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. The company rebuilt blue jeans for recyclability, also slashing the use of water and being mindful of workers' well-being.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Wed, 11/25/2020 - 08:00. If IKEA can't resell an item, the company plans to recycle it or donate it to community organizations. . 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. Deonna Anderson. Black Friday is upon us.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 23, 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. Wed, 09/23/2020 - 14:07. And it seems to be moving toward that goal. “If View archived videos from the conference here. Deonna Anderson.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Wed, 12/16/2020 - 00:30. 2020 has become a reckoning for American culture through the pandemic, the Black Lives Matter movement, the ominous storms in the east and the apocalyptic wildfires of the west. How to talk about racial justice in sustainability. Victoria Gilchrist. Third, act on the input from BIPOC communities.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

OCTOBER 28, 2019

The temporary structure embodies circular principles to minimize waste and integrate recycled materials such as coffee grounds, mycelium and ocean plastic.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Tue, 09/15/2020 - 01:30. The classic examples include "sustainability" statements made by plastics industry leaders promoting recycling. These campaigns insinuate: "If consumers recycle correctly, the waste problem will be solved and the Great Pacific Garbage Patch will disappear." First, admit that recycling is broken.

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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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Charged

AUGUST 24, 2021

Battery recycling will be a critical part of the future e-mobility ecosystem, as Tesla has understood from the beginning. The California carmaker has been working with various firms to recycle its end-of-life battery packs for several years.

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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. and globally by 2040.

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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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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Tue, 10/27/2020 - 02:00. Jackson (@lisapjackson) June 11, 2020. Making the human factor material. It’s been two years since Apple planted the seeds to grow a circular economy by committing to make all of its devices from recycled or renewable materials eventually. Elsa Wenzel. BlackLivesMatter [link].

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 24, 2022

Hamburg-based start-up cirplus has entered into the UK market in a bid to digitalise the plastic and recycling industry. 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. million tons of recycled plastics listed for sale.

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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

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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Plastics Recycling Recycling Europe 130

Charged

JANUARY 13, 2020

Swedish battery maker Northvolt is launching a new program, Revolt, that is devoted to recycling lithium-ion batteries. 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,

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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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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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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2023

The Review appears to shed light on existing and future challenges in dealing with hazardous waste, including improving classification, ensuring traceability, increasing recycling, and combating illegal trafficking. The recycling data for hazardous waste equals the overall recycling rate (38.5% for all wastes and 53.3%

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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

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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Grist

OCTOBER 1, 2022

When dealing with the life cycle of plastic, hundreds of solutions await, from alternative bioplastics that might be able to degrade themselves through the magic of fungus, to complex chemical recycling that can break plastics down to become other petroleum products or to be rebuilt good as new.

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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. ” Sources: Reuters , GreenBiz

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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

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The tool “can be used either to assess an existing package, facilitate the R&D and design process, engage with other parts of the value chain, or prepare for recyclability testing.” ” Now CEFLEX has teamed up with recyclability experts Recyda to deliver design-check.ceflex.eu

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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. In the U.S., It has 35 of them.) .

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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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R-Squared Energy

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Last fall Swedish lithium-ion battery maker Northvolt announced that it had raised $600 million in equity to invest in capacity expansion, research and development, and large-scale recycling. 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 2019.

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Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 1, 2021

Creating a circular European battery industry Summary - Northvolt has partnered with Hydro to establish a first-of-its-kind battery recycling facility. The recycling plant will be established as a green field development, under a joint venture named Hydro Volt, and come online in 2021 in Fredrikstad, outside of Oslo. Brace yourself.

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Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 1, 2021

Creating a circular European battery industry Summary - Northvolt has partnered with Hydro to establish a first-of-its-kind battery recycling facility. The recycling plant will be established as a green field development, under a joint venture named Hydro Volt, and come online in 2021 in Fredrikstad, outside of Oslo. Brace yourself.

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Recycling Recycling Batteries Electric vehicle 78

Grist

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Of the waste generated from that plastic, less than a tenth of that has been recycled, researchers estimate. This pollution problem is made worse, experts say, by the fact that even the small share of plastic that does get recycled is destined to end up, sooner or later, in the trash heap. billion tons of plastic.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 28, 2023

Separated recyclable materials at a facility in Ostrava, Czech Republic. percentage points to the municipal waste recycling targets (depending on the level of ambition in MWS the success of separate collection improvements). Source separation is mandatory under the Waste Framework Directive precisely to ensure quality recycling.

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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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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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Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2022

French biotech start-up Carbios is making rapid progress working with some of the world's biggest fashion brands to deliver a new approach to polyester recycling. The consortium aims to develop the industry's first large-scale fiber-to-fiber polyester recycling system, a process that could play a meaningful role in circularity in fashion.

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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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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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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

RECYCLED STEEL. Recycling metal rather than using virgin ore helps preserve natural resources and saves energy. In fact, creating products from recycled steel utilizes 40% less water and reduces mining wastes by 97%. RECYCLED PLASTIC. BIO-BASED AND RECYCLED INSULATION. minority and women-owned suppliers).

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