GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The automaker’s sustainability goals include sourcing energy only from renewable sources and getting at least half the materials in its vehicles from recycled, bio-based or renewable origins — by 2030 in the U.S. 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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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

MAY 21, 2020

Since 2009-10, the company claims its investments in energy efficiency have saved it £343m. In 2019/20, the company produced around 40,500 tonnes of waste worldwide - an increase of 27 per cent from the previous year - of which 96 per cent was recovered or recycled. The report reveals that last year it invested £45.3m

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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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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

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

And new developments are emerging all the time through our partnerships with industry and academia - at the beginning of July, we were proud to help launch a carbon recycling project - REACT-FIRST - that uses microbes to convert CO2 into valuable proteins.

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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. Companies have more goals for designing for recycling and recovery, and increasing recycled content than other packaging issues.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 2, 2021

It’s also one of the most recycled products on the planet.” 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. ” Chand said.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

If not, or if the item will ultimately pile up in a landfill, burn in an incinerator or be recycled, then avoid the term and its siblings, such as 'oxo-biodegradable'. Are you telling the customer they're getting something recycled or biodegradable? Recyclable. Recycled content. Made with renewable materials.

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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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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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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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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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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Carpet Recycling UK, a trade association set up to encourage carpet recycling, oversees 73% of diverted carpet waste being sent to incineration at an approximate climate cost of £16.5 Less than 2% of carpet waste is actually recycled. million a year to society. million a year in unpaid climate harm alone.

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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. P&G Corporate, Gillette's parent company, doesn't release numbers about how much waste is reused, recycled or incinerated across its brands.

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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

With 2020 now upon us, Andrew Brady, UK CEO of EMR (formerly European Metal Recycling) reflects on what has changed in his sector since the start of the millennium, and offers perspective on its growing importance and the challenges that lie ahead. How much is used worldwide? Advances in recovery technology.

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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. From there, the company worked to reduce scrap waste and engaged employees to help improve recycling rates.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

” The automaker’s sustainability goals include sourcing energy only from renewable sources and getting at least half the materials in its vehicles from recycled, bio-based or renewable origins — by 2030 in the U.S. 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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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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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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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2024

PhD candidate Kim Rainer Mattson believes much of this can be recovered and recycled (image credit: Photo: Sølvi W. In the sea of environmental problems over which we have little control, recycling has alway been an area where it feels like we can all do something positive. Normannsen). But what if policy gets in the way? Words: NTNU).

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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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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 21, 2021

We’re using more plastic. In the 1970s, 35 million tonnes of plastic was produced globally, mounting to 381 million tonnes in 2015. Political support improved under Barack Obama in 2009. A Plastic Ocean. How to Give Up Plastic , Will McCallum. kg/person in 1970 to 43.22 kg/person in 2013. C) per decade. Our Planet.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 18, 2022

We’re using more plastic. In the 1970s, 35 million tonnes of plastic was produced globally, mounting to 381 million tonnes in 2015. Political support improved under Barack Obama in 2009. A Plastic Ocean. How to Give Up Plastic , Will McCallum. kg/person in 1970 to 43.22 kg/person in 2013. C) per decade. Our Planet.

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