Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 10, 2024

It’s described as the first fully recyclable paper crisp packet by The British Crisp Co., Consumers can dispose of the new crisp packet in their normal kerbside recycling collection along with their other paper recyclable items. It uses an innovative polymer, Hydropol, instead of conventional plastic.

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TechCrunch: Climate

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Most electronic waste isn’t recycled; instead, our dumped devices (and the toxic metals within) pile up in landfills, polluting the air and contaminating nearby soil and groundwater. The startup says its mission […]

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 12, 2024

The Alliance to End Plastic Waste has published the first two in a series of ‘Solution Model’ playbooks, to improve the understanding of the many stakeholders across the plastic value chain about what is possible and what else is needed to drive systems change to end plastic waste in the environment and develop a circular economy for plastics.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

A new partnership may pave the way for more than £400 million to be invested in recycling facilities across the UK. This will seemingly be the first of 10 new green, advanced recycling facilities that the two firms are jointly seeking to build and operate across the UK.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 10, 2023

Researchers from University of California, Riverside, have detailed a method to convert plastic waste into a highly porous form of charcoal or char that has a whopping surface area of about 400 square meters per gram of mass. If so, plastic waste could be repurposed to clean up water pollution.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Shops that sell large volumes of batteries have to provide a battery recycling collection. The Scottish government-funded circular economy advisory group Zero Waste Scotland is reminding Scots that they should recycle batteries separately to other household waste after a new survey revealed a quarter of people dispose of them incorrectly.

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The Environmental Blog

MARCH 12, 2021

If you want to make your business more sustainable in 2021 and bounce back from the current economic crisis, reducing your business waste is a great place to start. Even if you believe you already have an effective waste reduction strategy in place, taking a closer look will help you find ways to make additional improvement.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2024

The study explores how three types of waste production — municipal solid waste, wastewater, and greenhouse gas emissions — scale with city size (image credit: Elisa Heinrich Mora). A recent study attempts to predict the future state of urban ecosystems, and suggests the need for a new science of waste.

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GreenBiz

JULY 26, 2021

Lululemon, LanzaTech are reshaping carbon waste into fabric. LanzaTech, a carbon recycling tech company, views addressing those industrial emissions as an opportunity. And in its latest announced partnership with athletic apparel company Lululemon, it’s creating yarn and fabric using recycled carbon emissions. Deonna Anderson.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Soft, wearable sensors have many useful applications, but the soft and stretchable electronic materials underlying them are nearly impossible to recycle. This electronic waste usually ends up in landfills or polluting the environment. There are easy ways to remove the metal and polymers from the e-waste’, says Lan. ‘Of

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GreenBiz

MAY 25, 2023

New partnerships aims to tackle plastic pollution by transforming waste management and recycling systems in Indonesia, Argentina and Brazil.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 17, 2022

Joseph Doherty is Managing Director of waste management firm Re-Gen Waste. The way that waste in Northern Ireland will be handled over the next few years will change dramatically following consultations by Defra and the UK’s devolved administrations, according to Joseph Doherty of Re-Gen Waste.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 2, 2021

According to the authors, plastic pollution is a global threat, and actions to drastically reduce emissions of plastic to the environment are “the rational policy response” Plastic is found everywhere on the planet: from deserts and mountaintops to deep oceans and Arctic snow. .

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Grist

APRIL 24, 2024

The more plastic a company makes, the more pollution it creates. That finding “shook me up a lot, I was really distraught,” said Win Cowger, a researcher at the Moore Institute for Plastic Pollution Research and the study’s lead author. million pieces of plastic waste and counted the number of items contributed by specific companies.

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The Environmental Blog

MARCH 20, 2023

Biomedical waste is a term used to describe waste that is generated from healthcare facilities, including hospitals, clinics, and laboratories. This type of waste can be hazardous to human health and the environment if not managed properly. Additionally, it can pose health risks to humans and animals.

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TechXplore

APRIL 18, 2024

In recent years, it has also been applied to new industries such as air mobility, which has led to an increase in its use and a waste disposal problem.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

A consultation setting out plans for a mandatory digital waste tracking service in the UK was launched on 21 January 2022. The Scottish Environment Protection Agency and Scottish Government say they have been working with UK partners to develop a four-nation approach to digital tracking of waste movements. Data access controls.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The plastics and petrochemical industries’ latest purported solution to the plastic pollution crisis – chemical or “advanced” recycling – is essentially a public relations and marketing strategy designed to distract from the urgent need to curb plastic production, a new report contends. Chemical recycling itself is not new.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

MARCH 25, 2021

Lucas Couto, Senior Industrial Designer at EGGS Design in Norway, is focused on turning plastic pollution into innovative recycled designs. The designer has teamed up with plastic recycling company Precious Plastic to help reveal the potential of plastic waste in the design space.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 18, 2021

Companies are jumping aboard the federal packaging and recycling policy train. With an aggressive national recycling target (50 percent by 2030); a renewed White House focus on climate change; and clamor for consistent state rules around cutting trash, the federal sustainability policy train is leaving the station. Arlene Karidis.

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 4, 2022

Most people understand the importance of recycling. Reusing and repurposing materials decreases the need for new manufacturing, which, in turn, reduces emissions and waste. However, not everyone realizes that lightbulbs need proper recycling, too. Less Pollution. Reduced Environmental Contamination. LED Upgrades.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Scottish Environment Protection Agency staff and their work tackling waste crime were featured as part of investigative journalism programme BBC Disclosure on Monday 31 January at 7pm. SEPA says it launched a dedicated intelligence and enforcement function in October 2019 to deal with those types of growing activities.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 24, 2022

Hamburg-based start-up cirplus has entered into the UK market in a bid to digitalise the plastic and recycling industry. Coming into force on April 1st 2022, the tax increases costs for packaging companies who fail to use recycled materials by 20 to 40 percent. million tons of recycled plastics listed for sale.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 23, 2021

A Dorset start-up says it is turning plastic waste into building materials, and looking to empower communities in developing countries to do the same. This would also recycle around 800,000 tonnes of plastic otherwise headed for the ocean, or around 1% of global ocean plastic leakage. The tech bit. The challenge of funding an idea.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 8, 2021

A trade group comprising European suppliers of waste-to-energy technology, ESWET, has welcomed the European Commission’s proposal to revise the waste shipment regulation to reduce waste exports and treat municipal waste in Europe under EU standards, but calls for coherent and clearer rules for intra-EU shipments.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Conspectus of Biomedical Waste Management. Although the economy is restoring to an extent but an exponential escalation in the biomedical waste generation has posed severe persisting health hazards and environmental threats. 2] Since March 2020, the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has issued periodic guidelines under the.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

An 11-strong European consortium has secured funding for a project to demonstrate the commercial feasibility of generating waste sugars derived from household waste and producing a range of high-performance bio-based materials and products. Reduce environmental plastic pollution levels.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 4, 2023

SEPA was appealing to the public for information (on 28 September) to help with an investigation into potential illegal activity in North Lanarkshire in late September, at a location linked to waste vehicles. The regulator has a dedicated intelligence and enforcement function supporting geographic teams in investigating waste crime.

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Green Living Guy

AUGUST 12, 2021

The post What Do You Mean By Cannabis Bio-Waste and Recycling of Hemp? Moreover, now there is a surge in demand. To satisfy these demands on a large production, we need to leverage hemp and cannabis growth. This production […]. appeared first on Green Living Guy.

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Canary Media

APRIL 19, 2024

Mining those metals from the earth creates damage and pollution that threaten ecosystems and… To build all of the solar panels, wind turbines, electric vehicle batteries, and other technologies necessary to fight climate change, we’re going to need a lot more metals.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 2, 2020

Solar panels have a range of recycling options but none are perfect. The research was limited to the primary pollutant in each of the three biggest classes of solar panel today: crystalline silicon, cadmium telluride (CdTe) and copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS). The pollutants were lead, cadmium and selenium, respectively.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 21, 2021

Mark Priestman, Managing Director of Non-Ferrous at EMR (formerly European Metal Recycling) writes. As the recycling industry innovates to embrace its role as a key player in the UK’s journey towards a more sustainable society, new challenges continue to emerge. Mark Priestman of EMR.

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 9, 2020

The amount of food that gets wasted or spoiled daily is enough to feed 20% of the world population say, experts. Food and water waste accounts for more than 10 million tonnes that end up in landfills in the UK. We can contribute to environmental protection by reducing food waste. How to Reduce Food Waste? Shop Smart.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 6, 2024

Last week at the New York State Capitol, more than 300 advocates joined lawmakers for a rally to urge the passage of a landmark waste reduction bill that proponents say is the best piece of legislation in the country aimed at lessening plastic trash. percent of the plastic waste produced in the country per year.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 30, 2021

One of the projects, AACEAM Ambiental, collects plastics from the Amazon rivers and other natural areas, and sorts and recycles it. Each of the 100 initiatives involved are providing important environmental waste recovery services and are displayed in this international showcase, aimed at connecting projects with funders.

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Unsustainable

APRIL 24, 2022

Preventing pollution and improving public health are only some of the benefits of global recycling. It also creates employment, saves money, and reduces waste.

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TechXplore

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Stricter environmental norms and fossil fuel pollution call for cleaner fuels such as biodiesel. This vegetable oil- or animal fat-based diesel is biodegradable—up to four times faster than petroleum diesel—and nontoxic.

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