Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

Over two billion plastic bottles have been collected and re-integrated into hundreds of leading brands' manufacturing supply chains through a waste collection initiative operated across the Philippines, Indonesia, Brazil, and Egypt by Plastic Bank, the social enterprise has today announced.

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Eco-Business

AUGUST 16, 2023

New research into selected geographical regions across Vietnam, for example, finds that the majority of plastic waste is being recycled by informal workers in craft villages. These waste pickers need to be given a voice.

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Eco-Business

DECEMBER 5, 2023

While informal waste pickers are often seen as competitors to the formal sector, they must be accorded dignity for the hard labour they put in, say experts at the launch of Eco-Business' new film investigating the region's waste crisis.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Engineering association warns 'waste hierarchy' that informs UK policy decisions on waste and recycling is 'inadequate and not fit-for-purpose'. The Institution of Mechanical Engineers has called on the government to reform its approach to waste and recycling, arguing the current model is unsustainable, outdated, and short-sighted.

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

Greenpeace investigation reveals textile waste from global brands such as Nike and Ralph Lauren is ended up being burned at sites in Asia. According to the findings of the investigation, the Cambodian factories where the clothes are made dispose of the majority of their waste at landfill or through licensed waste disposal companies.

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Business Green

MAY 17, 2021

The new design has been approved by RecyClass, which sets the recyclability standard for Europe, as well as laboratories in Asia and North America. Plastic pollution is undoubtedly one of the biggest environmental challenges of our time," said Samir Singh, executive vice president for global skin cleansing and oral care at Unilever.

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Grist

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Salt is even getting kicked up into the air: In arid regions, “lakes are drying up and sending plumes of saline dust into the atmosphere,” such as the Aral Sea in Central Asia, the study says. Salt pollution presents an “existential threat to our freshwater supplies,” according to the study. Washington, D.C.

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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. Asia dominates the market with 97.4 million metric tons from 2.2 Then there's the issue of money.

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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

JANUARY 11, 2021

The Waste Free World initiative is the fruit of a recently-announced partnership between Unilever and Chinese giant Alibaba, which they claim combines the former's packaging technology with the latter's business operating system to accelerate the process of returning high-grade plastic back into a closed-loop recycling system.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 11, 2024

If industrial production and manufacturing is not properly taken care of, you will have the population competing on water availability, but also water quality, because industrial clients can be polluting. and then it ends up being a waste of money. They will hear real cases that can be rolled out on the ground.

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EDF + Business

DECEMBER 6, 2020

Cynthia and colleague at a waste-to-energy plant. 03:02 – Cynthia talks about McKinsey.org’s mission and why it chose to focus on waste. 07:34 – Cynthia discusses why existing systems on the ground made Southeast Asia and Argentina strategic starting points for tackling managing waste. Dig deeper.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 30, 2019

The government of Pakistan needs to do much more to adequately address such a severe public health crisis – one that endangers people’s health and even their lives,” said Rimmel Mohydin, South Asia Campaigner at Amnesty International. Air pollution and the climate crisis are intricately linked.

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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. Google the term 'circular economy' and the top search results are a bunch of definitions. Applications for the accelerator open today and will be accepted until November.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 31, 2021

Recently unveiled by SeaCleaners, the Manta hybrid catamaran is designed to combat the oceans’ plastic pollution in a brand new way. Using a biomimetic design, a hybrid propulsion system and a power supply from renewable energy sources, the high-tech boat will not only collect ocean waste but process it as well.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 11, 2023

A contaminant whose importance appears to have grown significantly in recent years, poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) present a challenge to pollution management given their apparent toxicity – although a clear picture is still emerging – and persistence. As regulations tighten, the topic seems to be growing more urgent.

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GreenBiz

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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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 26, 2021

Mura Technology, a UK-based technology firm, has announced that construction has started on the world’s first commercial-scale plant to use its ground-breaking “hydrothermal” process, which is said to be able to recycle all forms of plastic waste and could provide the raw ingredients for a sustainable circular plastic economy.

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Eco-Business

JANUARY 8, 2020

Marine plastic pollution has become one of the most pressing environmental concerns facing the world today. Asia, in particular, has been detrimental to the oceans, with 5 Asian countries - China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam - generating 60% of this marine plastic waste leakage.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

From Scandinavia to South East Asia Danfoss is charting a course towards zero emission shipping. In Europe, the sector accounts for 40 per cent of all freight moved - a proportion that's set to increase, as firms seek to minimise the congestion, inefficiency, and air pollution that comes with transporting goods by land.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2020

The study reveals that the regions contributing the most to global N2O emissions are East Asia, South Asia, Africa and South America, with emissions from synthetic fertilisers dominating releases in China, India and the US and emissions from the application of livestock manure dominating in Africa and South Africa.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Below he discusses the issue of water pollution in the fashion industry. Startlingly, the fashion industry is now the second largest generator of pollution on Earth after the oil industry, which is driven by the snowballing effect of ‘fast fashion’. The Citaram river in Indonesia is the most polluted river in the world.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The programme runs alongside Google's Circular Economy Accelerator, which supports start-ups in North America and Asia. Donnel Baird, founder of BlocPower, said the accelerator programme was "incredibly valuable, helping us refine our software solutions to reduce city onboarding for clean energy projects from four months to four weeks".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) confirmed this morning that it will spend £120m on schemes that build resilience, prevent pollution, protect biodiversity, boost renewable energy, and better manage waste in Bangladesh, while also supporting women's leadership and access to finance, education, and skills.

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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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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. With an ambition to conclude negotiations by the end of 2024, the hard work starts now to put in a place a robust plan to deal with plastic pollution. From ice cream to shampoo, much of what we sell comes packaged in plastic.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 9, 2020

Speaking of pollutants, the fishing industry also contributes heavily to beach and coastal pollution through petroleum and plastic waste in the form of broken nets and other debris. However, the U.S. ” Related: What do Americans think about fake meat products? and increased demand is expected.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

As co-founder of the community group Chester Residents Concerned for Quality Living, Mayfield has spent years fighting to protect her majority Black and low-income city from the pollution spewed by the nearby Covanta waste-to-energy facility — the country’s largest waste incinerator. natural gas. LNG exports 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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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. ” Praem Mehta, UNU-INWEH / McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada. And by 2050, it will reach 574 billion m3, a 51% increase.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 29, 2021

After renewable energy, transport, followed by green buildings, waste, water, biodiversity conservation, and adaptation, comprise other areas for proceeds. China is the leader in emerging market green bond growth, while east Asia and the Pacific region is responsible for 81% of the market.

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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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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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Front And Centered

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

People across Washington suffering worst from pollution — often low-income people, communities of color and linguistically isolated people — pay with their well-being and shortened lives. American Rivers | Asian Pacific Americans for Civic Engagement (APACE) | Asia Pacific Cultural Center.

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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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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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