Envirotec Magazine

JULY 11, 2023

CO₂ is used in the food, cold logistics and pharmaceutical industries. Carbon Capture Scotland Limited (“CCSL”) has signed an agreement with Iona Capital (“Iona”), a UK low carbon investment fund manager, to capture and reuse green carbon dioxide from the latter’s biomethane plants located across the UK.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Green Business Bureau (GBB) has partnered with Replate to offer members a food recovery service and an additional initiative for reducing their carbon footprint and achieving green business certification. Through these efforts, companies reduce waste, mitigate climate change, and counter food insecurity. SPECIAL JOINT OFFER.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

On the last day of VERGE 20, five startups that won lightning-round pitch sessions during the Food, Carbon, Circular, Energy and Transport conference competed for the vote of the viewers. Change:WATER labs’ iThrone creation cuts down on waste logistics by eliminating the waste inside the toilet itself and turning it into pure water.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 25, 2023

The team, PETRONAS and logistics partners say they are working together to deliver the aspiration of a fully biofueled European season following a successful trial in 2022 which saw a reported 89% reduction in CO2 freight emissions. .” Hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO 100) biofuel is derived from vegetable oils, waste oils and fats.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2022

As such, it has an ethical imperative to adopt practices that lead to carbon neutrality. Cutting their carbon emissions to zero – as many have pledged – might appear to be an impossible task. million tonnes/year of carbon dioxide equivalent. One day, they will expect these products to be completely carbon neutral.

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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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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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AGreenLiving

JUNE 23, 2021

Making reverse logistics circular requires forward thinking Heather Clancy Wed, 06/23/2021 – 01:30 It’s difficult for manufacturers to give a product a second or third life if they’re not returned. How can companies across the B2B value chain accelerate a shift to a more circular approach to reverse logistics?

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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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GreenBiz

MAY 11, 2020

But something extraordinary is going on at this Eastman chemical plant: two breakthrough processes to turn waste plastics of all kinds back into new plastics, continuously, with no loss of quality. The company claims this enables waste plastics to be recycled an infinite number of times without degradation of quality. Media Authorship.

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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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GreenBiz

APRIL 15, 2021

It got me thinking: Could we boost the carbon drawdown potential of clean technologies even further by supporting more women-led startups in the burgeoning climate-tech ecosystem? Carbon removal. Opus 12 is addressing climate change by using carbon emissions to create products traditionally derived from fossil fuels.

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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

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

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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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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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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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

AUGUST 13, 2020

In contrast, research and on-the ground experiences with reusable packaging by Searious Business, a solution provider for zero plastic waste practices, show yearly financial savings of up to 30 percent compared to throw-away versions. They require close collaboration with waste management players, cleaning facilities and logistics companies.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 21, 2021

Vehicles such as the big rigs that carry goods across state lines, vans that drop off packages at your front door, garbage trucks that pick up our waste or the forklifts that move pallets across the floor in warehouses. The company just delivered one of its e-tractors to musician Jack Johnson to be used on a farm on the north shore of Oahu.

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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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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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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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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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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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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 14, 2020

One of the world’s largest oil and gas companies is betting that the future of flying is carbon-neutral. And it may seem unlikely that an industry as carbon-intensive as aviation — a hard-to-abate sector, in the argot of the climate policy crowd — might somehow emerge with its green credentials flying high in a climate-constrained world. (I

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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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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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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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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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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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