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KOGAA upcycles construction waste into a plant-filled coffee hub

AGreenLiving

The coffee hub includes all aspects of coffee production, from storage for raw beans to areas for roasting, cleaning and packaging of the beans. As part of KOGAA’s commitment to reducing construction waste across the Czech Republic, the project is primarily built with upcycled and low-cost materials. Read more here:Â .

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Report by African Circular Economy Alliance shines light on ‘Five Big Bets’ for circular economy

Envirotec Magazine

These are: food systems, the built environment, fashion and textile, electronics, and packaging. One of those enterprises is Ecopost, which has upcycled 5 million kilograms of plastic waste into building materials and created over 2,000 jobs for youth and women.

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SpadXTech Aims to Disrupt Vegan Leather Market with Plastic-free, Carbon-negative Material

Greentown Labs

When she realized microbes could create carbon-negative materials for applications across vegan leather, insulation, packaging, and more, González co-founded SpadXTech with mechanical engineer Connor Crawford in 2020. During ACCEL, González workshopped her pitch with Sophie Wadsworth , a pitch coach who’s been working closely with the cohort.

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From Google to North Face: Six of the best Earth Day announcements

Business Green

The UN and the COP26 co-hosts were to the fore today , lending their voices to the growing chorus demanding governments deliver explicitly green recovery packages. We will continue to actively advance our sustainability efforts through additional improvements to our products, packaging and operations.".

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The 2021 GreenBiz 30 Under 30

GreenBiz

As COVID came to dominate 2020, she helped donate more than 600,000 meals and 100,000 pounds of packaging to food banks. But she noticed they only served pre-packaged, mass-produced, instant coffee grown elsewhere. Coffee beans have been grown in East Timor for more than 400 years. "To The former Girl Scout and once-fellow at the U.S.

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Global Briefing: US Senate backs plan to make daylight saving time permanent

Business Green

Workshops for those that want to upcycle waste. Prime minister Jacinda Ardern announced the country would cut fares by 50 per cent as part of a wider package of measures to try and ease increases in the cost of living, including cuts to fuel duties. "Awareness sessions for people that are yet to start recycling.

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The 2021 GreenBiz 30 Under 30

AGreenLiving

As COVID came to dominate 2020, she helped donate more than 600,000 meals and 100,000 pounds of packaging to food banks. But she noticed they only served pre-packaged, mass-produced, instant coffee grown elsewhere. Coffee beans have been grown in East Timor for more than 400 years. The former Girl Scout and once-fellow at the U.S.