altenergymag

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Renewance has extensive knowledge of regulations related to industrial battery storage, packaging, transportation, and recycling.

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Recycling Recycling Batteries Logistics 60

Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 23, 2023

The logistics behind product passport use might seem complicated at first glance but are, in fact, straightforward: all a consumer needs to do is scan the product QR code with their phone to access DPP information. Traceability systems are to be in place to enable tracking all procedures leading from raw materials to the finished product.

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Law Plastics Packaging Recycling 227

GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

As part of the program, the home furnishings company, widely known for its flat-pack packaging and ready-to-assemble furniture, will be taking back a range of IKEA products: bookcases and shelf units; small tables; chairs and stools without upholstery; and chests of drawers. But getting there is a long journey.".

Sustainability 380

Sustainability Retail Recycled materials Recycling 380

GreenBiz

MAY 19, 2020

The beermaker’s 2025 goals pledge bold advances in water strategy, returnable or recyclable packaging, renewable energy procurement (its U.S. Clancy: How has the situation affected your packaging commitments and recycling strategy, if at all? So, that's our vision and our commitment. .

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Sustainability Business Energy Monitoring Recycling Recycling 232

The Environmental Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Waste like toxic materials, and not recyclable wastes. Here are some tips when implementing go green marketing: Green Design: Use a big recycle symbol on your product packaging to encourage recycling after initial use. Effluents like production water quality. Emissions like ozone depletion problems and greenhouse gases.

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Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability Packaging Recycling 210

GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Things like recyclability impediments. A big focus of the Sustainable from the Start program is reducing GHG emissions, sure, but also things like discouraging the use of non-recyclable packaging, because that's really important. And what steps are you taking to increase the use of recycled content in your packaging?

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Sustainability Recycling Recycling Packaging 359

Green Business Bureau

JUNE 4, 2021

Given that waste management greatly differs across industries, Link International understands the importance of being able to custom-tailor waste and recycling programs to fit their clients’ needs and goals as well as governing regulations. Waste stream data is not the only thing that Link International encourages clients to share.

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Waste Waste Recycling Recycling 147

Business Green

JUNE 8, 2021

Corona claims it has become the first global drinks brand to achieve a 'net zero plastic footprint', after ramping up its plastic waste collection and recycling efforts and conducting an extensive plastic audit of its operations. Corona said the achievement was an "important first step" in its drive to eliminate plastic from its supply chain.

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Plastics Packaging Pollution Recycling 90

Business Green

JUNE 30, 2022

Online retail giant will instead use 100 per cent recycled and 100 per cent recyclable packing paper in its parcels. Instead of plastic air pillows, items will be packed with 100 per cent recycled and 100 per cent recyclable packing paper, known as dunnage, which is designed to prevent movement within boxes and keep products safe.

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Plastics Packaging Recycling Recycling 36

Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The SMP's work will focus on measuring the carbon impact of medicines, which is currently estimated to make up 20 per cent of the NHS's carbon footprint, as well as addressing the waste created by packaging and the disposal of unused medicines, it said.

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Medicine Waste Waste Packaging 46

Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Elemental’s 12th cohort focuses on a range of societal challenges, including sustainable urbanization, building decarbonization, electric vehicle charging, last-mile logistics, recycling optimization and regenerative food production.

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Soil Recycling Recycling Investment 111

Grist

JULY 9, 2021

The study, published by the Finnish scientific journal Environmental Research Letters assessed the environmental impact of five different ways of owning and disposing of clothing, including renting, resale and recycling. The hidden environmental cost was found to be delivery and packaging costs. They’ll do so when it’s the law.

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Fashion Recycling Recycling Logistics 92

Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The UK's Deposit Return Scheme (DRS) has been besieged with delays since it was introduced in Defra's 2018 Resource and Waste Strategy as a credible way to address the linear nature of our packaging economy. That was three years ago, when many countries around the world already had operational DRS in place.

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Packaging Recycling Recycling Waste 36

Greentown Labs

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Greentown teamed up with BASF and Stanley Black & Decker to find the top startups from across the world that are capable of disrupting the recycling industry and plastics and energy storage value chains. Those startups are American Battery Metals Corporation , Circularise , Corumat , Interface Polymers , and Nexus Fuels. Read more here.

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Startups Plastics Recycling Recycling 72

GreenBiz

AUGUST 13, 2020

Reusable packaging provides untapped payoffs for business. Until the 1980s, glass or cotton bags were the go-to packaging materials for many products, such as milk and flour. Until the 1980s, glass or cotton bags were the go-to packaging materials for many products, such as milk and flour. The case for reusable packaging.

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Packaging Plastics Retail Logistics 384

Business Green

JANUARY 14, 2021

Priority areas for action are expected to include measures to curb emissions from agriculture, packaging, distribution, and operations. The company said it would focus on both reducing emissions from its operations and supply chain and enhancing resilience to climate impacts.

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Logistics Climate change Packaging Europe 91

The Environmental Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The company has already installed solar panels on its premises and is the first UK company to trial using recycled bottles to manufacture door vinyl. Nespresso is investing in renewable energy, sustainable packaging , reducing carbon emissions in the supply chain, and even using used coffee beans as fuel!

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Carbon-neutral Fashion Carbon Sustainability 195

Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

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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IoT Logistics Innovation Sustainability 130

GreenBiz

MAY 18, 2020

Reusable packaging in the time of COVID-19. Reusable packaging is faced with proving its trustworthiness alongside disposables in a world that is standing six feet apart in the grocery aisle. Disposable packages are painted as sterile, while durables are tainted with suspicion. Mon, 05/18/2020 - 01:00. Media Authorship.

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Packaging Retail Plastics Health 454

Green Business Bureau

JULY 20, 2021

After choosing a pickup time on the user dashboard, a Replate food rescuer picks up the packaged food and directly delivers it to a nonprofit organization in the community, ensuring safe and reliable food donations to those in need. With drastically fewer donors at the time, Replate was forced to readjust their model.

Waste 148

Waste Waste Climate change Organic 148

GreenBiz

MAY 12, 2020

By nature, cosmetics packaging is small and intricate, made up of many parts that are difficult to clean after use, resulting in the majority of this packaging going directly into landfills. The global packaging industry is set to reach over $1 trillion by 2021. But it doesn’t have to be like this.

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Retail Packaging Waste Waste 444

Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Circular Scotland Award – Kenoteq, based in Edinburgh, is a building materials supplier and has created the K-briq®, which contains more than 90% recycled construction and demolition waste, uses a tenth of the energy in its production compared to a traditional brick and has a 90% lower carbon footprint.

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Business Energy Monitoring Innovation Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 130

Business Green

APRIL 13, 2021

The carbon footprint of e-commerce has long been the subject of intense debate, with the reduction in retail space and customer travel set against the increase in emissions from delivery fleets and reams of additional packaging. Moreover, in the UK logistics occupies less than 2.4 per cent of total traffic in London.

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Retail Logistics Fashion Carbon-neutral 51

Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 26, 2023

From 18 April, Uber Eats customers in Central London have been given the option to order their takeaway in reusable containers and easily return them – all in a bid to tackle single-use packaging. When placing their orders, Uber Eats customers can opt-in to receive their food in reusable packaging.

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Packaging Logistics Retail Innovation 246

Business Green

APRIL 15, 2021

With the clothing industry under mounting pressure to curb the textile waste mountain created by so-called 'fast fashion' and curb emissions from its delivery vehicles, two of the UK's leading fashion and logistics brands have teamed up to launch a new initiative designed to help extend the life of second hand clothes.

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Fashion Logistics Waste Waste 86

Business Green

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

The global retail giant is beefing up its take-back service to mark Black Friday, but its sweeping sustainability plans extend far beyond recycling and re-use. If IKEA can't resell an item, the company plans to recycle it or donate it to community organisations. Black Friday is upon us. We don't want to encourage people to overconsume.

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Sustainability Recycling Recycling Recycled materials 79

Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 28, 2022

Environmental charity Hubbub is today (Tuesday 28 June) launching ‘Reuse Systems Unpacked’, a report uncovering the challenges and opportunities for reusable food and drink packaging systems. The research also identified the main motivators and barriers to people using reusable packaging schemes for food and drink. Key recommendations.

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Packaging Logistics Policy Waste 246

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

” Retailers can sign up to the scheme for free, adding the option into their own websites with the logistics handled entirely by ReBOUND. Shoppers donating items will receive a free packaging label to attach to their parcel and send directly to the Salvation Army.

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Retail Fashion Logistics Sustainability 130

Green Business Bureau

MAY 12, 2021

Manufacturing including production, sourcing, fulfillment, distribution and logistics. the product’s reuse and recycling potential). Can we find ways to recycle or upcycle waste materials (e.g. install recycling bins in the breakroom)? Is our packaging also safe for people and the planet? Is it hazardous?

Business Energy Monitoring 144

Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring 144

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Paper-based packaging firm Smurfit Kappa has joined with companies HVC and Bluemats to unveil an ambitious plan for the first full beverage carton recycling plant in the Netherlands. A new domestic facility would therefore be an enormous benefit from both an environmental and logistics perspective.

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Recycling Recycling Plastics Packaging 150

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The LED light bulb manufacturer, formerly known as Philips Lighting, said it had reduced its operational emissions by more than 70 per cent since 2010, having shifted to more energy efficient technologies at its sites as well as more sustainable modes of transport, logistics and staff travel.

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Carbon-neutral Carbon Global warming Logistics 56

Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 10, 2022

Consider the following: Manufacturing processes, including production, sourcing, fulfillment, distribution and logistics. the product’s reuse and recycling potential). Waste Reduction: recyclable materials and food waste. Have you discussed recycling or compost options with your vendor? Waste Management.

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Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring 158

Business Green

MARCH 2, 2022

Research agency unveils winners of sustainable packaging competition, which it says aim to 'alter the UK's relationship with plastic'. A flurry of green packaging innovations and plastic waste management projects have won a share of £30m from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).

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Packaging Plastics Innovation Recycling 68

Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2022

We all know that giving waste a second life is more carbon-efficient than incinerating it, but reaching a definition on what makes an item 'recyclable' is one of the most complex challenges policymakers currently face. The proposal states that packaging (all materials) entering the EU market must meet design for recyclability criteria.

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Recycling Recycling Plastics Packaging 44

Charged

APRIL 26, 2021

These logistics are costly – the transportation, the storage, and the grading. Once the entity handling the material assigns a grade an informed decision is made as to whether it can be reused, repurposed or recycled. Grading is the process of determining the charge-storage capability of the battery in its current state.

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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Batteries Electric vehicle 113

Business Green

MARCH 19, 2021

Jesse Klein explores how some leading businesses are navigating the complex choices that shape efforts to deliver more sustainable packaging. As consumer products companies hunt for more sustainable packaging options, some - notably smaller brands - are turning to aluminum as an alternative to plastic. The big draw?

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Packaging Plastics Recycling Recycling 59

Green Tech Challenge

JUNE 27, 2017

From selling unwanted furniture and equipment, signing leases and other paperwork to last minute packing, not to mention coordinating the logistics of the move itself, moving is never easy. Recycle Contrary to what most believe, recycling is not solely just plastic items and cardboard boxes.

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Recycling Recycling Plastics Batteries 40