AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The Role of Innovation in Changing Behavior Towards a Circular Economy Date/Time: November 12, 2020 (8-9PM ET / 5-6PM PT) By 2030 plastic waste is expected to increase by more than 50% to 330 million tons per annum if business continues as usual. Recent figures show $120 billion is lost each year because plastic waste is mismanaged.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Here’s how: Firstly, having more renewable energy sources can increase the demand for green energy. As more eco-invested consumers choose green power, it increases the demand for renewable energy sources. Cisco Sustainable IoT for Renewable Energy webinar recording. Cisco enables utility customers’ sustainability goals.

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Business Green

MARCH 7, 2023

For example, the report highlights how the chemicals used to manufacture washing up liquid and the plastic bottle it comes in mean the washing up liquid used by UK households each year is responsible for the same carbon emissions as around 40,000 UK cars, excluding the further emissions associated with any hot water used.

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Econaur

APRIL 22, 2020

In addition to these practical outcomes, the event demonstrated just how much can be achieved when people come together and demand action. It was the planet’s largest civic event at the time and compelled governments to take concrete actions, including passing environmental laws and establishing environmental agencies.

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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. As consumer and corporate demand for renewables grew, the value of the RECs rose, thereby incenting new wind and solar projects. Industrial heat is essential but largely invisible.

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GreenBiz

MAY 12, 2020

See the full collection of stories and upcoming webinars with the authors here. There’s no doubt about it — we are in the midst of a plastic pollution crisis. We’ve all seen the viral images of turtles with straws stuck up their noses, or whales washed up with bellies full of plastic bags.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

With countries set to discuss potential blueprint for a Paris Agreement-style treaty for tackling plastic waste this week, leading experts give their views on what it should look like. So could such a treaty ever work in the same way for another, interconnected, cross-border environmental crisis facing the planet: plastic pollution?

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 28, 2022

For instance, according to studies from the National Institute of Health (NIH) , certain plastics found in consumer packaging can lead to cancers, diabetes, neurological disorders, hormonal imbalances, and other various ill-health effects caused by inhalation or direct contact. Are you utilizing post-consumer materials ?

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