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

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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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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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

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Carpet waste is a huge issue in UK, as an area the size of Birmingham is thrown away every year. Carpet Recycling UK, a trade association set up to encourage carpet recycling, oversees 73% of diverted carpet waste being sent to incineration at an approximate climate cost of £16.5 Less than 2% of carpet waste is actually recycled.

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Greentown Labs

DECEMBER 13, 2022

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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Business Green

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Upcoming policy decisions on plastic, carbon trading and carbon capture could see the waste sector become a major driver of regional decarbonisation, writes Enfinium's Mike Maudsley Just over a year ago, I made a significant - and positive - career change.

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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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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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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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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° CCUS is still seen by many as a waste-disposal service for CO2. But it could be a potential feedstock for everything from cement and building aggregates to polyurethane foams and plastics.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 15, 2022

“Sustainable manufacturing is the creation of manufactured products through economically-sound processes that minimize negative environmental impacts while conserving energy and natural resources. Most of this energy is produced by the burning of fossil fuels which releases a mass amount of carbon dioxide into the environment.

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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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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 31, 2020

Skincare products often get a bad rap for negatively impacting the environment. From plastic packaging to chemical ingredients, they may help skin but put a heavy burden on the planet. Haeckels has developed a zero-waste option that solves both the waste issue and those under-eye bags. Originally posted here:Â .

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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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Business Green

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

The Massachusetts-based recycler uses anaerobic biodigesters to create renewable natural gas from food waste. Bacteria in the digesters consume the waste, creating methane and CO2 as byproducts. Just like you recycle cardboard, and you recycle glass or plastics. Now it's time to recycle food waste, and it's not that hard.

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 9, 2024

That’s why Greentown and Saint-Gobain partnered to launch Go Build 2023, which specifically sought innovations to extend product life cycles, find alternative raw materials, and enable technologies for waste revalorization. manufactures and distributes biobased building materials, including a low-embodied-carbon insulation.

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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. Prevent Ocean Waste From Plastic Netting. Adhere to the “Good Fish Guide”. Ban overfishing endangered species. Use lead-free fishing gear.

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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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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Sneakers made from food waste. DRINKICKS DrinKicks is developing sneakers made from food waste and recycled materials in an effort to engage the sneaker-enthusiast community in circularity. gigatons of carbon by 2050 (through supporting the use of renewables) and can sequester 2.2 megatons of carbon in the same period.

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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. cities, Replate is a tech-driven nonprofit that combats food waste by connecting food donors and food rescuers together. HOW IS SUSTAINABILITY INNOVATION DRIVING THE GREEN ECONOMY? GREEN COMPANIES TO RECOGNIZE.

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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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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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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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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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The Environmental Blog

AUGUST 14, 2021

People are increasingly seeking methods to decrease their carbon footprint and live more ecologically friendly lives. Reduce Paper Waste. Keeping data online, using electronic documents, and automating processes like accounts payables are effective strategies to decrease paper waste.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 5, 2021

To pave the way for future generations to live in harmony with the environment, it is critical that we incorporate sustainable building and distribution practices such as reducing waste, lowering emissions and sourcing from local eco-friendly providers. Carbon emissions from operations, vehicles and material engineering. In the U.S.,

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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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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 15, 2021

Businesses and individuals need to do their part to neutralize mankind’s negative impact on our planet’s health. Reducing the carbon footprint of their data centers was a top priority for the WHC team, so the company powers all its servers and systems using renewable energy from their Canadian hydroelectric grid.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 13, 2022

Businesses and individuals need to do their part to neutralize mankind’s negative impact on our planet’s health. Become more efficient, reduce energy costs, and minimize waste. The CSGA Green Business Program will enable companies to verifiably demonstrate their sustainability and stand out among their peers.

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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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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 14, 2021

In a bold move last January, Adidas acknowledged its contribution to plastic waste, noting the waste’s negative impacts on the world’s oceans. The company describes PRIMEGREEN as a “performance fabric” containing absolutely no virgin plastic. Adidas Images via Adidas.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Episode 235: The value of informal waste collectors, reusable packaging prevails Heather Clancy Fri, 09/04/2020 – 02:00 Week in Review Stories discussed this week (4:08). It’s time to value waste collectors for their pivotal role in the plastic supply chain What does “climate risk” actually mean ?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The UK waste sector can be an enabler of wider economic decarbonisation while delivering the government's 'levelling up' agenda, writes Viridor's Tim Rotheray. That was the stark message of the Climate Change Committee in its sixth carbon budget. Waste is one of the hard-to-treat sectors. Act now, act fast and act everywhere.

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2021

The new ETC analysis, released yesterday , sets out how rapidly increasing demand for bioresources from the manufacturing, construction, and energy industries could outstrip environmentally sustainable supplies unless alternative zero carbon options are rapidly scaled up and the use of biomass is carefully prioritised.

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

A group of exciting start-ups are exploring whether the world's trash mountains could become a valuable source of low carbon hydrogen fuels. Hydrogen from waste is an even smaller fish than hydrogen from renewable energy. There are only a few waste-to-hydrogen projects, most which are in early stages and relatively small scale.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 4, 2022

billion tons of carbon dioxide annually. Below we’ve detailed eight tips on how to reduce the negative environmental and social impact of your fashion brand company. Tip #2: Reduce textile waste. The fashion industry produces 92 million tons of textile waste annually. Tip #3: Conserve water.

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