Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2019

.” Gelatex Technologies from Estonia has won the Green Alley Award 2019 – an annual prize recognising startups in the circular economy, which has been running since 2014. The textile is seemingly produced without the use of toxins and is “organic and biodegradable.”

Startups 178

Startups Waste Waste Plastics 178

Green Business Bureau

APRIL 27, 2021

Launched in 2014, Petite Lucette is a sustainable and circular fashion brand founded by French sisters, Anaïs and Clémence. Petite Lucette Launches a Sustainable and Circular Fashion Brand . Customers are incentivized to resell gently worn kids clothing items to Kids O’clock in exchange for a discount at Petite Lucette.

Fashion 148

Fashion Organic Sustainability Recycling 148

Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 27, 2020

One of the most topical problems in marine pollution is microplastic debris, with an estimated 93 to 236 thousand metric tons of microplastic in our oceans as of 2014.

Plastics 124

Plastics Energy Monitor Microplastics Building Energy Monitoring 124

Green Business Bureau

APRIL 28, 2021

Petite Lucette is a sustainable fashion brand that launched in 2014 with the mission of creating an organic line of products and has joined Green Business Bureau to expand upon their sustainable initiatives. Use biodegradable, nontoxic detergent that will not pollute the waterways. Petite Lucette: Green Business Bureau Member.

Fashion 109

Fashion Sustainability Ethics Waste 109

Unsustainable

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Similar devices are in use elsewhere, like water wheel in Baltimore harbor that has been collecting garbage since 2014, though they lack the scalability of the Interceptor. But for tackling the problem cleaning up the legacy plastic that is choking the seas, The Ocean Cleanup is an inspiring start.

Plastics 52

Plastics Microplastics Solar Energy Monitor Pollution 52

Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 26, 2022

These plastic bags aren’t biodegradable, meaning they reside in the environment and take up to 1000 years to break down. Showcasing the extent of this pollution, the first oceanographic study conducted in 2014 examined the amount of near-surface plastic debris. This is because the material is completely biodegradable.

Retail 78

Retail Plastics Sustainability Biodegradable 78

GreenBiz

APRIL 15, 2021

That’s equivalent to roughly 10 years’ worth of China’s annual emissions as of 2014 — an amount that far surpasses the 90 billion ton avoidance potential of Drawdown’s top-ranked solution, refrigerant management. By empowering women and girls globally, Project Drawdown calculated that we could avoid 120 billion tons of emissions by 2050.

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Carbon-negative Startups Plastics Waste 538