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GreenBiz
AUGUST 29, 2022
Sponsored: Pentair’s sustainable gas technology is helping partners across industry minimize waste and emissions to help achieve a carbon neutral future.
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GreenBiz
AUGUST 29, 2022
Sponsored: Pentair’s sustainable gas technology is helping partners across industry minimize waste and emissions to help achieve a carbon neutral future.
The Environmental Blog
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
Carbon Neutral and ESG Concepts. Carbon Emission, Clean Energy. Plant a Tree Sign As climate change continues to create widespread disruptions in the form of higher temperatures and extreme weather events, switching to a carbon-neutral lifestyle has become necessary for everyone. Carbon neutrality concept.
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Inhabitat - Innovation
DECEMBER 27, 2021
LEGO has signed an agreement to build its latest factory in Vietnam, and it will be carbon neutral. The LEGO factory will achieve carbon neutrality by including rooftop solar panels and nearby supplementary solar panels through VSIP. The factory will meet LEED Gold standards for energy consumption, water and waste.
GreenBiz
JULY 21, 2020
Apple embeds racial justice into new supply-chain carbon neutrality pledge. With its latest set of combined sustainability commitments, Apple is pushing for carbon neutrality across its entire business by the end of this decade, including its supply chain and the life cycle for its products. Heather Clancy.
GreenBiz
AUGUST 29, 2022
Sponsored: Pentair’s sustainable gas technology is helping partners across industry minimize waste and emissions to help achieve a carbon neutral future.
GreenBiz
JULY 30, 2020
Electric boilers fuel Diageo’s carbon-neutral whiskey distillery dream. But Diageo’s new 72,000-square-foot distillery is designed to be completely carbon-neutral. But Diageo’s new 72,000-square-foot distillery is designed to be completely carbon-neutral. Jesse Klein. Thu, 07/30/2020 - 00:30.
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
In an apparent first of its kind within the UK, a pharmaceutical manufacturing site in Northumberland has been equipped with an anaerobic digestion (AD) plant to recycle waste solvents into low carbon gas, which is being injected into the national gas grid. It will also produce enough energy to power an equivalent of 6,000 homes.
Planet Pulse
FEBRUARY 1, 2022
In December 2021, Planet officially became a carbon neutral company as part of our commitment to sustainability. We applaud Planet on their commitment to carbon neutrality and the work they did to assess and verify their claim ultimately earning carbon neutral certification for their company for 2020.
GreenBiz
JUNE 17, 2020
Dow’s Jim Fitterling on tackling plastic waste and the company’s sustainability goals. In a conversation with GreenBiz Executive Editor Joel Makower, Dow CEO Jim Fitterling details strategy for the company’s latest sustainability commitments — including being carbon neutral by 2050. taylor flores.
Envirotec Magazine
OCTOBER 7, 2020
The directors of Powerfuel Portland – a firm aiming to deliver a proposed Energy Recovery Facility (ERF) at Portland Port on the Isle of Portland in Dorset – have provided more details about how how it will be a net-zero carbon project for its operational lifetime (up to 30 years).
Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 21, 2022
Deploying a seemingly innovative technology configuration and design, the group behind it, LIPOR, suggests it is set to revolutionize the waste-to-energy industry while simultaneously decarbonizing the aviation sector.
Renewable Energy World
SEPTEMBER 27, 2021
French-headquartered beauty products company L’Oreal has reached carbon neutrality for scopes 1 and 2 emissions across its facilities in the US. These projects turn an otherwise wasted resource into pipeline-quality RNG that displaces the use of fossil-based natural gas.
Envirotec Magazine
SEPTEMBER 25, 2023
Propylene or polyethene pellets in a waste plastic recycling machine. Non-household end-use plastic waste is generated by ‘end-users’ from commercial activities (e.g., It showcases the potential for substantial cost savings and environmental benefits in handling this often-neglected waste stream. industrial activities (e.g.,
Envirotec Magazine
MARCH 19, 2024
Energy-from-Waste (EfW) operator enfinium signed an agreement – on 19 March – with green technology company Hitachi Zosen Inova (HZI) to install the UK’s first carbon capture pilot plant at an EfW facility. The aims of the pilot is to demonstrate the use of carbon capture technology at EfW facilities.
Renewable Energy World
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
As understanding of the climate crisis increases and the harm to ourselves, the environment, business, industry, and the economy that will follow, so a desire to not only reduce carbon but to be seen reducing carbon increases. In both cases, carbon offsetting removes CO 2 from the environment.
Hydrogen Fuel News
OCTOBER 7, 2023
There is a difference between the use of this carbon emission-free fuel and its clean production. As researchers continue to look for ways to decarbonize industries through clean energy, the same can be said about methods of H2 production, including waste to hydrogen technology. Where does the waste come from?
Inhabitat - Innovation
OCTOBER 9, 2019
Six years after breaking ground, CopenHill—a waste-to-energy plant topped with a year-round ski slope—is officially open, marking a major milestone in Copenhagen’s journey to becoming the world’s first carbon-neutral city by 2025.
Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
What appears to be the UK’s first hydrogen-fuelled waste collection vehicle was revealed on 17 February in Aberdeen, seemingly running on green hydrogen from existing refuelling infrastructure in the city.
Business Green
DECEMBER 1, 2021
The supermarket is aiming to slash the carbon impact of its eggs by replacing soya feed with a insects at 10 UK egg farms. Morrisons has announced plans to use insects rather than soya as chicken feed on ten of its UK egg farms, as the supermarket chain gears up to release its own brand of "carbon neutral" eggs next year.
Business Green
DECEMBER 2, 2021
After all, around a third of total greenhouse gas emissions come from the world's food system, with supply chains driving land-use change and deforestation at one end of the chain, transport adding to emissions in the middle, and then mountains of food waste exacerbating the problem at the other end.
Business Green
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
We began our sustainability journey over 25 years ago, and since then have made good progress, particularly in cutting carbon emissions. By 2030, Dow will reduce its net annual carbon emissions by five million metric tons versus its 2020 baseline. And by 2050, Dow intends to be carbon neutral. Our commitments.
Business Green
AUGUST 4, 2022
UK supermarket launches line of 'carbon neutral' eggs produced by insect-fed hens as part of its drive to be supplied by 'zero emission' British farms by 2030. UK supermarket Morrisons has launched a line of 'carbon neutral' eggs, which are produced from hens that have been fed a soya-free diet of insects.
Business Green
JULY 12, 2021
Lidl GB this morning became the latest supermarket to announce ambitious new decarbonisation goals, pledging to make its operations 'carbon neutral' by 2022 before slashing its direct emissions by 80 per cent against 2019 levels by 2030. warming trajectory.
Business Green
FEBRUARY 1, 2022
Channel marks Transfer Deadline with confirmation it has been certified as a carbon neutral broadcaster by BAFTA's Albert initiative. Sky Sports News yesterday marked football's transfer deadline day by confirming it has been recognised as a carbon neutral sustainable production by the Albert initiative.
Business Green
MAY 14, 2020
Computer chip giant's sustainability report outlines a raft of new green goals, including a pledge to send zero waste to landfill and achieve "net positive" water use. Further 2030 sustainability commitments unveiled today by the company include a pledge to source 100 per cent renewable energy globally and prevent any waste going to landfill.
Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 20, 2021
A Fortum waste-to-energy plant in Brista, Sweden. A trade group comprising European suppliers of waste-to-energy technology, ESWET welcomed a recent opportunity to contribute to the EU Emissions Trading System’s revision (EU ETS). It is likely to trigger more landfilling of non-recyclable waste and more use of fossil fuels.
Business Green
OCTOBER 4, 2021
The UK's first carbon neutral potatoes will be sold in supermarkets across the UK from next week, Welsh food producer Puffin Produce announced yesterday. We have to act now - so we're on a mission to become carbon neutral and farm in a way that protects and regenerates our land, plants and wildlife. This isn't easy.
Envirotec Magazine
MAY 26, 2022
Implementing separate food waste collections – lunch hosted by the Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA) on 15 June at the NEC Birmingham. The report highlights the benefits for Local Authorities (LAs) of adopting anaerobic digestion (AD) as a food waste recycling option to achieve net zero targets and save taxpayers’ money.
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 14, 2020
Going plastic neutral: Footprints, credits and offsets. What does it mean for companies to go "plastic neutral" and what will it take to scale, track and standardize effective plastic-offsetting infrastructure? But what about going “plastic neutral”? But what about going “plastic neutral”?
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
There’s a new kid on the block of sustainability claims being made by businesses: "plastic neutrality." And, much like the market for carbon offsets, it’s messy. . The new term "plastic neutrality" is being used to convey that a company has offset its "plastic footprint.". Consider carbon markets again.
Business Green
JULY 31, 2020
But Diageo's new 72,000-square-foot distillery is designed to be completely 'carbon-neutral'. According to Diageo, it should avoid more than 117,000 metric tons of annual carbon emissions by switching to renewable electricities compared to operating using a traditional natural gas facility.
Grist
MARCH 8, 2021
When shipping giant Maersk announced last month it would operate a “carbon-neutral” vessel by 2023, the Danish company committed to using a fuel that’s made from renewable sources, is free of soot-forming pollutants — and is currently in scarce supply. E-methanol is made by combining hydrogen with carbon dioxide.
Envirotec Magazine
APRIL 12, 2021
Researchers from Coventry University are collaborating with Severn Trent and the Organics Group to turn sewage waste into a clean fuel for tankers and other vehicles. The project will look to capture waste ammonia from the utility’s sewage treatment facility and turn it into hydrogen.
Business Green
AUGUST 16, 2022
The Siemens Congleton factory is on track to hit carbon neutrality this year following a number of sustainable improvements. Global energy technology giant Siemens claims it is on track on achieve 'carbon neutrality' at its Congleton factory in Cheshire before the end of 2022, a full eight years sooner than its original target.
Business Green
OCTOBER 19, 2022
Coca-Cola Europacific Partners is investing millions of pounds to transform its North London drinks bottling factory into a carbon neutral facility, where it is also now producing innovative ‘attached cap' soft drinks bottles designed to cut down on waste and boost recycling.
EDF + Business
SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
We don’t have the luxury of time to waste. That’s why Amazon’s new carbon neutralization paper is a breath of fresh air. Not all carbon credits are created equal , but companies can purchase high-quality, verified forest carbon credits through organizations like Emergent , which develops REDD+ tropical forest carbon credits. .
Business Green
MAY 12, 2021
Supermarket and dairy brand team up to develop more sustainable on-farm working practices alongside purchase of 'gold standard' carbon offset credits to boost green credentials of cheese. Livestock, beef and dairy production are heavy greenhouse gas emitters, and chilled cheese is Lidl's second largest carbon emitter in its UK supply chain.
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
In an apparent industry first, a new facility will use organic waste to provide the heat and power required for the production of corrugated sheet board. The investment will facilitate the manufacture of carbon neutral corrugated material for use at Swanline and McLaren’s respective manufacturing plants in Staffordshire and Port Glasgow.
The Environmental Blog
JANUARY 19, 2024
For example, the energy needed to keep website servers running, the materials used for packaging, and the fuel for shipping products all impact your carbon footprint as an online business. In this article, we will go over several ways that your online store can reduce its carbon footprint.
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 6, 2021
New design reduces carbon footprint of classic Dr.BEST toothbrush by 50 per cent, with remaining emissions are set to be offset through a community project in Madagascar. Whilst this product achieves carbon neutral status by offsetting, we are working to develop future solutions that do not require offsetting," he added.
Sustainability Consulting
MARCH 10, 2020
Early this year, Microsoft rocked the sustainability world by announcing it was going not only carbon neutral but carbon negative by 2030. What is carbon negative and how will Microsoft achieve this goal? Microsoft says it wants to achieve net zero carbon emissions. of its energy from renewable sources.
Business Green
APRIL 5, 2022
Even toy cars are joining the electric vehicle (EV) revolution , with Mattel this week unveiling the first mass market toy line to be certified as 'carbon neutral' featuring zero emission toy cars and EV charging stations. Launch of Mega Bloks Green Town range aims to encourage sustainable behaviours in children from an early age.
Business Green
MARCH 13, 2020
Luggage maker promises to cut carbon emissions, source 100 per cent renewable energy, and boost durability and recyclability of its products.
Business Green
FEBRUARY 24, 2020
Investment giant says combination of direct emissions savings and South African landfill gas projects have helped it secure 'carbon neutral' status. Being carbon neutral is vital to the fortunes of future generations and reflects the leading role Investec wants to play in the wellbeing of our communities," he added.
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