The Environmental Blog

APRIL 30, 2021

Reduce waste. Second of all, a great way to become environmentally friendly is by reducing the amount of waste you produce each day. If you find switching to friendlier measures, then this is a good small step to consider as it doesn’t take much to reduce waste – hence why so many of us are doing it each day.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Research by environmental experts at the University of Southampton has determined that glass bottles are likely to be more environmentally impactful containers for pre-packaged drinks than plastic bottles. The findings are published in Detritus, the Journal for Waste Resources and Residues.

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The Environmental Blog

MARCH 16, 2021

Perhaps the pandemic’s most perilous environmental impact comes from the tons of plastic waste, main disposables such as face masks, disposable nitrile gloves , personal protective equipment (PPE), face shields, syringe, making waste management a serious challenge. Exponential Rise in Plastic Demand and Waste.

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 14, 2020

The state of our environment today is due to the broadening issues arising from loss of biodiversity, inappropriate means of disposing of waste , overpopulation, the depletion of natural resources, and increased deforestation. These affect natural habitats, produces acid rain and destroys the ozone layer because of global warming.

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The Environmental Blog

MARCH 21, 2022

As mentioned by Direct Air , air leaks can lead to a higher level of carbon emission that leads to global warming and damage to the planet. Businesses can also reduce their environmental impact by reducing the amount of waste they produce. Ways to reduce waste include recycling, composting, and reducing packaging.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 7, 2021

Here are some of the impacts digital photography has on the planet: It generates electronic waste. Photography generates a lot of waste from printing and selling photo paper and prints (many of the products are not being sold and go to waste). Use Eco-friendly Recyclable Packaging. Save money by reducing waste.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Across the entire chain, from brands to waste recyclers to petrochemical companies, there is a need to take ownership and make transformative changes in how we make and consume plastic to have any chance of meeting the Paris Agreement and to limit global warming to within 1.5C of pre-industrial levels," he said.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 15, 2021

Four years ago this week, Project Drawdown released groundbreaking research on climate solutions that catalyzed the narrative that reversing global warming is possible. Among the 80 solutions evaluated for their potential to reverse global warming, educating girls and ensuring women have access to family planning resources ranked No.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Having been crowned the most polluting brand in the world for two years running by the Break Free from Plastic campaign in its global audit of plastic waste, the firm also last year revealed it produces three million tonnes of plastic packaging a year, or the equivalent of 200,000 bottles a minute.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Africa is responsible for just 3% of global carbon emissions. But global warming and other climate change impacts are negatively impacting these economies, particularly the resulting and increasingly extreme and unpredictable weather events. Uganda’s Hya Bioplastics was another startup to secure climate-related backing.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 23, 2020

In the agriculture and food industry, sustainable business practices are intended to protect the environment, reduce waste production, increase productivity, and reduce operating costs. Without thoughtful management, organic waste can emit methane gas as they decompose. What are Sustainable Business Practices?

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The Environmental Blog

JUNE 30, 2021

If you’re interested in the prevention of global warming , you might buy things that have recycled content or that have reduced packaging. You can save money and reduce waste by purchasing foods in bulk and that are in season. If you’re going to be giving things away, don’t give things that people will just throw away.

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Sustainability Consulting

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Teaching kids about the effects of pollution, global warming, and overconsumption can help them make better choices in the future. Show them ways you conserve energy, reduce waste, and consider packaging when buying responsibly. Kids don’t have to respond in any certain way (or at all) in order to absorb the message.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

At the same time, food systems are also a major contributor to global warming, accounting for over a third of total emissions worldwide. Scientists and campaigners have raised major concerns about the lack of global action ahead of the COP28 summit, in a year of devastating impacts from climate-related weather events.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The way the world produces and consumes food causes huge environmental impacts, and yet 3 billion people worldwide are unable to afford a healthy diet, and up to a third of the food we produce is wasted. Moreover, to limit global warming to 1.5 Food loss and waste is another big environmental topic.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Projects that benefit soil quality are particularly pertinent to global warming and climate change, as soil is a significant storer of carbon, holding three times as much carbon as the atmosphere – and the importance of soil quality has often been overlooked.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi), guides companies towards targets that tackle global warming while boosting competitiveness. Other facets of your business to consider may include your packaging, shipping, and energy use in facilities such as offices. We reuse, resell, or recycle 99.8

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Grist

AUGUST 9, 2023

Last week, Grist published a summer package we dubbed Remember When — an exploration of climate solutions that had their moment in the limelight, but either fizzled or faded from view. Now they’ve moved on : How the trash jar went from zero-waste emblem to “elitist” cliche.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

With countries set to discuss potential blueprint for a Paris Agreement-style treaty for tackling plastic waste this week, leading experts give their views on what it should look like. If designed well and properly adhered to, global treaties have a lot going for them.

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Energy Innovation

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The EPS also includes smaller components like hydrogen supply, district heat, waste management, and geoengineering. Breakdowns of how each policy within a policy package contributes to total abatement and the cost-effectiveness of each policy (e.g., Vehicle technology market shares and fleet composition including electric vehicles.

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Grist

APRIL 24, 2024

.” Charron and other advocates have been pushing for ambitious targets in the global plastics treaty, and EarthDay.org is circulating a petition , which currently has over 22,000 signatures, for some of its key objectives, which include banning the export and incineration of plastic waste and a “polluter pays” principle.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The three-year funding package is to be channelled into solutions and measures that help the firm, which bottles Coca-Cola products across Western Europe, to eventually transition to using 100 per cent recycled plastic, as well as into depolymerisation technology that can improve rates of plastic recycling, it said.

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Business Green

MARCH 29, 2023

Both Sainsburys and Tesco have ditched plastic packaging on own-brand cleaning products, while Lidl recently became the latest supermarket to sign up to the WWF's Retailers' Commitment for Nature , which aims to halve the environmental impact of UK shopping baskets by 2030. degrees," he said.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Cross-industry energy efficiencies to be investigated in Port of Rotterdam Building an efficiency foundation Audit operations for energy efficiency According to the report, most industrial enterprises waste large amounts of energy, yet they do not know it. Don’t miss out on the most important energy transition conversations.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

It came as the firm announced its new sustainability programme today, pledging to "go beyond carbon neutrality" by reducing its emissions over its entire value chain, with an overarching goal to achieve the 2031 target set out in the Paris Agreement to limit global warming to 1.5C.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Squandering finite resources, creating extravagant amounts of waste, and the excessive release of carbon emissions is causing our planet to belch at the seams. Without this ice cap, global warming will accelerate as less sun is reflected out into space. This risks human stability and security, as we explain. Our reality.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2021

The pair of bills — a $1 trillion infrastructure package that passed the Senate with bipartisan support and the $3.5 Blah, blah, blah …” Greta Thunberg, the Swedish climate activist, said this week, taking a jab at President Biden’s signature legislative agenda, which is currently imperiled by disagreements within his own party.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 23, 2019

From animals facing extinction to pollution to global warming, the world is changing — quickly. The True Cost, 2015 The True Cost exposes another major contributor of pollution, waste and consumption — the fast fashion industry. Some days you may feel like you’re the only one concerned with what is happening to the planet.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Its CO2 supply comes primarily from beverage manufacturing plants, which produce waste gases during fermentation. The potential worldwide market for waste-CO2 products could be $5.9 Sipping “carbon negative” vodka will hardly reduce a drinker’s contribution to global warming. trillion a year , according to Carbon180.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2022

or 2C of global warming. The site will initially process six recycling streams: paper, plastic, aluminum cans, e-waste, batteries, and organic waste. Additionally, it will house an art gallery where students can exhibit pieces of recyclable waste, as well as a 3D printing lab that prints using recycled concrete.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

A 2019 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report concluded that the emissions caused by the global food system will increase by 30 to 40 percent by 2050, without intervention such as dietary change towards more plant-based diets.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 10, 2020

The company already includes solar paneling with all of its homes, but it also offers an additional “eco” package with 2000W solar panels and a wood-burning stove. Starting at just over $65,000, the design of The Natura is aimed at being as sustainable as possible. The Tiny Housing Co.

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Rinexii

OCTOBER 16, 2019

If you can, handle the cooking and the packaging of leftovers as well. If you’re the one doing chores, you should pretty much be free to do things how you want, and if that cuts down on waste and co2 emissions, so much the better. In some households, you can pretty much live off of food waste alone. Eat leftovers.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Dairy is a serious, but under-discussed source of planet-warming gases. Cows produce methane, a greenhouse gas that absorbs more atmospheric heat than carbon and is currently responsible for 25 percent of all global warming today. But its problems go well beyond the farm. percent of all human-induced greenhouse gas emissions.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The "world's largest" CO2-to-methonal plant has started production in China this week, with developers hailing how they are capturing waste carbon dioxide and hydrogen gases from a steelmaking factory to produce hundreds of thousands of tonnes of methanol annually for use as a fuel or chemical feedstock.

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Climate Tech VC

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Responsible for nearly a third of global warming and a quarter of global energy, methane matters. 📦 Sway , a Berkeley, CA-based seaweed-based packaging developer, raised $5m in Seed funding from Third Nature Ventures, Alante Capital, BAM Ventures, Superorganism, and The Helm. The IRS just called.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Extreme weather events become more frequent As the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration warned, global warming escalates weather disasters. At the same time, many concerned citizens in cities around the world worked to decrease plastic waste by banning straws and plastic bags.

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