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

Envirotec Magazine

When we throw things away, they end up in landfill or incinerators, which then contributes to greenhouse gas emissions. Extracting raw materials has an impact on climate, as do the manufacturing processes that we use to make products. It’s crucial that we break this cycle. At every stage, we must look for more sustainable ways to do things.”

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EU Plans to Measure True Climate Impacts of LNG Imports From US Fracked Gas

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 5 mins With growing evidence that the climate impacts of natural gas are comparable to coal, the European Commission is planning to study ways to reduce methane emissions across the life cycle of natural gas production and consumption, with potential implications for fracked gas producers in the U.S.

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Pandemic Lockdowns Caused 'Just a Tiny Blip' in Climate-Polluting Emissions, WMO Finds

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 6 mins There was some speculation that climate-changing emissions might drop this spring as the world went into lockdown to slow the spread of the coronavirus.

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Analysis: Fossil Fuel Tax Programs to Cut Emissions Lead to Lots of Industry Profit, Little Climate Action

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 12 mins The fossil fuel industry and its investors have financially benefited from tax policies and subsidies designed to reduce the emissions from oil, gas, and coal — sometimes without taking the action required to tackle climate change.

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FedEx pledges to be carbon neutral by 2040

GreenBiz

But FedEx has a goal to move its entire package pickup and delivery fleet to zero emission by 2040. The company says that by 2025, half of FedEx Express' new package and delivery fleet purchases will be of zero emission vehicles (ZEVs). Swapping all that diesel and jet fuel with batteries and biofuels won't be easy. Courtesy of FedEx.

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Scottish council becomes first to trial recycling weighing technology

Envirotec Magazine

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. The local authority is focused on raising that figure to 70% by 2025.

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EV charging beyond the grid: Forecasts from a new report

Envirotec Magazine

Medium and heavy-duty haulage, construction, agriculture, and mining are all under pressure to reduce transport-related greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), and going electric is an increasingly attractive solution. Passenger cars are not the only sectors where electrification is taking off.