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Toxic coal waste threatens biodiverse Alabama delta

AGreenLiving

Related: Award-winning Fly-Ash chair uses recycled coal byproduct Environmentalists say the coal ash needs to be excavated and moved away from water systems, a much costlier process than cap-in-place. Original post: Toxic coal waste threatens biodiverse Alabama delta. It’s just waiting to happen.” and it’s a pain to dispose of.

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How Sustainability Innovation Is Driving The Green Economy

Green Business Bureau

While nature doesn’t come with a clearly labeled price tag, sustainability innovation understands that there is great economic value in preserving ecosystems, natural resources, biodiversity, and cultures and communities around the world. Even better, all EcoEnclose boxes are 100% recyclable and biodegradable. Container Builds.

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How to Build and Retrofit a Sustainable Home

Green Business Bureau

Not only does reclaimed lumber give that rustic, farmhouse look and possess some unique history within its grain, but it also helps preserve our carbon-sequestering forests and rejects monoculture tree farms that do not support biodiversity or ecological health. RECYCLED STEEL. RECYCLED PLASTIC.

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Green Your Workplace With These Eco-Friendly Office Products and Supplies

Green Business Bureau

The Forest Stewardship Council offers certified printing paper with varying weights and sizes, while HP offers an ink cartridge and plastics recycling program. 100% of HP’s original ink cartridges contain 5% – 45% post-consumer or post-industrial recycled plastic. Green Paper Products also eco-friendly trash bags of all sizes.

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The world-changing potential of STEAM-powered youth

GreenBiz

One of my favorite projects is called Every Kid Gets a Robot , which is a robot that I invented — it costs less than $20, is made out of biodegradable and recycled materials and I send it to kids for free in 12 countries, which is insane. The robot has been to more places than I have. A lot of people don't know that.

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Unilever pledges to invest €1bn in eliminating fossil fuels from cleaning products by 2030

Business Green

The company intends to transition the products across its cleaning brands - which include Persil, Sunlight, Domestos and Cif - away from chemicals made from fossil fuel feedstocks and replace them with renewable or recycled sources of carbon, such as carbon captured using carbon capture utilisation technology or recovered from waste materials.

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You can make this 3D-printed, bioplastic face shield at home

AGreenLiving

Potts said the face shields are biodegradable , because they are a product of food and flowers collected from local markets, butchers and households in the surrounding London area. These face shields required more than just a little research and development.