CleanTech Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

While taking a backseat to the health crisis in the last few months, climate change is increasingly shaping our daily experience with wildfires,

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Amid myriad social, health and political crises, business sustainability is alive and well and living the Paris Agreement. Chantelle Ludski is serving as the North America and Asia Pacific COO for the Anthesis Group sustainability consultancy. Thought for Food announced Melissa Ong as its Southeast Asia CEO. Who's news.

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Grist

OCTOBER 1, 2022

When dealing with the life cycle of plastic, hundreds of solutions await, from alternative bioplastics that might be able to degrade themselves through the magic of fungus, to complex chemical recycling that can break plastics down to become other petroleum products or to be rebuilt good as new.

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Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2021

The Blue Planet Fund will support many developing countries on the front line of climate change to reduce poverty and improve the health of their seas," he added. In the run up to the UK hosting the COP26 Climate Summit in November, the government said it is wants to work with developing countries to better protect and restore ocean habitats.

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Eco-Business

JANUARY 20, 2020

The Plastics Data Challenge is a global innovation challenge that will source, support, and scale innovative technologies, methodologies and working prototypes that help entrepreneurs and others collect, analyse and leverage data to understand and address the leakage of plastic waste into the environment.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The technologies ExxonMobil is pursuing can,” said Exxon’s Chief Executive Darren Woods during a speech about “reframing the climate challenge” at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO summit in November. World-scale problems like climate change need world-scale companies to help solve them — like ExxonMobil.”

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The Angry Clean Energy Guy

JULY 5, 2018

This is true without even taking into account the health, environmental and pollution advantages of renewable energy over coal, oil, and gas. The technology developed by ZeroMassWater also offsets 70,000 plastic water bottles throughout its lifetime and covers its costs in just five years.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

AUGUST 25, 2022

This led them to start projects in paper and plastic upcycling but then they came to another realisation; that food waste was considered a negative value resource. “If you consider the other types of waste like plastic, paper, aluminium, glass, batteries, e-waste; all of these have markets in themselves. .

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Business Green

JUNE 6, 2022

Governments must work together to avoid tidal wave of plastic waste, think tank warns. Plastic waste is on track to triple by 2060, according to the latest report from the OECD think tank, which warns that recycling capacity and circular economy policies are failing to keep pace with still surging global demand for plastics.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 11, 2023

Most of the health studies and legislation have focused on the “long chain” PFAS compounds – whose molecular structure tends to feature 7 or more carbon atoms – and includes things like perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA). And there are many of them (more than 4,000 on the global market).

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Most of the time, plastic. 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. . Its plastic strategy focuses on three areas. Plastic Waste. So, can it be tablets?

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 14, 2021

How the EU’s new ‘toxic-free’ vision could shape your safer chemicals strategy Bob Kerr Thu, 01/14/2021 – 01:00 For the last two decades, the European Union has played a leadership role in tackling the risks hazardous chemicals pose to our health and environment. and elsewhere.

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

A few tech companies are working to grow clean hydrogen in Europe and Asia and, lately, California. One company hoping to capitalize is Ways2H , which has a thermal process to convert municipal solid waste, medical waste, plastics and sewage sludge into renewable hydrogen.

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Business Green

MAY 22, 2020

Single-use plastics are helping keep people safe during the Covid-19 pandemic, but creating new challenges for governments in dealing with the waste problem. Some of the world's largest corporations promised to quickly slash their use of virgin plastic packaging. Where does this leave the businesses embracing circularity in plastics?

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 19, 2021

Labs also send massive amounts of water down the drain and discard possibly billions of pounds of single-use plastics every year. As for the overuse of single-use plastics, the University of Exeter estimated that academic researchers produced plastic waste equivalent to 5.7 million two-liter soda bottles each year. .

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 22, 2020

In recent years, seaweed has been quite a catch for health-conscious consumers, in turn, making kelp, a brown macroalgae, one of the more in-demand types of seaweed offerings. Kelp’s health benefits extend beyond vitamins, as documented by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) FoodData Central site.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 19, 2020

While the news often mentions the terrible things in the sea, such as gyres of plastic and other trash, the oceans also hold an extremely valuable resource: seaweed. Other parts of Asia, including China , Indonesia and the Philippines, also produce seaweed for food and other products.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Sports also carries perceptions and feelings of vigor, health, and youth, he says, one reason why the tobacco industry was also so keen to sponsor sports. For example, the ICC has said that Aramco will install recycling machines at all match venues, and convert the collected plastic into clothing. That is classic misdirection.

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Unsustainable

MARCH 10, 2020

What does he care about the plastic pollution in the ocean? The governments want to increase their GDP, improve health and sanitation, provide education and jobs, increase investment, improve infrastructure, provide electricity to people; besides the economy and jobs, most of these things are not even an issue in developed countries anymore.

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Grist

JANUARY 31, 2022

The nanoparticles are smaller and more toxic than microplastics, which have already been found across the globe, but the impact of both on people’s health is unknown. Nanoparticles are very light and are thought to be blown to Greenland on winds from cities in North America and Asia. We are in a very early stage to draw conclusions.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 15, 2020

A few tech companies are working to grow clean hydrogen in Europe and Asia and, lately, California. One company hoping to capitalize is Ways2H , which has a thermal process to convert municipal solid waste, medical waste, plastics and sewage sludge into renewable hydrogen.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

In more modern times, support for aquaculture has ebbed and flowed along with concerns about animal health and welfare, worries over the effluent pollution caused by wastewater discharges, and the unintended impacts of production infrastructure such as pipes and pumps on natural ecosystems.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Amid myriad social, health and political crises, business sustainability is alive and well and living the Paris Agreement. Chantelle Ludski is serving as the North America and Asia Pacific COO for the Anthesis Group sustainability consultancy. Thought for Food announced Melissa Ong as its Southeast Asia CEO.

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Business Green

JUNE 1, 2020

As with all UK businesses, we are committed to ensuring that all possible efforts are made to save lives and tackle the current health crisis and resulting economic downturn. Philip Law, Director General, British Plastics Federation. Sergio Menendez, President, CEMEX Europe, Middle East, Africa & Asia (EMEAA).

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Before turning to genetic engineering, the foundation tried unsuccessfully to breed a hybrid chestnut that looked and grew like an American chestnut but had genes from species native to Asia that gave it blight resistance. But first, they stood in a circle in the grove and discussed the future of the American chestnuts.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 16, 2020

The masks are made of the plastic polypropylene, which is not easily biodegradable. No surprise then that the accumulation of discarded face masks litters the environment and poses serious risks to the equilibrium of habitats and the health of wildlife, especially marine organisms. Single-use plastic makes matters more challenging.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Most of the time, plastic. 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. Its plastic strategy focuses on three areas. And what are those items packaged in?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Moreover, key emerging markets, such as India, China, much of South East Asia, and most of Africa, spend huge sums on oil imports every year, providing their governments with a clear economic and strategic incentive to curb their oil dependence. Oil imports cost 1.5 per cent of China's GDP and 2.6

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 2, 2021

S includes labor relations, diversity, inclusion, philanthropy, and charity work, supplier support, and health and safety provision. This is followed by Asia Pacific with 174. E.g. bans on single-use plastic. This includes relationships with suppliers, communities, consumers, and employees. ESG is gaining momentum worldwide.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 1, 2021

While compiling your list of besties to share the joy of the season with, look into companies dedicated to protecting the health of the planet, animals and customers too. Shop Cannabolish on Amazon Beeswax wraps Beeswax wraps have drawn a lot of attention in recent years as a helpful way to reduce plastic use.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 19, 2021

Labs also send massive amounts of water down the drain and discard possibly billions of pounds of single-use plastics every year. As for the overuse of single-use plastics, the University of Exeter estimated that academic researchers produced plastic waste equivalent to 5.7 million two-liter soda bottles each year.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2021

Planet Earth is facing a "ghastly future of mass extinction, declining health, and climate-disruption upheavals" thanks to a broad failure to grasp the urgency of the biodiversity and climate crises that could genuinely threaten human survival. Our point is that we need big systematic changes and fast.".

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AFN Sustainable Protein

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

And despite its many shortcomings, plastic continues to take market share from leather. We anticipate that many consumers will shift to animal-free food products if those products begin to meet or exceed their animal-based alternatives on key areas like cost, taste, functionality, convenience, and health. Food may be next.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 9, 2019

They spend your money to buy a seat at the UN Security Council, and also, they are giving your money to other countries to fight climate change in Asia and build roads in Africa. You know, you talk often about how Conservatives cut taxes for the wealthy and cut education and health care and other services. They cannot.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

Serving as a United States Marine in the Asia Pacific region, Briana Buckles often witnessed extreme poverty. Essentially, sustainable fashion meets women’s health. Pantys’ products cut down on plastic waste — one person uses up to 15,000 pads and tampons over a lifetime, most of which wind up in landfills, estimates show.

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2022

Coal power project pipelines in Asia have been contracting in recent years as a result of intense competition from renewables and gas. New UN-backed Nature for Health fund launched. Implementation of preventive One Health action and policies at the local, national and regional level.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

The Fundamentals of Circular Packaging (Workshop): An increase in consumer awareness, corporate engagement and regulatory action has led more companies to set ambitious goals to reduce and reimagine their use of plastics and packaging. The Rise of City Zero Emission Zones (Panel Discussion): Following cities in Europe and Asia, some U.S.

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