 2022
3M has promised to stop making and using harmful 'forever chemicals' across its product portfolio by the end of 2025, with the manufacturing giant admitting growing regulatory, consumer, and investor concerns over the use of such substances have "increasingly weighed on our business results in recent years".
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GM aspires to stop selling ICE cars by 2035, will roll out 30 pure EVs by 2025
Charged
JANUARY 29, 2021
This sounds more like it: “GM will offer 30 all-electric models globally by mid-decade and 40 percent of the company’s US models offered will be battery-electric vehicles by the end of 2025. More than half of GM’s capital spending and product development team will be devoted to electric and electric-autonomous vehicle programs.
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France: Aubenas Sets Sights on Eco-Friendly Transportation with 2025 Hydrogen Refueling Station Goal
FuelCellsWorks
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
In an ambitious move to combat transportation-related pollution, Aubenas, a municipality in France, is gearing up to introduce a hydrogen fueling station by
Concentrating Solar Power Market is Projected to Reach $7.6 billion by 2025
altenergymag
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
The environmental concerns over carbon emissions and efforts to reduce air pollution, policy support from governments to enable adoption of renewable technologies, and the integrability of CSP systems with thermal storage systems are the key factors driving the concentrating solar power market.
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'Solid progress': Unilever claims it is on track to halve its plastic waste by 2025
Business Green
OCTOBER 27, 2020
Materials innovation, tests of refillable and reusable products and a 'significant increase' in the proportion of recycled plastic have steered firm closer to 2025 plastic goals, it said. It also hailed "solid progress" towards an aim of achieving "at least" 25 per cent PCR by 2025.
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Reducing cars’ emissions easier said than done, says EU audit institution
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 29, 2024
The EU’s green revolution can only happen if there are far fewer polluting vehicles, but the challenge is huge”, said Pietro Russo, the ECA member who led the audit. “A In an attempt to reflect the actual situation better, the proportional use of electric and combustion engines will be adjusted, but only from 2025.
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'Solid progress': Unilever claims it is on track to halve its virgin plastic waste by 2025
Business Green
OCTOBER 27, 2020
Materials innovation, tests of refillable and reusable products and a 'significant increase' in the proportion of recycled plastic have steered firm closer to 2025 plastic goals, it said. It also hailed "solid progress" towards an aim of achieving "at least" 25 per cent PCR by 2025.
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Plastic Pollution Under Attack From Investors, Engineers And Packaging Producers
Forbes Green Tech
OCTOBER 10, 2019
The war on plastic pollution continues to gather pace. As Ocean Cleanup engineers battle to recover plastic from the oceans, consumer goods giant Unilever has pledged to halve its use of plastic by 2025 and investor BlackRock has launched a circular economy fund.
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Sewage spills still a problem as EA report notes utilities’ winding path of improvement
Envirotec Magazine
JULY 17, 2023
Commentators said the report highlighted the need to further accelerate improvement, and the industry’s representative body, Water UK, urged the regulator, OFWAT, to make sure sufficient cash is available in the next funding round (2025 – 30) to maintain and replace sewerage networks.
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Firms operating own boiler urged to register with SEPA for MPCD
Envirotec Magazine
APRIL 13, 2023
This means there will be enough time for the regulator to assess their application, set emission limits within their permits – and for the operator to take action to meet these limits before 1 January 2025. MCPs can be a significant source of air pollution. Different timescales are in place for existing plant between 1MW and 5MW.
Rolls-Royce eyes first battery planes from 2025 as it inks private e-jet deal
Business Green
FEBRUARY 16, 2022
Rolls-Royce is pulling forward its expectations for delivery of the first fully electric planes using its new battery system, with one of the company's top executives indicating aircraft using its zero-emission P-Volt powertrains could be ready for take off as early as 2025.
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Activating National Oil Companies for Climate Progress: Financial Strategies to Cut Methane Pollution
EDF + Business
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
Reducing Methane Pollution at National Oil Companies Amid rising awareness of the climate impact of methane and improving methane detection technologies, unabated methane emissions present a material risk to national oil companies, their host governments, and their financial stakeholders.
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A clean ocean by 2030: UN panel charts “the most direct course”
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 17, 2021
The statement purports to chart “the most direct route to a clean ocean” citing the following objectives for 2030: Enlarge understanding of pathways for spread and fates of pollutants. Reduce and remove top-priority forms of pollution (e.g., To prevent recurrence, reduce sources or emission of pollutants (e.g.,
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TeraWatt acquires two sites for heavy-duty EV charging hubs in California’s Inland Empire
Charged
OCTOBER 13, 2023
The charging hubs are slated to go live starting in early 2025. It’s a primary hub for fleet operations, and—not surprisingly—has some of the worst air pollution in the US. San Bernardino and Riverside counties recently ranked number one and two in the nation for the worst ozone pollution. “We
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Road haulage groups accused of lobbying against air pollution efforts
Business Green
OCTOBER 6, 2020
DeSmog investigation uncovers lobbying by some road and freight trade bodies that may have delayed and watered down local UK measures to tackle illegal levels of air pollution. Air pollution is a serious public health issue and tackling it is essential for the health of people in towns and cities across the country," she said.
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Laser scans show devastating impact of wet wipes on the Thames
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 26, 2021
High-resolution sonar and laser scans of the riverbed of the Thames in west London have been collected along the River Thames in Hammersmith as part of work to build London’s new super sewer, which will tackle 95% of sewage overflows that currently pollute the river. Surveying data. Surveying data.
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Government launches consultation on fertiliser's role in air pollution and soil degradation
Business Green
NOVEMBER 6, 2020
The UK government has this week launched a major new consultation on how to reduce ammonia emissions from solid urea fertilisers, which have been widely blamed for exacerbating air pollution and soil degradation. Peat bogs are a vital carbon sink and their conservation is critical for tackling climate change.
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Government extends grants for buying electric vans and trucks through to 2025
Business Green
MARCH 15, 2022
The government said that with vans responsible for almost five per cent of the UK's CO2 emissions, extending the grants for electric vans and trucks by a further two years was "essential" to help meet climate and air pollution goals.
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'Lacks ambition': MPs urge government to step up efforts to tackle air pollution
Business Green
FEBRUARY 9, 2021
Latest report from the House of Commons Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) Committee warns the UK's current strategy to combat air pollution needs to be beefed up. levels in line with World Health Organisation guidelines, before establishing long-term targets for other key pollutants, including NO2 and ammonia.
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Multi-day energy storage to be demonstrated in California
Smart Energy International
JANUARY 7, 2024
The project, which is expected to come online by 2025, is aimed to demonstrate the effectiveness of multi-day energy storage to help California meet its renewable energy and zero carbon resource goals, while ensuring electric reliability and affordability. Have you read?
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Call to ramp up joint action to get London’s rivers ‘climate-ready’
Envirotec Magazine
MAY 26, 2023
All river stakeholders, including water companies, businesses, regulators, industry and the public must invest in ending all sewage pollution and the management of land and surface water as a system (catchment-based management) to deliver healthy rivers. Flood plains in London are currently home to 1.42
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Google joins a mission to map global methane emissions from space
The Verge: Energy
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
A rendering of MethaneSat | Image courtesy of Google Google announced a partnership with the nonprofit Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) today to map methane pollution and oil and gas infrastructure from space. Meanwhile, Google is using AI to map oil and gas infrastructure to create a global map of pollution sources.
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Negative emissions in North Wales: £200 investment advances CCUS plans in Deeside
Envirotec Magazine
APRIL 11, 2024
The Welsh Government’s Carbon Budget makes clear that Wales needs carbon removal solutions to mitigate other polluting parts of the economy to achieve a Net Zero economy. Notes 1 Welsh Government, “ Net Zero Wales Carbon Budget 2 (2021-2025)”, 2021, available here. The report states (p.53):
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China plans to phase out single-use plastics by 2025
AGreenLiving
JANUARY 21, 2020
To mitigate the resulting plastic pollution , the Chinese government is set to enact a plastic ban, phasing out the production and use of several single-use plastic items by 2025, thanks to a detailed policy directive and timeline from the country’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC). Excerpt from:Â .
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Polluted paradise: how plastic trash imperils lives and biodiversity in the Philippines' top tourism draw
Eco-Business
MARCH 19, 2024
Cebu is projected to generate the most solid waste among all provinces in the country by 2025. As the summer season begins, how can the province overcome its mounting trash problem, driven by overtourism in the post-pandemic era?
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Scottish Widows pledges to invest £25bn by 2025 in low-carbon transition
Business Green
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
The pension provider said the total would include a package of at least £1bn for firms developing climate solutions, such as alternative green energy, sustainable agriculture, and pollution prevention. It said it would rely on MSCI Environmental Impact Revenue data to help with this classification.
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Striving for environmental balance: nutrient neutrality to futureproof the development pipeline
Envirotec Magazine
JULY 14, 2023
By Wendy Furgusson, Associate, Environment and Health, Ramboll With Natural England’s recent changes to planning policy causing a reduction in the number of new homes built from 240,000 a year in 2018-19 to a projected 111,000 by 2025, awareness of nutrient pollution as a problem is becoming more widespread.
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Exxon’s leaked documents reveal devastating pollution plan
AGreenLiving
OCTOBER 9, 2020
Newly leaked documents reveal that Exxon actually plans to increase its carbon production by 17% by the year 2025. This means that the company would be emitting 26% more carbon by 2025 as compared to their 2017 emissions. Exxon’s leaked documents reveal devastating pollution plan. Read more:Â .
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3 takeaways from Colgate-Palmolive's 2025 strategy
GreenBiz
DECEMBER 23, 2020
3 takeaways from Colgate-Palmolive's 2025 strategy. The company was the eighth biggest plastic polluter in 2019, according to the Changing Markets Foundation. But it recently made a commitment to eliminate a substantial chunk of its plastic waste by 2025. . Deonna Anderson. Wed, 12/23/2020 - 01:15. Most of the time, plastic.
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Electrification gaining momentum in fleet vehicle industry
Charged
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
For example, the US agreed to reduce emissions by 26% by 2025, and the EU by at least 40% by 2030. Some cities are also promoting the use of EVs for urban delivery trucks, which have shorter ranges and less noise and air pollution than diesel trucks. One of the ways to lower truck emissions is to switch to EVs. million units by 2030.
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Michael Bloomberg fires up expanded campaign to close a quarter of the world's coal plants by 2025
Business Green
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
G20 leaders may have resisted calls this weekend for a firm target date for ending the use of coal power, but pressure on coal operators is still set to intensify with the launch today of a major new global campaign that is aiming to ensure a quarter of the world's remaining coal power plants are closed by 2025.
Planned UK spaceports could add significantly to emissions of climate-warming gases
Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 21, 2020
Spaceport Cornwall plans to achieve eight launches annually from 2025, while the global small satellite market could be launching up to 2,000 satellites by 2030. Black carbon and similar pollutants are also the leading environmental cause of premature deaths, being key components of fine particulate matter (PM2.5).
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How farmers and seaweed can help tackle ocean pollution
Business Green
OCTOBER 15, 2021
Wastewater from overburdened urban septic systems and air pollution from burning fossil fuels contribute to nitrogen pollution, but often runoff of the synthetic fertilizers used in industrialized agriculture is the primary culprit. One conservative estimate put it at $16.7bn in 2020, with growth to $30.2bn projected by 2025.
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Alex Ross: Equitable Rulemaking at the EPA
Defend Our Future
JUNE 24, 2021
On June 15th, I joined environmental justice advocates from across the country at a listening session hosted by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), to share how methane pollution has impacted our community in Phoenix. We must work together to cut methane pollution from the oil and gas sector before it’s too late.
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