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Study: Circular strategies could slash auto industry emissions by two-thirds

Business Green

New analysis from Bain & Company suggests recycled materials could play dominant role in auto industry supply chains. The European auto industry could slash emissions and drastically reduce its exposure to resource security risks by embracing recycled materials and circular business models.

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EU project aims to play leading role in addressing e-waste

Envirotec Magazine

An EU project is attempting to lead the European electronics industry towards more sustainable materials, design, manufacturing methods, and improved circularity and energy efficiency, writes Finnish research group VTT. According to the World Economic Forum , 53 million tonnes of electronic waste was discarded in 2019.

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Firms selected to pitch at climate tech innovation event

Envirotec Magazine

The UK’s energy, water, transportation, circular economy and built environment sectors have a combined value of £1.3 The five categories for Pitch Day cover Energy, Water, the Circular Economy, the Built Environment, and Mobility. Thermulon next generation mineral-based building insulation.

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Best of GBB in 2021: Green Businesses Leading the Sustainable Business Movement

Green Business Bureau

With humble beginnings as a small business selling to Vancouver’s dock workers in 1918, Watson Gloves is now Canada’s largest manufacturer and distributor of gloves to the industrial and retail market. cities, Replate is a tech-driven nonprofit that combats food waste by connecting food donors and food rescuers together.

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A conversation with Ford's sustainability leader

Business Green

Even though Ford is facing both internal restructuring and as well as the massive transformation happening in the broader automotive industry, the company continues to make strong commitments to sustainability. And setting goals to become true zero waste to any landfill globally as well.

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Inside Eastman’s moonshot goal for endlessly circular plastics

GreenBiz

At first glance, the sprawling industrial site, covering roughly 900 acres in Kingsport, Tennessee, appears to be just another chemical manufacturing facility. There are hundreds of buildings and countless miles of pipes, conveyors, distillers, cooling towers, valves, pumps, compressors and controls. Joel Makower.

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Inside Eastman's moonshot goal for endlessly circular plastics

Business Green

From plastics to fashion, the US chemicals giant is innovating in pursuit of a new approach for managing the world's most ubiquitous materials. At first glance, the sprawling industrial site, covering roughly 900 acres in Kingsport, Tennessee, appears to be just another chemical manufacturing facility.