The Environmental Blog

MARCH 16, 2021

Perhaps the pandemic’s most perilous environmental impact comes from the tons of plastic waste, main disposables such as face masks, disposable nitrile gloves , personal protective equipment (PPE), face shields, syringe, making waste management a serious challenge. Exponential Rise in Plastic Demand and Waste.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The leader in water, hygiene and energy services sells to a diverse collection of institutions such as hospitals, food and beverage providers, as well as heavy industry including power plants and plastic manufacturers. Ecolab says it helped its customers save enough water in 2018 equivalent to the needs of 600 million people.

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Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2021

AeroFarms uses aeroponics, a soilless way of growing produce that uses mist to cut down on water usage by 95 per cent; it plants seeds in cloth made from recycled plastic bottles. For example, Danville relies heavily on nuclear and natural gas for energy, which is one reason AeroFarms decided to build there.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Sustainable agriculture means farming and grazing in a way that doesn’t work the soil to death, or deforest en masse to make way for croplands. Sometimes it’s as simple as rotating crops on a plot of land to allow the soil a season or two to rest, or switching from chemical fertilizer and pesticide to compost and organic anti-pest solutions.

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Grist

APRIL 14, 2021

In the late 2000s, the fossil fuel conglomerate Woodside Energy petitioned to build a liquid natural gas processing plant 30 miles north of Broome, on a peninsula known in English as James Price Point, and to the Goolarabooloo as Walmadany. Broome residents attend a 2011 protest rally against the proposed natural gas plant.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

This year, the group implemented a reverse osmosis system in a Thai community; it cleans drinking water and eliminates locals’ need for plastic bottles. Thirteen years ago, this ahead-of-its-time cool school eliminated plastic water bottles (though it's had to temporarily suspend the policy due to COVID-19).

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

The leader in water, hygiene and energy services sells to a diverse collection of institutions such as hospitals, food and beverage providers, as well as heavy industry including power plants and plastic manufacturers. Ecolab says it helped its customers save enough water in 2018 equivalent to the needs of 600 million people.

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Grist

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Vasquez’s colleague, forensic field specialist Ngaio Richards, walks over and dons a plastic glove before reaching her hand into the dam to collect the sample and put it in a paper bag. She pulls Frost’s reward, a yellow ball on a rope, out of her fanny pack and chucks it into the river. Frost dives after it, ecstatic. Grist / Zoya Teirstein.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Waste to energy technology includes aging, which may take biomass and make liquor, exploitation squander plastic or natural material. However research is going on to produce hydrogen naturally form the natural gas using the process of Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

Pantys’ products cut down on plastic waste — one person uses up to 15,000 pads and tampons over a lifetime, most of which wind up in landfills, estimates show. Leung helped the city devise a plan to separate and collect food waste, and to create a regulatory program to eliminate single-use plastic tableware. Marta Misiulaityt?

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

The Fundamentals of Circular Packaging (Workshop): An increase in consumer awareness, corporate engagement and regulatory action has led more companies to set ambitious goals to reduce and reimagine their use of plastics and packaging. Thanks to new regulatory incentives and technologies, the carbontech market is now taking off.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 4, 2020

UN warns global soil health under threat. The UN has marked tomorrow's World Soil Day with the publication of a new report warning signifcant gaps in knowledge about soil biodiversity could present a threat to food production, human health, and climate change. Fourteen countries sign up to sustainable fishing initiative.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 17, 2021

Pantys’ products cut down on plastic waste — one person uses up to 15,000 pads and tampons over a lifetime, most of which wind up in landfills, estimates show. “In Brazil, we are really connected to nature and the Amazon, so I have this conscience that we must take care of it.” “I guess they just really like me.”

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