GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Unilever's Clean Future program specifically will focus on funding biotechnology research, CO2 use and low-carbon chemistry, as well as biodegradable and water-efficient product formulations. It really will be a balance and the other shades on the rainbow have to be taken into account.". could emerge as a world leader.

Fossil fuels 264

Fossil fuels Carbon Biotechnology Biodegradable 264

Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

These brands are manufacturing their shoes from recycled and biodegradable materials and sourcing sustainably while still achieving the durability and comfort that shoe lovers expect. Transportation) or green initiative (Ex. Table of Contents . Energy efficiency). Example : Office. Electronics. Plates, cups and cutlery. Kitchenware.

Policy 167

Policy Biodegradable Health Sustainability 167

Green Business Bureau

APRIL 27, 2021

With “ fast fashion ” brands taking advantage of cheap foreign labor, much of the industry’s emissions come from transporting fabrics and clothing vast distances across sea and air. Choosing local partnerships not only minimizes transport emissions, it also creates a valuable opportunity to form strong relationships with these partners.

Fashion 148

Fashion Organic Sustainability Recycling 148

Greentown Labs

DECEMBER 5, 2024

More specifically, Go Make 2025 is interested in biodegradable polymers and sustainable specialty chemicals for personal care. Greentown runs Greentown Go programs across five tracks: Go Build (buildings), Go Energize (energy and electricity), Go Grow (food and agriculture), Go Make (manufacturing), and Go Move (transportation).

Startups 64

Startups North America Incubators Incubators 64

Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 25, 2024

For indoor gatherings, seek out spaces with good natural light, ventilation, and ones that are easily accessible by public transportation to reduce the carbon footprint associated with travel. Rethink your approach by using items that can be re-purposed or are biodegradable.

Waste 99

Waste Waste Recycling Recycling 99

Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Consumers need new options for less wasteful and less pollutive products, packaging, transportation, and energy. Biodegradable, Reusable, and Eco-friendly Consumer Products. Eco Friendly Cards provides exactly what their name would suggest – biodegradable replacements for otherwise highly wasteful cards. Clean Energy.

Startups 148

Startups Waste Waste Soil 148

Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2019

For example, McDonald’s paper straws that are not recyclable , and biodegradable cups that require segregated collection and specific environments to be composted. A second major cause of the problem is losses in the distribution and retail chain.

Recycling 228

Recycling Recycling Waste Waste 228

Hydrogen Fuel News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Soil degradation and deforestation due to the extraction of metallic resources, as well as the construction of factories and transportation routes. Waste generation is a result of production waste and the end of the useful life of vehicles.

Technology 107

Technology Sustainability Pollution Waste 107

Green Business Bureau

JULY 5, 2022

Latex gloves for instance will take up to 5 years to biodegrade. To achieve true bakery sustainability, these single-use disposables should be eliminated where possible, and for those which cannot be eliminated, greener alternatives, such as recyclable or biodegradable ones should be used. These items accumulate in our environment.

Sustainability 143

Sustainability Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 143

Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Zero waste break rooms can be achieved by: Offering reusable mugs and cups instead of disposables, Implementing a composting program for food scraps, Replacing plastic cutlery and stir-sticks with biodegradable options (wooden, bio-plastics, etc.). If your office uses coffee pods, choose biodegradable pods such as those from OneCoffee.

Business Energy Monitoring 179

Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability Home Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor 179

Greentown Labs

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The Advanced Materials Pitch Day zeroed in on materials for energy, manufacturing and industry, and bio-based and biodegradable materials. In the future, Greentown aims to host quarterly Sector Pitch Days in 2020 focused on other areas related to climate change, such as transportation, electricity, buildings, agriculture, and manufacturing.

Startups 85

Startups Biodegradable Climate change Agriculture 85

AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

-based company wanted to create a closed loop with the Hive shade and began by sourcing the manufacturing nearby to alleviate transport emissions. To complete the circle, the Hive shade is commercially compostable and will biodegrade in about six months at the end of its usable life cycle. It’s a bright idea! Plumen Images via Plumen.

Biodegradable 28

Biodegradable Upcycling Recycling Recycling 28

Charged

OCTOBER 4, 2020

This panoramic view of the surroundings through a glasshouse-style cab is designed to deliver a Transport for London five-star Direct Vision Standard rating for optimum visibility and the reduction of blind spots. The truck’s exterior body panels will use a sustainably sourced natural flax material and biodegradable resin.

Energy Monitor 134

Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability Electricity 134

Green Business Bureau

JULY 8, 2022

Tip #4: Use eco-friendly transportation. According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the transportation sector is the largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the United States, accounting for 27% of the nation’s total emissions. Tip #7: Switch to non-toxic biodegradable detergents and cleaning supplies.

Sustainability 147

Sustainability Waste Waste Recycling 147

Green Business Bureau

MARCH 24, 2022

From recyclable plastics to biodegradable containers, there’s seemingly no end to the options available for the environmentally conscious business. BIODEGRADABLE PACKAGING PEANUTS. EPS is neither biodegradable nor is it economically recyclable, often finding its way into waterways where it can have adverse effects on marine life.

Packaging 78

Packaging Biodegradable Plastics Recycling 78

Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2019

CyberArk’s green team has four subgroups: transportation, energy, community and “green” habits in the office. 2) Helping fleet partners access government incentive plans to upgrade equipment and transport trucks to reduce fuel consumption and carbon dioxide emissions. It also has a management steering committee.

Sustainability 147

Sustainability North America Plastics Carbon-negative 147

Green Business Bureau

JULY 23, 2020

Biodegradable packaging: Packaging is very important in the food and agriculture industry because it helps to preserve food quality and safety, reduce food waste, food-borne diseases, and extend the shelf-life of food. The use of these irrigation methods could avoid about 1.13

Agriculture 99

Agriculture Sustainability Waste Waste 99

Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Recognizing the urgency to restore these critical ecosystems, Land & Water partnered with Project Seagrass and Swansea University to develop what they describe as a cutting-edge solution.

Biodiversity 147

Biodiversity Biodegradable Carbon Technology 147

CleanTech Group

APRIL 27, 2021

Agriculture & Food Hazel Technologies, developer of biodegradable capsules. Looking for the latest information on cleantech deals? Find insight on recent innovation developments here.

Biodegradable 60

Biodegradable Agriculture Innovation Technology 60

Business Green

APRIL 23, 2020

It also aims to assist Defra, regulatory bodies, and industries that generate biodegradable waste in identifying the overall spare capacity available to treat feedstock so that as much organic waste can be processed as possible in a way that cuts methane emissions and generates renewable energy.

Waste 95

Waste Waste Organic Biodegradable 95

Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Glass is non-biodegradable, and there are no biodegradable alternative materials on the market. As with glass, steel is non-biodegradable and there aren’t biodegradable options on the market. E.g. you must consider: Emissions from product transportation, packaging durability, and end-of-life processing.

Packaging 78

Packaging Retail Innovation Sustainability 78

Business Green

APRIL 14, 2022

We already have effective energy efficiency systems in place and are pleased to be taking this one step further by trialling the latest technology within our transport fleet.". Switching the oil-based plastic sealing on tea bags to biodegradable alternatives, would remove approximately 1.4

Electricity 96

Electricity Plastics Carbon-neutral Biodegradable 96

Green Business Bureau

APRIL 20, 2021

They should consider processes, materials, people, policies and projects related to energy, waste, buildings, products, packaging, supply chain, transportation, food, water, community and employee well being. Transportation – What vehicles do we use for distribution and operations? Reduce packaging that is non-biodegradable.

Business Energy Monitoring 128

Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor 128

Greentown Labs

JUNE 22, 2021

Beacon Bio ’s product PhonoGraft, a novel biomimetic and biodegradable graft for treating chronic eardrum perforations, is opening up options for more environment-friendly tissue grafts. Transportation. The post Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q2 2021 appeared first on Greentown Labs.

Energy Monitor 108

Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 108

Business Green

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

As such, growing numbers of coffee pod providers have sought to develop biodegradable alternatives that can be disposed of with food waste. However, critics have argued that coffee pods are inherently wasteful and are often not recycled by customers leading to a sizeable waste footprint.

Biodegradable 58

Biodegradable Recycling Recycling Waste 58

Greentown Labs

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Corumat , a Go Make 2023 participant back for its second Go program, converts organic waste into high-performance, insulating, greaseproof, and biodegradable packaging materials. Transportation Pirl is accelerating humanity’s transition to a future of clean, electric transport by developing next-generation EV-charging infrastructure.

Startups 64

Startups Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor 64

Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2021

The title refers to the portion of emissions that are traditionally difficult to reach, compared to the more obviously pollution-belching propensity of sectors like electricity, transport, and heating (which account for 80% of GHG mitigation efforts).

Plastics 130

Plastics Agriculture Recycling Recycling 130

Green Business Bureau

JUNE 9, 2023

For example, choosing rideshare, selecting green certified accommodations, or using biodegradable travel products, is contributing in some small way to the bigger environmental cause. Here are 6 ways to make business travel more sustainable.

Sustainability 78

Sustainability Plastics Waste Waste 78

Low Impact

APRIL 30, 2021

Due to their emissions, crematoria are also often separate from areas of human habitation, which may increase associated carbon costs through transportation to the location. The body becomes brittle and breaks up into small particles which are freeze dried and placed into a biodegradable container for burial. Biodegradable urns.

Sustainability 78

Sustainability Ethics Building Energy Monitoring Biodegradable 78

Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2020

In the autumn, the firm is aiming to expand into new products, with a plan to sell nappies that biodegrade much faster than the 200 to 500 years that is standard for the majority of plastic-based nappies produced today.

Plastics 82

Plastics Sustainability Biodegradable Recycling 82

Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Your local reclaimed lumber dealer or architectural salvage retailer is your best option as it supports the local economy, requires fewer miles to transport the lumber to your building site and it allows you to have a look at the lumber in person and know exactly the quality you’re getting.

Building Energy Monitoring 148

Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Sustainability Recycling 148

Business Green

JUNE 15, 2020

Unilever has also committed today to step up its efforts to preserve water, with plans to make all its "product formulations" biodegradable in order to minimise their impact on aquatic ecosystems. In the end, they are the stewards of the land.".

Carbon-neutral 89

Carbon-neutral Plastics Biodiversity Blockchain 89

Green Business Bureau

JULY 27, 2021

Fishing nets and lines are traditionally made from non-biodegradable, non-recyclable plastics, and all too often they are discarded, generating an accumulation of plastic waste. Further, the shipping industry responsible for transporting seafood near and far has a higher rate of pollution than all but five countries.

Sustainability 148

Sustainability Seafood Fossil fuels Plastics 148

Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2022

This keeps furniture out of landfills and reduces the massive carbon footprint generated by today’s various modes of transportation. Beyond offering comfort and beauty, cotton, linen, and wool fabrics often use fewer (or no) chemicals in production than synthetic options and biodegrade more naturally over time. – Kale Tree Shop.

Sustainability 148

Sustainability Waste Waste Recycling 148

Greenability Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Real trees are both a renewable and biodegradable natural resource. Additionally, these trees must be transported 8,000-plus miles to their U.S. The Christmas Tree Promotion Board reports an increase in sales because families looking for safer activities during COVID-19 can get together outside to select a tree.

Plastics 74

Plastics Biodegradable Sustainability Transportation 74

Business Green

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

In addition, the firm unveiled plans to eliminate all single-use materials from its business through circular economy initiatives such as closed-loop paper recycling, and to only use non-toxic and biodegradeable cleaning products, while fostering biodiversity at its sites.

Biodegradable 64

Biodegradable Biodiversity Electric vehicle Sustainability 64

Low Impact

MAY 5, 2021

A number of natural, biodegradable coffins and shrouds are explored below.) Another option is a wicker willow coffin , which, like wooden coffins, are 100% natural and biodegradable. You can also choose a coffin made from natural wool (strengthened with a recycled cardboard liner) – another 100%-biodegradable option.

Sustainability 71

Sustainability Ethics Biodegradable Upcycling 71