GreenBiz

JANUARY 20, 2023

Formed in 2018 under the auspices of the USDA Forest Service, the Urban Wood Project began in Baltimore to reclaim wood that would otherwise be burned or landfilled. How much wood would a wood-consuming world waste?

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The firm claims many industry milestones, such as developing the first-ever electric mini-digger in 2018, creating the first hydrogen-powered machine in 2021 and ongoing expansion of its range of fully electric-powered equipment.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 31, 2025

Now, however, using the same scientific approach to that of a 2018 report that looked at the risks posed by biosolids to human health, a reassessment of the risks to soil health has been conducted by the group. The potential harmful effects of these unregulated contaminants on soils have been understudied in recent years.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Within its own operations — it has 21,000 employees and offices in 50 countries — BCG is aiming to reduce direct energy and electricity emissions by 90 percent per full-time employee against a baseline measurement of 2018, according to the new set of commitments the company announced Tuesday.

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TechXplore

JULY 22, 2024

fire departments over $564 million in 2018, according to a new study published in Energy Policy. In 2018, New York City experienced 22,090 gas leak incidents—more than the next 25 cities combined—conservatively costing the city $70 million. Responding to gas leaks cost U.S.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 13, 2020

Exxon’s 2018 revenues were half of what it made a decade earlier; in 2019, it was only $14.3 In 2018, Transocean (yes, the folks who brought you the BP oil spill) charged Chevron $830 million ($445,000 a day) for one rig for five years. Last year, no fossil company made the top 10 list. Renting one isn’t cheap, either.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

A new study has found that more than 8 million people died in 2018 from poor air quality caused by fossil fuel combustion.

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Fossil fuels Pollution 271

Inhabitat - Innovation

AUGUST 18, 2021

Which is why Californians overwhelmingly passed animal welfare initiative Proposition 12 in 2018. While eating meat is the norm in the U.S., many people wish farm animals a happier life pre-burger.

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Jim Conca

MARCH 12, 2021

America landfilled 27 million tons of plastic in 2018 but only recycled 3 million tons. We just aren’t recycling the materials that we need to recycle to address climate change as well pollution. It’s even worse worldwide.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JANUARY 17, 2020

Back in 2018 when Lombok was struck by several earthquakes, some of which measured up to magnitude 7, local communities around the seismic region were greatly affected by loss. After the series of earthquakes settled, there were over 500 dead, 129,000 homes damages and 445,000 people homeless.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

DECEMBER 1, 2021

8000Kicks hemp shoes opened in 2018 after founder Bernardo Carreira finished his business studies at Purdue University. He decided to make use of his grandmother Maria Otilia's 50 years of experience in the textile industry and launch a sneaker company with her.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

OCTOBER 7, 2021

A new report released by the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network found that up to 14% of the world's coral reefs have been depleted due to climate change between the years 2009 and 2018. In the period under review, mass coral bleaching events were experienced due to warming waters.

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TechXplore

OCTOBER 1, 2024

As many as 249 lives could have been saved in London during the 2018 record-setting hot summer had the city widely adopted cool roofs, estimates a new study by researchers at UCL and the University of Exeter.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JUNE 15, 2020

In 2018, architecture firm FabrikG completed the home, which is located in an off-grid community about five and a half miles from downtown San Jose del Cabo on the East Cape hillside. This stunning 4,585 square foot home in San Jose del Cabo, Mexico exemplifies sustainable indoor-outdoor living at its finest.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The total volume of household waste generated in Scotland remained largely the same as 2018, up 17,000 tonnes (an increase of 1%) from 2.41 million tonnes in 2018 to 2.42 The carbon impact of household waste generated and managed in 2018 was 5.7 This was a decrease of 94,000 TCO2e from 2018 and a decrease of 1.1

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TechXplore

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The amount of waste generated by the construction sector underscores an urgent need for embracing circularitya sustainable model that aims to minimize waste and maximize material efficiency through recovery and reusein the built environment: 600 million tons of construction and demolition waste was produced in the United States alone in 2018, with (..)

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TechXplore

AUGUST 6, 2024

In 2018, China stopped accepting many types of recyclable plastic waste from Australia. In recent years, the question of what to do with our household waste has become more pressing. Four years later, Australia's main soft plastics recycling scheme, REDcycle, collapsed, leaving behind big stockpiles.

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Plastics Recycling Recycling Waste 213

Charged

OCTOBER 22, 2024

More than 35,000 hours of testing have been performed since the original Center of Excellence Lab opened in 2018. The labs are part of the company’s customer-experience ecosystem, which also includes its 24/7 Network Operations Center, 24/7 Customer Contact Center, field service engineers and preventative maintenance.

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TechXplore

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Just 9% of plastic collected in municipal solid waste was recycled as of 2018, the most recent year for which national data is available. Plastic is a fast-growing segment of U.S. municipal solid waste, and most of it ends up in the environment. The rest was burned in waste-to-energy plants or buried in landfills.

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GreenBiz

MAY 12, 2022

Our voluntary reporting is informed by the following frameworks: The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) for the Technology & Communications Sector, Software & IT Services industry (Version 2018-10) The Financial Stability Board (TCFD) The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) The Ten Principles of the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) (..)

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GreenBiz

JUNE 4, 2021

In 2018, research suggests data centers were responsible for about the same amount of carbon emissions as aviation. Between 2010 and 2018, computing output jumped sixfold — but energy consumption rose only 6 percent. The data center example. Data centers are energy hogs.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 20, 2021

percent) in 2018. As the GSIA latest report was published in 2018, we are yet to see how Taiwanese investors compare to their global peers for the past year. This is relatively higher than the proportion of sustainable investment assets to total AUM of investors in the U.S. percent) or Japan (18.3

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 12, 2020

Between 2015 and 2018, the consumption of renewable natural gas by natural gas fleets grew by 475 percent, and in 2019 in California, 80 percent of the natural gas used for transportation was renewable.

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Charged

DECEMBER 2, 2024

.” Centennial College has a fleet of more than 12 EVs and hybrid vehicles with which students in the two-year Automotive-Motive Power Technician program can gain hands-on experience, including a 2018 Chevrolet Bolt, 2022 Toyota Prius and 2022 Ford F150 Lightning.

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The Guardian: Energy

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

The water took over everything,” says Romero, a supermarket assistant who migrated to Brazil from Venezuela in 2018. In May, a devastating flood ravaged her neighbourhood, leaving a trail of chaos and triggering a humanitarian crisis. What we went through was horrific. Continue reading.

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TechXplore

MARCH 20, 2025

Between 2010 and 2018, the transport sector generated about 14% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Cargo transport is responsible for an enormous carbon footprint.

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TechXplore

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Deliveries of 367,500 cars represented 50% growth over 2018. In 2019, Tesla was in the happy position of being a high-volume, premium-priced leader in the global electric vehicle (EV) market.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 4, 2025

Key initiatives include: Bio-polyethylene (bio-PE) Since 2018, the company has used bio-PE, a soft, durable, and flexible plastic made using Brazilian sugarcane, for certain LEGO elements such as minifigure accessories and botanical pieces. To date, the LEGO Group has tested over 600 different materials for its bricks and elements.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 15, 2020

Loblaws met its target in 2018 by sourcing recycled or certified fiber. The launch of the New Plastics Economy Commitment in 2018 spurred over 200 businesses, including the largest companies such as Walmart, Target, Nestle and Unilever to aim for 100 percent reusable, recyclable and compostable plastic packaging by 2025. .

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 20, 2020

In 2018, the global packaged food industry generated $2.77 Her company’s software uses machine learning, artificial intelligence, data scraping and cohort analysis to recommend the most nutritious and more sustainable ingredients for food companies, such as its partners Ingredion and Unilever. .

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

recycling market has been in free fall since 2018, when China, Malaysia, Thailand and other Southeast Asian countries announced that they would no longer import many types of recyclable material scraps. Plastics Pact launches new initiative to redesign the plastics value chain at Circularity 20. Holly Secon. Wed, 09/02/2020 - 00:45.

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TechXplore

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

According to a survey conducted by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport, and Tourism in 2018, the Japanese construction sector discharged about 74.4 The construction industry is a highly resource-intensive and polluting sector, with significant water consumption and notable contribution to environmental degradation.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2021

According to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in 2018, Americans generated 292 million tons of trash ? About 12% of MSW was converted into energy by waste-to-energy plants in 2018, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). municipal solid waste (MSW) ? which is triple the amount generated 60 years ago.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 26, 2020

As a result, community projects swept the board in Germany’s 2017 and 2018 auctions, which together saw 5.1 gigawatts in 2018 and 5.3 “The rise in installations is largely attributed to the auction projects awarded back in 2017 and 2018," Barla said. gigawatts of capacity awarded. megawatt turbines.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Since 2018, The UK Plastics Pact has changed how the UK makes, uses and disposes of plastics. Target two – 100% of plastics reusable or recyclable – 70% of packaging is recyclable today, up from 66% in 2018. 92% of rigid plastic packaging is now recyclable under the Pact, up from 81% in 2018.

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Plastics Recycling Recycling Waste 262

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

They examined a wealth of Environmental Agency data 65,000 individual observations relating to pollutant measurements and invertebrates from 1,457 sites between 1989 and 2018. The study , funded by the Natural Environment Research Council, has been published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology.

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GreenBiz

JULY 26, 2021

In 2018, every ton of steel produced emitted about 1.85 Addressing industrial emissions and harmful particulate matter, such as those produced by steel mills, continues to be a difficult challenge. . Consider that right now, the steel industry is among the three biggest producers of carbon dioxide.

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