GreenBiz

JULY 16, 2020

The electronic waste collection conundrum. Quite simply, I had become obsessed with the tech industry’s then-blasé attitude about the seemingly intractable problem of electronic waste. . Quite simply, I had become obsessed with the tech industry’s then-blasé attitude about the seemingly intractable problem of electronic waste. .

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Recycling and resource management firm Viridor has unveiled its “Vision for Zero” – a plan to reduce (to zero) the amount of plastic waste exported from the UK. If five state-of-the-art plastic recycling plants, similar to the Avonmouth plant, were built, plastic waste exports from the UK could end. An estimated c.1.3[i]

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GreenBiz

MAY 26, 2022

By now, we all know the scale of the problem: Up to 13 million tons of plastic leaks into the ocean every year; this is equivalent to dumping one garbage truck full of plastic waste into the ocean every minute; without intervention, we’ll have more plastic than fish in the ocean by 2050. What will it take to address the plastic waste crisis?

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Scottish Environment Protection Agency staff and their work tackling waste crime were featured as part of investigative journalism programme BBC Disclosure on Monday 31 January at 7pm. SEPA says it launched a dedicated intelligence and enforcement function in October 2019 to deal with those types of growing activities.

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GreenBiz

MAY 26, 2020

Food waste startup backed by Oprah Winfrey snags $250 million. This morning brings one of the biggest deals yet this year: an infusion of $250 million in new financing for food waste crusader Apeel Sciences. What we have seen is like a 50 percent [reduction] of waste, and then also a double-digit growth of sales. "I

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The Environmental Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

There is a lot of latent energy in our waste. The adage, ‘one man’s trash is another’s treasure, applies to the world of waste management. From waste segregation to state-of-the-art WTE plants, innovative technology is helping transform trash into valuable resources.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 22, 2022

As we enter the warmer months, waste and recycling sites are increasingly vulnerable to fire. Such risks are amplified by the presence of batteries in waste streams and in the vehicles and machinery used on waste sites. The content of waste streams seems to change in an ongoing, unpredictable fashion.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2023

It will buy waste biomass from local poultry farmers and transform it into biochar. Onnu says the multimillion-pound investment, spread over four years, will create more than 100 green tech jobs and will end the land-spreading that has caused well-documented damage to the River Wye and surrounding areas.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

A consultation setting out plans for a mandatory digital waste tracking service in the UK was launched on 21 January 2022. The Scottish Environment Protection Agency and Scottish Government say they have been working with UK partners to develop a four-nation approach to digital tracking of waste movements. Data access controls.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Industry moves in regenerative agriculture plowed ahead, while changing diets and reducing waste lag behind.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 8, 2024

The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) published the Scottish Waste From All Sources 2022 Official Statistics on 26 March, which provide details on waste from Scottish households, businesses and public services. million tonnes of waste, with 62.3% of all wastes ending up in landfill, for an all-time low figure of 2.30

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Is There a Role of Waste to Energy in the Circular Economy? Americans create a lot of solid waste – to the tune of 268 million tons in 2017 alone. While many localities and companies are championing zero-waste plans to divert materials that have a second life (think recycling, reusing and composting), the majority of U.S.

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GreenBiz

JULY 26, 2021

Lululemon, LanzaTech are reshaping carbon waste into fabric. What we're saying is, ‘Look, we're gonna take all of this waste, whether it's a gas or a solid, we're going to convert it to ethanol," Holmgren said. Deonna Anderson. Mon, 07/26/2021 - 02:00. . In 2018, every ton of steel produced emitted about 1.85

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

A new partnership may pave the way for more than £400 million to be invested in recycling facilities across the UK. Bertie Stephens, group CEO of Clean Planet Energy , said: “Clean Planet Energy’s mission is to remove over one million tonnes of non-recyclable plastic waste from our environment, every year.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 14, 2021

Recovering the critical raw materials residing within electronic waste will require investment, and a legal framework to incentivise this will be essential, say the authors (image credit: Steve Janosik , CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Support more targeted private investments in new technology research and development.

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Charged

MARCH 25, 2024

US truck maker Mack Trucks , a subsidiary of Volvo , has delivered a Mack LR Electric refuse vehicle to Florida-based Coastal Waste & Recycling. Coastal Waste & Recycling is also piloting Volvo Construction Equipment’s CE EC230 Electric 23-ton excavator. Nextran Truck Centers will provide service and support.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 17, 2022

Joseph Doherty is Managing Director of waste management firm Re-Gen Waste. The way that waste in Northern Ireland will be handled over the next few years will change dramatically following consultations by Defra and the UK’s devolved administrations, according to Joseph Doherty of Re-Gen Waste.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Since 2022, the site has been primarily focused on nuclear waste processing and storage, and nuclear decommissioning (image credit: Dom Crayford , CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Processing nuclear waste is an enormous challenge for human civilisation. These new investments are an example of this. The Sellafield site in Cumbria, by night.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The Recycling Association has warned that waste crime will continue to happen, even if exports of plastics for recycling are banned. The group’s chief executive Simon Ellin said: “Banning plastic exports to solve waste crime would be like trying to crack a nut with a sledgehammer.

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GreenBiz

MAY 14, 2021

Episode 268: Doing the math on net zero; taking food waste off the menu. The food service company has promised to halve food waste by 2025. We get an update from the person leading Sodexo's LeanPath food waste mitigation program, Jude Medeiros, with the office of corporate responsibility. Heather Clancy. Fri, 05/14/2021 - 02:00.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 10, 2022

Recycling and waste management business Levenseat has announced plans to invest £4m upgrading a new Materials Recycling Facility (MRF), which it purchased for an undisclosed sum from Avondale Environmental on 10 May. The Falkirk site will also process mixed household, commercial, industrial, construction and demolition waste.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 19, 2022

In a speech at a 12 April event organised by Letsrecycle.com and the Environmental Services Association, Sir James expressed his personal view that all waste exports should be ended. The idea that the legitimate export market provides a cover for waste crime is wrong. These are secondary commodities for recycling, not waste.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Quick thinking and agility has helped waste management companies survive and even prosper during lockdown, says Aaron Baker, an investor at BGF, an investment firm which has backed a number of firms in the waste sector. Could waste management businesses work effectively when the majority of their staff were home-based?

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 16, 2019

On site with (left) operations director Gregor Keenan and (right) Louise McGregor, Head of Circular Economy, Zero Waste Scotland. Organic waste recycling firm Keenan Recycling has secured £540,000 from Zero Waste Scotland’s Circular Economy Investment Fund. The new centre in Linwood is due to open in March 2020.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Deploying a seemingly innovative technology configuration and design, the group behind it, LIPOR, suggests it is set to revolutionize the waste-to-energy industry while simultaneously decarbonizing the aviation sector.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Climate action without equity, justice and the transformative contributions of communities of color will continue to waste dollars and fail because barriers to equity are also barriers to building necessary political power and climate innovation.

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Impact Alpha

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

4 – Investors have discovered food waste. food waste is a $14 billion annual investment opportunity appeared first on Impact Alpha. ImpactAlpha, Feb. Imperfect Foods last month raised $95 million to distribute foods deemed too ‘ugly’ for. The post Halving U.S.

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Impact Alpha

JANUARY 31, 2022

Drivers of food price fluctuations such as climate change and labor shortages are also driving a wave of innovation in food waste solutions. The post Climate and supply-chain disruptions spur investment in food waste solutions appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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GreenBiz

JULY 14, 2022

A roundup of second-quarter developments among startups in the food and agriculture industry.

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Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Featured: Climate Week NYC Al Gore’s Generation Investment ‘calls a moment’ in the sustainability revolution. The post The Brief: Generation Investment charts sustainability, protest-invest at Climate Week NYC, waste-to-plastic alternatives, standing up to for diversity-focused funds appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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FuelCellsWorks

JANUARY 5, 2024

At Closed Loop Partners, we focus on investing in the circular economy––advancing solutions that reduce waste through material reduction, alternative materials, reuse and end-of-life solutions like recycling. Through our work,

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Why IKEA is investing in sustainable mobility. For the company known for its delicious meatballs and DIY shelves, the investment isn't actually that surprising. For the company known for its delicious meatballs and DIY shelves, the investment isn't actually that surprising. Holly Secon. Tue, 11/03/2020 - 00:30.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Startup Phood tackles food waste at the top of the food chain. By comparing that number to initial inventory amounts, the kitchen tracks its food waste. . The system uses that information to recommend changes within foodservice operations aimed at reducing food waste. . Jesse Klein. Thu, 10/29/2020 - 01:00. Is it overproduction?

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 15, 2024

Waste collection trucks are demonstrated in vehicle-to-grid (V2G) and waste heat from data centres is set to heat swimming pools in the UK. Veolia also intends to maximize the use of local decarbonised energy from its waste-to-energy plants to power its vehicles. The success of the V2G demonstration illustrates this perfectly.”

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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. This boosts the volume of materials that can be processed.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 7, 2023

Edinburgh-based Carbogenics – the developer of proprietary technology that enhances the efficacy and applicability of anaerobic digestion – has raised more than £1m in investment to build its first production and R&D facility in Scotland.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 26, 2022

Implementing separate food waste collections – lunch hosted by the Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA) on 15 June at the NEC Birmingham. The report highlights the benefits for Local Authorities (LAs) of adopting anaerobic digestion (AD) as a food waste recycling option to achieve net zero targets and save taxpayers’ money.

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