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Embracing Sustainable Living: A Guide to Establishing Eco-Friendly Practices in Canada

The Environmental Blog

Start by investing in proper insulation, energy-efficient windows, and doors to regulate indoor temperatures, reducing the need for excessive heating or cooling. Install low-flow faucets and showerheads, fix any leaks promptly, and consider investing in a rain barrel to collect rainwater for outdoor use.

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Inspiring Eco homes

The Environmental Blog

There are many factors to consider before investing into eco-friendly materials and manufacturing methods. What materials will you need to build the house? A major benefit of building an eco-home from scratch is that you can design it to keep itself warm or cool.

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How to Build an Eco-Friendly Home

The Environmental Blog

An eco-friendly house is designed with recycled materials, renewable energy sources, and sustainable landscapes. In other words, it’s a wise investment. For areas that need more light than usual, try using pure or cool white energy-efficient light bulbs. Invest In Landscaping. Install A Cool Roof.

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Geothermal panel startup closes CHF1.3 million seed financing round

ThinkGeoEnergy

Lyesse Laloui, enerdrape has developed the technology for pre-fabricated geothermal panels that can turn underground structures, such as garages or tunnels, into renewable sources of thermal energy for heat and cooling without drilling. The panels are modular, thin, flexible, made of recyclable materials, and compatible with heat pumps.

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Inside Eastman’s moonshot goal for endlessly circular plastics

GreenBiz

There are hundreds of buildings and countless miles of pipes, conveyors, distillers, cooling towers, valves, pumps, compressors and controls. Contamination by food and other foreign materials is another problem that literally gums up the works. This means that the recycled material eventually will end up in waste streams.

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Sustainability Guide for Hotels and Motels: Getting Started

Green Business Bureau

Further, hotel waste consists largely of common recyclable materials – aluminum cans, cardboard, paper, plastic bottles and landscape waste – all materials that could be processed into a new useful material. Invest in proper sealing and insulation to maintain indoor temperatures and avoid uncomfortable drafts.

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‘We can’t recycle our way out’

Grist

Washington state’s wakeup call came about five years ago when China stopped accepting highly contaminated bales of recycled materials from around the world. Washington lawmakers, responding to the loss of a market that took upwards of 60 percent of the state’s recycled materials, created the Recycling Development Center in 2019.