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UAE smart city deploys smart strategies to become living lab

Smart Energy International

As a smart city, Alnama makes use of various technologies and will support start-ups and businesses in its green-technology hub in the hopes of closing the loop between food, water, energy and waste. At a building level, sensors will aim to play a key role.

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Ecosystems for good: How collaborator networks achieve sustainability

GreenBiz

This system should extend the life cycle of assets by collecting waste for reuse and connecting participants across the network to those reused materials. However, ecosystems are already showing promise in this domain: Plastic Bank ’s goal is to create value from waste is one example. Promote good health and wellbeing.

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Precision serving: Vodafone tech to help deliver Wimbledon's sustainable strawberries

Business Green

The exclusive supplier of the Wimbledon Championship's iconic strawberries has successfully trialled a new Internet of Things (IoT) technology, which its developer claims could help slash global carbon emissions. Vodafone estimates that the introduction of IoT technology could help agricultural industries save between 2.4

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Lebanese wastewater solution wins new global tech competition

Envirotec Magazine

Using IoT, the solution treats wastewater onsite, negating the need to transport waste and recycled water, with a series of water tanks that imitate aquatic habitats found in nature, and seemingly without the use of added chemicals, desludging, or vast infrastructure investment.

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5 Green Technologies Small Businesses Are Using Increasingly More

GreenTech Gazette

Your product’s packaging can be one of the drivers of your company’s carbon footprint, especially when you add in shipping. Before, there could be a lot of waste associated with manufacturing a product, but you can get rid of almost all of these with a 3D printer. IoT Energy-Monitoring Devices. Green Shipping Materials.

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The Return on Investment (ROI) of Sustainable Business

Green Business Bureau

All of these disciplines can be improved via sustainable business practices, and can result in higher efficiency, less waste, and lower costs. Waste Reduction: recyclable materials and food waste. Sales and Marketing, including business travel, printing of marketing materials, shipping, packaging and sustainability evangelism.

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Refresh, reuse, recycle: How Vodafone is promoting the circular economy

Business Green

This year's focus on plastics - reducing plastic pollution, limiting waste and moving towards a circular economy - resonates with all of us at Vodafone UK. The good news is we've already removed 100 tonnes of plastic packaging from deliveries to our customers - just one example of how we're reducing waste and promoting a circular economy.