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How to Build and Retrofit a Sustainable Home

Green Business Bureau

Not only does reclaimed lumber give that rustic, farmhouse look and possess some unique history within its grain, but it also helps preserve our carbon-sequestering forests and rejects monoculture tree farms that do not support biodiversity or ecological health. RECYCLED STEEL. RECYCLED PLASTIC. Arqlite , a member of the U.S.

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Top five green innovations to watch in 2022

Business Green

Bulky mixed rigid plastic accounts for 70 per cent of plastics produced, and makes up 60 per cent of the waste plastic sent to landfill or incineration in the UK and EU today. Its most recent and highly promising project seeks to determine the viability of recycling high value polymers from currently incinerated medical waste.