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Episode 235: The value of informal waste collectors, reusable packaging prevails

GreenBiz

Episode 235: The value of informal waste collectors, reusable packaging prevails. It's time to value waste collectors for their pivotal role in the plastic supply chain. 7 tips for companies developing reusable packaging. Today's carbon-negative fuel. Heather Clancy. Fri, 09/04/2020 - 02:00. Week in Review.

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The Wild West of plastic credits and offsets

GreenBiz

And, much like the market for carbon offsets, it’s messy. . In the same way that a company’s carbon credit may offset its U.S. Sustainability practitioners have spent the past couple of decades defining and debating the role of carbon credits in the transition to a clean economy, and plastics credits are not fundamentally different.

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Carbon negative fruit? Kent grower Bardsley England partners with ENGIE to cut emissions

Business Green

A leading UK fruit producer's goal to grow carbon negative apples, pears, cherries, and more is one step closer to reality, after the firm announced a partnership with energy services giant ENGIE to aid its transition to more sustainable methods of production.

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German clothing detergent opts for bottles made from chemically recycled plastic

Envirotec Magazine

German industrial and consumer products manufacturer Henkel announced on 17 October that it has produced bottles using chemically recycled plastic for the first time, working in collaboration with packaging manufacturer Alpla. Mechanical recycling is limited by the fact that not all plastic waste can be reprocessed into useable material.

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Study demonstrates CO2 savings of “holistic resource systems”

Envirotec Magazine

A newly constructed, fully automated mixed waste sorting plant in Stavanger, Norway – a region that showcased an “exemplary model of the Holistic Resource Systems framework”, according to the study. Now is the time for real action to ensure societies stop wasting resources with all the related negative consequences.

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Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q4 2022

Greentown Labs

Seventeen startups joined our community in the final months of 2022, working on innovations as diverse as a smart nanocoating to keep products fresh, an autonomous waste-sorting system, and drinking water drawn from air’s humidity. Renew CO 2 offers cost-competitive, carbon-negative monoethylene glycol. Resiliency + Adaptation.

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Global Covid stimulus packages 'doing more harm than good' to planet, researchers warn

Business Green

Those are the stark findings of two separate report published today, which - less than 100 days ahead of the crucial COP26 UN climate summit in Glasgow - together provide a stark assessment of the potentially carbon intensive nature of the global economic recovery. Only around 10.6 Only around 10.6 per cent this year and by 2.5