Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2021

Every year, a million seabirds and 100,000 marine animals are killed by plastic pollution, while the average person eats about 70,000 particles of microplastic each year, with the long-term effects still not understood. Nor is there any sign that the plastics tide is being turned back - rather, it continues to grow at a startling pace.

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Business Green

AUGUST 28, 2020

PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, Unilever and even Tupperware have signed on with governments and NGOs to do away with "unnecessary" plastics and innovate so that other plastics will be reused, recycled or composted; and kept out of natural systems. Only five years ago, few corporate leaders had plastic pollution on their official radar.

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Grist

JULY 21, 2022

From large pieces, such as bottles, cups, and even a Smurf action figure, to tiny microplastics — fragments, films, fibers, or foams less than 5 mm long — plastic is one of the most common pollutants this group will find, mirroring what cleanup crews regularly see across the country. We found microplastics everywhere,” Granek says.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Related: One plastic teabag can release billions of microplastics into your cup As a replacement, hotels can offer bulk products, such as wall-mounted public dispensers. Meanwhile, Hilton and Wyndham Hotel Group have opted to sanitize and repackage leftover soap for a second life with Clean the World Foundation ’s recycling initiative.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 14, 2023

💧 Matter , an Ahmedabad, India-based microplastic recycling platform, raised $10M from S2G Ventures, Builders Vision, and SOUNDWaves. in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. 💧 Membrion , a Seattle, WA-based membrane technology for wastewater treatment developer, raised $5.5M

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Last year, as part of its landmark Climate Law the French government proposed to abolish flights between cities that are less than two and half hours apart by train. The rules will initiall cover just a handful of routes, but the government has indicated that if after three years the ban proves successful it could be extended.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Of the plastic waste we generate, at least eight million tons up in our ocean every year, and it is estimated that the seas now contain about 51 trillion microplastic particles - 500 times more than stars in our galaxy. We must address plastic production and consumption as well as disposal and recycling. This is too little, too late.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

AUGUST 1, 2019

Illumina is largely credited with breaking Moore’s Law in genomics by introducing next-generation sequencing. Recycling growth – Being able to reuse growth media would cut down on waste and the costs of inputs. Here are 5 of the key insights about cell ag that surfaced from this year’s New Harvest event: . It took $2.7

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 30, 2020

Through his passion for the outdoors, he witnessed the effects of microplastic pollution on the environment. When Fionn was in high school, he invented a new method of extracting microplastics from the water using his own version of ferrofluid, a liquid developed by NASA. Melati Wijsen is from the island of Bali in Indonesia.

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