GreenBiz

AUGUST 31, 2020

On the supply side, we only partner with ethical and sustainable brands who manufacture natural toxin-free clothing using organic agricultural practices, which regenerate natural systems,” Butler said. “We Also, we helped design clothes with natural and monofibers that are recyclable. and help to keep our clothes out of landfills.".

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Launch of documentary on innovations for recycling nutrients from agriculture and wastewater. It features innovators and sustainability experts discussing what is needed for these technologies, and nutrient recycling more broadly, to take root in the Baltic Sea Region. “In Andrzej Wójtowicz, CEO of S?upsk

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GreenBiz

JULY 17, 2020

Agricultural waste from food crops either is traditionally left to rot or is burned, contributing to greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution. A sheep consumes a lot of biomass left over from food production, basically agricultural stubble. Pamani: How do the textiles produced by Agraloop stack up against recycled fabrics?

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GreenBiz

MAY 24, 2021

A circular economy is so much more than recycling or reusing waste streams, which is a reductionist understanding of what nature does. Through a carbon-sequestering manufacturing process, Biohm uses landfill-bound commercial and agricultural byproducts to grow mycelium for its products. Interested in more on the Circular Economy?

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The beauty of the MEC is that it can process any type of organic waste — human, agricultural or industrial. “Instead of using chemical catalysts, which are often very expensive and require high temperatures, we’re using biology as the catalyst.” The MEC cycles waste-filled water through the bacteria, which eat up the carbon.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Almost one-third of the money that Nestlé intends to invest will be dedicated to cultivating regenerative agricultural practices that improve soil health and reduce dependence on synthetic fertilizer across 500,000-plus farms from which Nestlé sources ingredients. Food & Agriculture. Regenerative Agriculture. Media Source.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 23, 2021

Arcadis , a Dutch engineering firm, is applying that knowledge to cities around the world by creating infrastructures with sustainability at the forefront, such as water recycling facilities inside manufacturing companies in Mexico. . For example, 72 percent of water usage in the world goes to agriculture.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

One of our biggest opportunities is regenerative agriculture,” Renne-Malone said. We're really looking at regenerative agriculture as a way to scale opportunities across all our brands, and then possibly partnerships with other industries as we move forward.”. We've looked quite a bit at regenerative agriculture.

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CleanTech Group

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Off-grid energy storage monitoring, feedstock-agnostic battery recycling, and permanent carbon removal using organic waste: Recent Deals worth looking at Agriculture & Food Elicit. The post Recent Deals – 19 November appeared first on Cleantech Group.

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GreenBiz

JULY 8, 2021

That is changing, though, as severe, long-term droughts in important agricultural hubs such as California give investors mounting reasons to worry. And demand from agriculture, industry and municipalities will only grow — the United Nations projects a 20 to 30 percent increase by 2050 — as the world’s population rises to somewhere around 9.7

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Grist

JULY 10, 2021

House of Representatives have introduced HR 4099 , a bill that would direct the Secretary of the Interior to create a program to fund $750 million worth of water recycling projects in the 17 western states through the year 2027. Or it may instead be used for non-potable purposes, like for agriculture or industrial processes.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 8, 2020

Here's how GoGo Squeeze and Gerber are reinventing their packaging toward greater recyclability. Millions of parents have come to rely on single-serve fruit squeezes, but the packaging piles up in landfills.

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Terra Infirma

MARCH 14, 2025

Rachel manages a veritable smorgasbord of Sustainability issues and is a real inspiration here’s a taste of what we cover: Facilitating reuse between generations of students and charities Low carbon anaesthesia Smart bins to boost recycling rates Sustainable agriculture: biodiversity, soil carbon and climate adaptation Using quirky stories to (..)

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

A radical rethink of recycling and waste policy is required to put the UK on a more sustainable path, according to a new report from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE). Lead author, Professor Ian Arbon said: “We need to stop seeing waste as a problem and to start seeing it as a valuable resource and use it to maximum advantage.

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CleanTech Group

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Robotic waste management, sustainable chocolate derived from precision fermentation, and a cloud-computing platform to curtail methane flares: Recent Deals worth looking at Agriculture. The post Recent Deals – 17 December 2024 appeared first on Cleantech Group.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 17, 2022

In Northern Ireland, the Department of Agriculture, Environment & Rural Affairs is still analysing the responses. The concept of producer responsibility – placing the cost of recycling of products at end of life onto those that placed the products onto the market, has been applied across the EU and in many other countries for years.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Make 100 percent recyclable, reusable or compostable packaging by 2025. So, for example, we had strong sustainable palm oil sourcing programs on the Kraft side whereas on the Heinz side there was a really strong focus on agricultural and sustainable agriculture commitments stemming from ketchup and our use of tomatoes.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Bringing together experts from six countries, the three-year project will produce second-generation sugars from paper and card-based materials from municipal solid waste (MSW) or waste rejected from sorting and recycling processes. Pulp fibre.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Global Recycling Day – March 18th. Even if you’re a complete novice when it comes to sustainability, you probably have a good understanding of how recycling works and why it’s important. Global Recycling Day aims to raise awareness about the benefits of recycling along with how to do it properly.

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GreenBiz

MAY 20, 2020

According to Will Sarni, CEO of the Water Foundry, a hyperlocal water recycling plant such as this is still a rare project for U.S. Evoqua’s strategy when it comes to designing the recycle/reuse facility of an operating plant is to be extremely flexible and quickly adjustable, according to Aulick. Food & Agriculture. businesses.

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CleanTech Group

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Tokamak fusion systems, reusable modular orbital vehicles, and an AI-powered platform that optimizes protein development: Recent Deals worth looking at Agriculture & Food. The post Recent Deals – 3 December appeared first on Cleantech Group.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The same week that PepsiCo announced its new ambition, the company’s foundation extended the terms of its 14-year-long relationship with the Inter-American Development Bank — with initiatives including a fund meant to promote the inclusion of women in regenerative, sustainable agricultural models in Latin America.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 5, 2020

This would deliver a 6% reduction in total UK greenhouse gases emissions, specifically within the hard-to-decarbonise sectors of heat, transport, waste management and agriculture, and 30% of the reduction needed by 2030 to meet our legally binding carbon budget. million homes, by 2030, according to a new report from the industry group ADBA.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 10, 2023

Abdul-Aziz, however, cautioned that more work needs to be done to substantiate the utility of such char in agriculture. Unfortunately, it costs more to recycle used plastic than it costs to make new plastic from petroleum. Abdul-Aziz’s laboratory takes a different approach to recycling.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 20, 2024

The first is to recycle old mattresses, reusing their components to make new products. For those in the hotel industry, understanding how to make smarter mattress purchase and recycling decisions can help positively impact green programs your organization may be undertaking. Not all recycling facilities offer mattress recycling.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2024

Yuanhui Zhang with a model of a biowaste recycling project (image credit: College of ACES). In a new paper , they outline the method and apply it to two case studies – a corn/soybean farming operation and the entire US food and agriculture system. food and agriculture system, focusing on energy use. 2024.107821 ].

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2022

Mark Nelson’s address will reflect on his experiences in the early 1990s Biosphere 2 project in the Arizona desert, in which he was responsible for managing a constructed wetland marsh recycling system. acre) virtually air-tight ecological system containing five areas, modelled on Earth’s biomes, and an agricultural system.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Some commitments are simply to ‘increase recycling’ with no target or plan for implementing it. But simply recycling will not be enough to achieve net zero. Commitments were also made in construction, agriculture and tourism, depending on the priorities of the country and where it could make the biggest difference.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 27, 2024

“The newly unveiled Design for Recyclability Playbook, Design for Reuse Playbook, and Design for Compostability Playbook provide detailed guidelines to ensure that plastic packaging is continuously reused, recycled, or composted, thereby reducing plastic waste and its environmental impact”, says the group.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

. “By strengthening the methane production path of direct interspecies electron transfer, the recycling of CO2 is realized and the carbon emission in the reaction process is reduced,” said author Dr Zhang Yanhui.

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CleanTech Group

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Turning waste-wood into skyscrapers; mycoprotein for fish farming; saving landfill-bound products from the hangman’s noose– Recent deals worth looking at: Agriculture & Food. The post Recent Deals – 5 November 2024 appeared first on Cleantech Group.

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CleanTech Group

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Laser-powered weeding devices, long-duration iron-air batteries, and carbon negative construction materials derived from captured CO2: Recent Deals worth looking at Agriculture & Food. The post Recent Deals – 22 October 2024 appeared first on Cleantech Group.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Recycled plastic: There’s market demand, but where’s the supply? Nonprofit Carbon180 has plenty of ideas for how the Department of Energy and the Department of Agriculture can collaborate to cultivate new economic opportunities centered on carbon removal. Recycling's makeover, courtesy of AI and robotics. Sign up here.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 16, 2020

In most parts of the world, the economic and social inclusion of farmers and smallholders in sustainable agricultural production is the single most important driver of change for halting deforestation, restoring forests and helping regenerate nature. In the end, they are the stewards of the land.". "We

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GreenBiz

JULY 23, 2021

They come in handy cans to avoid food waste — a particular problem with quickly spoiling seafood — and are easily recycled. Food & Agriculture. Patagonia Provisions stocks its online shop with sustainably sourced anchovies, mackerels and mussels. Fresh oysters are another great option. Pull Quote. Oceans & Fisheries. Featured Column.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2020

Promising a wide range of measures, from tougher air quality requirements to setting standards to shape the evolution of a circular economy, the announcement set out a roadmap for making the EU more sustainable across almost every sector of the economy, with special attention to things like energy, agriculture and transport.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 16, 2021

Soon — just as the plastic milk gallon in the dairy aisle and the beer can in the alcohol section have the three arrows signaling the packaging is recyclable — food products at grocery stores will have a new label to indicate the product is made with upcycled ingredients. . Food & Agriculture. Wed, 06/16/2021 - 03:45. Pull Quote.

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