The Environmental Blog

MAY 7, 2020

Use recyclable materials when possible. Using recyclable materials is an obvious starting point, admittedly, but one that needs highlighting. As the world continually shifts towards protecting the environment, more opportunities are present for the use of recyclable materials. Reward eco-friendly commuting.

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Grist

OCTOBER 1, 2022

When dealing with the life cycle of plastic, hundreds of solutions await, from alternative bioplastics that might be able to degrade themselves through the magic of fungus, to complex chemical recycling that can break plastics down to become other petroleum products or to be rebuilt good as new.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The Simpler Recycling initiative brings clarity on what kinds of waste will be collected and how often (image credit: Peter_Fleming / Shutterstock.com). The Simpler Recycling initiative – previously known as Consistent Collection – was generally welcomed by waste and environmental observers.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2021

The tax places a £200 per tonne levy on producers or importers of plastic packaging if they do not include 30% recycled content and will affect all businesses in this area. The Plastic Packaging Tax is Government policy aiming to directly increase plastic recycling in the UK and cut carbon emissions.

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GreenBiz

MAY 11, 2020

Last year, the company announced two major initiatives: Carbon renewal technology , or CRT, which breaks down waste plastic feedstocks to the molecular level before using them as building blocks to produce a wide range of materials and packaging. These Franken-materials are a nonstarter for most modern recycling systems.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 28, 2023

Separated recyclable materials at a facility in Ostrava, Czech Republic. The study said the introduction of mandatory MWS would also help to ensure that plastic and paper packaging recycling targets for 2030 will be consistently met, and contribute between 2.9 MWS could save between 10.2

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 10, 2022

A positive Return On Investment (ROI) and Sustainability go hand in hand, as many sustainable business practices save money, create a competitive advantage, open new markets and attract customers and employees. Engineering, including product design, materials, and end-of-life management (e.g. Increased Sales. Waste Management.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 26, 2021

You may be finding yourself at a stand still worried about the initial cost of investing in this endeavor. With some purpose-driven employees, dedication and a simple 8-step plan, any organization no matter how big or small can become green certified with little to no initial investment. No worries!

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The company also recently embraced an outward-facing leadership role on its social impacts, with a $100 million investment to create a Racial and Equity Justice Initiative (REJI), which CEO Tim Cook asked Jackson to lead in June. Making the human factor material. That's going to be the exciting work for Apple. Pull Quote.

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2020

The assessment, published last week, reveals that the volume of waste produced in England remained largely the same in the five years since the government introduced its 2013 Waste Prevention Programme policy, with overall waste in England at the close of 2017 "at similar levels" to those five years earlier.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 12, 2022

The primary purpose of the Packaging Recovery Note (PRN) should be to provide evidence of recycling and monitor progress towards meeting targets. But the PRN is also designed as a funding mechanism to encourage higher recycling levels when there is a risk of the targets not being met. An integrated system.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 18, 2020

Rebuilding recycling to go circular Keefe Harrison Mon, 05/18/2020 – 18:18 This article is part of our Paradigm Shift series, produced by nonprofit PYXERA Global, on the diverse solutions driving the transition to a circular economy. A circular economy is not possible without recycling, yet it can’t happen through recycling alone.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2021

In a new report, the waste management company sets out a series of policy recommendations for boosting plastics recycling in the UK. UK plastic waste exports should be banned, according to leading waste management company Viridor, which yesterday published a new roadmap setting out how to rapidly increase UK plastic recycling capacity.

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Business Green

JUNE 9, 2021

Rather than slowing the pace of environmental concerns in the investment world, the pandemic appears to have focussed minds - collective wake-up call, perhaps. Just last week, HSBC announced it would halt funding coal investments. Is the role of governments redundant as climate-adverse investments continue to become unviable?

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Business Green

JULY 29, 2022

Regulation, consumer demand and shareholders are pushing for more recycled textiles. Imagine if a significant portion of the textiles that cannot be reused in their current form could be recycled. Fashion companies need to set ambitious targets for recycling textiles and designing for circularity.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 5, 2022

But the report notes it is possible to avert this outcome, if financiers and businesses and work together to drive a significant drop in plastic use, increase recycling rates, and accelerate the shift away from fossil fuel-derived plastics. of pre-industrial levels," he said.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

At the time that we announced our science-based targets we also announced a bold new sustainable materials vision that by 2030, 100 percent of our top nine materials will originate from recycled, responsibly-sourced renewable or regenerative sources. What we're doing now is leaning in on sustainable raw materials.

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The Environmental Blog

MARCH 21, 2022

Ways to reduce waste include recycling, composting, and reducing packaging. This can be done by using recycled materials, investing in renewable resources , and using water and energy efficiently. Finally, businesses can advocate for policies that protect the environment.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

This article discusses the policies, processes and programs companies need to incorporate in order to become more sustainable. This often involves minimizing waste, preventing pollution and investing in resource efficiency strategies. So what is a sustainable business? Sustainability as Differentiation and Competitive Advantage.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 16, 2021

To alleviate the tremendous amount of plastic waste that enters landfills every day and to preserve the fossil fuels used to make new plastic, hotels should reduce, reuse, replace and recycle plastics. Whenever possible, reduce ordering plastic products, especially those that are single-use and cannot be recycled.

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

When done right, sustainable business practices deliver a positive return on investment (ROI), improving efficiency, lowering costs and driving sales. Like any investment a company makes, the potential return on an investment in sustainability should be considered before making the investment. Increased Sales.

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

When done right, sustainable business practices deliver a positive return on investment (ROI), improving efficiency, lowering costs and driving sales. Like any investment a company makes, the potential return on an investment in sustainability should be considered before making the investment. Increased Sales.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 5, 2022

GPR’s Impact Zero Project focuses on creating high-quality products that are efficient, recyclable and manufactured to bring their carbon footprint down to zero. Their motorcycle parts are built from 51% to 71% recycled material, and up to 88% of the product weight is recyclable, according to a video GPR produced on its Impact Zero Project.

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Business Green

MAY 25, 2020

Get recycling rates, which have stagnated, up to 65 per cent by 2035. Most powerfully of all, the suite of policies has been designed as an entity. It creates a driver for more recyclable packaging. Standardised packaging is easier to recycle too so that drives down the cost of recycling further. It's brilliant.

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Charged

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Repurposing, recycling and refining: Design safe and innovative processes for collecting, dismantling, repurposing, recycling, and refining recycled materials. billion in funding, which they hope will unlock an additional €5 billion in private investments.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

In order to invest in the solutions that can solve the plastics crisis, investors need to get to grips with the regulatory and societal pressures shaping the crisis, argues George Harding-Rolls from the Changing Markets Foundation. But some solutions are more financially and technologically viable than others.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Parliament's Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) today unveiled a wide-ranging report on the government's green recovery agenda which argues major reforms to UK taxation and the swift release of long-awaited policy strategies will be central to laying the foundations of a greener, job-rich economy that protects nature. Green investment.

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2022

The government has a lot on its mind currently, but that has not stopped the latest in a series of warnings that its flagship Net Zero Strategy will fail to deliver on its goals unless a raft of new policy frameworks are delivered as soon as possible. UK heavy industrial sectors already employ more than 2.6

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 21, 2020

Typically, Apple signs contracts (including virtual power-purchase agreements) with renewables developers like Avangrid and sPower, although it occasionally buys projects outright or makes equity investments. Among its other environmental priorities, Apple is aggressively pursuing new ways to recycle the material in its products.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Larger offices with cafeterias should also consider making more significant investment in waste reduction through proactive policies and the use of systematic waste reduction systems like a biodigester. Just as you have blue bins for recyclable materials, brown bins are meant only for organic materials.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Yet in the six years since its birth, the Paris Agreement has undoubtedly transformed policy, investment, and economic thinking. More specifically, Hughes said she hoped for a global plastics treaty that sets out rules for production, use and disposal of plastics, as well as for the collection and recycling of plastics downstream.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Individual companies may have announced sharp reductions in waste levels, but overall waste statistics remained stubbornly high while recycling rates only edged up if, they moved at all. Oil and gas giants continued to ramp up investment in their petrochemicals arms. Each day we produce half a kilogram of packaging waste per person.

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2020

The assessment, published last week, reveals that the volume of waste produced in England remained largely the same in the five years since the government introduced its 2013 Waste Prevention Programme policy, with overall waste in England at the close of 2017 "at similar levels" to those five years earlier.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Companies need to be informed as new policies are enacted across the globe and ensure their practices abide by these changes. s exit from the European Union, the coronavirus pandemic and social and economic hardship – all of which have led to or are pushing for new policies. Waste management policy and regulation in the U.S.

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Business Green

JUNE 1, 2021

Today an influential body representing the UK's £8.5tr investment management industry called on the government to push G7 nations to follow the UK's lead in implementing mandatory climate-risk disclosure rules for companies against a standardised set of principles.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Government should publish detailed policy framework to help drive low carbon investment in heavy industry following recent industrial decarbonisation and hydrogen strategies, sustainable business group warns.

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