Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2020

The assessment, published last week, reveals that the volume of waste produced in England remained largely the same in the five years since the government introduced its 2013 Waste Prevention Programme policy, with overall waste in England at the close of 2017 "at similar levels" to those five years earlier.

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Waste Waste Policy Building Energy Monitoring 84

Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 19, 2021

But if designed without sustainability in mind, greenhouses can be quite energy and water intensive. Optimizing energy usage. This will help to save energy on lighting for off season and will make it a prime spot to place solar panels. Ideally, invest in glass panels instead of plastic.

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Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 148

Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 3, 2024

By diving into the science behind capturing carbon dioxide directly from the environment or emission sources, we unpack the foundation of a method that not only helps reduce greenhouse gases but also plays a key role in producing a cleaner form of energy – hydrogen.

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Hydrogen Carbon Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 93

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Intended to fill the policy vacuum emerging from the UK’s departure from the EU on 31 January, the Environment Bill has been eagerly anticipated, and seemingly gives government the power to set legally binding targets on all aspects of the environment in future. Envirotec reports.

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Soil Biodiversity Plastics Business Energy Monitoring 280

Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 1, 2019

The consumer market dictates the incorporation of eco-friendly policies into successful businesses of all sizes. The good news for your bottom line is: green initiatives increase profits by both attracting new customers and saving your business money on energy, gas, and water expenditure. REDUCE WATER USAGE. gallons per minute.

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Business Green

JUNE 12, 2024

The judges were also impressed by the firm's clear client engagement policy and ambitious internal efforts to cut its own emissions. The firm was also praised for the new funds launched in the last year, including its £100m partnership with the Mayor of London to catalyse investment in energy efficiency and clean technology projects.

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Green Business Bureau

MAY 12, 2022

But at their core, they all assess a very similar set of policies and procedures. It includes your building, operations, vehicles, supplies, products, procurement, recycling, reuse, waste, policies and procedures. Energy – How much energy do we use? Can we use less or adopt clean alternative energy sources?

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Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor 158

Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Southern California Gas, San Diego Gas & Electric and Southwest Gas have filed a joint hydrogen blending proposal with the state Public Utilities Commission (PUC). The focus is on the use of increasing concentrations of blended hydrogen in a medium-pressure steel and plastic distribution pipeline system.

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Hydrogen Energy Monitor Carbon-neutral Natural gas 103

DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 17, 2023

Not only do pesticides directly contribute to the climate crisis, but a changing climate is likely to intensify pressure from agricultural pests and decrease plant resiliency, resulting in greater pesticide usage and therefore further greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new report.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 5, 2024

Now looking forward, interest rates are expected to come down, rules around policy incentives and regulation are emerging, and international competition has become a driving force for climate tech. 🚗 Vertical: Transportation and Energy investment declined, but remained on top. 2 spot behind Energy Storage, which rose from no.2

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Green Business Bureau

MAY 12, 2021

Step 6: Implement the plan, establish and communicate new policies and practices. A sustainability program launch event is the perfect time to establish and communicate new sustainability policies and practices. Monitor and Manage Initiatives. Energy team – How much energy do we use? Is it hazardous?

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 7, 2020

It's not necessarily that the game of musical chairs has intensified in the C-suite, but you'll note major executive moves at big apparel, food, energy, finance and technology corporations, some of which have enlisted a chief sustainability officer (CSO) or equivalent for the first time. Advocating.

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Clean Energy Trust

JANUARY 28, 2022

While governments have a significant role to play in helping usher in these new solutions; in the absence of certain policies, corporates and other stakeholders can make a big impact on the market for these emerging technologies by committing to buying specific volumes of these products.

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Sustainability Consulting

MAY 20, 2020

As an organization, you may have already had a telework policy and the needed systems in place. Less energy consumption at home: Offices typically consume more energy than home offices, and employees tend to treat energy usage differently in the office than in their homes. of plastic waste and combusts the rest.

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Home Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Energy Monitor Plastics 59

Green Business Bureau

JULY 5, 2021

When it comes to waste, plastic was found to have the highest relative environmental impact in the nursery system (about 80% of the value of the total footprint). Additionally, specifically for greenhouses, they can use an excessive amount of energy to heat outside of planting season which can contribute to pollution.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 5, 2021

LED lights are by far the most efficient type of lighting on the market, using 75% less energy and lasting 25 times longer than incandescent bulbs. While your office is likely recycling its paper and plastics, you can take recycling to the next level by expanding your program to include glass and metals. Consider Renewable Energy.

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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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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2020

The assessment, published last week, reveals that the volume of waste produced in England remained largely the same in the five years since the government introduced its 2013 Waste Prevention Programme policy, with overall waste in England at the close of 2017 "at similar levels" to those five years earlier.

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Waste Waste Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 53

AGreenLiving

MARCH 31, 2021

Those processes use a lot of energy and largely come from fossil fuels; one-third of U.S. A key route to industrial emissions reductions is electrification (replacing industrial fossil fuels with electric alternatives). For example, continuous cooling of plastics during injection molding can be precisely controlled using heat pumps.

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Green Tech Challenge

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Under this ambitious initiative, a dedicated climate policy council is assessing government policies to determine whether they coincide with the country’s climate goals. UK to Reduce Plastic Waste Plastic waste is a burning issue in the UK, as its recycling industry is largely affected by China’s new ban on foreign waste.

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Business Green

JUNE 27, 2021

Environmental taxes are a powerful tool to help with climate change. While they could have potential to raise some revenue for the exchequer, the real power of environmental taxes lies in their ability to shift incentives and change behaviour. The effective tax rate on carbon currently varies considerably between different activities.

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Business Green

JULY 13, 2021

Qatar Airways' may have promised fans it would help them 'fly greener', while VW chose to showcase its new electric vehicles, but as ever carbon intensive and plastic-touting industries were highly visible. The ASA has long pointed out that the power to introduce a blanket ban on product categories lies with the government. "We

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

A fifth of supplier selection criteria will depend on commitments to carbon reduction and circular economy principles alongside diversity, inclusion and health & safety policies, the firm said. It will ask suppliers whether they publicly report their carbon emissions to CDP, formerly known as the Carbon Disclosure Project.

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Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Health IoT 89

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MARCH 26, 2022

We specialize in voluntary carbon, regulated carbon, renewable energy credits, plastics credits, and regional criteria pollutant trading programs. The projects are conducted in accordance with strict performance, monitoring, and reporting (i.e., 40 CFR Part 60 and Part 75) requirements.

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Front And Centered

MAY 17, 2019

Good environmental policy starts with equitable decision-making process. The proposed Office of Equity ** , would have facilitated and track outcomes for state policy and systems change to promote equity in policy, practice, and outcomes and require agencies to use equity assessment tools.

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Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring 71

Business Green

APRIL 4, 2023

The strategy also confirms government's plan to move ahead with proposals to ban plastic wet wipes, and restrictions on polyfluoroalkyl substances, sometimes known as "forever chemicals", which are commonly found in firefighting foam, textiles, cleaning products, pains and varnishes.

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Pollution Energy Monitor Plastics Government 36

Green Business Bureau

JULY 5, 2021

When it comes to waste, plastic was found to have the highest relative environmental impact in the nursery system (about 80% of the value of the total footprint). Additionally, specifically for greenhouses, they can use an excessive amount of energy to heat outside of planting season which can contribute to pollution.

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Sustainability Business Energy Monitoring Organic Building Energy Monitoring 78

Green Tech Challenge

MAY 3, 2019

Every year, an additional 8 million tonnes of plastic is deposited into the ocean. This calls for consumer behaviour change, impact innovation in the business sector, policy change and law enforcement by governments. Innovators have been coming up with substitutes for plastic products.

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Drought conditions are causing saltwater to creep into the drinking water of communities along the Mississippi River, and the DOE puts $325M toward long-duration energy storage projects. Sunak also disbanded the home Energy Efficiency Taskforce , created earlier this year, which was designed to hasten home insulation and boiler upgrades.

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Home Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 61

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Waste recovery within municipal waste includes recycling, composting, and incineration with energy. Additionally, recycling and composting are generally seen as ‘better’ ways of recovering waste, yet almost half (47%) of Switzerland’s recovery over five years is through incineration with energy. Sweden (99%). Denmark (98%).

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Eco-Business

JANUARY 20, 2020

The Plastics Data Challenge is a global innovation challenge that will source, support, and scale innovative technologies, methodologies and working prototypes that help entrepreneurs and others collect, analyse and leverage data to understand and address the leakage of plastic waste into the environment.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Indeed, by our estimates, human activity is already outside a 'safe operating space for humanity' on at least four out of nine planetary boundaries identified by leading Earth scientists: biodiversity loss, chemical and plastic pollution, nutrient pollution, and greenhouse-gas emissions. Yet fatalism would be misplaced.

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Business Energy Monitoring Agriculture Plastics Biodiversity 36

Mr. Sustainability

AUGUST 20, 2020

With Direct Air Capture, atmospheric CO2 can also be used as a feedstock to create low-carbon products like plastics and concrete. With DAC, atmospheric CO2 can also be used as a feedstock to create low-carbon products like plastics and concrete. This article is taken from Carbon Engineering. For the original, click here.

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Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Carbon 78

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2021

EtO is a colorless flammable gas that’s used to make plastics, anti-freeze, and adhesives, and also to sterilize medical equipment. In December 2016, following an assessment by the EPA’s Integrated Risk Information System, the EPA concluded that EtO turned out to be 30 times more powerful as a carcinogen for adults than previously thought.

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Pollution Demand Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring 98

Business Green

MAY 15, 2022

That plant - dubbed H2H Saltend - is aiming to supply low carbon fuel to the park's various industrial businesses, as well as to the Saltend Power Station, which has powered the vast manufacturing site since the late 1990s. We are decarbonising energy and we are decarbonising products.

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Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Carbon 36

EDF + Business

MAY 2, 2023

Automotive Consumer Products Clean Energy Inputs Batteries Machinery Mining Paper Plastics Cement Steel Glass Chemicals Key Relevant Provisions §45X and §48C are the key provisions to know for advanced manufacturing, offering incentives for domestic clean technology and energy efficient manufacturing.

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Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Energy Monitor 52

Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

A change in the policy landscape seems imminent, as Envirotec found out. But tiny plastic fragments follow a multitude of pathways into the enviroment. We don’t know enough to inform policy. Useful efforts have begun to measure and regulate the microplastics content of some bioresources, but we have a very incomplete picture.

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