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Specialty Chemical Production, Use, and Disposal: 5 Practices for Sustainability

The Environmental Blog

Chemicals also treat water, so it’s safe to drink and make medicines into easily digestible forms such as tablets or capsules. They’re also used to produce quality adhesives, plastics and rubber products, and much more. Come to think of it, it’s hard to imagine life without specialty plastics. Effective Waste Water Treatment.

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How to Build and Retrofit a Sustainable Home

Green Business Bureau

RECYCLED PLASTIC. Recycled plastic used in construction offers a building material that has a lower carbon footprint and is stronger than brick, all while tackling our plastic waste problem ( 367 million metric tons produced globally in 2020). You can find Tangent Materials green product certifications on their website.

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Synterex: Clinical Service Provider That Gives Back to the Environment and Society

Green Business Bureau

The medicines that Synterex writes about come from a wide variety of therapeutic areas such as allergy, cancer, vaccines, nervous system disorders, and rare diseases. Every day, Synterex employees work with the hope of helping to get medicines to patients who need them to improve their quality of life.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

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. Solvay repurposes wastewater from dairy production in the United Arab Emirates to cool cows in arid fields.

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25 badass women shaping climate action in 2021

GreenBiz

Hurst’s causes outside Amazon include board positions with Stolen Youth, an organization dedicated to eradicating sex trafficking; as well as with the roundtable for sustainability that’s part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. million pounds of plastic, or 60 million bottles. LinkedIn | Twitter.

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Climate change is the one area of science Republicans tend to doubt

Grist

The people in the Pew study, by and large, accept the conclusions of medicine, of basic physics, of organic chemistry. Even the basic, research work led to cool new stuff, which could become salable new products. Some researchers blame the 1970s. Corporations love that.

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The American chestnut tree is coming back. Who is it for?

Grist

In New York’s state lands, he added, there are almost no provisions for gathering medicines, collecting food, or growing food in traditional territories. It’s just cool to be part of it.” “Aside from the whole issue of being transgenic, this is just about access and care of place,” he told me.