Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

  This article explores a diverse range of sustainable materials for constructing exhibition booths, emphasizing their environmental benefits and innovative applications. UNESCO further underscores its efficiency, noting that 70 hectares of bamboo can produce enough material to construct 1000 houses. 

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

Women are involved in every level of the materials recycling industry and this certainly seems to be confirmed by Axion Polymers, where they hold key roles in areas including management, finance, process engineering and laboratory research. It is a high-tech, modern industry that offers so much opportunity,” continues Caroline.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2020

A new not-for-profit organisation, Changing Streams, has been established by an entrepreneur from Liverpool in a bid to remove plastic from the construction industry. The construction sector is the second largest producer of plastic waste in the UK, after packaging. An online workshop programme. · A new Charter.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Substituting asphalt road materials with upcycled plastic waste could spell cost savings for both road construction and waste management endeavors.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 12, 2021

What are sustainable construction materials? Material technology continues to advance, creating new and novel possibilities for the construction industry. Today, there is a growing variety of sustainable construction materials taking the place of traditional materials. Concrete and Cement.

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Business Green

JUNE 27, 2021

Consortium featuring L’Oréal, Nestlé Waters, PepsiCo, and Suntory Beverage & Food Europe tout major plastic recycling breakthrough. As such, plastic can usually only be recycled a finite number of times, and it is estimated only around nine per cent of all plastic ever made has ever been fully recycled.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 6, 2024

Last week at the New York State Capitol, more than 300 advocates joined lawmakers for a rally to urge the passage of a landmark waste reduction bill that proponents say is the best piece of legislation in the country aimed at lessening plastic trash. Thankfully they have not succeeded so far.”

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 5, 2021

Sustainable Construction: Builders Need to Go Green. Sustainable building practices are becoming increasingly common throughout the construction industry. This new emphasis on sustainable construction has created a robust green building and production network which is now one of the fastest growing sectors of the U.S.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2021

In a bid to combat so called ‘wish-cycling’ and contamination, recycling firm Paper Round has launched “SustainABLE Box”, a self-assembled box intended to capture hard-to-recycle items and those which are often misplaced in mixed recycling. This contributes towards a significant contamination problem.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The VAMOS (Value Added Materials from Organic Waste Sugars) project has received €6,984,813 funding from the Bio Based Industries Joint Undertaking (BBI JU) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. Reduce environmental plastic pollution levels. Pulp fibre. Renewable resource.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

There were 12 winners at the annual “VIBES – Scottish Environment Business Awards” in Glasgow on Tuesday 1 November, recognising innovations including a system for using treated wastewater to provide heating, and a solution that empowers homeowners in striving for net zero. It also aims to become Net Zero by 2030.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Government research body announces fresh support for plastics recycling facilities alongside £65m of industry investment. Poseidon Plastics has also received funding to help construct a 15,000 tonnes per year PET plastics recycling facility alongside waste and plastics specialists Biffa, Alpek Polyester UK, and DuPont Teijin Films.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Sustainable drain cleaning technology deployed by Lanes Group plc has supported the installation of a ground-breaking ‘super-thin’ source control stormwater attenuation system that has saved the NHS considerable costs during the construction of a new hospital car park, according to the group.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 15, 2022

Water utilities are working to 2030, while the construction industry has 2050 in its sights. Challenging factors with construction include the complexity of the supply chain, and the sheer quantity of waste generated. It’s incredibly easy to create waste in the construction industry. Ways of minimising waste.

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

WHAT IS SUSTAINABILITY INNOVATION? In the world of business, sustainability innovation can be defined as the process of evolving old business models and creating new ventures that realize economic value and generate positive environmental and social impacts simultaneously. HOW IS SUSTAINABILITY INNOVATION DRIVING THE GREEN ECONOMY?

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Business Green

JANUARY 29, 2020

The new products build on the firm's recently announced commitment to make 100 per cent of its toys recycled and recyclable by 2030. Toy manufacturing giant Mattel is launching a series of bio-based plastic products for its pre-school construction brand Mega Bloks, the brand behind Barbie and Hot Wheels announced yesterday.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 26, 2024

The national composition of MSW is 50% organic matter, 35% recyclables and 15% landfill refuse. He told the news agency Agência FAPESP: “We studied MSW management in six Brazilian cities, four of which we selected to exemplify different routes to innovation in this area: Harmonia, São Paulo, Ibertioga and Carauari. million and 57.2

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 25, 2021

Lucas Couto, Senior Industrial Designer at EGGS Design in Norway , is focused on turning plastic pollution into innovative recycled designs. The designer has teamed up with plastic recycling company Precious Plastic to help reveal the potential of plastic waste in the design space.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 21, 2021

Mark Priestman, Managing Director of Non-Ferrous at EMR (formerly European Metal Recycling) writes. As the recycling industry innovates to embrace its role as a key player in the UK’s journey towards a more sustainable society, new challenges continue to emerge.

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Business Green

JULY 16, 2021

But national recycling rate remains well short of 50 per cent goal, as sluggish progress that dominated the past decade continues. But Camilla Zerr, plastic campaigner at Friends of the Earth, said today's statistics showed the government was "failing to get to grips with the waste crisis". per cent during the 2019 calendar year.

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2021

Forty female entrepreneurs are each to a receive £50,000 funding boost, as wave of awards from the Women in Innovation programme is timed to coincide with International Women's Day.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The innovative project is the first of its kind to secure GHNF support and will provide low carbon heating captured from data centres into buildings. The funding award of £36 million will support the commercialisation and construction of the district heat network. The Old Oak development will create 22,000 new jobs. ” .”

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 17, 2022

The concept of producer responsibility – placing the cost of recycling of products at end of life onto those that placed the products onto the market, has been applied across the EU and in many other countries for years. Businesses will come under pressure to separate higher levels of materials for recycling.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 23, 2022

Winners of the Plastics Recycling Awards Europe 2022 were announced on 23 June at the Plastics Recycling Show Europe in Amsterdam. The seven winners are: • Automotive, Electrical or Electronic Product: Sustainable modular headliner for vehicle interiors and downstream recycling solutions by Grupo Antolin.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 18, 2019

To better manage plastic waste , Los Angeles is in talks with Technisoil, an innovative manufacturing company, to viably incorporate plastic into the city’s roads. Typically viewed as an ecological scourge, plastic waste can also be seen as a valuable resource when repurposed. can implement as well.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Implementing net zero-aligned circular economy approaches to infrastructure and construction could cut costs and boost resilience, according to AECOM. Hubbard added that circular steel, cement, plastic, and aluminium approaches could cut global CO2 emissions 3.6 billion tonnes, by 2050.

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Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 1, 2021

Creating a circular European battery industry Summary - Northvolt has partnered with Hydro to establish a first-of-its-kind battery recycling facility. The recycling plant will be established as a green field development, under a joint venture named Hydro Volt, and come online in 2021 in Fredrikstad, outside of Oslo. Brace yourself.

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Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 1, 2021

Creating a circular European battery industry Summary - Northvolt has partnered with Hydro to establish a first-of-its-kind battery recycling facility. The recycling plant will be established as a green field development, under a joint venture named Hydro Volt, and come online in 2021 in Fredrikstad, outside of Oslo. Brace yourself.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2022

Multiple recycled plastic barrels are then tied underneath the ground floor, and the walls and roof are constructed using galvanised metal sheets. In the event of a flood, the plastic barrels underneath the ground floor will give the house a raft-like capability to float above the rising waters.

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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. Samantha Bunyan.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The most recent developments in sustainability and innovation in the PVC cables sector were discussed on 5 October at the 3rd PVC4Cables* Conference in Bologna, Italy, as an announcement from the group explains. Recycling is a key element for the sustainability of PVC cables.

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 9, 2024

Innovation in the building sector is critical to achieving decarbonization, as the sector is responsible for 40 percent of global greenhouse-gas emissions. Innovation in the building sector is critical to achieving decarbonization, as the sector is responsible for 40 percent of global greenhouse-gas emissions. and Houston, Texas, Jan.

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Greentown Labs

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Seventeen startups joined our community in the final months of 2022, working on innovations as diverse as a smart nanocoating to keep products fresh, an autonomous waste-sorting system, and drinking water drawn from air’s humidity. Reframe Systems is scaling offsite construction with advanced robotic microfactories. Electricity.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Thanks to its innovative design and materials, the building has already won Best Entrepreneurial Project of the Year at the Construction Innovation Awards. Related: WOHA’s final design for Singapore Pavilion nears completion These innovative materials include 2 million recycled plastic bottles that form a multimedia facade.

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Business Green

AUGUST 20, 2020

A recycling facility designed to turn old car tyres into chemical materials used in altnernative fuel production and rubber manufacturing is set to begin contruction at the Port of Sunderland next year, after the Norwegian developers inked a deal with Sunderland City Council.

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Business Green

APRIL 5, 2022

The line has been launched under Mattel's construction toy brand Mega Bloks, with the new 'Green Town' range including four building sets such as the Build & Learn Eco House and the Grow & Protect Farm.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Nestlé and Microsoft on financing circular innovations. If we're going to make sure that we're using more recycled content, if we're going to ensure that we're going to reduce carbon emissions, then we need to be tracking that. One pocket-size result is new recyclable paper packaging for Smarties candies, popular in the U.K.

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