AGreenLiving

MAY 14, 2020

He spent about two years looking for the right materials to fit his goals, working with Sustainable Angle, a nonprofit organization that connects small businesses with high-quality eco-textile suppliers. the upcycled apple leather has a much lower impact than similar faux leathers on the market right now. According to Oliver Co.,

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AGreenLiving

MAY 14, 2020

He spent about two years looking for the right materials to fit his goals, working with Sustainable Angle, a nonprofit organization that connects small businesses with high-quality eco-textile suppliers. the upcycled apple leather has a much lower impact than similar faux leathers on the market right now. According to Oliver Co.,

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Energy Innovation

JUNE 3, 2024

PUA and UA can also shorten food supply chains by reducing the distance between producers and consumers, and add value to waste through the use of local food scraps for on-farm compost or upcycled materials, like wood for raised beds. Source: Mulya et al. 2023, optimized from Opitz et al.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 22, 2020

This activity can be beneficial to both staff and management of an organization as it enables business leaders to engage with employees, listen to challenges they face, observe and understand the process, identify sources of waste or opportunities for improvement in their daily operations and improve collaboration.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The majority (50%) of organizations thought sustainability was “ fairly well ” integrated, as opposed to an ideal “ extremely well ” target. It’s a living, integral part of your business that needs room to grow organically, adjust flexibly, and evolve to your company’s changing needs. How much do we waste? Returns on Capital.

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 21, 2023

deploys a biorefining platform that upcycles organic waste to fatty-acid biochemicals that can be used in a wide range of applications. Global Algae Innovations (San Diego, California, U.S.) and New York City, N.Y., Capro-X (Ithaca, New York, U.S.) Capture6 (Oakland, California, U.S.)

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Greentown Labs

JULY 12, 2022

Carbon Upcycling Technologies (Calgary, Canada) utilizes point-source CO2 and mineralizes it with waste materials to create supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) that can be used in building materials. Carbon is a waste product, suspended in the air we breathe,” said Pat Sapinsely, Managing Director of the Urban Future Lab.

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Business Green

JULY 8, 2021

The strength and breadth of the shortlist is testament to the remarkable levels of innovation, resilience, and ingenuity green businesses and executives have demonstrated over the past 18 months, as they have continued to advance the net zero transition, while pushing green business principles and clean technologies firmly into the mainstream.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

However, everything about it challenges the typical waste in the furniture industry, from material selection to the end-of-life disposal. PlayWood also incorporates scrap from other industries in an effort to upcycle waste. Inasmuch, they are environmentally friendly and recyclable after a long life.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 12, 2021

Organic Materials. The environmental benefits to incorporating sustainable materials into your construction projects are numerous: Reduces landfill waste. UpCycle – Austin, Texas. This creativity and innovation in the renovation process prevented the emissions of over 1,500 metric tons of CO2.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 7, 2022

The fresh and innovative patterns add a unique flair to walls and countertops with minimal environmental impact. Each tile is made using upcycled post-consumer materials. In addition to a focus on material selection, the company is dedicated to pairing with green manufacturing partners in order to minimize resources and waste.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Give grandpa one of 13 color options, all manufactured using an innovative fabric made entirely from plastic bottles. Organic handmade pasta Even if you haven’t mastered the art of making handmade pasta yourself, you can give the gift of organic food. Organic semolina is non-GMO and is grown sans pesticides or fertilizers.

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The Environmental Blog

MARCH 1, 2023

According to the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry Toxic Substances Portal , Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) can irritate the eyes, nose, and throat, cause difficulty breathing and nausea, and damage the central nervous system and other organs. Check out this sample of an upcycled kitchen with plywood cabinets.

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2020

As an organization, Textile Exchange supports the apparel and textiles sector in switching to preferable materials that have a more positive impact on people and the environment compared to conventional. Leather is already a by-product of the slaughter process, making use of what otherwise would go to waste. Invest in innovation.

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The Environmental Blog

JUNE 13, 2024

Repurposing items around your home can also significantly reduce waste; an old t-shirt can become a cleaning rag, and glass jars can serve as excellent storage solutions. Additionally, making recycling a routine practice by separating recyclables from your trash encourages responsible waste management.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The SDGs are a roadmap to collective action and creating partnerships between governments, corporations, nonprofit organizations, and academia. SDG 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure. These goals were created to address the climate and social justice challenges the world is facing and to help achieve measurable solutions.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Do you think addressing food waste in the office is too much of a bother? Doesn’t most waste happen in our households, restaurants and other food institutions? Reports show that most of America’s food waste comes from consumers – of which 60% makes up the workforce. How to Prevent Food Waste in the Workplace.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The World Design Organization named Trashpresso, designed by Miniwiz, a World Design Impact Prize Winner for 2021. It is the world’s first mobile industrial-grade plastic trash upcycling platform. Miniwiz Images via World Design Organization. Read the rest here: Trashpresso is the first mobile plastic upcycling platform.

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Business Green

JUNE 6, 2022

The new range of clothes is made exclusively from recycled, renewable or 'innovative' materials, with the online retail giant claiming the collection has been created to test a range of "circular" or "sustainable" technologies and textiles that could eventually become mainstays of the fashion industry of the future.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The issues are many, from the resources needed to grow cotton or produce synthetic fabrics, usually from petroleum feedstocks, to the waste that ends up in landfills, especially for inexpensive and trendy clothing items that often have a short useful life. Finally, there are the innovators — entrepreneurs who see gold in all that green.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 21, 2021

At first glance, food waste may not seem like a big issue. In fact, food waste is a massive problem. The waste is a problem, considering non-plant-based foods can’t be composted. But the end waste doesn’t even represent the real problem of wasted food. Not exactly.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

In the past few years, as consumers looked to cut down on plastic waste at the grocery store, more mainstream supermarkets turned to bulk shopping bins as a solution. In 2017, when LimeLoop, an IoT solution for sustainable e-commerce shipping logistics, started, it was in response to the amount of waste caused by e-commerce.

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Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 5, 2020

We’re grateful to partner with this latest group of innovators and, with a portfolio that’s now 117 companies strong, work together to commercialize an abundance of solutions to reverse climate change — starting today. ” — Danya Hakeem, Director of Innovation, Agriculture & Circular Economy. Why do we love them?

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 29, 2022

These actions are needed as the brewing process is energy-intensive, uses large amounts of water, and generates high volumes of wastewater and organic waste. Challenge 5 : The brewing process is wasteful. Closed-loop systems need to be introduced to address this waste. BREWERY SUSTAINABILITY GUIDE.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 28, 2022

We explain our current waste crisis in detail, before defining an effective business waste management strategy to reduce packaging waste. Use the links below to navigate this guide: The need for sustainable packaging: Giving perspective to our waste crisis. The 6 types of retail packaging waste. That is, 17.6

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Green Tech Challenge

MARCH 1, 2019

This article might come off as a darker note of the feel-good vibes of sustainable innovation - bear with me, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel. On a lighter note, we have seen a lot of promising developments in the innovation of this industry. Writing this article, I made honesty a priority of mine.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The issues are many, from the resources needed to grow cotton or produce synthetic fabrics, usually from petroleum feedstocks, to the waste that ends up in landfills, especially for inexpensive and trendy clothing items that often have a short useful life. Finally, there are the innovators — entrepreneurs who see gold in all that green.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

How two companies are building systems to scale reuse, which is vital for a circular economy Deonna Anderson Fri, 11/06/2020 – 01:15 In the past few years, as consumers looked to cut down on plastic waste at the grocery store, more mainstream supermarkets turned to bulk shopping bins as a solution. million tons (29.9 It is possible.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

Our honorees for 2021 are intrepid startup founders, tenacious corporate innovators and determined public servants. Still others are driving sustainability at nonprofit organizations and consultancies. Amy’s Kitchen, whose pot pies helped warm the public to organic food in the 1980s, has set its sights on healing the planet.

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Elemental Excelerator

JUNE 12, 2019

Then capital flows, and the creative innovations that come from many of the folks that you’re going to see today will be part of those breakthroughs that will help to improve the human condition.” BioCellection | Upcycling hard-to-recycle plastic waste | watch. Scoot | Shared electric mobility | watch.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 17, 2021

Our honorees for 2021 are intrepid startup founders, tenacious corporate innovators and determined public servants. Still others are driving sustainability at nonprofit organizations and consultancies. Periods can be a taboo topic, but Camargo sees an opportunity for innovation. Electrified mobility.

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