Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 7, 2023

Edinburgh-based Carbogenics – the developer of proprietary technology that enhances the efficacy and applicability of anaerobic digestion – has raised more than £1m in investment to build its first production and R&D facility in Scotland.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 3, 2021

Climate tech startups, and investments into them, are growing. In 2020, investments into early stage climate tech companies topped $60 billion and grew at a faster rate than all VC investments from 2013 to 2019. The largest source of textiles in municipal solid waste is discarded clothing. Close Authorship. Courtesy of.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2022

UK-based Mura Technology announces major backing from global chemicals giant to help it develop host of innovative US and European plastic recycling facilities. A spokesperson for Mura Technology said Dow's latest backing announced today amounted to a "multi-million-dollar" investment, but would not disclose the precise sum.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Waste management firm Re-Gen Waste has invested £5m in the development of its existing processing facility, to produce a high specification replacement for traditional fossil fuels, for use in cement kilns and power stations. It also recovers energy from unrecyclable household waste, that is sent by many councils, to landfills.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Chemically-recycled plastic could be in high demand by the end of this decade, major companies predict. A dozen of the world's largest consumer goods companies, including Mars, PepsiCo, Unilever, and Danone, have joined forces to signal that there is significant and growing demand for chemically recycled plastic from corporates across Europe.

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Business Green

JULY 29, 2022

Regulation, consumer demand and shareholders are pushing for more recycled textiles. Imagine if a significant portion of the textiles that cannot be reused in their current form could be recycled. Fashion companies need to set ambitious targets for recycling textiles and designing for circularity.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MARCH 22, 2021

California’s ambitious goal of reaching 75% recycling by 2020 was unsuccessful – the state has only achieved 37% in 2019 ( 1 ). Join our discussion around transforming the waste industry with technology, passion, and people. WCS board members and waste specialists, Sara Fuentes and Julia Murphy, will moderate the discussion.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 6, 2023

Technology and recycling equipment firm TOMRA has signed a majority ownership agreement with Plastretur, the Norwegian Producer Responsibility Organisation for recycling plastic packaging. The plant will be the cornerstone in building the national infrastructure Norway needs to achieve future recycling targets.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 31, 2020

Sorting technologies manufacturer TOMRA Recycling considers the limitations of existing sorting methods and explores the issues facing European scrap metal processors and aluminium producers investing in equipment to sort their own scrap material. Consequently, there is a now a surplus of Zorba in Europe.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 28, 2023

February saw an apparent line in the sand emerging between European waste management regulation commentators over the merits of introducing mandatory mixed waste sorting (MWS) – prior to thermal treatment and landfill disposal – versus focusing on making improvements to source separation. MWS could save between 10.2

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 18, 2021

This Global Recycling Day (18 March), Robert Lockyer, CEO and founder of Delta Global, a sustainable packaging solutions provider for luxury fashion brands, discusses some of the ways in which he believes the industry is making great headway in terms of recyclability, as well as where more can still be done.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 27, 2021

Manufacturers, retailers and recyclers urged to join the collaboration. Fund designed to drive progress towards household collection of flexible plastic for recycling. This will in turn increase the supply of recycled plastic enabling industry to become more ‘circular’ and meet the forthcoming UK plastic packaging tax obligations.

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Business Green

JUNE 27, 2021

Consortium featuring L’Oréal, Nestlé Waters, PepsiCo, and Suntory Beverage & Food Europe tout major plastic recycling breakthrough. As such, plastic can usually only be recycled a finite number of times, and it is estimated only around nine per cent of all plastic ever made has ever been fully recycled.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

Company announces goal to ensure Walkers, Doritos, and Lay's crisps use recycled or renewable plastic packaging by end of the decade. PepsiCo Europe has today announced a new ambition to replace all virgin plastics used in its crisp and chip bags with 100 per cent recycled or renewable plastic by 2030.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 15, 2021

A newly constructed, fully automated mixed waste sorting plant in Stavanger, Norway – a region that showcased an “exemplary model of the Holistic Resource Systems framework”, according to the study. Now is the time for real action to ensure societies stop wasting resources with all the related negative consequences.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 12, 2024

Factors attributed as principal causes include: the burning of biomass fuel for cooking, heating, and lighting; the crude oil exploitation and coal mining industries; and old vehicles being shipped in from Europe. Investment in clean energy such as solar, hydropower and wind to meet Africa’s energy demand which is expected to double by 2040.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 16, 2019

The UK’s first compressor dismantling facility has been installed at WEEE recycler Environcom’s recycling plant in Grantham. The new machinery, which is only the second of its kind in Europe, enables the safe dismantling of compressors from refrigerators and other cooling appliances.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Waste heat from large computer data centres is to be used to supply heating and hot water to homes and businesses in a local community spanning three boroughs in west and northwest London. Join Enlit Europe in Paris. million) to construct the district heating network. Have you read? Register now

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Business Green

MAY 26, 2021

Some of the UK's largest consumer goods companies and supermarkets have jointly launched a £1m fund that aims to invest in efforts to make plastic bags, wrappers, firms, pouches, packets and sachets easier for consumers to recycle while also driving down costs for waste management firms.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 2, 2020

The investment brings Macquarie's investments in the energy, waste, solar PV and onshore and offshore wind sectors to more than £1.5bn, according to the firm. The investment is being provided by the bank's infrastructure arm, Macquarie Infrastructure Debt Investment Solutions (MIDIS).

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2022

Online retail giant Amazon has taken another step towards curbing plastic waste across its operations, today announcing that it has stopped packing products in single-use plastic delivery bags and envelopes in its UK distribution network.

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2020

The volume of waste produced in England has remained largely the same for the past five years, presenting fresh questions as to how government, businesses, and households can successfully curb waste levels. However, the picture is more encouraging once the findings are measured in the context of the growth of the economy.

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Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2020

The UK must develop facilities to extract valuable metals from electronic waste, or it risks falling behind growing global competition, argues Inprotec's Chris Oldroyd. However, retrieving and recycling these metals from used appliances is notoriously difficult, which is becoming an increasingly big issue for the UK and many other countries.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2021

Today we celebrate Global Recycling Day, March 18th. But it is also a significant moment for us at Dow, as a plastics manufacturer, to reflect on what recycling means for us and our future. We're working on several sourcing options, buying raw materials from their bio-based waste and residue portfolios to create our plastics.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Because of our scale, we know it's our responsibility to address textile waste and then overall be thinking about how to keep products in use for the long term, and to design out waste from the beginning,” said Jeannie Renne-Malone, who has served as the vice president of global sustainability at VF Corp since Sept.

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The Environmental Blog

AUGUST 24, 2023

Technological and scientific advancements have ushered in an era of efficiency, reduced waste, and better animal welfare practices. Precision feeding, for instance, customizes the diet of each bird based on its specific needs, reducing waste produced and maximizing growth efficiency.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JANUARY 25, 2023

Climate tech investment landed in the spotlight in 2022. eGrocery, food delivery) saw valuations nosedive and VC dollars dwindle, climate tech investment “hovered at historic highs,” according to PWC’s State of Climate Tech 2022 report. While other sectors (e.g., Disclosure: AFN’s parent company is AgFunder.]

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The past week has been a key period for investment decisions, pleas and pledges within the financial community. At the same time, the European Investment Bank (EIB) released its 7th annual investment survey, breaking down how firms have been faring in the energy space in the midst of the continuing effects of the war in Ukraine.

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Business Green

JULY 27, 2020

UK developer secures investment to expand development of EV and grid storage batteries that can be repaired, reused and upgraded. However, most lithium-ion batteries are not designed to be reused or recycled at the end of their average 8-10 year lifespan.

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2020

The volume of waste produced in England has remained largely the same for the past five years, presenting fresh questions as to how government, businesses, and households can successfully curb waste levels. However, the picture is more encouraging once the findings are measured in the context of the growth of the economy.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Upcoming policy decisions on plastic, carbon trading and carbon capture could see the waste sector become a major driver of regional decarbonisation, writes Enfinium's Mike Maudsley Just over a year ago, I made a significant - and positive - career change. It took less than six months for that prevailing wisdom to be proven wrong.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 26, 2021

· New HydroPRS process creates raw ingredients for “infinitely recyclable new products” · World-first commercial-scale plant starts construction in Teesside, UK, backed by global partners and UK Government. Plans for one million tonnes of capacity in development worldwide by 2025. i] Sites are planned in Germany, the US and Asia.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2020

Aerial view of a coal-fired power plant: Capturing waste from point sources such as chimney flues is much easier than sucking it out of the surrounding air. Many have maintained that it makes better sense to invest in renewables and energy reduction, a position held by Greenpeace and other groups. Envirotec writes. Do we need it?

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 17, 2023

They seek to reduce waste generation on campus, conserve energy and water resources, encourage sustainable modes of transportation, and integrate sustainability principles into academic and research programs. Waste Management: Waste management is a crucial aspect of these initiatives.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 24, 2021

Hardware recycling: Continuing its efforts to reduce e-waste, in FY20, Oracle collected 2.5 was either reused or recycled. Reducing waste : Oracle has decreased the amount of waste sent to landfill at Oracle-owned buildings by 25% on a square foot basis since 2015. Among the new projects are 11 in the U.S.,

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 12, 2022

Many cheaply-made skillets lack a durable design and contribute to the waste stream with their short lifespans. When a company invests in that quality and makes the pan from recycled materials, it’s a double win. When a company invests in that quality and makes the pan from recycled materials, it’s a double win.

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2021

Food giant announces roll out of new recyclable paperboard multipack sleeves as part of £25m investment in sustainable packaging innovations. But "sustainable packaging has a significant impact, too, with 71 per cent of UK shoppers agreeing that they are more satisfied with a product if it is easily recycled or composted," she added.

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