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Comment: Pay-as-you-throw can drive the circular economy

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Chris Williams is founder and CEO of ISB Global. “A Extracting raw materials has an impact on climate, as do the manufacturing processes that we use to make products. When we throw things away, they end up in landfill or incinerators, which then contributes to greenhouse gas emissions. It’s crucial that we break this cycle.

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ABB e-mobility simplifies payment for EV charging with Vourity acquisition

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Vourity’s technology “enables rapid, secure payment for EV charging, using a wide variety of payment options including credit cards, mobile pay and RFID tags.” Our aim with Vourity has always been to deliver a seamless customer experience at the point of payment,” said Hans Nottehed, co-founder and CEO of Vourity. “As

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Racism and Discrimination in the Oil and Gas Industry

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In early June, as protests over the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police went global, American Petroleum Institute CEO Mike Sommers released a statement vowing that America's most powerful fossil fuel lobbying organization “has zero tolerance for discrimination of any kind.” .

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Ford’s surprise news: it’s developing a new platform for low-priced EVs

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GM just hired a renowned battery expert as VP of Batteries, and Ford CEO Jim Farley announced that his company has been quietly working on a low-cost platform for smaller EVs for the last two years. “We Have GM and Ford given up on EVs , as many would have us believe? Well, not this week.

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Scottish council becomes first to trial recycling weighing technology

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The programme, funded by the Scottish government funded advisory group Zero Waste Scotland and delivered in partnership with North Lanarkshire Council, involves the use of RFID tags. These have already been used in Europe and in some other parts of the UK. ” “RFID technology is ideal in helping councils gauge household waste levels.

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First nationwide DDRS trial: 20,000 cash rewards redeemed by Ocado Retail customers

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Invisible UV tags are also applied to the labels enabling tracking and tracing back to dedicated recycling centres and offering brands and retailers unprecedented insights into the whereabouts of their products and packaging. bottles each.

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Is Natural Gas the New Coal?

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Read time: 7 mins At a recent natural gas industry conference in Houston, Woodside Petroleum CEO Peter Coleman warned his colleagues to avoid the fate of another fossil fuel, according to trade publication Natural Gas Intelligence. “ Tags: methane natural gas fracking finances UN Climate Summit ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM)