EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

This can be achieved through long-lasting design, maintenance, repair, reuse, remanufacturing, refurbishing and recycling. 20x Global consumption of plastics has increased twentyfold in the last 50 years, and 40% of plastics are used for packaging.

Automotive 80

Automotive Plastics Waste Waste 80

EDF + Business

DECEMBER 11, 2023

This can be achieved through long-lasting design, maintenance, repair, reuse, remanufacturing, refurbishing and recycling. 20x Global consumption of plastics has increased twentyfold in the last 50 years, and 40% of plastics are used for packaging.

Automotive 52

Automotive Plastics Waste Waste 52

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The company first announced its ambitions to achieve zero carbon emissions throughout the entire production process for its EVs last year , before revealing plans earlier this year to team up with a raft of partners throughout the automotive supply chain to try and deliver on its goal.

Carbon-neutral 82

Carbon-neutral Automotive Plastics Carbon 82

Business Green

MARCH 26, 2024

Behaviour Change Campaign of the year Birmingham County Football Association - Save Today, Play Tomorrow Cambridge Water - 'Can for the Cam' water efficiency campaign Carbon Literacy Project - Carbon Literacy Action Day campaign Deloitte - Clause Zero Giki and Race to Zero - The Employee Race to Zero competition Hubbub - #PickYourSide Jump and the (..)

Business Energy Monitoring 53

Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring 53

Business Green

JUNE 12, 2024

The awards were more competitive than ever with record numbers of entries and remarkable innovation on display in every category. The judges also praised how the company has switched 85 per cent of its delivery fleet to biofuel, drastically increased its recycling rate, and more than halved its direct emissions since 2021.

Business Energy Monitoring 57

Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring 57

Charged

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

At DuPont, we’re developing adhesive and plastic solutions that help automakers worldwide produce EVs that perform better than ever. Here are four ways DuPont adhesives and plastics are moving EVs forward. DuPont Zytel ® nylon resins resist aging in high-heat automotive applications. Safer, cooler, and longer-lasting batteries.

Plastics 82

Plastics Batteries Ozone Automotive 82

Charged

AUGUST 24, 2020

It’s usually one of the first objections cited by EV naysayers: batteries can’t or won’t be recycled, and they contain hazardous materials that will end up in landfills. In fact, no such sinister scenario is likely—most of the components of Li-ion batteries are valuable, and it’s quite feasible, technically and economically, to recycle them.

Batteries 115

Batteries Lithium Recycling Recycling 115

GreenBiz

AUGUST 26, 2020

Where there's hope for speeding up business action on plastics. Its landmark report, "The New Plastics Economy," sounded the alarm in 2016 that if "business as usual" continues, by 2025 the ocean may hold more plastic than fish by weight. Only five years ago, few corporate leaders had plastic pollution on their official radar.

Plastics 326

Plastics Waste Waste Recycling 326

Business Green

JUNE 18, 2021

Three US firms are taking their inspiration from natural processes to deliver exciting new clean tech innovations. Spintex Engineering studied the humble spider and its extraordinary way of spinning fibre to create a process that is a 1,000 times more energy efficient than producing plastic fibres.

Soil 86

Soil Automotive Plastics Recycling 86

Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 21, 2021

Our members continue to amaze us with their commitment to sustainability and their innovative green and social responsibility initiatives. Their labels are also made with 100% recycled paper and they have created a paint pouch that uses 80% less plastic than standard paint cans. MARTINREA INTERNATIONAL. SPECTRAFORCE.

Sustainability 136

Sustainability Waste Waste Earth Day 136

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?

Plastics 99

Plastics Recycling Recycling Recycled materials 99

Charged

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

DuPont has created a mission and vision that align with the automotive industry’s objectives to act on climate , enable a circular economy , and create solutions, components, and vehicles that are safer by design. The material helps control heat by maintaining thermal conductivity across a wide operating temperature range.

Batteries 96

Batteries Cooling Electric vehicle North America 96

Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2022

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. Impact Recycling.

Innovation 97

Innovation Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 97

Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 14, 2023

Entrants in the final furlong include an on-demand clothing manufacturing technology that eliminates 20 billion unsold garments each year, 100% compostable protective packaging that replaces single use plastic, and an Oxford University spin-out that changes the way valuable metallic resources are mined, refined, recycled, and processed.

Innovation 130

Innovation Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 130

Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 5, 2024

Redwood Materials raised $1bn to build its US battery materials and recycling facility. This could be due to the relative maturity of renewables and  sentiment that decarbonizing energy was past the innovation stage. Northvolt raised $1.6bn over two rounds this year to scale battery manufacturing in Europe.

Building Energy Monitoring 144

Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor 144

AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Levi’s innovations include its recyclable Wellthread denim line. The nonprofit is betting that teaming up with such pathfinders will help spark lasting industry innovation via its tool, in the process lowering the cost for even small companies to find safer chemical alternatives for their products.

Plastics 28

Plastics Innovation Organic Retail 28

Business Green

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Pressure is mounting on the fashion industry to tackle its outsized environmental footprint, but can a wave of green innovation across the sector really trigger a shift towards sustainable business models? Fashion has become a consumable product rather than a durable one," acknowledges Erik Bang, innovation lead at the H&M Foundation.

Fashion 68

Fashion Innovation Waste Waste 68

Business Green

AUGUST 28, 2020

With the launch of the US branch of the Plastics Pact the case for corporates to step up their plastic waste reduction efforts are becoming clearer than ever. Its landmark report, "The New Plastics Economy," sounded the alarm in 2016 that if "business as usual" continues, by 2025 the ocean may hold more plastic than fish by weight.

Plastics 86

Plastics Waste Waste Recycling 86

EDF + Business

MAY 2, 2023

Automotive Consumer Products Clean Energy Inputs Batteries Machinery Mining Paper Plastics Cement Steel Glass Chemicals Key Relevant Provisions §45X and §48C are the key provisions to know for advanced manufacturing, offering incentives for domestic clean technology and energy efficient manufacturing.

Building Energy Monitoring 52

Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Energy Monitor 52

Greentown Labs

JULY 15, 2020

Innovation and sustainability have to go hand-in-hand as society transitions to a cleaner, greener future. Whether it’s through partnerships with startups, internal R&D work, or academic collaborations, innovation is crucial for both corporates’ bottom lines and responsibilities to the public.

Innovation 52

Innovation Recycling Recycling Sustainability 52

Business Green

MARCH 21, 2022

Dutch firm Avantium manufactures plant-based plastics from fructose, and is also exploring captured CO2 as a future feedstock for fossil-free materials. Plastics are everywhere, and the problems they pose are well documented. Plastics are now in our food, our drink, the air we breathe, and almost every product we buy.

Plastics 36

Plastics Europe Recycling Recycling 36

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Getting to net zero by 2050 will require a combination of technologies, innovative thinking and new approaches - there is no single magic bullet to remove all emissions from the global economy. Covid-19 should not cause us to stumble in that mission, but rather carry on with renewed vigour and determination. Going net negative.

Innovation 100

Innovation Carbon-negative Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor 100

Green Business Bureau

JULY 16, 2021

With the vast amount of waste that comes from single-use PPE and regular long-term wear, Watson Gloves is focusing on beginning of life and end of life manufacturing initiatives to help divert much of this textile waste by developing gloves using innovative sustainable materials. Textile Innovation. biodegradation in 233 days).

Sustainability 174

Sustainability Biodegradable Recycling Recycling 174

Charged

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Engineering Know-How Matters Leveraging their extensive material science expertise, refined over a long and varied testing and implementation history, Henkel engineers continually innovate, record results, and expand on earlier successes.

Batteries 113

Batteries Technology Innovation Recycling 113

Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 5, 2020

We’re grateful to partner with this latest group of innovators and, with a portfolio that’s now 117 companies strong, work together to commercialize an abundance of solutions to reverse climate change — starting today. ” — Danya Hakeem, Director of Innovation, Agriculture & Circular Economy. Why do we love them?

Innovation 105

Innovation Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 105

Business Green

MAY 10, 2021

But while innovation, research, and development has begun increasingly focusing on achieving both more efficient manufacturing and alternative zero carbon means of powering these energy-intensive processes, there remain huge market barriers to the investment and demand required to deliver net zero emissions industries at scale.

Carbon-neutral 40

Carbon-neutral Demand Europe Policy 40

Climate Tech VC

JULY 17, 2023

Deals of the Week (7/10-7/16) Venture Fundings 🧱 CarbonCure Technologies , a Dartmouth, Canada-based company injecting CO2 into concrete, raised $80M in Growth funding from Blue Earth Capital, Samsung Ventures, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund, Amazon Climate Pledge Fund, Taronga Ventures, 2150, and BH3.

Building Energy Monitoring 52

Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring 52

GreenBiz

MAY 11, 2020

Inside Eastman’s moonshot goal for endlessly circular plastics. But something extraordinary is going on at this Eastman chemical plant: two breakthrough processes to turn waste plastics of all kinds back into new plastics, continuously, with no loss of quality. Joel Makower. Mon, 05/11/2020 - 00:44.

Plastics 544

Plastics Recycling Recycling Waste 544

Business Green

MARCH 6, 2020

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 other things like eliminating single-use plastics by 2030.

Sustainability 52

Sustainability Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 52

Business Green

MAY 15, 2020

From plastics to fashion, the US chemicals giant is innovating in pursuit of a new approach for managing the world's most ubiquitous materials. The company claims this enables waste plastics to be recycled an infinite number of times without degradation of quality.

Plastics 41

Plastics Recycling Recycling Waste 41

Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

   ♻️ SuperCircle , a New York City, NY-based recycling logistics platform, raised $7M in Seed funding from Radicle Impact, Ulu Ventures, BBG Ventures, Earthshot Ventures, Blueprint Ventures. 💡 Sustainability Open Innovation Challenge : Apply for the chance to win S$75,000.

Lithium 72

Lithium Batteries Hydrogen Investment 72