Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 26, 2021

· New HydroPRS process creates raw ingredients for “infinitely recyclable new products” · World-first commercial-scale plant starts construction in Teesside, UK, backed by global partners and UK Government. i] Sites are planned in Germany, the US and Asia. iii] The UK alone produces 2.4m

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Banking giant announces fresh fund to invest in around 60 firms involved in recycling, regenerating natural ecosystems and designing out waste and pollution. This is the fourth ESG focused fund released by HSBC AM this year, following two ETFs focused on emerging markets and Asia-Pacific ex-Japan, and an Asia bond fund.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Tech giant plans to support at least 10 tech start-ups and NGOs in US and Asia-Pacific solving circular economy challenges. For example, it launched tools within Google Maps and Search to make it easier to find accurate recycling information around the world. The tech giant will pick 10 to 15 start-ups and NGOs to participate.

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EDF + Business

DECEMBER 6, 2020

Cynthia and colleague at a waste-to-energy plant. Cynthia Shih is the climate change activist and Director of Knowledge at mckinsey.org who’s helping to redefine what recycling means for the 21st century. 03:02 – Cynthia talks about McKinsey.org’s mission and why it chose to focus on waste. Dig deeper.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Award-winning conceptual material designer Shahar Livne collaborated with fashion design company Balenciaga to create a new line of jewelry made from recycled ocean plastic. The company sources plastic materials from all over the world, focusing mainly in Southeast Asia, where it says 60% of the world’s ocean plastic originates.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

In the fight against pollution and environmental waste, there are many levels of similarly-minded people in government, nonprofit, for-profit and community all working towards the same goals. Tide starts at the source by training fishermen to collect and properly sort plastic from the waterways of Southeast Asia. View post:Â .

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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). and North America at 0.9%.

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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2022

And over the last decade serious demands have been made of us to deal with the problem of plastic waste. Businesses like ours have a key role in driving innovations to reduce the use of new ‘virgin' plastic and to make our products more recyclable. From ice cream to shampoo, much of what we sell comes packaged in plastic.

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 19, 2019

In the United States alone, recycling accounts for over $200 billion worth of industry spending. Why, then, is the United States still falling behind almost all other developed countries when it comes to recycling, renewable energy, and other resource conservation efforts? The Recycling Industry Is Dead.

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GreenBiz

MAY 12, 2020

There’s no doubt about it — we are in the midst of a plastic pollution crisis. Consider that the cosmetics industry brings in a booming $500 billion every year and imagine the waste created by default. The waste hierarchy is well known, yet we struggle as businesses to follow it — pushing blame on cost or customer convenience.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

64% look at waste minimisation & recycling ??32% 32% consider less polluting business areas & tech ??Read Have you read: COP27: $1bn signed for grid-based projects ‘in Asia and beyond’ Developing the venture capital investment space to have an impact on climate tech. EU firms made progress in #ClimateAction : ??53%

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Asia is the largest wastewater producer with an estimated 159 billion cubic meters, representing 42% of urban wastewater generated globally, with expectations of that proportion rising to 44% by 2030. . which calls on us to half the proportion of untreated wastewater and substantially increase recycling and safe reuse globally by 2030.”

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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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Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 28, 2021

Beyond just renewable power, Canada’s clean energy sector is made up of companies and jobs that help reduce carbon pollution, whether by generating clean energy, helping move it, reducing energy consumption in transportation, buildings, and industry, or making low-carbon technologies. Already, 127 countries —including the U.S

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Sustainability Consulting

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

To meet growing demand, roughly 23 billion shoes are produced every year, mostly in factories across China and Southeast Asia. And processing those raw ingredients into synthetic textiles also uses a lot of energy, further compounding that pollution. Why are sneakers so bad for the environment?

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 23, 2020

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. . We didn't slow down the implementation of our new recyclable tube," Tracy said. And what are those items packaged in?

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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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Unsustainable

JANUARY 27, 2020

Waste Management: Why we should not only focus on zero waste, but also on how to handle the waste we do produce. By Susanne van Gendt While going zero waste is becoming more and more popular, the trash-avoiding movement leaves behind a majority of the population that is less preoccupied with their waste.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2022

As WRAP puts it, the six projects will help towards transformation of the plastics system by stopping waste, addressing harmful emissions from new plastic production, and ensuring we keep plastic in the economy and out of the natural environment.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Between rainforest fires and ocean pollution, much of the news is grim. Banana leaves as packaging If you’ve ever had the good fortune to visit a southern Indian restaurant in Asia, you may have been served dinner on a banana leaf instead of a plate. This is amazing, considering less than two percent was recycled in 1995.

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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. Yet the recycled material available to make bottles, bags and boxes has become harder to find and more expensive. It seems an impossible situation. Headwinds and tailwinds.

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Elemental Excelerator

JUNE 1, 2023

They prove that small changes like swapping out a couple ingredients in a meal and big efforts like fishing the oceans for plastic waste can add up to real climate impact. Climate-hacking snacks and ocean pollution One emissions-heavy area that companies can target is the very stuff that surrounds their products. Better Packaging Co.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 5, 2022

But demand for polluting fossil fuel-derived plastics could peak by 2035 if business and government works together to create a more sustainable plastic supply chain, report finds. Gilfillan said this outcome depended on all actors playing a part in overhauling the way plastic is used in modern society. of pre-industrial levels," he said.

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Business Green

MAY 20, 2022

It said it would aim to deliver twice as many plant-based foods per meal and set an objective of zero food waste by sizing quantities, designing recipes that reduce the risk of waste, and recycling 100 per cent of non-consumed food. African countries team up for new green hydrogen initiative.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 23, 2020

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. “We didn’t slow down the implementation of our new recyclable tube,” Tracy said. Most of the time, plastic.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Gifts, holiday products, and everyday items are made to order for freshness and to reduce waste. Packaging is also environmentally-friendly with the use of recycled post-consumer materials and refill systems for products to minimize waste. Plus, manufacturing pollution harms the water and air.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 16, 2020

Environmental groups are now sounding the alarm on how cast-off coronavirus masks are escalating the litter and plastic pollution predicaments. Hong Kong’s dense population means that its citizens have struggled with plastic waste. What’s more, Hong Kong does not effectively recycle all its waste.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

DECEMBER 18, 2023

This is inherently wasteful and it comes with a price tag of emissions. Kept in a closed cycle, the CO 2 is injected back into the earth to be reheated and recycled through the system over and over again. In Asia, geothermal opportunities abound.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In rural West Virginia, largely hidden among steep hills, stands a $255 million facility designed to transform fracking waste into freshwater and food grade quality salts. Laden with heavy metals, chemicals and other contaminants, this waste frequently exhibits levels of radioactivity hundreds of times the safe limits set by regulators.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

Growing up outside of Boston, Zack Angelini spent summers swimming, but one polluted river was off limits. "I Serving as a United States Marine in the Asia Pacific region, Briana Buckles often witnessed extreme poverty. Transform Program Leader, Fight Food Waste Co-op Research Center; Brisbane, Australia. Zack Angelini, 29.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 17, 2021

Zack Angelini, 29 Senior Environmental Stewardship Manager, Timberland; Malden, Massachusetts LinkedIn Growing up outside of Boston, Zack Angelini spent summers swimming, but one polluted river was off limits. Our consumers are not only asking for it, but expecting it.”

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

The Rise of City Zero Emission Zones (Panel Discussion): Following cities in Europe and Asia, some U.S. Conference New Green Revolution: How to Cut Pollution without Sacrificing Yields (Panel Discussion): Increasing yields often means using more fertilizer, pesticides and herbicides. Because you never forget your first.

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Elemental Excelerator

JANUARY 28, 2020

We must also reduce GHG emissions associated with production, distribution and waste in the food and agriculture sectors. Waste reduction and diversion. Our existing industrial and waste systems are unsustainable and inequitable. To solve these problems, we seek companies that focus on: Waste-to-value solutions.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Designed to protect the UK and EU's nascent battery markets from being undercut by cheaper products from Asia, they mean UK carmakers currently have to prove that at least 40 per cent of the value of parts in a finished car are produced in the UK or EU to avoid extra charges when exporting to the EU. Kickstarting the UK's recycling ecosystem.

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