Green Business Bureau

JUNE 4, 2021

partners with businesses to help develop waste stream management programs that achieve zero waste to landfill, improve supply chain efficiency, yield cost savings and elevate brand reputation. In 2020, Link International helped divert an average of 600 tons of waste from landfill per client site. – finds its proper place.

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Waste Waste Recycling Recycling 147

Green Business Bureau

JULY 20, 2021

cities, Replate is a tech-driven nonprofit that combats food waste by connecting food donors and food rescuers together. Food waste is both a social and environmental issue and by finding a way to fully utilize perfectly good food, insecure communities find relief and the environmental repercussions of food waste are avoided.

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Waste Waste Climate change Organic 148

Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Replate is a food rescue organization that leverages technology and logistics to match surplus food from businesses with communities in need. Through these efforts, companies reduce waste, mitigate climate change, and counter food insecurity. Meanwhile, 1 in 9 people remain undernourished. SPECIAL JOINT OFFER.

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Waste Waste Climate change Organic 148

CleanTech Group

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Figure 1 Food Waste innovation landscape The scale of the problem The scale of the global food waste problem is astonishing. We waste.

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Waste Waste Innovation Logistics 159

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Britain’s hard-working refuse collection crews do a fantastic job of collecting our household waste – but logistics issues are leading to more than 745,000 bin collections being missed, say the authors of a recent study. But domestic waste performances are not equal across the country.

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Waste Waste Logistics Technology 237

Envirotec Magazine

JULY 11, 2023

CO₂ is used in the food, cold logistics and pharmaceutical industries. The captured carbon dioxide (CO₂) will be used by CCSL to create low-carbon and low-energy dry ice for use in the food, cold logistics and pharmaceutical industries. Packaged dry ice.

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Logistics North America Carbon Waste 100

GreenBiz

MARCH 22, 2021

I also have observed firsthand how technology-driven innovation is disrupting the traditional grocery supply chain, opening new doors to reducing food waste and helping the world to think differently about how we source food. For meal kits, packaging waste was one of those unintended consequences. Why not the grocery model?

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Packaging Waste Waste Retail 534

Envirotec Magazine

MAY 25, 2023

The team, PETRONAS and logistics partners say they are working together to deliver the aspiration of a fully biofueled European season following a successful trial in 2022 which saw a reported 89% reduction in CO2 freight emissions. Hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO 100) biofuel is derived from vegetable oils, waste oils and fats.

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Logistics Europe Sustainability Transportation 246

GreenBiz

JANUARY 27, 2021

More specifically, Amazon's air shipping business, which along with its entire global logistics supply chain juggernaut is booming. . Still, Amazon's support is the latest indicator that the logistics giant is eyeing ways to clean up aviation. Enter air cargo. Economic production at scale is the key metric for biofuel makers. .

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Aviation Logistics Fossil fuels Transportation 451

Charged

OCTOBER 11, 2023

UK-based recycler Altilium and Lunaz, a European firm that upcycles and electrifies vehicles, are working together to develop an innovative and low-carbon logistical solution. According to the companies, transportation represents 41% of the total cost of battery recycling, and contributes 3.5% Sources: Altilium , Lunaz

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Recycling Recycling Transportation Batteries 116

Solar Industry

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

These commissaries and logistics centers support the Jollibee Group’s portfolio of brands in the Philippines that include Greenwich, Burger King and Red Ribbon. “We We learned that our impact on the planet revolves around three critical areas: energy, water and waste,” says Jollibee Group’s Jose Miñana Jr.

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Logistics Waste Waste Energy 105

GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Beyond diverting substantial landfill waste, resale represents a rapidly growing revenue opportunity with a market valued at $20 billion in the apparel industry alone. From reverse logistics, quality control, customer expectations and revenue cannibalization concerns, companies must overcome a multitude of considerations and complexities.

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Logistics Retail Organic Waste 208

CleanTech Group

APRIL 23, 2024

Engineered alternatives to spider silk, carbon tracking and emission monitoring, hydrogen refuelling stations, and waste commerce tracking: Find Recent Deals worth looking at. The post Recent Deals – 23 April 2024 appeared first on Cleantech Group.

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Energy Monitor Waste Waste Hydrogen 88

Business Green

AUGUST 20, 2020

Waste Knot Energy project to produce 240,000 tonnes of fuel pellets each year offering alternative to coal in steel and cement manufacturing.

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Waste Waste Logistics Investment 70

Elemental Excelerator

MAY 19, 2022

turned a sharp eye on the issue of plastic waste, the growing problem of electronic waste remains underappreciated. E-waste is defined as anything with a plug, electric cord, or battery — basically all of the proliferating devices that power our modern lives. million tons of e-waste generated globally in 2019, only 17.3%

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Waste Waste Plastics Upcycling 52

Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Deloitte and AstraZeneca have both joined a new not-for-profit body announced yesterday which is aiming to improve the environmental sustainability of the global healthcare sector and drive down medical waste. It is a huge waste of money and natural resources and a major contributor to healthcare's greenhouse gas emissions.

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Medicine Waste Waste Packaging 46

Charged

MARCH 24, 2022

Battery Solutions operates a battery-centric logistics network and two US facilities for its current customers in the EV, telecommunications, consumer and waste management markets.

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Recycling Recycling Batteries Technology 122

GreenBiz

JULY 16, 2021

Circular economics and the $57B e-waste opportunity. The delivery and logistics company is investing more than $2 billion in vehicle electrification, sustainable energy and carbon sequestration. Episode 276: FedEx fleet electrification, vanilla virtues. GreenBiz Editors. Fri, 07/16/2021 - 02:00. Week in Review (3:45).

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Logistics Sustainability Waste Waste 195

Business Green

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

The promise of renewable natural gas is a sustainability win that has been financially and logistically out of reach for even the largest companies. The Massachusetts-based recycler uses anaerobic biodigesters to create renewable natural gas from food waste. Now it's time to recycle food waste, and it's not that hard.

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Waste Waste Natural gas Methane 56

Business Green

APRIL 18, 2022

A digital platform designed to helps restaurants and their suppliers optimise their purchasing processes so as to save time, money, and food waste has been valued at $1.2bn after its latest investment round. The firm said that currently inefficiencies in supply chains lead to 35 per cent of food being wasted before it reaches consumers.

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Waste Waste Logistics Investment 44

GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Here are a few of IKEA’s other recent waste reduction and circular economy efforts: The retailer plans to remove all non-rechargeable alkaline batteries from its global home furnishing offerings by October 2021. And that [with] everything we're utilizing in a store, there is no waste going to landfill," Keesson said.

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Sustainability Retail Recycled materials Recycling 380

Charged

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Momentum Technologies, a Dallas-based materials science company focused on extracting critical metals from electronic waste, has licensed a process developed by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) for recovering cobalt and other metals from spent Li-ion batteries. Our technology contributes to a circular economy.

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Batteries Technology Lithium Logistics 105

Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

While biodegradable plastics currently exist, they rely on commercial composting, which uses energy to heat the compost, as well as presenting other logistical challenges. Such plastics make up 23 percent of marine waste. Toraphene can be optimized to mostly produce CO2 along with mulch that can be used to fortify topsoil.

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Biodegradable Plastics Packaging Biotech 246

Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

There are also third-party logistics services, device protection providers, and wholesalers and traders. All of these connections make the task of shifting to more circular life cycles for these sorts of gadgets - and cutting back on the potential for electronic waste - more complex and challenging.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 7, 2021

What’s described as the UK’s first mobile pallet stability test lab promises to save thousands of tonnes of plastic stretch film every year, cut costs and reduce product waste in transit, says the firm behind it. ” The Grimsby-based company calculates that UK businesses use 150,000 tonnes of stretch film a year. .”

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Plastics Waste Waste Packaging 130

GreenBiz

JULY 8, 2020

On Wednesday morning, the logistics and retail giant announced that it plans to buy 6 million gallons of bio jet fuel via a division of Shell and produced by World Energy, a big biodiesel producer. Amazon's plans to decarbonize its shipping supply chain isn't just focused on electrifying its delivery vans. A drop in the fuel tank.

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Aviation Carbon-neutral Retail Carbon 463

The Environmental Blog

MAY 19, 2023

This could include expedited shipping, click-and-collect services, or partnering with third-party logistics providers (3PLs) to extend delivery capabilities. This can include optimizing energy use , reducing waste, and promoting sustainable logistics practices.

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Demand Logistics Sustainability IoT 195

GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Most of the component materials retain their value, however, and can be reused to participate in the circular economy, the economic system that aims to keep resources in use and eliminate waste. By 2030, with that much PV, there's a potential of something like 8 million tons of potential PV waste,” Butler said.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

AUGUST 25, 2022

From waste to protein and micronutrient-rich animal feed. Loopworm grows insects on food waste and processes them into value-added products for the animal feed industry. The company sources this food waste — which it likes to call “organic byproduct”– from food processors, retail food chains, and fruit markets.

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Charged

AUGUST 9, 2022

The first unit will be handed over to Urbaser A/S, a waste disposal company in Denmark, and other customer deliveries are to follow over the course of the year. Especially with regard to large cities, there is a need for quiet, clean and safe logistics and waste disposal solutions. And we offer just the right truck for this.”.

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Electricity Logistics Waste Waste 105

Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 7, 2021

Set up to provide a full decommissioning service, the partnership services include decontamination, deconstruction, waste management and environmental services together with associated integrated logistics, and marine and quayside services.

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Recycling Recycling Logistics Waste 130

Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

VIBES is a partnership between the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA), The Scottish Government, Energy Saving Trust, Highland & Islands Enterprise, Scottish Enterprise, South of Scotland Enterprise, Scottish Water, Zero Waste Scotland and NatureScot. It has also reused waste materials to landscape and create community spaces.

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Business Energy Monitoring Innovation Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 130

Greentown Labs

APRIL 24, 2023

Phoenix Tailings began production at the United States’ first rare-earth refinery , using its zero-waste, zero-emission technology. Amogy is deploying its ammonia-to-power system on a tugboat in Kingston, NY and is collaborating with Marco Polo Marine to develop a zero-emission solution for the marine logistics company’s offshore wind fleet.

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Startups Logistics Carbon Technology 98

ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

With the logistical challenges, work on the project is expected to resume by 2024. Transporting this huge equipment is a major challenge given the tough terrain and logistical challenges along the 750km road from Jammu to Leh,” said Kumar. It has no carbon emissions, does not require a lot of land, and does not generate e-waste.

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Energy Monitor Logistics Natural gas Carbon-negative 98

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

2 This led to investment in new biomethane production infrastructure, which the world critically needs to cut methane emissions from organic wastes and generate green gas, biofertilisers and bioCO2, but this will no longer be possible under the proposed new guidance. using fossil fuels); scope 2 are from the purchase of energy (e.g.

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Oceania Methane Fossil fuels Logistics 234

AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Thanks to its inaugural success last year, the second International E-Waste Day will be observed on October 14, 2019. The International E-Waste Day was developed by Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Forum to promote reuse and recycle practices.

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Waste Waste Recycling Recycling 28

Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2020

While the core function of the metals recycling process has remained constant over thousands of years, the industry has undergone significant changes as the volume of waste metals we treat has grown. Economic growth has driven ongoing demand for waste metals since 2000. How much is used worldwide? Advances in recovery technology.

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