Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 27, 2021

The tags will be installed within household waste and recycling collection bins, without any impact on local collection procedures or timescales, to capture individual bin weights to help understand levels of recycling participation against residual waste disposal. The local authority is focused on raising that figure to 70% by 2025.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 12, 2022

Bradford Council has worked with waste plastic road company MacRebur to become the first local authority in the region to specify road surfacing material that contains recycled plastic. The first projects are due to be completed later this month, laying over 2,000 tonnes of asphalt containing around 10 tonnes of recycled plastic.

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Grist

OCTOBER 1, 2022

When dealing with the life cycle of plastic, hundreds of solutions await, from alternative bioplastics that might be able to degrade themselves through the magic of fungus, to complex chemical recycling that can break plastics down to become other petroleum products or to be rebuilt good as new.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2022

” “In the last three years of reporting, the UK Plastics Pact has doubled the recycled content in packaging, and driven the significant elimination of unnecessary (84%) and hard to recycle (90%) components in packaging. In practice, not all plastic packaging will be recycled through local authority collections by 2025.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 5, 2021

percent gets recycled and used again. Creating a circular economy for textiles means shifting to recycled and recyclable materials in order to reduce the amount of land, water and fossil fuels used to produce new clothes. billion tons) and play a crucial role in averting the dangerous impacts of climate change.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Agriculture plays a vital role in our ecosystem, economy, and lives, but as the world’s population continues to grow and the effects of climate change become more pronounced, many of our current agricultural practices can’t be sustained. Alissa Welker. Register Here.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Viridor says its soon-to-be-opened Avonmouth plastics recycling plant will reprocess over 80,0000 tonnes of plastic, creating recycled raw material ready to be returned to the economy. The circular economy for plastics report highlights the significant role that recycling plastics can play in ensuring the UK achieves net zero.

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

North America’s largest climatetech incubator will expand to Houston’s Innovation District to accelerate the clean energy transition and reveals Microsoft, Rice Management Company, Saint-Gobain, Direct Energy, Naturgy, and FCC Environmental Services as additional partners. mixed-use space that anchors the Innovation District.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The innovative system, developed and manufactured in the UK, has also contributed to the NHS’s net zero commitments – in part by preventing the need to excavate and move hundreds of tonnes of earth and foundation aggregate. The Formavoid system is manufactured in Lancashire and is made from 100% recycled plastic.

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Global Renewable News

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Highlights The report highlights key innovations supporting our transition to a green economy, including circular recycling solutions, development of production process electrification.

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CleanTech San Diego

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

SAN DIEGO, CA, February 8, 2022 – Cleantech San Diego today announced that companies in its Southern California Energy Innovation Network (SCEIN) program have collectively attracted $268.5 The post Southern California Energy Innovation Network Companies Surpass $250 Million Fundraising Milestone appeared first on Cleantech San Diego.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2021

Today we celebrate Global Recycling Day, March 18th. But it is also a significant moment for us at Dow, as a plastics manufacturer, to reflect on what recycling means for us and our future. Climate change and environmental degradation are the defining challenges of our time. This is genuinely ground-breaking.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Using real world data from 2019, the paper sets out the opportunity for massively improving the climate benefits of recycling food waste to produce renewable energy and green fertiliser for farmers. Malaby Biogas is looking at innovations to showcase and deliver ‘gas switching’.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Owner of Waitrose and John Lewis announces plans to support innovative projects that challenge wasteful 'take, make, dispose' model. They will be assessed by an expert independent grant panel, which will consist of circular economy experts, grant making and innovation authorities, and senior representatives from the John Lewis Partnership. ?"Climate

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 8, 2021

Visionary British female entrepreneurs are receiving government backing to drive forward their novel innovations and business ideas. The businesses are located right across the UK, from Scotland to Salisbury, and include a variety of sustainable innovations. Among the entrepreneurs being backed are: Christina King. Dr Emma Fieldhouse.

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Business Green

MAY 13, 2021

Kenoteq claims its K-Briqs, made from recycled construction and demolition waste, generate a fraction of the CO2 of regular bricks. Kenoteq claims its recycled bricks are "a circular-economy exemplar" that will help lead a "circular economy revolution for the construction sector".

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 7, 2023

The company turns difficult-to-recycle farm and paper waste which would otherwise go to landfills or be sent for incineration into a product called CreChar®. Cam Ross, CEO of Green Angel Ventures, said: “Green Angel Ventures invests exclusively in companies fighting climate change.

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GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2021

One key area where this can have an impact is plastic recycling. Around 90 percent of plastic used is not recycled — and reducing this number is crucial to achieving SDG 12: Responsible consumption and production. . Ping An Good Doctor has created a healthcare ecosystem in China that champions telemedicine innovations.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

A seemingly ground-breaking project to create a circular end-of-life supply chain for the electric vehicle industry is being led by EMR Metals Recycling. Ian Constance, Chief Executive at the APC said: “Recycling of electric vehicle batteries is a principal part of the electric supply chain, so it’s vital that we get it right.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 4, 2021

Every major economy has an industrial zone like the Port of Rotterdam, a place where smokestacks, pipes, and tanks tell one story of climate change. Having presented the global risks from Arctic climate change to audiences at the World Economic Forum at Davos each year, Gail is worried. The innovators say we can.

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The Environmental Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

From waste segregation to state-of-the-art WTE plants, innovative technology is helping transform trash into valuable resources. These systems are designed to identify and separate materials with a high level of precision, resulting in increased material purity for recycling.

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Green Living Guy

JUNE 25, 2020

Hyundai and Kia’s heat management innovation maximizes EV driving range in low temperatures?EV The post Recycle That Heat: Hyundai and Kia Turn Up EV Efficiency with New Heat Pump Technology appeared first on Green Living Guy. EV drivers can heat the cabin without a significant impact on electric driving range?Industry-leading

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The world must build up its use of renewable and recycled carbon by 2050 in order to hit climate goals, explains Unilever's Peter ter Kulve. We are still knocking on the door of climate catastrophe.". But the energy transition will only solve half the climate problem - it is only half of the equation.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2022

Baled plastic bottles: introducing EPR will encourage producers to reduce their packaging through meeting the full net costs of packaging management, which will in turn encourage better packaging design and make it easier to recycle. Not only, that, EPR will help bring much needed clarity to the public around what can be recycled.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2022

Circular economy solutions can have a huge impact on climate change because 70% of greenhouse gas emissions are related to production and use of products – from the buildings we live in and the transport we use, to the food we eat and the clothes we wear. World leaders committed to limit climate change to 1.5°C

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 3, 2024

Exploring the world of carbon capture technology opens up a pathway to understanding how advanced science is being utilized to combat the pressing issue of climate change. By effectively reducing the amount of CO2 released into the atmosphere, it plays a crucial role in mitigating climate change.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 1, 2021

And that means that we have to collaborate with our suppliers and we have to educate our people internally in terms of the circular economy and how we recycle things. This enables us to then segregate all of the different waste and then to recycle and then resell, reuse, all of those sorts of things.

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GreenBiz

MAY 26, 2021

Globally, with both the COP26 on Climate Change and COP15 on Biological Diversity happening this year, the urgency couldn’t be more clear. We are committed to only be using recycled polyester from 2024. As part of our new strategy, 'Own the Game,' sustainability will play a key role. percent to 0.07 percent to 0.07

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Industry Voice: Businesses have a clear commercial interest in diversifying their activities by innovating strategically, according to Boston Consulting Group. Innovating into resilience is the key for future growth. Innovating across Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions. Diversification to drive transformation and breakout growth.

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Business Green

JULY 21, 2020

Another £149m will also go towards ramping up the use of innovative, greener materials in heavy industry, with 13 projects sharing in the spoils to support initiatives such as reusing waste ash in the glass and ceramics industry, and developing recyclable steel, according to Number 10.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The research team’s first author, Li Liang, explained, “Just reusing the aggregate from old concrete is unsustainable, because it is the production of new cement that is driving climate change emissions.” Additionally, the lignin makes this new, recycled concrete more biodegradable.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 23, 2021

When you think climate change, you need to think about water Melody Waintal Fri, 04/23/2021 – 00:05 With nearly a half its land lying below sea level, the Netherlands knows a lot about water and how to make sure a city’s infrastructure is resilient to it, particularly flood risks and freshwater supply.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

At the time that we announced our science-based targets we also announced a bold new sustainable materials vision that by 2030, 100 percent of our top nine materials will originate from recycled, responsibly-sourced renewable or regenerative sources. Or can it be designed fully for recyclability? . but also in Europe.

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Green Living Guy

OCTOBER 4, 2021

With climate change as a growing threat, the race is on to find new ways of safeguarding our planet’s future. All over the world, the business community is pitching in with innovative solutions that won’t break the bank. Keeping your business operations eco-friendly is more important than ever before.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The research project, funded by BEIS’s Energy Entrepreneurs Fund (EEF), wants to identify suitable minerals and waste streams which can be recycled into the high-density fluid which can be locally sourced and are lower-cost, rather than having to rely on minerals imported from overseas.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 6, 2024

The Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act would dramatically cut the amount and toxicity of plastic garbage New Yorkers throw away by targeting the source. The ACC is fighting to weaken the bill , which it claims is “ overly restrictive ” in its definitions of toxic substances and recycling.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

RE:TV will feature films on the most innovative recycling and reuse ideas. The Prince of Wales has launched a new channel on Prime Video dedicated to films that explore how businesses and innovators are stepping up efforts to tackle climate change.

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