Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 12, 2021

Because concrete itself comes from natural resources, it is important to choose a concrete brand that doesn’t over extract these raw mineral resources and instead finds ways to recycle components and operate in a more sustainable fashion. A material not often considered when it comes to construction is plastic. Organic Materials.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 15, 2021

Disposable PPE also creates a major environmental challenge, with each item containing significant amounts of single-use non-recyclable plastic materials. Through the Mackwell Health Whitebox, 4 log (99.99%) disinfection for reusable PPE can be achieved using cycles of between 30 seconds and 1 minute – depending on the item.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2023

Household names such as McDonald’s, KFC and Dunkin’ Donuts are trying to delay new regulations that would prioritise reusable packaging – to curb plastic use, packaging waste and packaging-related emissions –, arguing instead for single-use paper options. Most paper used in Europe is currently sourced from within the EU.

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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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EDF + Business

JULY 25, 2019

Perhaps surprisingly, one action you haven’t seen us recommend – until now – is one of the key tenets of EDF’s Five Pillars of Safer Food Leadership : supply chain transparency, in this case into chemical additives to both raw material and final paper and plastic packaging. And we’re not alone.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2020

At present DAC is very expensive, although a number of groups appear to be logging price decreases and significant improvements in their methods. The system employed by Carbon Enginering uses fans to propel air through plastic sheets drenched in potassium hydroxide. Recycling captured CO2. Direct capture: How does it work?

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 2, 2022

The EcoPlanner , featuring a list of continually-expanding initiatives, will enable members to get credit for the sustainability actions they have already taken for their businesses, including recycling, efficient lighting, solar (and green energy), plastic elimination, waste management, and carbon offsetting.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2022

It commits signatories to investing in the design and use of low carbon and low impact alternative materials and processes, such as recycled textiles, in a bid to drive down deforestation associated with forest-derived fabrics.

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Green Tech Challenge

DECEMBER 17, 2018

The government essentially intends to hold manufacturers and retailers more responsible for disposing of and recycling their products. One of our full applicants, Mein Recycling, is developing an effortless waste management solution at the touch of a button, in a from of a mobile application.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The hummingbirds can bathe in their choice of three water ponds, each using recycled water, or nest in green walls. Visitor benches are made from recycled plastic lumber. The habitat also features heated caves and logs, pools and misters to replicate the hot and steamy environment of their native Indonesia.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Fortuna Cools recently announced the launch of the Nutshell Cooler, a collapsible cooler made using upcycled coconut fiber sourced from the Philippines and designed to outperform plastic. Since the liners use recycled PET, there are no virgin plastic components to the coolers either.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 8, 2023

For example, when a forest—which naturally absorbs and stores carbon dioxide as trees grow—is logged and converted to grazing or agricultural land, GHGs are released as trees decompose. Qin and Horvath found in their 2022 study published in Resources, Conservation & Recycling that in the U.S., Scientific Reports , 12 (1), p.15064.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 29, 2021

While there were previously protections in place, former president Trump had exempted the area in his last few months of office, which opened the door for building roads, logging and other damaging activities. This area is home to 800-year-old trees, Indigenous people and 400 species of wildlife and fish.

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 30, 2020

Aditya Mukarji , is from New Delhi India, In March 2018 he began waging war on plastic straws. Within just five months, he had already helped replace more than 500,000 plastic straws at restaurants and hotels in New Delhi. She works with her sister to reduce plastic use on their home island.

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