GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 8, 2021

If you can produce the same thing in the same cost range -- but you can do so in a CO2-free or carbon-negative -- you'll reap the rewards. Now, it captures industrial waste gasses, such as CO2 and CO, and recycles them into the chemicals used to make everything from plastics to medical supplies to fabric for Lululemon.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Hailing from KAUST and Aarhus University, the co-authors outline a prospectus for the cultivation and use of seaweed as a carbon capture technology, a job and tax revenue generator, and a food source. Our research consolidates seaweed farming as an underpinning of a sustainable future,” said lead author Professor Carlos Duarte. “It

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Terra Infirma

DECEMBER 6, 2023

None of the climate solutions are perfect – I know electric cars don’t fix congestion, require mining of minerals and have their own substantial carbon footprint, but they are most definitely better than ICE cars. Every kilo of carbon avoided makes climate change the teensiest bit less bad, so there is never an excuse to do nothing.

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GreenBiz

JULY 15, 2020

Early pioneers of these hydrogen-from-waste technologies such as Ways2H, SGH2 Energy (SGH2) and Standard Hydrogen say not only are they making carbon-free, energy-rich fuel, their approaches also will divert mountains of trash from landfills and waterways, cutting greenhouse gas emissions. . There are other ways to make hydrogen.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Oil and gas industry's bets on petrochemicals growth look increasingly dicey as world turns away from plastics, Carbon Tracker warns. Plastics pollution and climate change are two of the world's foremost environmental and economic concerns, and the global oil and gas industry are a major contributor to both.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 8, 2021

If you can produce the same thing in the same cost range -- but you can do so in a CO2-free or carbon-negative -- you'll reap the rewards. Now, it captures industrial waste gasses, such as CO2 and CO, and recycles them into the chemicals used to make everything from plastics to medical supplies to fabric for Lululemon.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 22, 2020

Kelp is also able to naturally remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, mitigating rising temperatures and climate change. ” Minimizing its carbon footprint is another crucial mission for AKUA. As a comparison, this is the same amount of carbon created by just 300 cheeseburgers.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Oil and gas industry's bets on petrochemicals growth look increasingly dicey as world turns away from plastics, Carbon Tracker warns. Plastics pollution and climate change are two of the world's foremost environmental and economic concerns, and the global oil and gas industry are a major contributor to both.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

It's time to value waste collectors for their pivotal role in the plastic supply chain. Today's carbon-negative fuel. Safety and performance in recycled plastics. Episode 235: The value of informal waste collectors, reusable packaging prevails. Heather Clancy. Fri, 09/04/2020 - 02:00. Week in Review. UL and HP Inc.

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Business Green

MARCH 3, 2022

Avonmouth facility capable of processing 80,000 tonnes of plastic every year while generating electricity from 320,000 tonnes of waste. Co-locating two such facilities in the same building marks a UK-first, and will help to drive up the amount of plastics recycled at the plant, according to the waste and recycling firm.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 15, 2021

Now is the time for real action to ensure societies stop wasting resources with all the related negative consequences. They maximize captures of high quality, high carbon-intensity material while reducing litter. As of 2021, the IVAR IKS ranks 1st in Norway in post-consumer plastic packaging collection rates.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The Wild West of plastic credits and offsets Lauren Phipps Mon, 02/08/2021 – 01:30 This essay first appeared in Circularity Weekly , our free email newsletter. There’s a new kid on the block of sustainability claims being made by businesses: “plastic neutrality.”

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) technologies are being adopted too slowly to achieve even the IPCC’s 2.0° But it could be a potential feedstock for everything from cement and building aggregates to polyurethane foams and plastics. upper limit for global warming, according to a new McKinsey study.

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The Environmental Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

Whether that energy is turned into renewable fuels or clean electricity, it can reduce carbon emissions and resource depletion. The purity of recycled materials can be increased using these systems to distinguish and isolate various plastic types according to their chemical makeup. There is a lot of latent energy in our waste.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Another advantage is greener engineering, including low energy requirements since the system has an efficient design and a small carbon footprint. It operates on demand, and incorporates failover systems that reduce any possible negative environmental impact. It is built with 316 stainless steel and minimal plastic.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 24, 2021

The two companies are raising money to benefit 4ocean’s Pound + Program, whose mission is to end the plastic pollution in our oceans. In its long-standing work with 4ocean, the brand has helped remove 20,000 pounds of plastic from the world’s oceans. Rum and beach bag collaboration is ending plastic pollution.

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Greentown Labs

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

And reduce plastic waste, while we’re at it? Across these applications, MettleWood could replace significant portions of the steel, concrete, and hard plastics used in buildings today, leading to meaningful decarbonization. What, then, if we could turbocharge wood to replace these emissions-heavy materials?

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Greentown Labs

MAY 10, 2021

The three-year Carbon to Value (C2V) Initiative —a partnership among Greentown Labs, Urban Future Lab , and the Fraunhofer USA TechBridge Program —is creating a first-of-its-kind collaborative ecosystem for carbontech startups and leading corporations with the end goal of making carbontech cost-effective and achieving its deployment at scale. “We

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

What we were looking at was how do we look at carbon in this circular economy? How do we look at carbon itself as an element, which is both an energy source and a material? It was about five square miles of trees’ worth of oxygen production or carbon sequestration required to set up one building. Demonizing carbon?

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Ultracapacitors complement batteries in the grid-scale use of renewable energy, and by supporting locally farmed hemp, the startup says it’s both sequestering carbon in hemp and “sequestering wealth” in the farmers’ communities. gigatons of carbon by 2050 (through supporting the use of renewables) and can sequester 2.2

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

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 PLASTIC. Eco-Friendly, Ethically-Sourced Building Materials.

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 9, 2024

Carbon Upcycling Technologies (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) is a circular-decarbonization solution for hard-to-abate industries–-utilizing low-purity industrial CO 2 and industrial byproducts to decarbonize cement. manufactures and distributes biobased building materials, including a low-embodied-carbon insulation.

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Greentown Labs

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Renew CO 2 offers cost-competitive, carbon-negative monoethylene glycol. Sustonable mixes post-consumer recycled plastic bottles, recycled glass, and natural stone to create a circular, high-quality surface material that can be used for kitchen tops, wall panels, and furniture.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 27, 2021

This article discusses measures the seafood industry can take in order to limit their negative impact on our world’s oceans. Prevent ocean waste from plastic netting. From litter and pollution to overfishing and habitat destruction, today’s unsustainable commercial fishing has a significant negative impact on the oceans’ ecosystems.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Members of a trade association set up to encourage carpet recycling in the UK – which goes by the name ‘Carpet Recycling UK’ – are causing 128,480 tonnes of carpet to be incinerated every year – emitting dangerous toxic chemicals and significant carbon emissions, costing UK society around £16.5 Available at: [link].

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

We see customers demanding action on carbon emissions, investment firms structuring new green products and governments developing regulations to support the transition to a sustainable future. Its framework excludes areas such as plastics in the oceanic food chain and the loss of soil fertility. Richard Mattison.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 30, 2019

We’ve all been guilty of buying an unsustainable beverage every once in a while, but when faced with the perplexing conundrum of whether to grab that plastic bottle or aluminum can, which do you believe to be more environmentally-friendly ? By the 1960s, the first occurrence of plastic pollution in the oceans was recorded.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Yes, I love having a tree, but if it ends up having a big negative environmental impact, I was willing to make a change. Forests are more efficient at capturing carbon and will, of course, store carbon for longer than a monoculture that is grown to be chopped down when it reaches maturity. Three of them simply said no.

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Business Green

JANUARY 30, 2020

Energy giant to work with Econic to pioneer new uses for trapped carbon. Energy giant Drax is pushing forward with its plans to develop a new generation of carbon capture, usage and storage technologies at its power plants, yesterday announcing a partnership with Econic Technologies to develop new uses for its stored carbon.

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The green economy operates on low carbon power sources, resource efficiency, and social fairness and inclusivity. Replate’s circular model not only makes it easy for any business to reduce their carbon footprint and give back, but it has also created new jobs by inviting those in the community to apply to become food rescuers.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2020

Most people seem to believe some form of carbon capture and storage (CCS) will be necessary, although many are stil sceptical of an arguably “unproven” and ambitious technology. In 2018 Carbon Engineering founder David Keith – a physicist at Harvard – explained how it could be done for $94 to $232, writing in the journal Joule.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Carbon-free “green” hydrogen is produced using electrolyzers to split water molecules to separate the hydrogen from the oxygen. This is where grid operators shut down access to the grid or adopt pricing mechanisms to generate negative pricing to reduce production. Making hydrogen competitive. The result is curtailment.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

This reporting was made possible in part due to a media briefing sponsored by Beyond Plastics, Inclusive Louisiana, Louisiana Bucket Brigade, and The Descendants Project, which included local meals in Louisiana. Part of that strategy appears to be redefining its expanding petrochemical and plastics business as a solution to climate change.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Researchers map emissions impact of high-carbon advertising, as Innocent is rapped by advertising regulator for ad that exaggerates environmental benefits of purchasing smoothies. The easiest way to start cutting carbon emissions is by ending the excesses that only happen because adverts are pushing higher consumption.

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Business Green

JANUARY 23, 2023

policy and carbon accounting are at risk of turning genuine ambition into business risk. Net zero legislation, the carbon budgets and renewable power deployment are real areas of leadership. Companies, increasingly aware of the implications of net zero, resist high carbon investments due to the inherent risks.

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 16, 2023

CARBONOVA Technology at a glance: Carbonova , located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, is developing a solution to produce high-volume, superior carbon nanofibers for use in various market applications, utilizing greenhouse-gas feedstocks and turning them into a sustainable, valuable solid commodity.

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Green Market Oracle

MARCH 4, 2020

Technologies that draw-down carbon represent a massive economic opportunity. The global carbon capture and sequestration market is projected to reach USD 8.05 According to some estimates carbon capture and utilization (CCU)** alone will be a $1 trillion market by 2030. percent from 2016 to 2021. Subscribe in a reader

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