Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

A seemingly ground-breaking project to create a circular end-of-life supply chain for the electric vehicle industry is being led by EMR Metals Recycling. Under current EU law and also post Brexit, manufacturers retain responsibility for the safe disposal of electric car batteries.

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The Environmental Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Every plastic cup, bottle, bag, or packaging that you’ve ever thrown away is in a landfill or in the ocean right now, with the exception of a few that might have made it through the recycling process. Royalty Free Photo. But plastic has to go somewhere, and since it’s not biodegradable at all, it doesn’t just simply disappear.

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Eco-Business

MARCH 20, 2024

The region’s per-capita burden is low but its recycling laws cannot handle the sheer volume of junked phones and fridges. Globally, improperly discarded gadgets, including solar panels, add to a mounting health and environmental crisis.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

” This means those handling waste will record information from the point waste is produced to the stage it is disposed of, recycled and reused. This will support decision-making and help us to cut emissions and meet our waste reduction and recycling targets.”. Ignorance of the law is no excuse.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

.” “Despite warm words and promises to listen to health professionals and worried parents,” she said, “when it comes to the crunch, they have chosen to let the public down.” in line with the World Health Organization’s (WHO) guidelines.”. Soil and biodiversity. Plastic waste ban: A red herring?

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GreenBiz

MARCH 23, 2021

Over the past several decades, public health and environmental concerns have made controlling smog a top national policy goal in China and enforcement an increasingly critical issue for companies to navigate. This enshrined into law China’s first air emissions management plan and formalized an approach to regional collaboration.

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 30, 2022

Sustainable Law Firms. Law firm sustainability is a strategic business shift that aims to prevent socially and environmentally damaging operations in the legal industry. E.g. Delta Air Lines and Microsoft Corp pledged to drastically curb their carbon emissions, taking into account the carbon footprint of their associated law firms.

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Business Green

MARCH 16, 2022

It is important to recognize that plastic will remain part of the materials mix necessary to meet societal needs and maintain the highest packaging standards to safeguard human health, by preserving food and ensuring hygiene, for example, or keeping medical equipment sterile.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 8, 2022

To divert waste items away from landfills and to meet the demands of a circular economy, you’ll need an effective waste management system, which is comprised of the following key elements: Waste recycling : Waste items such as plastic, glass, aluminum, and food can be recycled. Also, take a look at bamboo compostable dinnerware.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 22, 2019

Tiffany Couture Cleaners, based in Nevada, has made their mark in the sustainable dry cleaning movement by focusing on improving the health of their customers and employees. The blend of hydrocarbon with glycol or modified alcohols cleans better than Perc without any of the environmental or health related concerns.

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Business Green

JULY 2, 2021

Its social impacts include harm to human health, in particular among vulnerable communities, and it comes with substantial economic costs affecting especially regions depending on tourism. Plastic recycling can always be improved, but it's not a solution in itself.

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2020

Our goal is for all our production to come from renewable or recycled energy.". Against the backdrop of the serious health challenges we are currently facing, leaving coal behind in exchange for renewables is the right decision, and will repay us in kind with improved health, climate protection and more resilient economies.".

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The law firm Leigh Day has written to the government and Haringey Council seeking information on whether recently appointed Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng may have ignored official climate-related guidance when he approved the project as business secretary. million in subsidies for “low-carbon” district heat networks (DHNs).

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Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2020

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. If it's concerning to think that only 17 per cent of all e-waste was recycled in 2019, consider this: e-waste is rising three times faster than the world's population.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Much of the resulting waste is dumped, leaching toxic chemicals into ecosystems around the world, poisoning habitats and damaging human and animal health, while also leading to the loss of valuable materials. Under current laws, the environmental impacts of e-waste should be relatively low.

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Business Green

AUGUST 18, 2020

The long-term air quality target is envisaged to specifically focus on fine particulate matter pollution (PM2.5), which has a major detrimental impact on human health, and of which a major emitter is road vehicles.

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Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2021

The government confirmed it now expects the bill to resume its report stage in the Second Session of the year before passing into law in the autumn. Environment Minister Rebecca Pow stressed the delay did not "diminish [the government's] ambition for our environment in any way". "We

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Business Green

APRIL 20, 2020

We ask that the [Department of Health and Human Services] speak out against bans on these products as a public safety risk and help stop the rush to ban these products by environmentalists and elected officials that puts consumers and workers at risk," Radoszewski wrote. It also denied the move had come in response to industry lobbying.

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Business Green

JANUARY 30, 2023

Protecting our natural environment is fundamental to the health, economy and prosperity of our country," said Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. Nature is vital for our survival, crucial to our food security, clean air, and clean water as well as health and well-being benefits," she added. "We per cent of land currently adequately protected.

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The Environmental Blog

APRIL 8, 2022

The latest threat to health and the environment is the disposal of electronic e-waste. Landfill sites in developed countries are already overloaded with domestic and commercial waste including plastics and other commodities that could be recycled. If each item was recycled, these resources could also help reduce carbon emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

When fierce storms appear on the horizon, the children get especially anxious and the elderly worry, which has impacts on their health. He developed a form of environmental justice law focused on community empowerment and mobilization. Meanwhile, the island is rapidly eroding out from under the village.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Law firm Baker McKenzie conducted more than 1,400 interviews with external and internal stakeholder to prioritize its focus (PDF) on goals No. One of our biggest challenges was getting people to understand that a services company could be impacted by this," noted Christie Constantine, global director of sustainability for the law firm.

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Green Tech Challenge

MAY 3, 2019

The Blue Economy is sustainable use of ocean resources for: economic growth, improved livelihoods, job creation, and ocean ecosystem health. Without clean water, health is compromised, and lives are endangered. Recycling, when practised as an end to end solution, has proven effective. Trillion to the global economy annually.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 24, 2022

You’ve got to be able to get rid of it, generally via disposal or recycling today. Drilling and fracking also require vast amounts of water, and drillers often use some of the industry’s water for more fracking, a process they call “water recycling.”. Water can’t be flared or compressed. Credit: Justin Hame l. Credit: Justin Hamel.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

McDonough: When we set up the circular economy, the first version for the 12th five-year plan, which came along later, it was interpreted really as "Please recycle." But we were not required to by law. Those kinds of things were people paying attention to issues of human health and dignity and trade and quality. It had no depth.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

Under the law , the U.S. Federal Trade Commission has the power to hold companies liable for marketing that harms consumers’ health or wealth by misleading them into buying a product or service based on a false or deceptive claim.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 31, 2022

In a press release, American Energy Partners describes Austin Master as “a full-service, comprehensive environmental services firm specializing in radiological waste management solutions” that provides “professional safety, industrial hygiene and health physics services.” The company has not replied to questions.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The automaker’s sustainability goals include sourcing energy only from renewable sources and getting at least half the materials in its vehicles from recycled, bio-based or renewable origins — by 2030 in the U.S. The H&M Foundation and CO:LAB venture capital arm share a focus on advancing textile recycling. and globally by 2040.

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Business Green

MAY 11, 2022

Environmental laws and government strategy and policy have 'not yet proved successful' in slowing down, halting or reversing biodiversity decline, new regulatory body warns. Today's report from the OEP also comes in the same week as yet more evidence has emerged that UK recycling rates are continuing to flatline.

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Business Green

APRIL 20, 2021

As the idea of 'fast fashion' proliferated, clothing supply chains lengthened under relentless pressure on costs with emerging economies offering lower wages, weaker labour laws and tax breaks to win contracts from major brands. Now more than ever, the ability to manage a supply chain will determine success in the fashion industry.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 27, 2021

This can leave a lasting impact on the health of our oceans as well as communities who rely on fishing for stability. Fishing nets and lines are traditionally made from non-biodegradable, non-recyclable plastics, and all too often they are discarded, generating an accumulation of plastic waste. Prevent Ocean Waste From Plastic Netting.

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Business Green

JANUARY 12, 2022

Seperate law suits filed by ClientEarth and Friends of the Earth allege the government's flagship Net Zero Strategy focuses too heavily on unproven future technologies and could breach carbon budgets.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 25, 2022

The facility is located just down the street from a high school football stadium and less than 1,000 feet from a set of city drinking water wells, raising public health concerns from a nuclear forensics scientist about the extent of possible radioactive contamination. EPA has not replied to questions regarding these requests. “We

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The lawsuit accuses the company violated Kentucky occupational safety and health workplace standards. In the suit, they argue that the employee is required by law to let the employees go home in case of a threatening situation, which did not happen.

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Business Green

MAY 22, 2020

Yet the recycled material available to make bottles, bags and boxes has become harder to find and more expensive. Post-consumer recycled plastics look about as budget-friendly as diamonds next to cubic zirconia. Progress was being made toward adopting post-consumer recycled feedstocks. It seems an impossible situation.

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Business Green

MARCH 16, 2022

Several years in the making, the targets follow Britain's departure from the EU, which had been responsible for the setting and adherence to the vast majority of the UK's environmental laws and regulations. microns or less in size (PM2.5), which are regarded as among the most harmful for human health. Air quality. As such, PM2.5

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2023

Calls for the government to match its ambitious goals with stronger regulations to crack down on pollution and greater investment in nature recovery are only set to mount as the Chancellor preps his first Budget and the government proceeds with its controversial plans to strip out EU law from the UK's statute book.

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