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Go Make 2023 Startups and Shell Collaborate to Advance Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Traceability Technologies

Greentown Labs

Progress during the program: Caravel Bio worked closely with Shell’s carbon capture and innovation teams to explore how its technology can lower carbon-capture costs for Shell and its customers. Circularise presented a series of workshops to the Shell team and has identified three potential follow-on projects.

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Greentown Go Make 2023 with Shell Announces Startup Cohort 

Greentown Labs

converts organic waste into high-performance, insulating, greaseproof, and biodegradable packaging materials. Throughout the program, startups will benefit from mentorship, networking opportunities, educational workshops, and partnership-focused programming to support collaboration. Corumat (Yakima, Wash. Lydian (Cambridge, Mass.,

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An enduring threat to water?

Envirotec Magazine

As PFAS show no sign of biodegradation at all, they have been described as “forever chemicals”, enduring permanently in the environment1. Foam fractionation is an innovative approach to the selective removal of PFAS from aqueous wastes as a concentrated foam. Some of these are listed in the image caption, opposite.

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5 sustainable packaging developments to watch in 2021

GreenBiz

Some bio-based materials such as bio-PET are derived from biological materials, but are not biodegradable. Meanwhile, other bio-based materials such as PLA, (polylactic acid), a natural polymer made from corn starch or sugar cane, is biodegradable, although not in the way a consumer might assume it to be. .

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Arctic explorer tests the RIKR recycled plastic backpack

AGreenLiving

The company prides itself on design innovation and creating products that directly remove plastic waste from the environment. Each backpack comes packaged in a completely biodegradable cassava bag and removes 120 plastic bottles from the environment, according to Groundtruth. Groundtruth Via Dezeen Images via Groundtruth.

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Online Event - VERGE Energy Conference

Green Market Oracle

SPEAKERS The list of speakers is composed of professionals in energy management and procurement from corporations and governments, as well as allied service providers, innovators, developers, financiers and utilities. Energy Procurement Fundamentals (Workshop): This session is designed to help you to develop foundational understanding of U.S.

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As Alarm Over Plastic Grows, Saudis Ramp Up Production in the US

DeSmogBlog

After what is often a single use, these non-biodegradable products can clog waterways; drift on ocean currents, entangling marine mammals and birds; and accumulate in landfills. In Mount Vernon, in southern Indiana, the SABIC Innovative Plastics facility released an average of 22,690 pounds of ethylbenzene each year between 2016 and 2020.