Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The Mayor of London’s development corporation, OPDC has been awarded £36 million from the government’s Green Heat Network Fund (GHNF) to harness waste heat from the cooling of several data centres. It forms part of a wider £65m award from the GHNF to five projects across the UK. ” .” ”

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 6, 2020

View original here: 5 seriously cool climate innovators in fashion. From carbon-negative polyester to dissolvable thread, here’s a handful of surprising startups making waves in the apparel industry.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

As many as eight innovations cut CO2 from plastics manufacturing, data centre cooling and other processes win public and private support. As many as eight innovations were announced as successful bidders to share nearly £4.6m from the private sector.

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Greentown Labs

JULY 27, 2022

Carbfix , a Carbon to Value Initiative Year 1 participant, received a grant from the European Innovation Fund to build the Coda Terminal , a large-scale CO 2 transport and storage hub in Iceland. Radical Plastics is conducting field trials of mulch film produced by its patented technology with Johnny’s Selected Seeds.

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Greentown Labs

MARCH 26, 2024

Twenty-four startups joined our community in Q1 2024, working on innovations ranging from biobased building materials, to sustainable rubber, to solar-powered flight. Puro Renewables upcycles carbon-negative biowaste to reduce the amount of fossil-fuel-based resin and carbon footprint associated with typical plastic products.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 13, 2020

It forged the steel and glass in your car, and it also cooked the aluminum, plastic and silicon in the very screen on which you may be reading these words. . To transform basic inputs into stuff we need, manufacturers constantly heat (and cool) minerals, ores and other raw materials to extreme temperatures. The first step?

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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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Charged

OCTOBER 5, 2021

One immediate route to achieving these goals is the elimination of the housings of battery modules and bonding individual cells directly to the cooling plate, a strategy known as “cell-to-pack” [1-3]. Both gap fillers, with the aid of a liquid-cooled plate, help regulate the temperature of the modules to ensure safe and efficient performance.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

For instance, innovations in adhesive formulations allow for the reduction or elimination of solvents and hazardous plasticizers through primer-free and phthalate-free technologies. The adhesives are used to bond and seal battery pack enclosures and cooling plates and exhibit good adhesion to aluminum alloys and composites.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Dubbed 'Go Greener', the new campaign will promote innovative green products, such as smart fridges which can help cut the average £30 of food waste produced by households every month. Other technologies featured in the campaign include smart washing machines and SodaStream Carbonating Bottles, which help cut the use of plastic bottles.

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Greentown Labs

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Twenty-five startups joined our community in the final months of 2021, working on innovations as diverse as solar-plus-storage for blackouts, plastic and tire recycling, geothermal power generation, and construction-less dam electrification. We’re thrilled to support these groundbreaking climatetech startups—let us introduce you!

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GreenBiz

MARCH 31, 2021

For example, continuous cooling of plastics during injection molding can be precisely controlled using heat pumps. Reliable field support can help maintain performance and workforce training can ensure longevity and increasing confidence in electric technologies (a market opportunity for business innovation).

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Greentown Labs

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

And reduce plastic waste, while we’re at it? Across these applications, MettleWood could replace significant portions of the steel, concrete, and hard plastics used in buildings today, leading to meaningful decarbonization. What, then, if we could turbocharge wood to replace these emissions-heavy materials?

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Business Green

OCTOBER 24, 2021

The site is being built to meet BREEAM sustainability certification standards and will use a system where energy generated from cooling the factory is re-used for heating so as to reduce its energy consumption by 45 per cent, the company said.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

At DuPont, we’re developing adhesive and plastic solutions that help automakers worldwide produce EVs that perform better than ever. Here are four ways DuPont adhesives and plastics are moving EVs forward. DuPont Zytel ® HTN was used to reduce plastic insulation thickness with minimal impact on performance.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

As the one of the leading producers of plastics, how we make our plastics has to be at the centre of our approach as well as ensuring that our products are recyclable, are getting recycled and contain recycled content. We're also looking at the feedstocks (the raw materials) needed to create plastics. Our commitments.

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 26, 2022

INOVUES , a participant in the Greentown Launch InNOVAte 2019 Challenge with Saint-Gobain, raised $2.75M from leading investors , including Saint-Gobain NOVA and our corporate member VC Fuel. Radical Plastics received a $650K Phase II SBIR grant from the U.S. Infinite Cooling received a $100K Phase I SBIR grant from the U.S.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 25, 2022

They are part of the brand’s push for a more sustainable future and an end to plastic waste. Related: Adidas 100% recycled jacket is solving plastic pollution Between the shoe’s fun colors and cool style, you would never guess it’s made of upcycled parts.

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2024

The full list of finalists is: Consultancy of the year Bioregional Buro Happold Carbon Limiting Technologies Greengage Holtara Lawyers For Nature CIC Tunley Environmental Planet Mark Verco Hospitality Firm of the year Compass Group UK & Ireland Conference Aston Parkdean Resorts room2 The Wellbeing Farm TOAST Manufacturer of the year Archwood Limited (..)

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Charged

APRIL 15, 2021

Si IGBT In Electric Vehicle Applications Advanced Quality Assurance Solutions For New Energy Vehicles How Your Batteries Can Be 5X More Efficient, 57% Less Expensive, And 66% Stronger. Why Copper Tabs Make More Sense.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Fortuna Cools recently announced the launch of the Nutshell Cooler, a collapsible cooler made using upcycled coconut fiber sourced from the Philippines and designed to outperform plastic. The company worked with local coconut farmers from a fishing village on Lubang Island to create the innovative, insulating material.

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Business Green

AUGUST 14, 2020

It forged the steel and glass in your car, and it also cooked the aluminum, plastic and silicon in the very screen on which you may be reading these words. To transform basic inputs into stuff we need, manufacturers constantly heat (and cool) minerals, ores and other raw materials to extreme temperatures. The first step?

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Sustainability Consulting

APRIL 14, 2023

Originally brought about as an alternative to asbestos, fiberglass insulation is made from a combination of glass and plastic, and presents significant health risks to installers. It’s long been used to keep buildings warm in winter, cool in summer, and to maximize a structure’s thermal efficiency.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 5, 2024

The market is still warm, but cooling. Jury is out on whether investment will keep cooling or heat back up. This could be due to the relative maturity of renewables and  sentiment that decarbonizing energy was past the innovation stage. 2023 saw a 29% increase in the cumulative total.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

   📦 RAIKU Packaging , a Tallinn, Estonia-based 100% compostable packaging solutions developer, raised $6M in Seed funding from private investors and Grant funding from the European Innovation Council.    Innovate UK drops £720M for climate tech in their 2023 Net Zero Review. Aka land platypus.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

They began by summing all the emissions released at power plants to keep buildings cool and electricity flowing to wall outlets. “We are building with materials that we chased out of our food system three decades ago,” he said, referencing building materials made of foams and plastics, derived from hydrocarbons.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The leader in water, hygiene and energy services sells to a diverse collection of institutions such as hospitals, food and beverage providers, as well as heavy industry including power plants and plastic manufacturers. It helped define fast fashion, yet is in the vanguard of circular innovations in apparel. LinkedIn | Company profile.

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Clean Energy Trust

MARCH 25, 2021

Bank Foundation Cleantech Inclusion Award, at Co_Invest Cleantech 2019 It’s no question that cleantech, greentech, climate tech, whatever you want to call it, has become a hotbed of innovation over the past few years. Very cool, but how does it compare on energy density, safety, charge rate, and cycle life?

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 30, 2020

Native of Porto, Portugal, designer João Leão was becoming more and more concerned about the abundance of plastic waste he saw clogging up his city’s beautiful coastline. Inspired to act on the issue, the ambitious designer decided to find a way to clean the ocean by using that waste to create an innovative product.

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Business Green

JUNE 22, 2021

As a fund manager who lives and breathes this trend, the solutions identified by Gates affirm the decisions being made by me and my team - the technologies we are backing and the innovations we are identifying. Gates sets out the need to quickly reduce our reliance on fossil fuels over the next 30 years to get to net zero.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Despite the additional complications posed by the coronavirus pandemic a record 312 institutions participated in Sierra's annual Cool Schools rankings in 2020. Many schools including the schools on this list have demonstrated that they are both resourcefulness innovative in their efforts to achieve their sustainability objectives.

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Business Green

JANUARY 27, 2020

As such the supermarket plans to start off with what it knows it can do, including switching all stores to LED lighting by 2022, improving the energy efficiency of its fridges, switching to a zero emission fleet, and halving the amount of plastic packaging it produces by 2025.

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Charged

JUNE 15, 2020

Cooling and temperature control of these devices are needed for proper operation. The goal in choosing the right thermal interface material is for it to provide an adequate thermal path for component cooling, while meeting necessary performance criteria, such as adhesion and/or stress reduction. Sponsored by Momentive.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 31, 2021

For example, continuous cooling of plastics during injection molding can be precisely controlled using heat pumps. Reliable field support can help maintain performance and workforce training can ensure longevity and increasing confidence in electric technologies (a market opportunity for business innovation).

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 29, 2021

The latest cool throwback camera comes with a thoughtful, eco-friendly twist. Paper Shoot is an innovative digital camera that lets you capture film-like photos. With Paper Shoot, you get the aesthetics of a retro camera without having to use and throw away a plastic disposable camera. What is Paper Shoot?

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Business Green

MAY 15, 2022

The tangle of cooling towers, pipes, refineries, engines, and turbines that make up the vast Saltend Chemicals Park may not look particularly modern, but the 100-year-old site could be about to find itself at the cutting edge of the 21st century economy.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Anyway, the hope had always been that Velux's innovative 'lifetime carbon neutral' concept - a plan to invest heavily in nature-based solutions that would offset all the carbon dioxide produced throughout the firm's near 80-year history - would be emulated by other companies, Reumert says. "We But then we thought, this is also great.

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