GreenBiz

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Major corporations, innovative startups, ambitious non-profits, and industry associations are making progress toward the idea of the zero-waste office, and they share their best practices in this new report by Green Standards. The State of the Circular Workplace in 2023 is promising.

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Waste Waste Startups Organic 397

GreenBiz

JULY 17, 2020

The future of the fashion industry requires innovative circular systems. Agricultural waste from food crops either is traditionally left to rot or is burned, contributing to greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution. This is more than just a better way to produce fiber from food crop waste. Food Waste. Nicole Pamani.

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Fashion Innovation Recycling Recycling 434

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Supercritical water can be a solvent for all organic materials including plastics. Its gas-like penetration power makes it a superior medium to decompose mixtures of complex waste plastics into value-added materials, which are feedstock for manufacturing new plastics.

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Plastics Recycling Recycling Packaging 246

Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 12, 2021

Researchers from Coventry University are collaborating with Severn Trent and the Organics Group to turn sewage waste into a clean fuel for tankers and other vehicles. The project will look to capture waste ammonia from the utility’s sewage treatment facility and turn it into hydrogen.

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Waste Waste Hydrogen Carbon-neutral 166

Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 26, 2024

Based on the results, they propose the creation of a national carbon credit fund to support sustainable waste management initiatives. The national composition of MSW is 50% organic matter, 35% recyclables and 15% landfill refuse. Harmonia and Ibertioga have very high rates of waste reuse (56% and 67% respectively).

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Waste Waste Recycling Recycling 148

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

An 11-strong European consortium has secured funding for a project to demonstrate the commercial feasibility of generating waste sugars derived from household waste and producing a range of high-performance bio-based materials and products. Reduce environmental plastic pollution levels.

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Waste Waste Plastics Biotech 282

GreenBiz

JANUARY 6, 2021

Waste: an environmental justice issue we should be talking about. For nearly two decades, Flowers, a recent awardee of the MacArthur Foundation "genius grant ," has been bringing attention to failing water and waste sanitation infrastructure in rural areas. Deonna Anderson. Wed, 01/06/2021 - 01:30. Read an excerpt here.).

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Waste Waste Climate change Organic 435

GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Shooting for the moon: 3 radical innovations to remove atmospheric CO2. The nonprofit organization plans to do this by accelerating Earth’s carbonate-silicate cycle, in which volcanic rock is weathered by rain and creates a chemical reaction that sequesters CO2 from the air. Tali Zuckerman. Tue, 11/10/2020 - 01:00.

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Innovation Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Carbon-negative 519

Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 21, 2021

As the recycling industry innovates to embrace its role as a key player in the UK’s journey towards a more sustainable society, new challenges continue to emerge. One challenge which EMR faces is how it handles a series of non-biodegradable chemicals found in some plastics which are categorised as Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs).

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Pollution Organic Plastics Recycling 130

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Two of the new bays at Forth Resource Management, which were installed to hold recycled material made from organic waste delivered by local councils. The organic waste includes garden clippings and trimmings, and waste material produced by gardeners and landscapers.

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Waste Waste Recycled materials Recycling 147

Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 1, 2023

Whether you’re a happy-go-lucky ‘wish-cycler’ – tossing waste in the hope it can be recycled – or one who routinely agonizes over different diameters of plastic wrapping, there’s no harm in picking up a clearer understanding of the whole process. It turns out there are two types of receipts floating around out there.

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Recycling Recycling Waste Waste 163

Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

A Scottish-based manufacturing facility which will enable the production of lower carbon cement products has secured a £500,000 award from Zero Waste Scotland’s Circular Economy Investment Fund. The product was also short-listed as a finalist in the 2021 National Recycling Awards. ”

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Innovation Sustainability Waste Waste 130

The Environmental Blog

APRIL 7, 2020

After the World Health Organization deemed the outbreak a pandemic, stock prices began to plummet, global shipping became strained, and the prospect of a global economic recession was plastered over many morning newspapers. What do we do with household waste and recycling? It isn’t all bad news though.

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Recycling Recycling Waste Waste 307

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MARCH 22, 2021

We have called on industry leaders to guide this solutions-based forum and panel on how innovation can move us away from landfill dependency and decrease the impacts on our environment. Join our discussion around transforming the waste industry with technology, passion, and people. How do we get back on track? Theodosia Fehsenfeld.

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Waste Waste Recycling Recycling 52

Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Rocket Industrial helps organizations reduce waste with their innovative packaging solutions. ? of landfill garbage is packaging material of some kind, meaning waste reduction demands a global shift to avoid throwaway solutions, and supporting this shift is the packaging distribution company Rocket Industrial.

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Packaging Waste Waste Organic 78

Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

WHAT IS SUSTAINABILITY INNOVATION? In the world of business, sustainability innovation can be defined as the process of evolving old business models and creating new ventures that realize economic value and generate positive environmental and social impacts simultaneously. HOW IS SUSTAINABILITY INNOVATION DRIVING THE GREEN ECONOMY?

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Innovation Sustainability Carbon-negative Stormwater 148

Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Recycling our waste has become an expected practice across multiple industries with those not participating in the practice severely damaging their company image and reputation. Processed residuals from those materials and left-overs are often treated as valueless waste and disposed of. Going Zero Waste.

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Waste Waste Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring 140

Inhabitat - Innovation

JANUARY 7, 2022

Each travel, duffle, shopping and computer bag that hits the stores adds to the ongoing use of synthetic fibers, environmental pollution and waste. The reality is that it doesn’t have to be that way. Terra Thread has taken that idea to heart with a line of bags that are sustainably and ethically produced.

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Organic Ethics Pollution Waste 159

GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Our current economic model is based on extraction and waste. This take-make-waste economic model fundamentally cannot work long term. This model, known as the circular economy, could help tackle the world’s biggest challenges, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, waste and pollution.

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Waste Waste Organic Sustainability 545

Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

In an apparent industry first, a new facility will use organic waste to provide the heat and power required for the production of corrugated sheet board. Although autonomous neighbouring businesses, this innovative facility effectively makes CorrBoard UK’s production carbon neutral, providing an advantage to its customers and partners.

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Waste Waste Carbon-neutral Packaging 114

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

A new report – “Improving the loops of plastics in electronics” – shares the conclusions from a recent workshop on Waste of Electrical and Electronic equipment (WEEE) plastics, organized by BSEF, the International Bromine Council, during the International Electronics recycling conference (IERC 2022).

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Plastics Recycling Recycling Waste 246

GreenBiz

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Can big data, AI and chemical footprinting help the renewable energy sector avoid a toxic waste legacy? Three years ago, the Department of Materials Design and Innovation at the University at Buffalo, Clean Production Action (CPA) and Niagara Share created the Collaboratory for a Regenerative Economy (CoRE). Krishna Rajan.

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Waste Waste Energy Energy 461

Inhabitat - Innovation

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Manufacturing is bad for the planet in general, and the textile industry is one of the leading producers of manufacturing pollution and waste. With this in mind, the Good Clothing Company decided to implement old-school clothing production that is better for the Earth and a pleasure for the consumer.

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Organic Pollution Waste Waste 225

GreenBiz

MARCH 5, 2021

More than 100 billion tons of resources enter the economy every year — everything from metals, minerals and fossil fuels to organic materials from plants and animals. The world produces around 300 million tons of plastic waste every year, nearly equivalent to the weight of the entire human population. David McGinty.

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Plastics Fossil fuels Recycled materials Recycling 505

Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Siemens Energy has signed an agreement with Canada-based TC Energy Corporation (TC Energy) to commission what is said to be a first-of-its-kind waste heat-to-power pilot installation in Alberta. The facility will capture waste heat from a gas-fired turbine operating at a pipeline compression station and convert it into emissions-free power.

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Waste Waste Energy Energy 113

Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Located in the heart of Spain’s Basque Country, CIC energiGUNE is a beacon of innovation in the realm of energy research. Established as a strategic initiative by the Basque Government, the organization has swiftly emerged as a key player in the pursuit of sustainable and efficient energy solutions.

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Plastics Hydrogen Waste Waste 85

The Environmental Blog

AUGUST 24, 2023

Understanding Modern Poultry Farming According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) , the global production of poultry meat has dramatically increased from 9 to 133 million tonnes from 1961 to 2020 to cater to the rising demand. Waste Management A major advancement in modern poultry farming practices is efficient waste management.

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Building Energy Monitoring Sustainability Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor 195

Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

In addition to the obvious benefits of increased convenience and flexibility for participants, virtualizing these meetings thus saves not only money but also resources, time, emissions, and waste. Ensure there is real-time technical support for the organizer and participants. Virtual Meeting Best Practices.

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Waste Waste Sustainability Carbon-negative 148

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 11, 2023

A trade association representing petroleum companies and a controversy-ridden waste management firm are sponsoring dinners at this year’s Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ) conference, DeSmog can reveal. The SEJ is a 1,500-strong membership organization dedicated to “more and better coverage of environment-related issues.”

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Waste Waste Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 94

Inhabitat - Innovation

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The good news is this: compost is separate enough from recycling and landfill waste in nearly every facility. Therefore, your organic waste is indeed becoming fertilizer. The bad news: the planet desperately needs us to increase our composting infrastructure and soon.

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Waste Waste Recycling Recycling 164

Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

category, for exploiting previously unused waste heat from two furnaces for electricity generation. category, for exploiting previously unused waste heat from two furnaces for electricity generation. The aim was to harness waste heat from the resulting high exhaust temperatures, with as few changes as possible to the existing process.

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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Waste 241

Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Anaerobic digestion is a process whereby organic materials such as energy crops, agricultural residues, manures and food waste are broken down by bacteria in the absence of oxygen, generating biogas (mostly a mixture of methane, carbon dioxide and nitrogen). Here, we take a look at the seven main benefits of AD to farmers… What is AD?

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Soil Agriculture Health Methane 258

GreenBiz

AUGUST 31, 2020

But it will take new, innovative ideas to build a global system that uses and reuses all of the resources within it and moves us away from the deeply entrenched extractive system under which the modern world functions. The startup Infinity Goods has created a zero-waste grocery delivery service in Denver, Colorado, with plans to expand soon.

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Startups Recycling Recycling Waste 537

AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Industrial designers Altino Alex and Savin Dimov have just unveiled an innovative product geared towards helping families around the world reduce their food waste. Food waste is one of the world’s most pressing issues. billion tons) gets lost or wasted. The Bubble is a smart, user-friendly and app-controlled tracker.

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Waste Waste Innovation Agriculture 36

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. All comments expressed are those of the individuals and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of their organizations.

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Health Sustainability Agriculture Organic 535

Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

North America’s largest climatetech incubator will expand to Houston’s Innovation District to accelerate the clean energy transition and reveals Microsoft, Rice Management Company, Saint-Gobain, Direct Energy, Naturgy, and FCC Environmental Services as additional partners. mixed-use space that anchors the Innovation District.

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Incubators Incubators Innovation Startups 98

Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 9, 2023

“The know-how researched here can be the basis for many other innovations,” commented Minister of Labour and Economic Affairs Martin Kocher. And the current handling of residual and waste materials, for example from construction projects, still has great potential in terms of recyclability.

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Sustainability Recycling Recycling Waste 201