Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2019

PragmatIC says its technology could allow a low-cost inlay (tag) to be incorporated in packaging, allowing consumers to access information about product usage, food storage, cooking instructions and local recycling. But, if we focus solely on packaging waste, we ignore the fact that it’s only part of the story.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Industry Voice: Dow's Angels Domenech explains how innovative plastic packaging and recycling processes can drive down food waste, plastic waste and emissions. When global food supply chains are threatened, each stage of the chain and the technologies involved are propelled into focus and action.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Increasing limitations on sludge disposal is pushing industrial companies to rethink onsite wastewater treatment processes, says Simon Kimber, director of packaged plant supplier WPL & Atana. A screw press. This means efficient dewatering to reduce sludge volumes has never been more vital.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Though H2 cars have been making headlines, there are many other uses for this technology. The following are some of the places hydrogen fuel technology has been seeing substantial growth in use, without the notice of much of the media. Here are 8 hydrogen fuel applications you might not have considered before now.

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Charged

JUNE 26, 2023

Labelmaster , a provider of labels, packaging and technology for carrying dangerous goods (DGs) and hazardous materials, and plastic casing company Endural have announced a partnership to offer the automobile industry reusable plastic packaging for lithium batteries and other DGs. Source: Labelmaster

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Business Green

JULY 25, 2021

Brands have a powerful field of influence on sustainability, and digital packaging innovation offers a chance to lead by example, according to Jose 'Pepe' Gorbea from HP Graphic Arts. The packaging problem. But packaging is necessary. That is really powerful when it comes to building a more sustainable future for packaging.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 3, 2021

FedEx — which uses over 180,000 vehicles to deliver packages across continents and operates the world's largest cargo airline — has been implementing sustainability practices for years, but the announcement represents a major acceleration of the company's commitments. Transportation & Mobility. Courtesy of FedEx. Courtesy of FedEx.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

A coalition of more than 50 environmental, renewable energy, and transportation groups are calling on Congress to include long-term clean energy tax incentives in the $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation package.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The e-locos were built by Innovative Rail Technologies (IRT), a provider of customized lithium-ion propulsion solutions to the rail market. IRT’s proprietary technology ATLAS (Advanced Technology Li-Ion Adaptive System) is a turnkey, customizable and scalable propulsion and control package. Source: U.S.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 15, 2023

Drones will be used to deliver packages on remote Scottish islands – that, at least, is among the visions intimated by nine new freight projects which have been awarded £1.2 It will create an intermodal transport hub to improve island-to-island connectivity using drones to make deliveries, conduct surveys and monitoring.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 13, 2021

ZeroAvia says it is on track to achieve commercialization for its hydrogen propulsion technology in 2024. Initially, ZeroAvia targets the technology to be used in smaller planes for commercial passenger transport, package delivery, agriculture, and beyond. With the new investment, the company has raised $115 million.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Series of reports and policy documents published by the Department for Transport this week seek to advance 'future of transport' programme and spur new wave of low carbon transport innovation.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 23, 2024

Speed cameras: Lessons learned in this space are informing the roll-out of noise cameras Noise camera technology is ready to be deployed for monitoring urban traffic, according to a number of firms developing it. The whole system is packaged within a metal enclosure, which also contains processing and data transmission.

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Charged

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Designwerk Technologies, based in Winterthur, Switzerland, has developed a new DC fast charging station for commercial EVs that’s packaged in a container format. The technology on which the Mega Charger is based originates from an ongoing demonstration project that aims to build a charging station with a charging capacity of 1.05

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 18, 2024

The International Energy Agency has estimated that 35 per cent of emission reductions needed by 2050 will come from new technologies currently not on the market 1. Reaching net zero means finding low-carbon ways of doing necessary activities – including electricity generation, transport, and heating.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 17, 2022

One of the most significant consultations was on plans to introduce Extended Producer Responsibility on packaging. The administrator will then pay local authorities and waste collectors for the costs involved in the collection, transport and recycling of packaging waste from households and small businesses.

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Charged

JULY 15, 2021

The good news is that New South Wales, Australia’s most populous state, just announced an extensive new EV policy package that includes $500 million worth of tax exemptions, rebates and infrastructure investment, along with perks for EV drivers. That’s the bad news. It’s expected to be fully implemented by September 1.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2021

A £20m research and development (R&D) competition to fund "the most promising electric vehicle (EV) technology innovations", has been announced by the Department for Transport (DfT) as it today confirmed fossil fuel cars and vans would as expected be banned from sale in the UK by 2030.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Cutting aviation emissions and expanding green transport networks would generate more jobs while costing the taxpayer less than the bailouts handed to the aviation sector during the pandemic, a fresh analysis has claimed. Kyle Lewis, co-director of Autonomy, said it was critical to reduce the number of flights to meet climate goals. "The

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 8, 2022

million) 2022 Open Innovation Programme aims to develop and deploy net-zero technologies to accelerate clean energy production and reduce offshore emissions. The competition is hosted by the Net Zero Technology Centre, which aims to develop and deploy technology to accelerate an affordable net-zero energy industry. Gas export b.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2022

A perspective article by researchers from Stockholm University and ETH Zurich, published in August in Environmental Science & Technology , suggests that environmental contamination by per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) defines a separate planetary boundary and that this boundary has been exceeded.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 12, 2024

Made from corn or sugar cane, ethanol is much safer but can be hard to package and transport. Across Africa, where electricity connections are patchy and mains gas non-existent, cooking fuel has been dominated by charcoal and paraffin, both of which emit fumes and soot, contributing to thousands of premature deaths every year.

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GreenBiz

JULY 29, 2020

In general over the years, the auto industry has been slow to adopt zero-emission vehicle technologies. Build back better" is a refrain I've heard from a variety of transportation companies in recent weeks. This article is adapted from GreenBiz's weekly newsletter, Transport Weekly, running Tuesdays. Transportation & Mobility.

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Business Green

AUGUST 24, 2022

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners and University of California Berkeley team up to develop technology that aims to slash supply chain emissions, while saving on material costs. CCEP added that it expected to make future investments to help drive the technology from lab to pilot phase.

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altenergymag

OCTOBER 8, 2020

BYD's integrated all-in-one energy storage solutions feature Lithium-ion Iron-Phosphate battery technology, paired with a bidirectional power conversion system (PCS), packaged into a modular system design for easy transportation, installation, and maintenance.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2021

A wide-ranging package of legislative measures designed to curb emissions from the gas industry unveiled by the European Commission has come under fire from campaigners and energy analysts, who have warned they could 'lock in' fossil gas infrastructure across Europe for the years to come.

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Charged

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Ryder System, a provider of supply chain, transportation and fleet management solutions, has secured its first two customers under its new RyderElectric+ turnkey fleet solution. RyderElectric+ gives us the comprehensive package we need to make EV adoption simple.” Source: Ryder System

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2022

In celebration of the telematics and analytics helping reduce fuel consumption in the transportation sector. For the purposes of this essay, let's consider a topic high on the list for any sustainability professional - reducing emissions related to the transportation of goods and services - and why efficiency really matters in this moment.

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GreenBiz

MAY 8, 2020

Two ways P&G is working toward its packaging goals. In 2017, semiconductor and technology manufacturing giant Intel committed to restoring 100 percent of its global water use. We'll debate "Reusable Packaging in the Age of Contagion," "Can Recycled Plastic Survive Low Oil Prices" and "Repair, Resilience and Customer Engagement."

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Energy Innovation

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

By Olivia Ashmoore This week, Energy Innovation Policy & Technology LLC® and RMI published 48 state Energy Policy Simulator (EPS) models. To illustrate how the EPS can inform state action, Energy Innovation® and RMI developed a five-policy scenario and modeled this policy package across six states.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Embedded in the price you pay for goods are things such as vehicle maintenance, insurance, driver labor, warehouse labor, packaging labor, fuel energy, transport tolls, packaging disposal and, of course, profit margin. Many corporations exist to make money from finding and delivering energy to transportation.

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The Environmental Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2019

According to the UN Foot and Agricultural Organisation, the transport sector accounts for around five and a half billion tonnes of CO 2 emissions every year. Given the increasingly obvious need for the world to lower its carbon emissions, the case for making a switch to cleaner, greener forms of transport is nigh-on incontrovertible.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2021

per cent of the stimulus money is being spent on either reducing greenhouse gas emissions in energy, transport, industry, agriculture, and waste sectors, or enhancing nature and biodiversity, yet $4.8tr is being pumped directly into environmentally-intensive parts of the economy, the report concludes. Only around 10.6

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2020

As MEPs enter talks over EU Council's €1.8tr recovery package and budget deal, many key green questions remain. Of the overall €1.8tr package encompassing the recovery funding and the 2021-27 budget, EU leaders agreed that 30 per cent should be earmarked for the bloc's climate objectives and transition to net zero.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Truck OEM Scania has joined with digital road freight forwarder sennder Technologies to form a joint venture called JUNA, to advance electric truck adoption and promote electric solutions in road freight logistics across Europe. JUNA’s model offers a turnkey package, including vehicles, repair, maintenance, insurance and analytics services.

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Business Green

MARCH 10, 2022

A new generation of interactive maps are set to help communities choose active transport options as part of the government's £2bn package to encourage walking and cycling. The XMAP Isochrone tool, can also help planners to understand how existing infrastructure enables or restricts green journeys, he added.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 21, 2020

gigawatts, the technology and shipping giant said on Thursday. Amazon’s plans to reach net-zero include the emissions the company and its supply chain directly produce, such as through the manufacturing of packaging and the delivery of packages.

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