Charged

OCTOBER 11, 2023

UK-based recycler Altilium and Lunaz, a European firm that upcycles and electrifies vehicles, are working together to develop an innovative and low-carbon logistical solution. Through this project, Altilium hopes to reduce the carbon footprint of battery recycling by up to 5%. Sources: Altilium , Lunaz

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GreenBiz

JULY 8, 2020

On Wednesday morning, the logistics and retail giant announced that it plans to buy 6 million gallons of bio jet fuel via a division of Shell and produced by World Energy, a big biodiesel producer. Amazon has pledged to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2040, and says it will make sure half of Amazon shipments are net-zero by 2030.

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Aviation Carbon-neutral Retail Carbon 524

GreenBiz

MARCH 22, 2021

I also have observed firsthand how technology-driven innovation is disrupting the traditional grocery supply chain, opening new doors to reducing food waste and helping the world to think differently about how we source food. For meal kits, packaging waste was one of those unintended consequences. Why not the grocery model?

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Packaging Waste Waste Retail 545

CleanTech Group

APRIL 23, 2024

Engineered alternatives to spider silk, carbon tracking and emission monitoring, hydrogen refuelling stations, and waste commerce tracking: Find Recent Deals worth looking at. The post Recent Deals – 23 April 2024 appeared first on Cleantech Group.

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Energy Monitor Waste Waste Hydrogen 88

GreenBiz

JULY 16, 2021

Circular economics and the $57B e-waste opportunity. The delivery and logistics company is investing more than $2 billion in vehicle electrification, sustainable energy and carbon sequestration. Episode 276: FedEx fleet electrification, vanilla virtues. GreenBiz Editors. Fri, 07/16/2021 - 02:00. Week in Review (3:45).

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Logistics Sustainability Waste Waste 195

Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Deloitte and AstraZeneca have both joined a new not-for-profit body announced yesterday which is aiming to improve the environmental sustainability of the global healthcare sector and drive down medical waste. It is a huge waste of money and natural resources and a major contributor to healthcare's greenhouse gas emissions.

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Business Green

AUGUST 20, 2020

Waste Knot Energy project to produce 240,000 tonnes of fuel pellets each year offering alternative to coal in steel and cement manufacturing.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

The promise of renewable natural gas is a sustainability win that has been financially and logistically out of reach for even the largest companies. The Massachusetts-based recycler uses anaerobic biodigesters to create renewable natural gas from food waste. Now it's time to recycle food waste, and it's not that hard.

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Elemental Excelerator

MAY 19, 2022

turned a sharp eye on the issue of plastic waste, the growing problem of electronic waste remains underappreciated. E-waste is defined as anything with a plug, electric cord, or battery — basically all of the proliferating devices that power our modern lives. million tons of e-waste generated globally in 2019, only 17.3%

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Waste Waste Plastics Upcycling 52

Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

VIBES is a partnership between the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA), The Scottish Government, Energy Saving Trust, Highland & Islands Enterprise, Scottish Enterprise, South of Scotland Enterprise, Scottish Water, Zero Waste Scotland and NatureScot. It is also now targeting becoming a net carbon neutral business.

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Business Energy Monitoring Innovation Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 130

Greentown Labs

APRIL 24, 2023

Funding Ebb Carbon raised a $20M Series A for its ocean-based carbon removal technology. Cemvita opened a pilot plant in Houston to produce eCO2 oil, a soybean oil replacement made from converted carbon emissions. Interested in engaging with or joining our community of climatetech startups?

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

.” The biopolymers are combined with graphene, a variant of carbon (or allotrope , to be precise) whose modern rediscovery and isolation at the University of Manchester in 2004 led to a Nobel Prize. Such plastics make up 23 percent of marine waste.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 22, 2021

The pandemic led ICAO to scale back the program, CORSIA (for Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation), to make it easier for airlines to comply. The sooner that the costs of carbon control are included in the costs of doing business, the sooner new technologies will be developed.

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Aviation Sustainability Carbon-neutral Carbon 381

Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2023

Meet the entrepreneur helping farmers capture carbon and increase crop yields - with rocks. Earlier this year, she cofounded Lithos Carbon , along with two Earth Sciences professors. It also measures how much CO2 is removed and sells carbon credits to companies, providing a share of the payment to the farmers it works with.

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Agriculture Carbon Startups Soil 36

Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The majority of waste wood used as feedstock will be offcuts and branches from Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) approved plantation rubberwood, after the trunks of the tropical hardwood have been sold off for lumber and furniture manufacturing. Europe is the world’s largest wood pellet market, consuming about 29 million tonnes in 2018.

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Carbon Carbon-neutral Construction Waste 79

The Environmental Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

To be classed as net zero, a company must achieve a balance between the carbon it emits into the atmosphere and the carbon it removes. To be a completely carbon free company by 2022 , Crystal Doors will look at indirect emissions not related to the manufacturing or logistics processes, including how their employees travel to work.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 3, 2020

We don't have inventory, which decreases waste and emissions. We don't have inventory, which decreases waste and emissions. . But we do it for sustainability and the greater mission of reducing global carbon emissions by 1 percent, which is our main North Star. We don't have inventory, which decreases waste and emissions.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

That puts vans on the road emitting CO2, so it controls that as well, which we want as everyone is striving towards net zero and carbon neutrality. The more callouts we have for drainage issues, the more times we need to send someone to service the unit. . There is also a nice revenue stream from recycling used cooking oil.”. .

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 14, 2023

A new government website launched on 14 August will offer UK businesses advice and support to reduce their energy bills while cutting their carbon emissions. Research shows that 90% of SMEs are keen to tackle climate change, but find it difficult to know how or where to start to find the right solutions to reduce their carbon footprint.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

These cities have committed to science-based targets to cut emissions in sectors that are some of the biggest urban emitters: buildings ; transportation ; and waste. That means low-carbon deliveries for businesses that want to operate in these locations. "So Shipping & Logistics. Transportation & Mobility. Clean Fleets.

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Sustainability Investment Transportation Carbon-negative 499

ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

With the logistical challenges, work on the project is expected to resume by 2024. Transporting this huge equipment is a major challenge given the tough terrain and logistical challenges along the 750km road from Jammu to Leh,” said Kumar. It has no carbon emissions, does not require a lot of land, and does not generate e-waste.

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Energy Monitor Logistics Natural gas Carbon-negative 98

R-Squared Energy

JUNE 24, 2023

Indeed, carbon can be extracted from air, and hydrogen can be produced from water. We take carbon, we combine it with hydrogen, put it in a reactor to make methanol, and then we take the methanol and put that in another reactor to make petrol. But they were taking their carbon source from coal.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

US trading platform Etsy has pledged to reach net zero carbon emissions across its operations by 2030. Online marketplace Esty has pledged to reach net zero carbon emissions within the next decade, targeting both its direct emissions and those from its value chain, including emissions from seller activities such as shipping and packaging.

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Logistics Climate change Packaging Carbon 79

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Lighting giant Signify has today announced a series of sustainability milestones, claiming it has achieved 'carbon neutral' status for its global operations, which it said are now also powered by 100 per cent renewable electricity.

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Carbon-neutral Carbon Global warming Logistics 57

Business Green

MARCH 10, 2021

American Airlines has announced it has reached an agreement in principle with Kuehne+Nagel to allocate a portion of the emissions reduction benefit the airline generates from its use of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) to the logistics company in a move designed to signal growing customer demand for lower carbon fuels.

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R-Squared Energy

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Today, we discuss the logistics of integrating LPG for cooking into the developing world, talk a bit about government programs that are pursuing this goal, and finally discuss some success stories around the world. What are the logistics of moving LPG into a developing country in central Africa, for example?

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Fossil fuels Carbon Africa Logistics 60

Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2020

While the core function of the metals recycling process has remained constant over thousands of years, the industry has undergone significant changes as the volume of waste metals we treat has grown. Economic growth has driven ongoing demand for waste metals since 2000. How much is used worldwide? Advances in recovery technology.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 23, 2021

Making reverse logistics circular requires forward thinking. And as any company building a circular economy strategy knows, building an effective reverse logistics strategy takes plenty of upfront planning and close collaboration across a value chain — whether the good in question is a consumer product or one used in a commercial setting.

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Logistics Packaging Waste Waste 378

AGreenLiving

JUNE 2, 2021

The electric vehicle uses less than 15% of the power needed by currently available heavy-suction sweeping technologies, cutting over 3 million metric tons of carbon emissions annually. As for jobs, the company said that the autonomous sweepers will make room for drivers to become operators, service managers and route or logistics planners.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Could the US start up open up a whole new front for the carbon capture industry? That's why it's invigorating to see a solution such as Remora, which reduces emissions from long-haul trucking by sucking up carbon dioxide directly from the tailpipe. Gross's dream of capturing emissions at the tailpipe was far from a pipe dream.

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Carbon Carbon-neutral Startups Logistics 41

Business Green

MARCH 21, 2022

Oil giant and refining company set to provide logistics company with 800 million litres of aviation fuel from 2026 in what has been dubbed 'largest ever SAF deals' announced to date. John Pearson, CEO DHL Express, said that "not a day goes by" without customers asking about low carbon logistics solutions.

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Aviation Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability Logistics 53

Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 17, 2023

into climate solutions and will spearhead the development of 15 transformative technologies crucial for heating and cooling our homes, reimagining critical resource extraction, advancing carbon removal and transforming our food system. The why: Soil carbon sequestration could remove 3.5 Of the $12.5M invested in Cohort 12, $7.2M

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Because of our scale, we know it's our responsibility to address textile waste and then overall be thinking about how to keep products in use for the long term, and to design out waste from the beginning,” said Jeannie Renne-Malone, who has served as the vice president of global sustainability at VF Corp since Sept.

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The Environmental Blog

JANUARY 31, 2022

In 2012, the shipping industry burned around 300 million tons of fuel oil, resulting in 949 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions. The main rationale for implementing a supply chain sustainability approach is to prevent pollution produced by industrial waste. Slow Steaming. This might result in a reduction in speed of up to 50%.

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Solar Energy Monitor Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 195

Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 23, 2023

The logistics behind product passport use might seem complicated at first glance but are, in fact, straightforward: all a consumer needs to do is scan the product QR code with their phone to access DPP information.

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Law Plastics Packaging Recycling 227

Charged

APRIL 1, 2024

Pyrometallurgy, which traditionally doesn’t recover carbon or lithium, seems likely to be phased out. Several companies are developing chemical processes, but these are still at pilot scale, and Aqua’s execs see serious challenges in delivering the required product purity and dealing with waste streams. They need to contain them.

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Recycling Recycling Batteries Sustainability 116

CleanTech Group

APRIL 4, 2023

Train, manage, or stalk livestock from the comfort of a bed; leather waste into new materials; carbon-free energy storage with ammonia as fuel.

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Waste Waste Carbon Energy 60