GreenBiz

MAY 24, 2021

A circular economy is so much more than recycling or reusing waste streams, which is a reductionist understanding of what nature does. Spintex Engineering has mimicked the precision of a spider’s spinnerets to produce artificial spider silk for use in textiles, apparel, aerospace and automotive industries. Design & Packaging.

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Cooling Automotive Waste Waste 546

Business Green

OCTOBER 3, 2022

BusinessGreen reports on the fast-evolving plans to establish a thriving EV battery recycling industry in the UK. Ramping up battery reuse and recycling is increasingly regarded as critical to ensuring climate goals are met in as sustainable and efficient way as possible.

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Recycling Recycling Batteries Lithium 87

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

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2019

” The ability to customise the thickness and texture makes Gelatex attractive for both the textile and automotive industry. Differently coloured trustmarks indicate whether products and/or packaging are free of plastics and microplastics or are made of recyclates.

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Startups Waste Waste Plastics 178

Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 23, 2022

Winners of the Plastics Recycling Awards Europe 2022 were announced on 23 June at the Plastics Recycling Show Europe in Amsterdam. Launched in 2017, the awards have witnessed a dramatic and inspirational rise in the circular use of plastics through increased recycling and recyclability over the last the five years, said the organisers.

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Plastics Recycling Recycling Europe 264

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.

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Automotive Plastics Waste Waste 52

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

According to the influential Overseas Development Institute (ODI) think tank, delivering on the world's climate goals would require plastic consumption to be halved by 2050, with 75 per cent of the remaining plastic being recycled.

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Plastics Fossil fuels Recycling Recycling 101

Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The government has today announced clean tech innovation funding totaling £134m for over 1,000 projects across the UK, just 24 hours after confirming the award of £49m to a raft of green automotive initiatives.

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Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Government Energy Monitor 96

Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 15, 2022

Eco-friendly automotive repair shops. To be a sustainable automotive body and repair shop, you need to follow a thorough sustainability guide. By automotive body and repair shop, we are referring to facilities including service stations, vehicle fleet maintenance facilities, auto dealerships, and car washes.

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Automotive Sustainability Waste Waste 147

Business Green

MARCH 7, 2022

Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) reforms for packaging waste will no longer be introduced in 2023, the Department for the Environment, Farming and Rural Affairs (Defra) has confirmed. However, plans to introduce the new rules are now in limbo after Defra last week confirmed the timetable for introducing the system had slipped.

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Packaging Waste Waste Plastics 36

Business Green

JULY 21, 2020

The Prime Minister has marked his first year in office by unveiling a £350m green funding package today to support efforts to drive down carbon emissions from heavy industry, construction, space and transport, touting the move as a bid to "fuel a green, sustainable recovery" from the Covid-19 crisis.

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Building Energy Monitoring Innovation Energy Monitor Sustainability 94

Business Green

JULY 8, 2021

Green Packaging Project of the Year. Greener Packaging. Riverford Organic Farmers - Box Zero and Packaging Pledge. Seedlip - Mushroom Packaging. Switch Packaging Specialists. SDCL Energy Efficiency Income Trust plc - Primary Energy Recycled Energy Project. Magical Mushroom Company - Mushroom Packaging.

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Packaging Innovation Sustainability Carbon 92

Business Green

DECEMBER 4, 2020

The report was commissioned by major automotive manufacturers including Aston Martin, McLaren, and Honda, and follows the government's announcement that new petrol cars and vans will not be sold in the UK from 2030. Another example closer to my home is packaging recycling. So how did this 'study' get the figures so badly wrong?

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Recycling Recycling Packaging Automotive 40

AGreenLiving

JANUARY 10, 2020

At the 2020 Consumer Electronics Show, acclaimed American-Danish automotive designer Henrik Fisker, CEO of the eponymous startup Fisker Inc. , Vehicles and option packages will be made available to customers for viewing at select Fisker experience centers this year. has unveiled the hotly anticipated Fisker Ocean.

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Electricity Automotive Recycling Recycling 36

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. This also reduces weight and optimizes packaging space.

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Batteries Cooling Electric vehicle North America 116

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Levi's innovations include its recyclable Wellthread denim line. ChemFORWARD is building clearinghouses for electronics and food packaging, but one of its earliest repositories coalesces data in beauty and personal care, with hundreds of safer alternatives. Target's Sustainable Product Standard came on the scene in 2013.

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Plastics Innovation Organic Retail 504

Business Green

JUNE 29, 2020

The chancellor's stimulus package must include measures to replace lost jobs with green jobs, re-train workers so they can access these jobs and power the new green economy both Leeds and the UK need.".

Packaging 54

Packaging Real Estate Government Electric vehicle 54

Business Green

APRIL 8, 2021

With huge implications for the automotive sector, car manufacturers like Jaguar Land Rover and General Motors accelerated their shift towards electric vehicles (EVs). This requires coordinated and collaborative action, and will only be achieved if the C-suite place sustainability at the heart of their business models and marketing briefs.

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Sustainability Meat alternatives Packaging Carbon 62

AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

A circular economy is so much more than recycling or reusing waste streams, which is a reductionist understanding of what nature does. Spintex Engineering has mimicked the precision of a spider’s spinnerets to produce artificial spider silk for use in textiles, apparel, aerospace and automotive industries.

Cooling 28

Cooling Waste Waste Automotive 28

AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

A circular economy is so much more than recycling or reusing waste streams, which is a reductionist understanding of what nature does. Spintex Engineering has mimicked the precision of a spider’s spinnerets to produce artificial spider silk for use in textiles, apparel, aerospace and automotive industries.

Cooling 28

Cooling Waste Waste Automotive 28

Business Green

MAY 22, 2020

Some of the world's largest corporations promised to quickly slash their use of virgin plastic packaging. Yet the recycled material available to make bottles, bags and boxes has become harder to find and more expensive. Post-consumer recycled plastics look about as budget-friendly as diamonds next to cubic zirconia.

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Plastics Recycling Recycling Recycled materials 99

Business Green

MAY 14, 2021

Unilever's net zero supply chain commitment, for example, will require weaning itself off fossil fuels as a source of ingredients for the formulations and packaging of its cleaning and laundry products. But getting to net zero in a supply chain will take more than nudges and new purchasing contracts. Redesigning products.

Innovation 78

Innovation Biotechnology Carbon Recycled materials 78

Green Technology

JUNE 21, 2023

Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) Ferguson Through a first-of-its-kind collaboration, Ferguson has partnered with Holman, a global automotive services organization, and Electrada, an electric fuel solutions company, to pilot fleet electrification in California.

Building Energy Monitoring 40

Building Energy Monitoring Sustainability Solar Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring 40

Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Carbon Recycling International (CRI), the Iceland-based company behind the technology, said the pioneering plant marked a major milestone in the development of carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS) technologies.

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Methane Electric vehicle Europe Transportation 36

Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 5, 2024

Redwood Materials raised $1bn to build its US battery materials and recycling facility.   BorgWarner focuses on integrating acquisitions into its automotive and mobility offerings with all three acquisitions, drivetek, Akasol, and Rhombus Energy in Transportation.  Government funding catalyzed major private rounds.

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

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.

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Innovation Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 130

Clean Energy Trust

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

I’ll Wait For You, Climate Bill There is an outline for the budget package which contains climate provisions, but it’s not quite a done deal yet. h/t Trucks FoT Link Research suggests using recycled battery cathodes can actually make better batteries?—?the Short answer?

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Energy Energy Electric vehicle North America 52

Climate Tech VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

♻️ Greyparrot , a London, UK-based waste and recycling intelligence platform, raised $13m in funding from Bollegraaf.  📦 Voidless , a Milan, Italy-based on-demand packaging solutions platform, raised $2m in Seed funding from 360 Capital and CDP Venture Capital.

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

GreenBiz

AUGUST 26, 2020

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. Plastics Pact by EMF, The Recycling Partnership and WWF. Chief marketing officers. Circular Economy.

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Plastics Waste Waste Recycling 402

Hydrogen Fuel News

APRIL 2, 2024

The IE’s new and revolutionary hydrogen fuel cell system reportedly offers greater benefits over other fuel cells developed by large automotive groups and their third-party fuel cell suppliers. It is a first-of-its-kind single stack platform that includes an electronical control unit, heat exchanger, and Balance of Plant (BOP).

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Hydrogen Patents Electric vehicle Recycled materials 112

Charged

JUNE 24, 2020

Comprising a compressor, evaporator and condenser, the heat pump captured waste heat given off by the vehicle’s electrical components, recycling this energy to heat the cabin. . The original technology was introduced in 2014 on the first-generation Kia Soul EV.

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Energy Monitor Technology Cooling HVAC 124

Business Green

MARCH 21, 2022

But, rather than continuing to inflict damage to the planet, what if the millions of tonnes of plastics used to make bottles, food packaging, carrier bags, clothes, carpets, and much more every year, were actually made from a sustainable, plant-based, fossil fuel-free polymer that was both fully recyclable and degradable?

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Plastics Europe Recycling Recycling 36

AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Levi’s innovations include its recyclable Wellthread denim line. ” More than skin deep ChemFORWARD is building clearinghouses for electronics and food packaging, but one of its earliest repositories coalesces data in beauty and personal care, with hundreds of safer alternatives. Nike has its own Chemistry Playbook.

Plastics 28

Plastics Innovation Organic Retail 28

Business Green

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

We can dye textiles without using water and chemicals, we can recycle textiles to turn them into new products.". The material is already being used in packaging, says Borst, but it is trickier to create fibres that can be used in clothing. "There are some brilliant innovators out there," he says. "We

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Fashion Innovation Waste Waste 68

AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Related: This backpack is made from locally sourced cork and recycled materials The leather used to make the Age bag is produced in a scope-C gold-standard tannery that has been certified by the Leather Working Group. Customers who opt for minimal packaging to reduce waste get a discount on the bag.

Plastics 28

Plastics Upcycling Recycled materials Waste 28

Charged

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Wire-to-board and FPC-to-board connectors are considered automotive-grade connector solutions. With a small package size and a design life of more than 20 years, REDTR will maintain vigilance over battery safety from production to recycling.

Energy Monitor 122

Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Batteries 122

Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2022

From automotive and waste management to food handling and gardening, Watson Gloves provides sustainable hand protection for everyone at work, at home and at play. The brand prioritizes using organic, renewable, and recycled materials whenever possible. Operating in most major U.S.

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Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Carbon-neutral 158