Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Danish wind tech firm Vestas hails new era for the industry, as new method of recycling wind turbine blades promises to eliminate landfill disposal across the sector Vestas has unveiled an alternative to scrapping decommissioned wind turbine blades, which harnesses a newly discovered chemical process to ensure old blades can be recycled.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 25, 2022

The new shoes feature an upcycled upper with a breathable Gore-Tex waterproof membrane and Three Stripes Boost technology with responsive cushioning that provides bounce-back energy return as you walk. Meanwhile, the upcycled parts use leftover materials from past product drops. Adidas Images via Adidas.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 2, 2021

Papermelon jewelry is constructed from upcycled paper, which is collected from friends, neighbors and well-wishers. It’s also one of the most recycled products on the planet.” Papermelon jewelry is handcrafted in a home studio and, because there are no machines involved in the process, manufacturing is exceptionally energy-efficient.

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The Environmental Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

What is Recycled Polyester? Recycled polyester is made from discarded plastic bottles, not just reducing plus-based waste but also conserving precious resources. These environmentally-friendly methods aim to minimize waste, conserve energy, and reduce harmful emissions. Mindful Consumption : Be mindful of your choices.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 3, 2022

BusinessGreen reports on the fast-evolving plans to establish a thriving EV battery recycling industry in the UK. Ramping up battery reuse and recycling is increasingly regarded as critical to ensuring climate goals are met in as sustainable and efficient way as possible.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Helping menstrual cups go mainstream, redesigning children’s shoes to make them last longer, creating ‘lend and mend’ hubs in libraries and enabling polyester to be recycled again and again were the winning projects chosen by an independent Grant Fund panel of industry experts.

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Business Green

AUGUST 15, 2021

All Samsung phones are to feature recycled materials from 2025, the company has pledged as part of a new set of wide-ranging sustainability targets. Firm launches new Galaxy for the Planet sustainability platform in bid to help deliver on tech giant's environmental goals.

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Business Green

AUGUST 23, 2020

Jaguar Land Rover has developed an innovative process enabling it to recycle old aluminium cans, bottle tops and end-of-life vehicles into brand new, premium cars, in a move it estimates could cut CO2 in its manufacturing by more than a quarter.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 2, 2020

At the heart of East Austin, an old and uninviting warehouse has been transformed into a creative office building fittingly dubbed UPCycle after its site-sensitive design approach that includes the reuse of the entire building. Expanded to 81,711 square feet, UPCycle now serves as a multi-tenant creative office building.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

This, in turn, is dehydrated to create ethylene – a stage of the process handled by Technip Energies – and this ethylene is then polymerized – by circular plastics expert Borealis – to produce EVA (ethylene vinyl acetate), in the form of small plastic pellets, which then enter On’s production process for the creation of the CleanCloud foam material.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Fortuna Cools recently announced the launch of the Nutshell Cooler, a collapsible cooler made using upcycled coconut fiber sourced from the Philippines and designed to outperform plastic. Since the liners use recycled PET, there are no virgin plastic components to the coolers either.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2021

In this blog, we will review some of the eco-friendly packaging options that sustainable companies can opt for; these include metal tin containers and cans, corrugated bubble wrap, cardboard packaging, and recycled plastic options. It can be recycled again and again without any degradation in its quality. Recycled plastic .

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

RECYCLED STEEL. Recycling metal rather than using virgin ore helps preserve natural resources and saves energy. In fact, creating products from recycled steel utilizes 40% less water and reduces mining wastes by 97%. RECYCLED PLASTIC. BIO-BASED AND RECYCLED INSULATION. minority and women-owned suppliers).

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 24, 2024

Funding AeroShield won a $610k Massachusetts Manufacturing Innovation Initiative grant to support manufacturing of its super-insulating, porous glass for energy-efficient windows. Greentown alum Verne announced an MOU with ZeroAvia to explore using cryo-compressed hydrogen (CcH2) for aircraft.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 27, 2021

It was fascinating to come up with the different elements of lettering that can inform another function, like a free throw or half court line, and even more exciting to think that the design will not only inform the players’ movements, but influence the community spirit and energy of Block 70.” Read the rest here:Â .

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 12, 2021

Because concrete itself comes from natural resources, it is important to choose a concrete brand that doesn’t over extract these raw mineral resources and instead finds ways to recycle components and operate in a more sustainable fashion. straw, recycled plastics, etc.). UpCycle – Austin, Texas. Holcim – Switzerland.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 6, 2020

Finnish children’s activewear brand Reima has released its 100% recyclable children’s jacket. The stylish and sustainable outerwear is crafted from recycled polyester and comes with a tracking code for users to follow the product’s journey throughout its recycling and reuse. Reima Images via Reima.

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Greentown Labs

MARCH 20, 2023

American Battery Technology Company executed a term-sheet agreement with TechMet-Mercuria, a Geneva-based energy metals joint venture, for a $20M non-dilutive debt facility for recycled-battery-metal products. American Battery Technology Company entered agreements to purchase a commercial-scale battery recycling facility in Nevada.

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Greentown Labs

APRIL 24, 2024

Funding American Battery Technology Company —a startup with technologies for lithium-ion battery recycling, battery-metal extraction, and primary mineral resource development—was awarded $60M in tax credits to accelerate the construction of its next-generation battery recycling facility. tax credit allocation from the U.S.

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The Environmental Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

If you want to have an even more active approach when it comes to waste management, you can start recycling or upcycling your stuff and try to reduce waste whenever possible. There are now a lot of packaging companies that make such materials available out of recycled paper and whatnot. Use renewable energy.

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Greentown Labs

AUGUST 23, 2023

FUNDING Carbon Upcycling raised $26M in Series A funding for its carbon-sequestration technology. Energy Dome added €15M to its Series B, closing the round at €55M to help scale its long-duration-energy-storage technology. Fervo Energy ’s geothermal-generated power technology was successfully piloted in a project for Google.

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R-Squared Energy

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Plastics are almost exclusively made from petroleum, and they retain a lot of potential energy after they have been used. In other words, upcycling waste plastics is self-sustaining. When applied to plastics, it is Hydrochemolytic Plastics Upcycling (HPU). So, it may seem to make sense to simply burn them for power.

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 9, 2024

Carbon Upcycling Technologies (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) is a circular-decarbonization solution for hard-to-abate industries–-utilizing low-purity industrial CO 2 and industrial byproducts to decarbonize cement. develops an ultra-lightweight, flexible solar technology for the built environment. Hempitecture (Ketchum, Idaho, U.S.)

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 16, 2022

Install renewable energy technology – such as solar panels – throughout the facilities. And with this in mind, below we’ve listed a few simple tips for making practices and games more sustainable: Use energy-efficient lighting systems for night games and practices. This will lower your energy bill and save you money.

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

FreeStar Power is bringing forth alternative power solutions for residential consumers of utility power, with the objective of addressing energy reliability, the climate crisis, and rising energy demands and costs. Electricity. Manufacturing. Resiliency + Adaptation.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 6, 2021

But all of this stuff is made from resources of some kind, uses up energy and eventually winds up as waste. Energy Star offers a variety of certified electronics such as computers , monitors , TVs and telephones. 100% of HP’s original ink cartridges contain 5% – 45% post-consumer or post-industrial recycled plastic.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 23, 2020

The architectural team of VenhoevenCS and Ateliers 2/3/4/ have revealed plans for a timber aquatic center in Paris, which will use a smart energy system to provide 90% of needed energy from recovered or renewable energy sources for the 2024 Olympics. The center also utilizes upcycled furniture in its design.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Use what you already have around the home or office to create a chic upcycled organizer! Onyx and Green , another eco-friendly office supply brand, manufactures a diversity of products made from sustainable and recycled materials such as sugarcane paper notebooks, recycled rubber erasers, refillable coffee bean ballpoint pens and much more.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 15, 2020

based but earned a master’s degree in renewable energy in New Zealand. diysustainability #upcycle #diy #tshirtupcycle #sustainability #diysustainability #lesswaste #fyp ? last20pavement Almost all glass materials can be infinitely recycled #doyourpart #sustainability #recycle #environment ? Aiken is U.S.-based

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Business Green

APRIL 12, 2021

Drinks giant Diageo announced late last week it had produced 173,000 recycled-glass whisky bottles in waste-based biofuel furnaces as part of a successful pilot project with glass manufacturer Encirc and government-backed research and development (R&D) body Glass Futures. "We Glass Futures is currently leading a £7.1m

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The chair’s padding is now made of recycled PET fabric, sourced from water bottles, that is both recyclable and compostable. On the outside, the upholstery fabric is made of open-end cotton yarn that comes from 100% recycled material certified according to the Global Recycled Standard.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Dash Linear is the latest installment in Graypants’ Scraplight series, an appropriate name considering they are made out of recycled and virgin cardboard. Recycled cardboard is used for the natural Dash, while virgin corrugated cardboard is used for the white and blonde options. Available lengths are 48 or 93 inches.

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Green Business Bureau

MAY 12, 2022

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? Waste and Recycling – What waste do we produce and where does it come from?

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 12, 2020

In the Ballard neighborhood, close to Seattle’s downtown, local architecture firm Graham Baba Architects has completed the Klotski, a mixed-use infill building that emphasizes energy efficiency. The Klotski is also equipped with rainwater cisterns that collect and recycle rainwater. On-site covered parking is accessed off the alley.

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 27, 2022

For instance, an initiative for the current year might be “ replace all lighting with energy-efficient alternatives like LEDs ” or “ replace our fuel-powered delivery vehicles with hybrid or electric vehicles ”. A policy-based assessment covers purchasing, manufacturing, recycling, business travel, diversity, and employee benefits.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The new 'carbon neutral' shoe was developed through a partnership with carbon capture specialists LanzaTech, Borealis, and Technip Energies. Today we continue our journey to show the world that recycled carbon is a resource rather than a liability" said Jennifer Holmgren, chief executive at LanzaTech. "As

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2021

When we talk of 250 Bishopsgate being a 'green' building, we aren't talking about energy, although it has made improvements to reduce its energy usage through capital investment programmes. This ensures that plastic bottles disposed in the building are responsibly recycled and kept out of nature.

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