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EU Digital Product Passports aim to track items through the product life-cycle

Envirotec Magazine

The unprecedented quantity of Extended Producer Responsibility legislation that has been greenlighted so far this year – across Europe – no doubt signals a new level of environmental awareness on a governmental, rather than merely social level. What are Digital Product Passports and should we care?

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Everledger and Ford release EV battery passport pilot for material recycling

Smart Energy International

Digital transparency company Everledger has launched what they tout as a world-first battery passport pilot with automotive manufacturer Ford Motor Company to ensure responsible recycling of EV batteries. EV battery tracking. It can provide transparency of the battery supply chain as well as the lifecycle of the finished product.

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Should Climate Tech Companies Pay For Twitter Subscriptions?

Michael Grossman

Pew's analysis from June-September 2021 of over 1,000 Twitter users supported the earlier survey by showing the most active 25% of Twitter users produced 97% of all tweets. Only 14% of the most active 25% of tweeters produce original content. Everything else is a retweet or response. Let’s call them the ‘elites.’

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Sustainable packaging: Seven things that can drive progress towards 2025 goals

Business Green

Companies are unifying behind the New Plastics Global Economy Commitment , industry partnerships are tackling difficult challenges and business support for policies such as extended producer responsibility - previously unthinkable - is gaining steam. We have seen really great results since then.".

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Big Oil’s Been Secretly Validating Critics’ Concerns about Carbon Capture

DeSmogBlog

CCS and the related carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS), are a set of technologies designed to trap some of the carbon pollution produced from industrial facilities. Stephen Pascala, director of Princeton’s Carbon Mitigation Initiative, recognized the concern about extending the fossil fuel era.

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Who Is Going to Clean Up the Scrap Heap in the North Sea?

DeSmogBlog

Under the pact, every three years the OSPAR Commission produces an inventory of North Sea oil and gas installations , based on information provided by governments and platform operators. We have good regulations, we have good, responsible energy companies and we have innovative supply companies. Nexstep expects to spend about 2.4

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Defective Meters and Whistleblower Complaints Raise Questions About Gas Utility’s Profits

DeSmogBlog

A little over a decade ago, Gary Dye, then a gas measurement engineer at NW Natural, Oregon’s largest gas utility, lost faith in his employer to responsibly deal with what he believed to be systematic inaccuracies among the company’s hundreds of thousands of gas meters. million from 2002-2004.