Greenability Magazine

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The Living Christmas Tree Company and Rent a Christmas Tree have both been renting out potted Christmas trees since 2009. In contrast, artificial Christmas trees are made primarily of metals and plastics, which are all non-renewable resources. The plastic material, typically polyvinyl chloride (PVC) is a potential source of lead.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2021

However, Franses also suggests that the plan is in line with a history of corporate climate leadership from CCEP, pointing out that the firm, which is part-owned by the Coca-Cola Company, was among the first 10 companies globally to set a science-based target back in 2009 and has reduced its emissions by more than 30 per cent over the past decade.

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Greenability Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

In California, Rent a Christmas Tree has been renting out potted Christmas trees since 2009. In contrast, artificial Christmas trees are made primarily of metals and plastics, which are all non-renewable resources. The plastic material, typically polyvinyl chloride (PVC) is a potential source of lead. Skip the fake one .

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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. Deonna Anderson. Tue, 10/27/2020 - 02:17.

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Econaur

APRIL 22, 2020

In 2009, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution formally recognizing the day as International Mother Earth Day. In addition to these practical outcomes, the event demonstrated just how much can be achieved when people come together and demand action. The day continues to hold great significance.

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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. Revolutionizing Waste Recycling To address the environmental toll of plastic waste, Israel’s Plasticback and the U.S.’s 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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GreenBiz

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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Mr. Sustainability

AUGUST 20, 2020

With Direct Air Capture, atmospheric CO2 can also be used as a feedstock to create low-carbon products like plastics and concrete. With DAC, atmospheric CO2 can also be used as a feedstock to create low-carbon products like plastics and concrete. This article is taken from Carbon Engineering. For the original, click here.

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Terra Infirma

MAY 27, 2020

If you look at the 2009 election expenses scandal, MPs who made miserly little claims for items such as for Remembrance Day poppies were hauled over the coals, while a number of others played the system for £10,000s and got away with it. If I was spotted outside the City, I’d lose the authority to encourage people to comply with the rules.

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Low Impact

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

We spread out / decentralise, and skim renewable resources from a renewed countryside – food, fibre, timber, renewable energy – rather than from centralised and concentrated sources like fossil fuels / plastics etc. About the author: Dave Darby lived at Redfield community from 1996 to 2009. Get the book here.

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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 13, 2020

If you can, picture Little Sara from SW Houston, TX pulling plastic soda can rings out of the trash and cutting them in half to avoid choking fish while wearing an I AM A MAN t-shirt honoring the 1968 Memphis sanitation strike and humming the United Farmworkers’ De Colores.

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Front And Centered

MAY 17, 2019

Bills to plan for reducing food waste (HB 1114 ) and a cracking-down on greenwashing plastic products (ESHB 1569) also passed. Both food waste and these plastic products are small barriers slowing the flow of throwaway consumer goods toxic to our bodies and the climate. Photo by Samantha Bushman.

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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.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

In addition, Renato Fassbind, a director at SwissRe, is a current director of Nestle, a CA100+ firm which also ranks among the world’s top ten plastic polluters according to research by Break Free From Plastic, a global movement of organisations and individuals looking to end plastic pollution. Links to Lobbying.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 15, 2020

As one of the first environmental concerns companies began to tackle proactively, interest and efforts had notable resurgence in the last few years, partly spurred by the attention on ocean plastic. Paper cups usually have unrecyclable plastic coatings. Only about 13 percent of plastic packages are recovered in the U.S.

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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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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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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

Flexible plastic grocery bags labelled 'recyclable' and featuring the chasing arrows symbol with a number to identify the plastic type are a prime example of greenwashing, according to Shelton. Plastic neutral. Carbon dioxide comes in one form, for instance, while there are at least seven types of common plastics.

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Earth Gratitude

APRIL 23, 2016

About Rainbow Light: 25 years ago, Rainbow Light developed the first Ecoguard® FDA approved food grade, BPA-free 100% recycled plastic bottles, reducing their carbon footprint by 92% and keeping approximately 10 million plastic bottles from polluting waterways and natural habitats every year.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 9, 2020

Manhattan’s elevated linear park, created from an old New York Central Railroad spur, has attracted a constant stream of locals and tourists since opening in 2009. The Element New York Times Square West incorporated recycled material into its furnishings, such as carpets made from recycled plastic bottles. mile High Line.

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Elemental Excelerator

MAY 11, 2022

In 2009, when Elemental Excelerator started our mission to redesign systems at the root of climate change, our team identified a funding gap for deploying technologies after the initial launch. Ultimately, they need to become market leaders supplanting fossil fuels, plastic, and other extractive practices. The climate tech gap.

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EDF + Business

MAY 2, 2023

Automotive Consumer Products Clean Energy Inputs Batteries Machinery Mining Paper Plastics Cement Steel Glass Chemicals Key Relevant Provisions §45X and §48C are the key provisions to know for advanced manufacturing, offering incentives for domestic clean technology and energy efficient manufacturing.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

[vii] Carpet made with PVC backing releases dioxin when burnt, which is a known carcinogen, while a recent report by the Center for International Environmental Law in the US stated that incinerating plastic waste ‘releases toxic substances including heavy metals such as lead and mercury, acid gases and particulate matter’.[viii]

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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. The company also has reached zero-manufacturing-waste-to-landfill status across all plants in its global network.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2020

The use of waste metal in steel production has also increased significantly – from 460 million tonnes in 2009, to 600 million tonnes in 2017. Once metals are shredded, the residual stream that remains can contain materials including plastics, foam, glass, wood, textiles, rubber and more.

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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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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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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2021

Alluding to studies his own group had conducted on the SARS virus in 2009, Pepper said it seemed that viruses like that can survive in wastewater for 2-3 days. And it only costs $30, “which is excellent because it is costing us a lot more, all the disposable plastics and equipment that you use.”.

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

develops a chemical recycling process to turn polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and polyester-fiber waste into “virgin-grade” plastics. CarbonBlue (Haifa, Israel) develops a chemical process that mineralizes and extracts CO 2 from water, which then reabsorbs more atmospheric CO 2. MacroCycle (Somerville, Massachusetts, U.S.)

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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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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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Grist

JANUARY 21, 2025

Other branches of the fossil fuel industry including plastic producers and agrichemical companies, both of which depend on oil and gas and their byproducts have also taken to social media to discourage actions to reduce the use of their products. You dont want to look only at energy, which is where a lot of the attention goes, Kinol 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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