Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The supermarket’s managing director calls for other supermarkets to slash their plastic footprints following UN report. Iceland Foods has announced it will offset its plastic footprint as it works towards becoming plastic-free across its own label packaging.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 7, 2023

There is a difference between the use of this carbon emission-free fuel and its clean production. Those that are considered to be green H2 usually use organic waste as their energy production feedstock, while capturing and commercializing any carbon emissions produced.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Plastic waste in particular is a huge source of concern across the continent. This issue will move further into the spotlight over the coming weeks, as world leaders gather in Nairobi to develop a legally binding agreement on plastic pollution. We believe that accelerating plastic circularity will be a key part of the solution.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 4, 2022

Operating across the San Francisco Bay and Minneapolis metropolitan areas, Mulberrys Garment Care is a luxury dry cleaner that prides itself on its carbon neutral and eco-friendly practices. Breakrooms are also equipped with reusable cups and flatware for employees to use, reducing waste from single-use plastics.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2020

Tearfund estimates that the open burning of companies’ plastic products in six focus countries spews roughly 4.6 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent into the atmosphere each year. The research claims that Coca-Cola is the biggest culprit, responsible for 200,000 tonnes of plastic pollution annually.

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Plastics recycling, especially for mixed and contaminated plastics, remains a major pollution concern. When Ian Bishop and Ron Presswood first brought their idea for a recycling process that would create carbon and hydrogen to a professor at a Tier One University, they were told it was scientifically impossible.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Just over half of all directors at 30 of the world’s largest insurance companies have affiliations to polluting companies and organisations, reveals an investigation by DeSmog, including several individuals holding senior roles at some of the world’s largest energy companies. Which raises the obvious question, why? Shrago said.

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Business Green

APRIL 14, 2022

The 'Ecool' trailer powers up its on-board batteries by converting kinetic electricity generated from its wheels turning on the road into electricity, meaning Aldi's food and drinks products are kept cool while reducing energy consumption, driving down emissions and minimising air pollution, the supermarket explained.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The leader in water, hygiene and energy services sells to a diverse collection of institutions such as hospitals, food and beverage providers, as well as heavy industry including power plants and plastic manufacturers. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030.

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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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AGreenLiving

MARCH 2, 2020

Following the sold-out success of “I Am Not a Plastic Bag” in 2007, designer brand Anya Hindmarch has launched a new product, called “I Am a Plastic Bag”, aimed at recycling single-use plastic and leaving behind a net-zero carbon footprint from production. Anya Hindmarch Images via Anya Hindmarch.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 2, 2020

Following the sold-out success of “I Am Not a Plastic Bag” in 2007, designer brand Anya Hindmarch has launched a new product, called “I Am a Plastic Bag”, aimed at recycling single-use plastic and leaving behind a net-zero carbon footprint from production. Anya Hindmarch Images via Anya Hindmarch.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 31, 2020

-based startup company that is creating sustainable pet products made from recycled materials such as plastic, textiles and leather. Our oceans bear the brunt of our plastics epidemic, with up to 12.7 million tons of plastic ending up in them every year,” said Geryn Evans, founder of Project Blu. “Our See more here:Â .

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Sports brand On says it is the first company in the footwear industry to use captured carbon emissions as a raw material. Swiss sports brand On has announced that it has created a shoe using carbon emissions as a raw material, making it the first company in the footwear industry to achieve the milestone.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 4, 2022

Operating across the San Francisco Bay and Minneapolis metropolitan areas, Mulberrys Garment Care is a luxury dry cleaner that prides itself on its carbon neutral and eco-friendly practices. Breakrooms are also equipped with reusable cups and flatware for employees to use, reducing waste from single-use plastics.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 24, 2021

The drinks firm unveiled plans for the "carbon neutral" factory late last week, as it announced it was bringing forward its corporate goal to achieve carbon neutrality across its business and supply chain by five years to 2025.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 16, 2021

Many popular fruits and vegetables that stay in stock year-long like blueberries and kiwi are often shipped from other countries and contribute to tons of carbon emissions. Fruits and tree nuts require less land and water, making these foods a low-carbon option. Use less plastic, in all forms. Buy organic.

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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. Arqlite , a member of the U.S. in one hour.

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 18, 2022

It changes your attitude and that of your community toward land and water pollution. Public demonstration on the street against global warming and pollution. Group of multiethnic people making protest about climate change and plastic problems in the oceans. Joining conversations on social media. Cleaning water bodies.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 16, 2021

Many popular fruits and vegetables that stay in stock year-long like blueberries and kiwi are often shipped from other countries and contribute to tons of carbon emissions. Fruits and tree nuts require less land and water, making these foods a low-carbon option. Use less plastic, in all forms. Buy organic.

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Green Business Bureau

MAY 4, 2022

From carbon emissions via the shipping, manufacturing, and order fulfillment processes, to excess packaging on the consumer end. When it comes to eCommerce waste generation, plastic packaging is one of the industry’s most glaring issues. For emissions that can’t be reduced, look to purchase carbon offsets.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Disposable plastics are posing serious problems for our planet. Across Europe, a single-use plastic ban will come into effect from 2021, targeting straws, cotton buds, and disposable cutlery, among other products. As you will know, conventional plastics can take as long as 500 years to decompose in nature.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 26, 2024

When Royal Dutch Shell lost a landmark climate lawsuit in The Netherlands, climate advocates said the Dutch court’s ruling put polluters and their financiers on notice. The environmental group also wants the bank to stop doing business with polluting companies that fail to demonstrate that they have credible climate plans.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Drawing on that mandate, Ardern declared a "climate emergency" and set the wheels in motion for New Zealand’s public sector to become carbon neutral by 2025. She passed a Zero Carbon Bill during her first term that mandates net-zero emissions by 2050 and campaigned on tougher action this term. . percent of its GDP.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MAY 14, 2021

Moreover, Youngman’s slides tracked dramatically increased corporate commitments announced in 2020 towards net zero and/or science based carbon reduction targets, most of which seemed unimaginable just two to three years ago. In 2020, she set herself the goal of living carbon neutral. Saving the World – with Plastic!”.

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2020

Wide-ranging proposals for a new Industrial Strategy to help the EU lead "twin transitions towards climate neutrality and digital leadership" have been unveiled in Brussels, as the European Commission pushes forward with its flagship Green Deal vision.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

To do so, they draw on friendly science, the promise of technological innovation and slick marketing campaigns – which promise “climate neutral” or “climate smart” meat and dairy – to create the idea we can continue eating vast quantities of the stuff while meeting our climate goals.

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Rinexii

JUNE 18, 2021

It’s such that when I researched laundry sheets, I struggled to discern whether “polyvinyl alcohol” which was farther identified as “a biodegradable monomer/polymer” was an innovative solution or waffle-stomping to avoid saying it’s plastic. Even now, I’m not 100% certain.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Apple's big-ticket sustainability goals released this year for 2030 include becoming carbon-neutral and achieving a net-zero impact in all operations. So far all paper materials are recycled, and plastics have been reduced by 58 percent in four years. Empowering communities.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2021

If you look at the markets we operate in - whether it is the UK, Sweden or Norway - most of our markets have the most ambitious policies for carbon neutrality or net zero. Meanwhile, incentives for senior leadership are now based in part on carbon elimination progress.

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Business Green

JUNE 23, 2020

The UK should direct policy and investment towards synthetic, low carbon jet fuels as part of its green recovery package, argues author and energy expert Chris Goodall. Some parts of this transition to low carbon energy have a more obvious route. Coronavirus has reminded us it's a good idea to listen to the science.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 8, 2021

Made with rubber, vegetable oil and other natural ingredients, this leather alternative, aptly named Plant Leather, has 40 times less carbon impact than animal-derived leather and 17 times less carbon impact than synthetic leathers made from plastics. The leather industry is a huge polluter.

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Business Green

JANUARY 27, 2020

From nurturing ocean carbon sinks to encouraging marine clean tech, there are steps all businesses can take to accelerate progress towards SDG14. While most people are aware of the role forests play in soaking up carbon dioxide, fewer know that oceans do the same. There needs to be much tougher regulation," he says.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Swedish EV brand is working with host or pioneering metals, electronics and other suppliers to shrink carbon footprint of its cars to zero by end of the decade. per cent worldwide off the back of 6.75 million global sales last year.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

We are cleaning up the way we turn on the lights, heat our homes and businesses, and cook our meals by using renewable sources that do not pollute our air. And the British public is becoming more aware of the impact of its carbon footprint by making small but simple changes in their everyday lives.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2020

A sweeping strategy to boost reuse, repair, and recycling across a multitude of consumer products has been unveiled by the European Commission this week, with stricter rules planned for food, plastics, textiles, construction, and electronics in a bid to cut down on waste and pollution.

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Econaur

APRIL 22, 2020

Outraged by oil spills, smog and polluted rivers, 20 million people took to the streets, protesting what they recognized as an environmental crisis. Nature is in crisis, threatened by biodiversity and habitat loss, global heating and toxic pollution. ” Background on Earth Day. The first Earth Day took place in 1970.

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