Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2024

Microplastics blanket the planet and infiltrate our bodies, wastewater pollutes our waterways, and greenhouse gas emissions are driving global climate change. “We The results suggest an economy of scale for emissions as growth typically brings more efficient energy and transportation infrastructure, but a diseconomy for liquid waste.

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Greentown Labs

MARCH 26, 2024

Hub Controls ’ award-winning personal energy-management system, Hub Controller, saves customers money by knowing when their heating and cooling systems need to run—and, more importantly, when they can be turned off. Buildings Carbon Negative Solutions is creating smart-city-ready, carbon-negative concrete products.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 15, 2021

A new study published in the journal Royal Society Open Science has found that microplastics affect the behavior of hermit crabs, a key part of the ocean ecosystem. The study, conducted by Queen’s University, highlights how microplastics impact hermit crabs’ growth and reproduction. Via Newswise Lead image via Pixabay.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

While biodegradable plastics currently exist, they rely on commercial composting, which uses energy to heat the compost, as well as presenting other logistical challenges. It’s because they need specific manmade conditions to biodegrade, and many degrade into microplastics, which contaminate our oceans and food chain for centuries”.

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Greenability Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

Watch the latest films on environmental social justice, waste, recycling, clean energy and food, including Kiss the Ground , at the free virtual One Earth Film Festival from March 5 – 14. Microplastic Madness (Ages 7 to 14 + General Audiences) , 11 a.m. CST, Saturday, March 6. CST, Saturday, March 13. CST, Saturday, March 13.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 23, 2023

In addition to batteries, apparel, and electronics, there is pressure on more industries to adopt the DPP initiative, such as textiles (especially furniture), plastics, chemicals, construction, and automobile manufacturing.

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Clean Energy Trust

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Here’s why Clean Energy Trust is excited to invest in Varuna Tech , a Chicago-based startup providing distribution system monitoring for water utilities. Tap water: a marvel and a mystery Municipal water systems are incredible. Think about it. Fabode , CEO, is a systems thinker and recognized thought leader on LinkedIn (167,000 followers!).

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Greentown Labs

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

AtmoSpark Technologies (Houston, Texas) is an atmospheric water generation company with a patented electro-condensation technology, which has a lower energy footprint than that of current water-generation methods. creates low-cost, eco-friendly solutions for water, air, and energy problems. and Houston, Texas, Feb.

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Greenability Magazine

APRIL 13, 2021

From Kansas City, there are many free, mostly virtual events that range from climate solutions to renewable energy, composting, recycling and an outdoor children’s puppet show. Microplastics and the Environment , Aquatic Ecology Lab. Renewable Energy Programs & Incentives , Renew Missouri.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Specialist laboratory analysis has been carried out, focussing on microplastic analysis and dewaterability of digestates derived from food waste processes. It is said to comprehensively report key positive and negative characteristics of UK digestates produced from different feedstock types.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

Microplastics are everywhere: We know that much. Even the definition of “microplastics” is slippery. And not all rivers carry the same load of microplastics. A cautious appraisal was maybe unexpected from a presentation titled (though clearly with some tongue in cheek) “So what if there are microplastics in bioresources?”.

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The Environmental Blog

MARCH 19, 2020

With this change comes more energy and water consumption, more air and ocean pollution and more carbon emissions. The microplastics in clothes are non-biodegradable and pollute the water. And the production of the clothing uses a significant amount of energy resources and gives off carbon emissions.

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The Environmental Blog

JANUARY 18, 2022

Also, the fabrics assessed must have a little-to-no effect on farming, soil, natural habitats, greenhouse gas emissions, and water and microplastic pollution. It also uses significantly less energy and water to manufacture and make clothing. This includes using recyclable fabrics and has a minimal impact on the environment.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The vast majority ends up in landfills, where its slow degradation allows it to accumulate, while pervasive microplastics have been found everywhere, from inside living bodies to the bottom of the ocean. “At In addition to the greenhouse gas emissions, the energy expended in the GPPTN is estimated to be the equivalent of 1.5

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The government said plans developed by Oceanways for a fully automated 'net positive' submarine fleet, powered entirely on green hydrogen, could help cleanse the oceans of toxic pollution by collecting microplastics on its pilot route between Glasgow and Belfast. generated from offshore turbines have been awarded funding from the competition.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 4, 2024

Independent agency M&C Saatchi won an award for its plastic pollution awareness campaign The Plastic Forecast , made for Australian philanthropic organisation the Minderoo Foundation, which visualises the weight of microplastics falling from the sky in raindrops on a given day. billion investment in the UK’s green energy transition.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

As such, tyre production remains an energy intensive process, while tyre use has been blamed for air and microplastic pollution. Moreover, the sector faces a well-documented recycling challenge for end of life tyres.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Recycling metal rather than using virgin ore helps preserve natural resources and saves energy. Cascade Steel’s electric arc furnace (EAF) is more energy efficient and environmentally-friendly than traditional blast furnaces. Insulation is one of the most important factors that play into your home’s energy efficiency.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 6, 2024

Microplastics have been discovered in human blood, lungs, and breastmilk — and most recently in human placentas. “Chemical recycling is more of a marketing and lobbying technique than an actual solution to the plastics problem,” Enck said. Yet since that evidence of the industry’s deception was released, the ACC has doubled down.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Often GPPs instruct businesses to purchase products that consume less resources such as energy efficient light bulbs or low-flow faucets. Along with the customer attraction and loyalty that comes from having a greener reputation, green purchasing yields cost savings in the form of energy efficiency and reduced waste. Example : Office.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 31, 2021

Using a biomimetic design, a hybrid propulsion system and a power supply from renewable energy sources, the high-tech boat will not only collect ocean waste but process it as well. Its design allows the Manta to extract microplastics from 10 mm upward and up to 1 meter deep.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 21, 2020

The desalination device comes from London-based start-up Hydro Wind Energy, and the company is on a mission to donate 100 million units for humanitarian efforts by 2027. There is an inbuilt ultrafiltration and microfiltration system inside that removes suspended solids, bacteria, viruses, parasites and microplastics from the seawater.

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Unsustainable

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

For a long time, the experts believed that cleaning up the gyres was impossible: it would take too long and be too costly as well as energy-intensive. The nets were also limited in their ability to pick up microplastics, which are formed by larger pieces breaking down in the water.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 3, 2020

Unfortunately, contemporary ice-making and maintenance technologies consume large amounts of energy and produce refrigerant gases that cause pollution , making them environmentally harmful. Traditional ice rinks have noise, energy waste and pollution costs. Synthetic ice is mainly composed of high-density polyethylene panels.

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Business Green

MAY 25, 2022

And while $759bn is hardly chicken feed, it is roughly one per cent of the $172tr estimated by BNEF to be needed to decarbonise the global energy sector by 2050. It is currently being developed by Clean Planet Energy at a site on Teesside.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 25, 2021

As rainfall crosses land, it picks up sewage, fertilizers, detergents, and microplastics and carries them straight into the world’s oceans. Offshore wind energy can produce more than 7,000 terawatt hours per year of clean energy in the United States alone.

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Elemental Excelerator

APRIL 21, 2022

For example: Dimensional Energy is engineering a sustainable aviation fuel called syngas using sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water. Matter has designed sophisticated filters to keep microplastics out of our waterways, protecting public health and ecosystems crucial for reducing carbon emissions.

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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 19, 2019

In order to drastically cut greenhouse gas emissions and protect our planet, we will need to creatively redesign and reinvent our underlying energy, agriculture, water, mobility, and economic systems. And as the first state to set a 100% renewable energy goal, our work here can serve as the beacon for other states and countries to follow.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

A recent Pew Charitable Trusts report found that 78 percent of ocean microplastics are synthetic tire rubber, which makes efforts to cut down on microfiber pollution from our laundry seem a bit quaint. This black dust accumulates on roads mostly — but not permanently. When it rains, it is carried away.

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Unsustainable

OCTOBER 12, 2019

Then there is the energy investment required. MJ l –1 —as much as 2000 times the energy cost of producing tap water.” This is energy which is surely better spent elsewhere. In fact, Gleick and Cooley (2009, para. 12) conclude, “we estimate that producing bottled water requires between 5.6

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Business Green

JULY 8, 2021

Delivery giant DPD has this week teamed up with tyre developer ENSO Tyres to trial the use of new green tyres that aim to reduce air and microplastic pollution from electric vehicles (EVs). EVs produce no tailpipe emissions, but they can still contribute to air and microplastic pollution through wear on their tyres.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Over 90% of the plastics found in the ocean is comprised of microplastics, which commonly end up ingested by aquatic animals, often killing them through choking or toxicity. Since then, they’ve been used for everything from energy drinks and sparkling waters to sodas and wine.

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Business Green

APRIL 5, 2022

The trade body said sufficient access to affordable, abundant renewable energy and a stable, long-term policy framework to drive up investment in circular economy services would be critical to delivering a more planet-friendly plastics system. That is why we decided to commission this report," she added.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 24, 2023

Diane Wilson, a fourth-generation South Texas shrimper who took on a multi-billion dollar corporate polluter in court and won, has received a 2023 Goldman Prize for environmental activism. Wilson’s $50 million settlement with Formosa Plastics Corp. –

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

As of April 2022 , scientists have concluded that humanity has exceeded the safe operating space of biosphere integrity, freshwater change, novel entities (specifically plastic and microplastic), and biogeochemical flows.

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Green Living Guy

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

With rising levels of climate change and growing pollution, Planet Earth is in danger of environmental destruction. Medical authorities have been issuing health warnings to the global citizens on the health consequences of tampering with nature. But we are yet to take them seriously. Industrial development and massive production of.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 8, 2020

All materials do this, even plastics, which break down into what we call microplastics – i.e. plastic particles smaller than 5mm. Biodegradable Straws Reduce Microplastics at Sea and on Land. We call these microplastics – and they have reached some of the most remote parts of the world. As such, it’s not a very precise term.

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