GreenBiz

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Gillette plans to shave use of virgin plastics by 50% by 2030. The company has also reached zero-manufacturing-waste-to-landfill status across all of the plants in its global network. One of Gillette's 2030 goals is to maintain zero-waste-to-landfill status. Reduce absolute virgin plastic by 50 percent. Deonna Anderson.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

In Beck’s mind, too , forwarding-thinking companies should look at natural resources not just as consumables but as recyclable goods, and then design systems and products in a way that eliminates waste. Nearly a century ago, Ecolab sold dishwasher soap with a dispenser described as its first effort to reduce waste.

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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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Plastics Carbon-neutral Recycling Recycling 74

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. 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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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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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The natural world has a system for everything, including a natural waste cycle that turns dead plants and trees into food and soil for other living things. The program launched in mid-September with a focus on high producers of compostable waste such as restaurants , bars and other businesses.

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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. The True Cost, 2015 The True Cost exposes another major contributor of pollution, waste and consumption — the fast fashion industry.

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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. This kind of system deals with our wastes better too, and reduces the need for transport. Get the book here.

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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. The company is dedicated to a zero-waste policy, which Devi admits was easy to achieve because the product is the result of upcycling.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

Less waste than / Less toxic than. That means spelling out, for instance, that the bottle produces 20 percent less waste than the previous version of the product. Plastic neutral. This is a relatively new term that companies are using to describe how they seek to offset the use of plastic, usually in packaging.

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Elemental Excelerator

MAY 11, 2022

In addition to crossing a valley of death when getting ready to raise their first round, startups operating in essential industries such as energy, water, agriculture, mobility, and waste must cross more valleys of death than a typical SaaS startup. 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

Carpet waste is a huge issue in UK, as an area the size of Birmingham is thrown away every year. 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.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Shaving brand unveils sweeping new sustainability strategy designed to slash waste and emissions. The company also has reached zero-manufacturing-waste-to-landfill status across all plants in its global network. One of Gillette's 2030 goals is to maintain zero-waste-to-landfill status. 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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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2020

While the core function of the metals recycling process has remained constant over thousands of years, the industry has undergone significant changes as the volume of waste metals we treat has grown. Economic growth has driven ongoing demand for waste metals since 2000. 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. One of Gillette’s 2030 goals is to maintain zero-waste-to-landfill status.

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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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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

In Beck’s mind, too , forwarding-thinking companies should look at natural resources not just as consumables but as recyclable goods, and then design systems and products in a way that eliminates waste. Nearly a century ago, Ecolab sold dishwasher soap with a dispenser described as its first effort to reduce waste.

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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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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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Greentown Labs

JULY 12, 2022

Carbon Upcycling Technologies (Calgary, Canada) utilizes point-source CO2 and mineralizes it with waste materials to create supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) that can be used in building materials. Carbon is a waste product, suspended in the air we breathe,” said Pat Sapinsely, Managing Director of the Urban Future Lab.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Benzene is a colorless, sweet-smelling chemical found in crude oil and products including gasoline, solvents, plastics, paints, adhesives and detergents. As the global demand for plastics has grown, Texas also has become a hub for the petrochemical industry, which uses benzene in its production processes. He wouldn’t call personally.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2024

More and more of our residual waste is incinerated, as much as 65 per cent of it goes up in smoke. Norwegians throw away and burn increasing amounts of waste that could easily be recycled, in spite of a waste policy that envisions a different result. Normannsen). Words: NTNU).

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern wasted little time raising the stakes in her nation’s fight against climate change after handily winning re-election in October. million pounds of plastic, or 60 million bottles. The idea was born during MacArthur’s three-year-long "journey of discovery" around the world from 2006 to 2009. . "If

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

According to her website, she is committed to climate action, and mentions her support for green energy and electric cars, as well as her campaigning against plastic waste. Sharma originally opposed the expansion of Heathrow Airport, but has supported the project since becoming an MP for nearby Reading West.

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