Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 21, 2021

Their solution to food waste, they say, increases food security and improves animal welfare and sustainability. It promotes a more circular food system, providing greater resilience and flexibility in times of need. This solution tackles waste and improves productivity, yield, and animal welfare, all while delivering a 130% ROI.

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Greenability Magazine

AUGUST 31, 2021

If you’ve been stockpiling old paint cans, motor oil, batteries or chemicals, load them up for a safe disposal at one of these free, household hazardous waste events. Because of these hazardous qualities, household hazardous waste should never be thrown out with regular trash. Richmond Hazardous Waste Collection Event.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 29, 2020

Resource management firm Veolia is highlighting how significant emissions reductions can be achieved by using energy recovery facilities, ERF, to dispose of the more than 61,000 tonnes of orange bagged clinical and infectious waste that arises each year in the UK. This process provides enough electricity for over 430,000 homes.

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Greenability Magazine

JUNE 7, 2021

This weekend you can recycle razors, toothpaste tubes and brushes, deodorant containers and waste from other personal care products at two locations. The Resilient Activist and Compost Collective KC are sponsoring recycling drop-off sites and pickup services. The Resilient Activist will send recyclables to TerraCycle for recycling.

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Greenability Magazine

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Get a behind-the-scenes look at urban and indigenous food systems and how farmers are working to grow local food that is resilient to climate change, taps the wisdom of elders and looks at regenerative agricultural design for the future. Breakout sessions include: Farm Resilience and Climate Change Mitigation Strategies.

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Greenability Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

An excess of leaves and yard waste can be composted with food waste in a backyard compost pile. The Johnson County K-State Research and Extension recommends composting yard waste to reduce the amount of waste entering landfills and for a finished compost that improves garden and landscape soils. Start a backyard compost.

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Greenability Magazine

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Kansas City is hosting climate strategy workshops to explore ideas to help the community reduce greenhouse gas emissions and create more resilient neighborhoods. The post How can KC be more climate resilient? appeared first on Greenability Magazine. Southeast Community Center. Kansas City, MO.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 15, 2023

CSA enhances soil health and builds climate resilience, while aiming to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. We hope to quantify related water and nutrient footprints and the potential to promote climate resilience.” Biochar can be made from any organic (carbon-containing) material, such as wood waste or crop residues.

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Greenability Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2021

If holiday catalogues are clogging your mailbox, reduce paper waste by having your name removed from mailing lists. Gather together with zero waste. Share your meal & reduce food waste. Not only will you spread some holiday cheer, but you can also reduce holiday food waste. Minimize unwanted mail. Have more ideas?

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Greenability Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

As face masks become even more critical in fighting the spread of COVID-19, they are also taking a toll on our waste stream and the environment. The post How can we stay safe & not create PPE waste? appeared first on Greenability Magazine. According to the U.S. Story: Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss, EarthTalk.

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Greenability Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

Participants are asked to bring a bag of chopped up leaves or yard waste that is chemical free, and they are encouraged to dress to get dirty. Photo: Center for Regenerative Agriculture and Resilient Systems. The post Learn how to build your own composter appeared first on Greenability Magazine.

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Greenability Magazine

JANUARY 3, 2022

Greenability offers a free, online calendar listing to promote events that are environmentally sustainable, resilient and restorative. Calendar listings can be related to organic food, energy-efficiency, recycling, renewable energy, zero-waste, native plant gardening, nature, resilient living and many other environmental topics.

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Greenability Magazine

MARCH 16, 2021

Americans waste almost as much food as they eat. That translates to $165 billion in wasted food per year in the United States. production of uneaten food wastes 25 percent of fresh water and results in 23 percent of methane emissions. Some of that food waste happens on a large commercial scale. Additionally, U.S.

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Greenability Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2020

If holiday catalogues are clogging your mail box, help reduce paper waste by having your name removed from mailing lists. Gather with zero waste. Share your meal & reduce food waste. Not only will you spread some holiday cheer, but you can reduce holiday food waste. If every family in the U.S. Minimize unwanted mail.

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Greenability Magazine

JANUARY 4, 2021

Greenability offers a free, online calendar listing for events that encourage environmental sustainability, resiliency and restorative living ideas. Events can be related to organic food, energy-efficiency, recycling, renewable energy, zero-waste, native plant gardening, nature, resilient living and many other environmental topics.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2024

Year-on-year, despite increases in material being recycled in the UK, quantities of plastic waste exported for recycling from England have increased by more than 10% to just over 600,000 tonnes. Malaysia and Vietnam, two non-OECD countries that had received decreasing volumes of UK waste in recent years, took around 8% each.

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Greenability Magazine

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The city of Kansas City, MO wants to know how climate change is and will impact you and what actions the city should take now to become carbon neutral, equity focused and resilient by 2040. more resilient? To participate and share your story, visit the KC Climate Protection & Resiliency Plan Playbook. In 2020, the K.C.

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Greenability Magazine

APRIL 13, 2021

Composting Food Waste & Trying To Stop It , Missouri Organic Recycling. Starting Small: Simple Steps to a More Sustainable Lifestyle – The Resilient Activist. Interwoven: An Earth Month Retreat – The Resilient Activist. Power of Respect for Climate Resilience & Recovery – The Resilient Activist.

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Greenability Magazine

MAY 16, 2023

Help keep toxic materials out of the landfill by recycling your old computers and e-waste at upcoming free electronic recycling events. Most e-waste recycling is free. The post Recycle your electronics at free events appeared first on Greenability Magazine. – 5 p.m. and located at 2000 E. Kansas City, MO.

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Greenability Magazine

MAY 10, 2023

We’re working with community partners to ensure we’re building a more resilient energy system for the future.” During the process, Kansas City provided data on its waste diversion, water management, land use, and greenhouse gas emissions. Kansas City started the application process in 2021. ” The U.S.

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Greenability Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

An excess of leaves and yard waste can be composted with food waste in a backyard compost pile. The Johnson County K-State Research and Extension recommends composting yard waste to reduce the amount of waste entering landfills and for a finished compost that improves garden and landscape soils. Start a backyard compost.

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Greenability Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

An excess of leaves and yard waste can be composted with food waste in a backyard compost pile. The Johnson County K-State Research and Extension recommends composting yard waste to reduce the amount of waste entering landfills and for a finished compost that improves garden and landscape soils. Start a backyard compost.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Food waste and the increasing cultivation of crops for bioenergy are both serving to further increase these impacts. Since then, he explains, the farm has more than doubled its polytunnels and volume of water storage "but it still isn't enough to provide resilience to the changes we are now seeing". "We

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Greenability Magazine

AUGUST 4, 2020

Magazines, catalogs, newspapers, brown paper sacks, packing paper. If you have items not listed here, check RecycleSpot.org site or call Mid-America Regional Council Solid Waste Management District at 816-474-8326. appeared first on Greenability Magazine. Corrugated cardboard. Office paper, file folders, envelopes, brochures.

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Greenability Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

If your Halloween pumpkins are rotting on the front porch, here are some options to give them a second life and keep food waste out of the landfill. Kansas City, MO and place food waste in the dumpster. Some food waste is fed to the farm pigs and some is composted and used on their farmland. Compost it at home. Compost Now.

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Greenability Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Metro Kansas City area residents are invited to share feedback on a proposed regional blueprint for climate action that drastically reduces greenhouse gas emissions and supports resiliency from climate-related threats. The post Give your opinion on Climate Action Plan appeared first on Greenability Magazine.

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Greenability Magazine

MAY 24, 2021

Help keep toxic materials out of the landfill by recycling your old computers and e-waste at two free electronic recycling events. Most e-waste recycling is free. The post Recycle your electronics at free events appeared first on Greenability Magazine. Electronics Recycling Event, Kansas City, MO. Kansas City, MO.

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Greenability Magazine

JULY 14, 2020

TerraCycle, a waste management company, partners with consumer product companies, retailers and cities to recycle products and packages — from dirty diapers to cigarette butts — that would otherwise end up in a landfill. The post Recycle razors & help build a playground appeared first on Greenability Magazine.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 16, 2023

The changes will ensure regulators have the right tools to drive compliance across a range of sectors, strengthening enforcement and holding all who hold environmental permits to greater account – from energy and water companies to waste operators and incinerators.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 15, 2022

Challenging factors with construction include the complexity of the supply chain, and the sheer quantity of waste generated. It’s incredibly easy to create waste in the construction industry. Ways of minimising waste. Not creating waste in the first place has to be the answer, even if it’s complicated.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 20, 2023

She aims to build community resilience, while producing their own energy from food and animal residuals. I dedicated myself to meet women where they were (whether in the kitchen, garden, workshop, or bathroom) to reclaim their food, waste, and energy as a form of self-care and Earth-care for themselves, their families, and communities.”

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Greenability Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2021

While Kansas City Chiefs’ fans are gearing up for a new season, management is working behind the scenes on partnerships for energy efficiency, waste reduction and social justice issues. The post KC Chiefs connect team to sustainable solutions appeared first on Greenability Magazine. percent, up from 11 percent in 2010.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Battery storage is needed to support site-wide energy resilience, providing the power required at night when solar generation is not possible. Included in the 25-year concession agreement is the provision of renewable power, potable water, sustainable solid waste management, wastewater treatment and district cooling infrastructure.

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Greenability Magazine

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Like yard waste, holiday trees and greenery are banned from landfills in Missouri and are discouraged from being deposited into Kansas landfills. Archie, MO — Yard waste collection site, 401 S. Buckner, MO — Yard waste drop-off site, 2500 O’Donnell Road, Buckner, 816-650-3191; Buckner residents only. Belton, 816-761-3046.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 19, 2023

The research – ‘ Decarbonisation through Digitalisation’ – seems to show that manufacturing businesses are investing in digital technologies more than ever before and reaping multiple benefits, including productivity increases, product improvements, reduction in waste and labour efficiencies.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 13, 2022

More efficient use of phosphorus in agriculture and increased recycling, for example from wastewater, can increase resilience in the food system while reducing pollution of lakes and rivers that are biodiversity hotspots and important for drinking water supply.”.

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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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