GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Wed, 11/25/2020 - 08:00. I think in a dream world, it is that every product that you would buy is coming from recycled materials that are closed-loop in our own supply chain. We're finding alternate ways to reuse it or we have partners that we're working with who can reuse the materials or recycle materials in some way.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

One of its ambitions is to deliver “packages made entirely from renewable and/or recycled materials that are fully recyclable,” according to the company site. Thu, 09/17/2020 - 18:59. And it seems to be moving toward that goal. “If View archived videos from the conference here. Deonna Anderson.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The VAMOS (Value Added Materials from Organic Waste Sugars) project has received €6,984,813 funding from the Bio Based Industries Joint Undertaking (BBI JU) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.

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Business Green

JANUARY 4, 2021

Tesco claims to have made significant headway last year in cutting back on the plastic stocked on its shelves, after working closely with more than a thousand of its suppliers to meet its annual goal to slash the amount of excess material wrapped around its products, it announced last week.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 30, 2020

How Pandora hopes to reach 100% recycled silver and gold. Tue, 06/30/2020 - 08:55. By 2030, Pandora, the world’s largest jewelry brand by volume, will use 100 percent recycled silver and gold in its products. As it stands, 71 percent of the silver and gold in Pandora jewelry comes from recycled sources. Deonna Anderson.

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Charged

JANUARY 13, 2020

It plans to bring a pilot recycling plant online in Västerås, Sweden, in 2020, next to its existing manufacturing plant. It will serve as a platform for developing and validating the recycling?process, process, and will target an initial recycling capacity of 100 tons per year.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Tue, 09/15/2020 - 01:30. First, admit that recycling is broken. was not sending clean, recyclable material but rather plastics covered in food remains, which turned into mold in the transportation process and became excessively difficult to process upon arrival. An idea for solving the plastics crisis. Sara Kingman.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 24, 2021

Electrical systems developer Thales and resource recovery firm Veolia have joined forces to create what is seemingly the first eco-designed SIM card made from recycled plastic. billion SIM cards produced worldwide in 2020, the two firms say have joined forces to help this market show its green credentials. With almost 4.5

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Wed, 09/02/2020 - 00:45. 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.

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R-Squared Energy

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Northvolt made the biggest deal in the battery space in 2020, but it was a huge year overall for the rapidly-growing sector. billion in corporate funding in 2020, compared to $3.8 billion in 54 deals in 2020. In 2020, 105 VC investors participated in battery storage deals compared to 78 in 2019. billion in 2019.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 8, 2022

A UK-based demonstration plant that generates industrial biotechnology sugars and other recycled material streams from the paper and card in mixed household waste has come online in May 2022. The products will be used in the production of several high-performance bio-based materials.

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GreenBiz

MAY 27, 2020

Wed, 05/27/2020 - 02:00. A jolt in this direction came overnight as COVID-19 drove people indoors, forcing many to rethink how they reduce, reuse or recycle items they took for granted only weeks earlier. How Dell and Levi's envision the future of repair. Elsa Wenzel. The rest get separated and sent around the planet for handling.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Tue, 10/27/2020 - 02:00. Jackson (@lisapjackson) June 11, 2020. Because those industries, those enterprises will say, 'OK, there are probably more people who want to buy recycled material as well' — and that's the circular economy.". Lisa Jackson: How Apple aims to lead on environment and equity. Elsa Wenzel. Pull Quote.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. Many celebrated with their CSOs on meeting ambitious corporate targets for 2020, while setting audacious new goals for 2025, 2030 and 2050. Elsa Wenzel.

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Charged

AUGUST 24, 2021

One of these is Tesla co-founder JB Straubel’s company, Redwood Materials , which is recycling scrap from Panasonic’s battery cell production at Gigafactory Nevada. In typical Tesla fashion, the company has also been working on its own in-house battery recycling system.

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Charged

JUNE 29, 2023

They are designed to ensure that the soaring demand (the EU is expected to have some 30 million EVs by 2030) is met by greener batteries with lower emissions, produced using recycled materials. Battery recycling targets on the consumer side will also be raised.

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GreenBiz

MAY 26, 2021

We are committed to only be using recycled polyester from 2024. By 2025, nine out of 10 adidas articles will be sustainable: Made with recycled materials, made to be remade or made with nature.". It is with no exaggeration that I say all 191 companies are our class of 2020 and indeed leading the way on Creating Material Change.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Mon, 11/16/2020 - 01:00. With Our Responsible Journey, Samsonite strives to lead the lifestyle bag and travel luggage industry across key sustainability indicators, including the use of recycled materials in its products and packaging and achieving carbon neutrality across its owned and operated facilities. Christine Rile….

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2023

To achieve a real transition to a circular economy, all products must be designed and manufactured maximising recyclability and taking into consideration the aspects of waste management and the subsequent valorisation of recycled materials. The recycling data for hazardous waste equals the overall recycling rate (38.5%

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 23, 2022

The judges selected the recyclable collation shrink film developed by Freiberger Lebensmittel GmbH, alesco Folien GmbH & Co.KG, Ecoplast Kunststoffrecycling GmbH, Borealis AG as the winner of the Plastic Packaging Product category, citing this as an excellent application for the use of recycled material.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

‘Design Check’ tool gives guidance to designers, packaging technologists, customers and suppliers of flexible packaging Packaging initiative CEFLEX says thousands of organisations in Europe and worldwide have embraced its ‘Designing for a Circular Economy’ (D4ACE) guidelines since they were launched in 2020.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Wed, 12/16/2020 - 09:58. The company had approximately 48,000 employees at the end of its 2020 fiscal year, which ended on March 28, according to its most recent annual report , and revenue during that year was $10.5 We're looking at advanced recycling and just to find recycled polyester and different recycled materials.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Online fashion retailer has trained its designers in making its clothing and jewellery more sustainable, recyclable and reusable. Other principles unvieiled by the firm include making items from a single recyclable material and which are designed for easy disassembly in order to further assist and encourage greener habits among consumers.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 22, 2020

Separating recyclable materials in a local cooperative in the Glicerio neighborhood in São Paulo in 2017: The report also points to a number of encouraging ‘bottom-up’ initiatives, that are advancing circularity in certain regions of the world. The Circularity Gap Report 2020 finds that the world’s economy is now only 8.6%

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 24, 2022

Coming into force on April 1st 2022, the tax increases costs for packaging companies who fail to use recycled materials by 20 to 40 percent. Since launching in March 2020, cirplus says it has brought over 1200 companies from 100 countries onto its platform, and has built an inventory of more than 1.3

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Plastics Recycling Show Europe (PRSE) will now run as a virtual event from 9 to 11 December 2020. The PRSE Virtual conference will examine the latest developments in plastics recycling and practical solutions for the circular and sustainable use of plastics, dealing with plastic waste and better design for recycling.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 21, 2020

“And those who are holding out should know that the clock is ticking,” Jackson wrote in the company’s 2020 Environmental Progress Report ( PDF ). Source: Apple's Environmental Progress Report 2020). Apple will increasingly rely on carbon-removal programs.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 5, 2020

Located in Gujarat, India, this boutique shop designed by Manoj Patel Design Studio is completely made out of recycled materials. The 350-square-foot space, completed in 2020, sells fine women’s wear and combines two rooms together to create a contemporary consumer experience using reused traditional and scrap materials.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 17, 2020

Wed, 06/17/2020 - 02:00. Food companies have a dual responsibility when it comes to waste reduction aspirations: optimizing their operations to minimize food waste while reducing the amount of other materials — especially the waste associated with packaging — sent to landfill. Heather Clancy. sales for the company.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 8, 2021

Mumbai-based architecture competition platform Volume Zero has announced the winners of the 2020 Tiny House Architecture Competition, a call for entries that celebrate sustainability and individuality through innovative design. 2020 Tiny House Architecture Competition Images via Volume Zero. . Read the rest here:Â .

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 2, 2023

In 2020, the Green Business Bureau shared Impetus Digital’s sustainability commitment via their first member story. With this goal in mind, and since 2020, Impetus Digital has focused on three major initiatives, which are detailed below.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 28, 2023

Separated recyclable materials at a facility in Ostrava, Czech Republic. This would mean savings of up to 21% on the total 2020 EU waste sector emissions. ​​ “This increases to saving 28 MtCO₂e/annum, equivalent to 25% of EU waste sector emissions, if more ambitious MWS with greater sorting efficiencies is rolled out.​”

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 3, 2021

In 2020, the European Commission presented its ‘Renovation Wave’ strategy to boost energy renovation of buildings in the EU. Regulate levels of embodied GHG emissions in building materials and components, and promote recycled materials, re-used building components, and renovation instead of demolition.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Exactly one year before the opening of the World Fair in Dubai, Carlo Ratti Associati has unveiled images for Italy’s Expo 2020 pavilion. The skywalk, for example, will be constructed with materials created from discarded orange peels and used coffee grounds.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

MAY 22, 2024

The facility was built from light, recyclable materials, harvests rainwater from the sky, and utilizes geothermal heat to grow plants. This supports the organisation’s valuable living collections for its Rainforest and Mediterranean Biomes, Outdoor Gardens, and Outer Estate.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The world's largest plastic packaging producer said the goal was "industry leading" and in line with its wider commitments to tackling its plastic footprint, including pledges to make all its primary consumer packaging recyclable by 2025 and ensure half its packaging is made from recycled materials by 2030.

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Grist

APRIL 24, 2024

Read Next Petrochemical companies have known for 40 years that plastics recycling wouldn’t work Joseph Winters That plastic production should be correlated with plastic pollution is intuitive, but until now there has been little quantitative research to prove it — especially on a company-by-company basis.

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