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Top five green innovations to watch in 2022

Business Green

Innovate UK's Jonny Voon explores some of the most exciting green ideas this year, ranging from UK lithium mining and plastic recycling breakthroughs, clothing that 'grows' with the children wearing it. Key to a sustainable recovery is innovation. Jonny Voon is head of the Sustainable Innovation Fund at Innovate UK.

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Where there's hope for speeding up business action on plastics

GreenBiz

PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, Unilever and even Tupperware have signed on with governments and NGOs to do away with "unnecessary" plastics and innovate so that other plastics will be reused, recycled or composted; and kept out of natural systems. Chief innovation officers. For innovation chiefs, Choi sees the benefit as fairly intuitive.

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Where there's hope for speeding up business action on plastics

Business Green

PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, Unilever and even Tupperware have signed on with governments and NGOs to do away with "unnecessary" plastics and innovate so that other plastics will be reused, recycled or composted; and kept out of natural systems. Chief innovation officers. For innovation chiefs, Choi sees the benefit as fairly intuitive.

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Human Nature: Insights from Interactive 2022

Elemental Excelerator

Heard from 16 incredible innovators in Cohort X. ” Over the course of two hours, we dove into all 10 climate OKRs, which range from accelerants like winning policy, innovating, and investing to solutions such as electrifying transportation to removing carbon. . Announced a new $32.5M, five-year commitment from the U.S.

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Tires are saving us — and killing us, too

The Verge: Energy

Bridgestone’s Bill Niaura, executive director of sustainable innovation and circular economy, says guayule is a drop-in replacement with many potential advantages. That all may sound like marketing plays — and it partly is — but motorsports have historically proven an ideal development opportunity in the automotive industry.