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Study pinpoints pathways to boost plastic waste recycling globally

Envirotec Magazine

Category 2 – Incipient Systems includes countries with basic waste regulations but limited collection and end-of-life treatment infrastructure. Category 3 – Developing Systems refers to countries with functional waste management systems. Category 6 – Developed Performing Systems is the most advanced.

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Climate Technology: What Your Business Should Know

Green Business Bureau

This shift in the world of business created a new category — Climate Technology, or simply ClimateTech — made up of business solutions whose offerings are designed to help work against climate change. Here is everything that your business should know about the growing sector of climate technology. The Basics of ClimateTech.

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Renewable technology innovation: measuring progress – IRENA

Smart Energy International

In a new study, the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) has aimed to address this issue, gathering data on the costs and performance of selected renewable technologies as well as on patents and standards with the goal to provide a quantitative measure of innovation progress. Renewables snapshot. Patents and standards.

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Smart standpipe KTP supports PhD first for water technology firm

Envirotec Magazine

Machine learning (ML) provides many opportunities to speed up the process and make it more efficient and effective, but developing new ML algorithms depends on the availability of training and test data. The initiative won Innovate UK KTP Awards’ Best of the Best category for the Smart Standpipe technology in 2020.

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SET awards honour five start-ups in the fields of climate protection and energy transition

Envirotec Magazine

The winners of the SET Award 2020: instagrid , Germany (category Renewable Energies and Materials): instagrid develops portable battery power supplies, enabling clean energy to replace small combustion engines anywhere. SwitchDin enables virtual powerplants, microgrids and helps to integrate DERs into the grid.

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Recycling e-waste should be a legal requirement in the EU, says report

Envirotec Magazine

The report by the CEWASTE consortium – led by the Switzerland-based World Resources Forum – says this requirement should apply to certain e-waste categories, including: End-of-life circuit boards, certain magnets in disc drives and electric vehicles, EV and other special battery types, and fluorescent lamps.

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Accounting for every drop: ABB awarded for work in New Zealand

Envirotec Magazine

Industrial automation technology firm ABB has won the 2023 Global Water Awards in the category “Smart Water Project of the Year” for its collaboration with Wellington Water, the water services provider for the Wellington region of New Zealand. With ABB’s technologies we can ensure that every drop of water is accounted for.”