GreenBiz

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Gillette plans to shave use of virgin plastics by 50% by 2030. Building on the 26 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions — and using a 2009-2010 baseline — Gillette plans to boost that number to a 50 percent reduction by 2030. Reduce absolute virgin plastic by 50 percent. Use 100 percent recyclable packaging.

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Business Green

MAY 21, 2020

Since 2009-10, the company claims its investments in energy efficiency have saved it £343m. The report reveals that last year it invested £45.3m in building energy management projects in the UK, which helped reduce BT's operating costs by cutting its global energy use by 65GWh, or 2.3

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 6, 2025

Bridging Nations Through Technology Created in 2009, BIRD Energy was designed to leverage the complementary expertise of U.S. These projects include advancements in hydrogen fuel, sustainable packaging, and energy-efficient residential solutions. and Israeli innovators to address global energy demands.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Another cleantech partnership explores the potential for using captured CO2 to displace oil in the production of plastic products, using Econic's pioneering catalyst technology. The Macclesfield company's work our engineers are supporting could save as much as four million petrol cars' CO 2 per year in the automotive market alone.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Related: Attenborough Effect inspires people to drastically reduce single-use plastics Chasing Coral, 2017 Coral is a barometer for the health of the planet. Tapped, 2009 Plastic is a well-known environmental issue. As a measure of this health, coral is showing that the earth is sick. Images via.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 2, 2021

Related: Nonprofit Washed Ashore crafts art and jewelry from ocean plastic That important bit of knowledge was just the beginning in her efforts to keep her business environmentally friendly. “We started as an ordinary business in 2009. She said, “Paper is one of the few truly sustainable products as it is made from wood.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

To use a green certification or seal of approval on marketing or packaging, make it clear if your company is materially connected with the group behind it, such as receiving funds from it. Will the product and its package break down completely and 'return to nature' within a year? Degradable / Biodegradable. Recycled content.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Related: The Australian government unveils plan to end plastic pollution Andersonville has a history of embracing environmental and social change in Chicago’s north side, as seen through the Andersonville Recycles program, which launched in 2009.

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Earth Gratitude

APRIL 23, 2016

The Prince of Wales , Leon Krier , Rainbow Light (developers of 100% recycled eco-packaging), GOI Peace Prize winner Lynne Twist , the founders of Life is Good and more. Leon is the author of The Architecture of Community, published by Island Press in 2009. Visionary contributors to the ebook include H.R.H.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Building on the 26 per cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions - and using a 2009-2010 baseline - Gillette plans to boost that number to a 50 per cent reduction by 2030. Reduce absolute virgin plastic by 50 per cent. Use 100 per cent recyclable packaging. We've done a lot over the 10 years.

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GreenBiz

MAY 11, 2020

Inside Eastman’s moonshot goal for endlessly circular plastics. But something extraordinary is going on at this Eastman chemical plant: two breakthrough processes to turn waste plastics of all kinds back into new plastics, continuously, with no loss of quality. Joel Makower. Mon, 05/11/2020 - 00:44.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Gillette plans to shave use of virgin plastics by 50% by 2030 Deonna Anderson Tue, 10/27/2020 – 02:17 Personal care products brand Gillette, known for its razors, set out to become a more sustainable company one decade again. Reduce absolute virgin plastic by 50 percent. We’ve done a lot over the 10 years.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

The leader in water, hygiene and energy services sells to a diverse collection of institutions such as hospitals, food and beverage providers, as well as heavy industry including power plants and plastic manufacturers. The electronic engineer and MBA spent 19 years as a supply chain vice president at Unilever before joining Natura in 2009.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

8 Legislative landmarks In terms of international legislation, an important landmark is the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), adopted in 2001, and the first international attempt to regulate PFAS, beginning with PFOS in 2009 (later joined by PFOA in 2019 and PFHxS in 2022). 3] Press release.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The text is weakened by a lack of specificity on key targets, including species protection, business impacts, and plastic pollution, as well as the absence of a mandatory reporting framework with strict timelines that would hold governments to account. It's important to have CEOs and its important to have national leaders here," he said.

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Business Green

MAY 15, 2020

From plastics to fashion, the US chemicals giant is innovating in pursuit of a new approach for managing the world's most ubiquitous materials. But something extraordinary is going on at this Eastman chemical plant: two breakthrough processes to turn waste plastics of all kinds back into new plastics, continuously, with no loss of quality.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 9, 2024

Other ICF members are affiliated with IEE, including Bruno Zaffari , the owner of real estate and supermarket companies, and Wilson Ling , the director of the plastic packaging and forestry company Évora S.A. Gomes held various positions, including president of the IEE from 2009 to 2012.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Jackowski was at the center of HP’s ongoing project in Haiti to collect ocean-bound plastic waste and incorporate the material into the company’s printer cartridges and, as of May, into some of its personal computers. million pounds of plastic, or 60 million bottles. So far, that effort has diverted 1.7

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Grist

JANUARY 29, 2020

The blast sent Robby Payne into a plastic tank of liquid cattle feed, knocking him unconscious. Fires at a fertilizer plant in Bryan, Texas, in 2009 and a fertilizer warehouse in Athens, Texas, in 2014 had calamitous potential but wound up hurting no one. Payne, a college track star-turned-funeral director, remembers none of it.

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