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What Startups Have Taught Us About Unlocking Climate Policy Innovation

Elemental Excelerator

That’s why we launched the Policy Lab on Earth Day in 2021. Matter has designed sophisticated filters to keep microplastics out of our waterways, protecting public health and ecosystems crucial for reducing carbon emissions. Lesson #3: Government funding can be catalytic for climate tech companies.

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The search for the source of plastic pollution

Grist

Unlike several other Earth Day weekend cleanups going on farther down the beach, this group has been given special instructions that will help them categorize and log everything they find, from food scraps and toys to tiny pieces of foil and, of course, many types of plastic. But panic campaigns on foods to avoid would be ineffective.

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