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Waste Management Checklist: 26 Tips For Minimizing Waste

Green Business Bureau

Achieve zero waste with our waste management checklist. The ultimate goal of this waste management checklist is to achieve zero waste. By zero waste, we mean the conservation of all resources utilizing responsible production, consumption, reuse, and recovery of products, packaging, and materials.

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10 Ways to Engage Employees for World Cleanup Day

Green Business Bureau

Happening worldwide on September 17th, World Cleanup Day is one of the largest civic movements in which nations unite to reduce trash and mismanaged waste. By 2050 , global municipal solid waste is expected to rise by ~70% and reach a massive 3.4 Conduct a Waste Audit. Educate Staff on Sustainable Waste Management Practices.

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Second quarter food startup roundup

GreenBiz

These emissions, together with the biodiversity damages caused by fertilizer runoff, have spurred a race to commercialize low-impact alternatives. It’s exciting to see so many startups targeting the problem of food waste. emissions. . I mentioned the coatings developed by StixFresh in my last roundup.

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2020 was the year that…

GreenBiz

The issues are many, from the resources needed to grow cotton or produce synthetic fabrics, usually from petroleum feedstocks, to the waste that ends up in landfills, especially for inexpensive and trendy clothing items that often have a short useful life. Microsoft is building a ‘Planetary Computer’ to protect biodiversity.

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Upcycling shipping containers - CPH Containers provides affordable quality housing for students

Green Tech Challenge

Discarding this amount of shipping containers, that are primarily made out of corten steel, is an enormous waste of resources. Iron is extrapolated by mining, which reduces local biodiversity and uses great amounts of water. From an environmental point of view the best thing to do is to re- or upcycle the shipping containers.

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Community solar, urban trees and the digitization of employee engagement

GreenBiz

This system was used during Earth Month to help manage the company’s "30 Acts for 30 Days" campaign, which challenged employees to complete individual actions aimed at building environmental awareness such as upcycling personal items, measuring their tire pressure or setting up a composting system.

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England needs to urgently accelerate the resource efficiency agenda to reach net zero

Business Green

The transition to a circular model will be essential to halt the twin trends of biodiversity loss and climate change. The Aldersgate Group's recent report 'Closing the Loop' sets out how critical circular economy measures will be critical to delivering the UK's net zero and biodiversity goals, levelling up agenda, and economic recovery.

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