Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

In addition, some bioplastics produce methane gas when they decompose, a compound with a global warming potential 25 times that of CO2. For example, in 2019, the BBC found that compostable plastics in Wales were going to landfills rather than being composted because almost all local councils were unable to deal with them.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Excavation is growing in popularity as an alternative to the environmental hazards associated with traditional herbicide treatments, but the vast majority of plant waste currently ends up in landfill sites where it rots, producing damaging landfill gases such as carbon dioxide and methane.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Of course, the whole issue can be sidestepped by running a ship on liquefied natural gas (LNG), but more recently a problem of “methane slip” has been identified, with the difficulties arising from unburnt methane. Some operators are using monitoring systems to keep track of the problem, and Protea recently supplied three such systems.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Given approximately 40 percent of the world’s food gets wasted, rots in landfills and creates methane emissions, food waste significantly contributes to this crisis. For innovators and thought leaders, technology provides advanced solutions to almost any crisis – including climate disruption and food insecurity.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 20, 2021

Food left rotting in landfills generates planet-warming greenhouse gases like methane and carbon dioxide, accounting for the third-largest source of human-related methane emissions in the U.S. While scraps and leftovers may seem harmless, food waste actually has a significant impact on the planet. A Tech-Driven Circular Economy.

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Waste Waste Climate change Organic 148

Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Anaerobic reactors produce methane biogas, while aerobic reactors do not. Their ASUR reactor technology yields more biogas than traditional anaerobic reactors, and with a higher methane content. The captured methane is frequently burnt on-site for electricity or heating. .

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Stormwater Waste Waste Methane 78

Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Carbonova Corp utilizes CO2 and methane as a feedstock to produce carbon nanofibers (CNF) that may be used in various fields such as transportation and buildings.

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Startups HVAC Waste Waste 97

Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The Japanese knotweed removal industry generates thousands of tonnes of plant waste every year which is consigned to landfill sites where it either regrows or decays, giving off harmful gases such as methane.

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Greentown Labs

MAY 10, 2021

CarbonQuest’s unique, patent-pending approach to utilizing carbon capture in buildings that use natural gas for heating, hot water, and/or adsorptive chilling can reduce a building’s emissions by 50 percent or more. Cemvita Factory (Houston, U.S.)

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Anaerobically digested sludge releases residual methane and carbon dioxide to the atmosphere – methane emissions from sludge treatment make up 75% of the diffuse CO 2 -equivalent emissions ( Gärtner 2017 ). We also filed for a patent application of the technology earlier this year.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 7, 2022

The patented hardware-software system grows lemna , a type of duckweed, using cow manure as a feedstock. Agricultural waste streams often end up in water supplies as runoff, and in the atmosphere as nitrous oxide, methane and CO2, says Prapas. Making use of waste streams.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2022

The accurate and effective monitoring of surface methane emissions levels is critical to the safe operation of landfill and waste management sites. However, methane monitoring equipment can sometimes be more of a hinderance than a help. Another way? It is able to detect emissions from 1-10,000ppm or from 0.1%

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AGreenLiving

JULY 28, 2021

Scientists recognize that while coffee grounds seem harmless, when in the landfill they actually release methane gas, which has a greenhouse effect 28 times higher than carbon dioxide. The technology developed by the company results in a patented, high-tech footwear material that is used to make the certified vegan boots.

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Recycling Recycling Patents Waste 28

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 1, 2023

I]t is patently clear that an ongoing, 18-month process to address two questions remanded to the Commission is inexcusable,” NextDecade wrote. “We The result was a lengthy delay for the gas export terminal. By February 2023, with Rio Grande LNG several years behind schedule, NextDecade fired off an angry letter to FERC. “[I]t

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Methane Construction Patents Investment 93

CleanTech San Diego

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Together, these startups employ 362 people, have had 162 patents approved, and have raised more than $223 million in private and public investment since being accepted into the program. 76 percent of SCEIN companies have C-Suite diversity.

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2022

From there, the sunlight is used to produce hydrogen and syngas, or synthetic gas created from a mixture of carbon monoxide, hydrogen, carbon dioxide and methane. Heliogen captures concentrated sunlight using heliostats, which reflect sunlight onto a tower called the Sunlight Refinery. The California company has $332.6

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Greentown Labs

JULY 12, 2022

Carbonova Corp (Calgary, Canada) utilizes CO2 and methane as a feedstock to produce carbon nanofibers (CNF) that may be used in various fields such as transportation and buildings. Full Cycle Bioplastics (San Jose, U.S.)

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 20, 2021

The team has filed a provisional patent application to commercialize the technology. Most hydrogen production today occurs through heating steam and methane, but that relies heavily on fossil fuels and produces carbon emissions. Improving the way hydrogen is generated is key to its emergence as a viable fuel source.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The use of these chemicals also damages the environment in other ways; much of the fertilizer used in the world today is the product of methane gas, a fossil fuel, while the wide-scale use of pesticides has been linked to the damage of ecosystems and vital populations of pollinators.

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Charged

MAY 31, 2022

We’ve already submitted patents, and are about to start designing it and building out prototypes. We initially started looking at hydrogen, and we were looking at creating green hydrogen through the use of electrolysis, which is a lot more costly than the traditional way of [generating] hydrogen, which is using SMR, steam methane reforming.

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Electricity Hydrogen Batteries Transportation 105

Greentown Labs

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Massachusetts Materials Technologies (MMT), which provides patented technologies for pipeline companies to nondestructively assess the safety, performance, and regulatory compliance of vintage pipelines used for the transmission of natural gas and liquids.

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Climate Tech VC

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Responsible for nearly a third of global warming and a quarter of global energy, methane matters.   In deals this week $145m for lithium extraction, $52m for methane emissions detection, and $40m for sustainable aviation fuel.   This list is far from representative of the biggest methane MRV players.

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Andrew Winston

DECEMBER 22, 2021

JPMorgan Shares Patents to Spur Low-Carbon Technology Development… here. Cargill will sell cow face masks to catch burps full of methane… here. Advancing Diversity through the Alliance for Global Inclusion… here. 10 Global Companies Take Action Towards Living Wages… here.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2021

It is important to note that while natural gas carries a lower carbon dioxide footprint when compared to coal, it also results in methane leaks up and down the supply chain. Methane arguably wipes out the perceived benefit of gas over coal. Which is, of course, patently false.”.

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CleanTechnica

AUGUST 28, 2019

Carboculture turns methane-spewing biomass into high-carbon charcoal, thanks to a patented technology that transfers waste into charcoal in a carbon-neutral way, allowing a cleaner, more efficient way to make charcoal and charcoal products.

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