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Greentown’s Sector Pitch Day Tackles Decarbonizing Manufacturing

Greentown Labs

Focal obstacles to decarbonizing the sector include producing iron, steel, chemicals, plastics, and cement—which together account for more than half of industrial emissions. Elemental Recycling ’s proprietary process recycles any and all plastics and tires into high-purity hydrogen and graphene.

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Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q1 2024

Greentown Labs

Twenty-four startups joined our community in Q1 2024, working on innovations ranging from biobased building materials, to sustainable rubber, to solar-powered flight. Buildings Carbon Negative Solutions is creating smart-city-ready, carbon-negative concrete products. It’s participating in Year 2 of ACCEL.

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From Trash to Treasure: The Role of Technology in Modern Waste Management

The Environmental Blog

From waste segregation to state-of-the-art WTE plants, innovative technology is helping transform trash into valuable resources. The purity of recycled materials can be increased using these systems to distinguish and isolate various plastic types according to their chemical makeup. Smart cities are leading the way.

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Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q4 2021

Greentown Labs

Twenty-five startups joined our community in the final months of 2021, working on innovations as diverse as solar-plus-storage for blackouts, plastic and tire recycling, geothermal power generation, and construction-less dam electrification. We’re thrilled to support these groundbreaking climatetech startups—let us introduce you!

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PVC cables sector has worked to reduce toxic emissions, as sector conference explores

Envirotec Magazine

The most recent developments in sustainability and innovation in the PVC cables sector were discussed on 5 October at the 3rd PVC4Cables* Conference in Bologna, Italy, as an announcement from the group explains. In addition, acidity is inadequate as a representation of smoke toxicity.

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Our Startups’ Biggest Accomplishments This Year

Greentown Labs

In December, Smart Cities Dive chose Biobot for its Technology of the Year award. million to support circularity in plastics, joined The Alliance to End Plastic Waste , and struck up a partnership with Porsche to trace sustainability in the carmaker’s supply chain. SparkCharge raised a $3.3M population.

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Look into the future - Year 2050

Green Tech Challenge

Frederik Van Deurs, Co-Founder of Green Innovation Group A/S Diary from the future 17/04/2050 I woke up this morning and had my coffee with the sound of lapping waves like music in my ears. Polisensio , played a big part in it by offering an air pollution monitoring system for Smart Cities.