GreenBiz

APRIL 4, 2022

Sponsored: Anaerobic digestion is an eco-friendly waste management solution, producing renewable energy and healthy soils. How can this technology grow in the United States?

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GreenBiz

JULY 16, 2020

The electronic waste collection conundrum. Quite simply, I had become obsessed with the tech industry’s then-blasé attitude about the seemingly intractable problem of electronic waste. . Quite simply, I had become obsessed with the tech industry’s then-blasé attitude about the seemingly intractable problem of electronic waste. .

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GreenBiz

APRIL 16, 2021

Strategies for the war on waste. What would happen if the United States enacted a comprehensive plan to combat food loss and waste? It’s the work of some leading players in this area: ReFED, a nonprofit that works on food waste; WWF; Natural Resources Defense Council; and Harvard’s Food Law and Policy Clinic. The answer?

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 6, 2022

The food waste reduction strategy with the greatest environmental benefits is not recycling, it is prevention.

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Jim Conca

JUNE 7, 2020

During a virtual meeting held by Southern California Edison's Community Engagement Panel, experts considered a number of Doomsday Scenarios that could threaten the nuclear waste stored at the shuttered San Onofre nuclear power plant. But things got weird with fear of things like short-range missiles.

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GreenBiz

MAY 26, 2020

Food waste startup backed by Oprah Winfrey snags $250 million. This morning brings one of the biggest deals yet this year: an infusion of $250 million in new financing for food waste crusader Apeel Sciences. What we have seen is like a 50 percent [reduction] of waste, and then also a double-digit growth of sales. "I Food Waste.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 29, 2022

Sponsored: Pentair’s sustainable gas technology is helping partners across industry minimize waste and emissions to help achieve a carbon neutral future.

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Jim Conca

MAY 31, 2021

The Finnish waste management company, Posiva Oy, announced the start of excavation on their deep geologic nuclear waste repository for their spent nuclear fuel. Operation of the repository is expected to begin in 2023. The total cost estimate is about €2.6 billion ($3.4 billion).

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GreenBiz

JULY 15, 2022

About a third of the world’s food is wasted or lost — but new apps to buy, redistribute and share surplus food can help.

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Waste Waste 436

GreenBiz

MARCH 17, 2023

In Minnesota alone, the value of metals and materials that could be mined from electronic waste has an estimated value of over $2.8 billion annually.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 18, 2022

There are still major differences in the amount of waste generated across the world, and how it is disposed, a finding confirmed by a 2022 Global Waste Index compiled by waste management technology firm Sensoneo to mark Global Recycling Day (18 March). Illegal waste disposal is booming in Turkey.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Environmental NGO WRAP is using COP29 to highlight the need for countries to include food loss and waste in their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). A new report shows that, of the 195 countries attending COP29, only 12 have committed to reducing food waste and just 17 to tackling food loss.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Sponsored: Creatives are revolutionizing our perception of waste by demonstrating its potential value in design.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Sponsored: Conducting a waste audit doesn’t come without its challenges; but the opportunities are just as high.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 28, 2022

More than 7,000 local governments have a policy where residents pay for every bag of trash, and found that they produce less waste.

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GreenBiz

JULY 26, 2021

Lululemon, LanzaTech are reshaping carbon waste into fabric. What we're saying is, ‘Look, we're gonna take all of this waste, whether it's a gas or a solid, we're going to convert it to ethanol," Holmgren said. Deonna Anderson. Mon, 07/26/2021 - 02:00. . In 2018, every ton of steel produced emitted about 1.85

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GreenBiz

JUNE 9, 2023

Nearly all companies and organizations have contributed to the ever-expanding mess of extraction, waste, soil degradation, environmental racism and social injustice all in the name of growth at any cost.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 17, 2022

Indoor farming, food waste, regenerative agriculture and alternative proteins caught the attention of investors this quarter.

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Waste Waste Agriculture 399

GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Here’s his advice on food waste. Michiel Bakker makes Google a magical place to work.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Sponsored: Food loss and waste has a measurable impact on greenhouse gas emissions; the food and beverage industry has a role to play in reducing both loss and waste.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 29, 2022

Sponsored: Pentair’s sustainable gas technology is helping partners across industry minimize waste and emissions to help achieve a carbon neutral future.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2023

A new study highlights potential pathways to significantly increase waste collection and plastic recycling rates globally. Category 2 – Incipient Systems includes countries with basic waste regulations but limited collection and end-of-life treatment infrastructure. Examples of countries include Kenya, Iraq and Congo.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

New data from the Consumer Goods Forum is designed to help tackle the industry's food waste mountain.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Sponsored: Material characterizations are a foundational tool for shaping effective waste management strategies. Here’s what you do next.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A new partnership will increase the sustainability potential of organic and food waste recycling, say the firms behind it. The partnership combines Alfa Laval’s Prodec Oil Plus decanter, said to be designed to maximise oil separation, and AD, to turn oil and fats waste into biofuel, using a process developed and patented by Bisviridi.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Recycling efforts by north London’s two million residents will not be significantly boosted by the new Simpler Recycling proposals, the North London Waste Authority (NLWA) has warned. This includes taking into account local circumstances in relation to the frequency of residual waste collections.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2024

One of the partners in the initiative, Nafici Environmental Research (NER), based in West Sussex, has created a process to transform agricultural waste into paper-making pulp with strengthening properties.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Emissions from facilities like waste incineration will be subject to a CO2 tax of €40/t in the coming year (image credit: aeshnaton , CC BY-NC 2.0 Emissions from waste incineration will thus be subject to a CO2 tax of €40/t in the coming year, rising to €50/t in 2025. As an example, commercial waste has a fixed biogenic content of 48.9

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In an apparent first of its kind within the UK, a pharmaceutical manufacturing site in Northumberland has been equipped with an anaerobic digestion (AD) plant to recycle waste solvents into low carbon gas, which is being injected into the national gas grid. It will also produce enough energy to power an equivalent of 6,000 homes.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The world is off track to tackle plastic pollution. Here's what business must do now, according to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

A pilot plant on the University of Bath campus is said to be able to recycle up to 60% of plastic lab waste, to make back into new lab consumables. Currently, less than 1% of this waste is being recycled. Additionally, proper waste segregation should be emphasised to enable recycling.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 22, 2021

I also have observed firsthand how technology-driven innovation is disrupting the traditional grocery supply chain, opening new doors to reducing food waste and helping the world to think differently about how we source food. For meal kits, packaging waste was one of those unintended consequences. Why not the grocery model?

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The UK’s annual Recycle Week launches today (15 October) with a warning that households are wasting over one billion items every year that could be recycled. In 2022, UK households produced 25,691,000 tonnes of waste of which 11,330,000 (44.1%) was recycled. Recycling is key to how the UK will move to a zero-waste circular economy.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Since 2022, the site has been primarily focused on nuclear waste processing and storage, and nuclear decommissioning (image credit: Dom Crayford , CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Processing nuclear waste is an enormous challenge for human civilisation. The Sellafield site in Cumbria, by night. license ).

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Apkudo announced a $14.4 million growth funding round on Feb. 8, 2022, that should help further the growth and development of its connected device platform.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Vaulted Deep, backed with $8 million led by Lowercarbon Capital, is one of about a dozen startups to receive carbon removal contracts through the Frontier buying group.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

They do this by burrowing into waste wood and converting it into highly-nutritious protein. The researchers found that the levels of Vitamin B12 in the Naked Clams were higher than in most other bivalves – and almost twice the amount found in blue mussels.

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