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A WEEE dram? Extracting metals from electronics waste using whiskey co-products

Envirotec Magazine

A filtration system fuelled by whisky co-products is being developed by researchers to sustainably extract rare and valuable metals – including gold, silver, and palladium – from waste electronics using a new combined biological and chemical approach. million tonnes of waste electronics. million tonnes of waste electronics.

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Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q2 2022

Greentown Labs

Twenty startups joined our community in the second quarter of 2022, working on innovations as diverse as a solution to enhance oceans’ natural ability to capture CO 2 , biotechnologies to produce wood products without cutting down trees, and a turnkey development approach to waste-heat-to-power projects. Electricity.

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Fixing an inconvenient truth: A solution to unsustainable PCB metals extraction

Envirotec Magazine

The UN puts the value of wasted rare and precious metals contained on PCBs at $62.5 However, their business customers along with lease finance providers need to be encouraged to accept and enable longer usage periods through regular maintenance programmes, refurbishment, resell and reuse. billion per year.

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Synterex: Clinical Service Provider That Gives Back to the Environment and Society

Green Business Bureau

The brand works with pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to help them get new therapies to patients as quickly and efficiently as possible. Doing business virtually has helped Synterex reduce paper, food, and plastic waste by encouraging dining at home and virtually eliminating commuting-related carbon emissions.

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Fruit-picking robots and carbon-saving animal feeds: Government confirms £24m agri-tech funding boost

Business Green

Led by Nottingham company Deep Branch Biotechnology, the project will use its unique technology to turn carbon dioxide captured at Drax's Selby power station into animal food that can be produced with minimal water usage and without the need for arable farmland.

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Eco Friendly Retail Packaging Complete Guide (Sustainable Packaging Innovations)

Green Business Bureau

We explain our current waste crisis in detail, before defining an effective business waste management strategy to reduce packaging waste. Use the links below to navigate this guide: The need for sustainable packaging: Giving perspective to our waste crisis. The 6 types of retail packaging waste. That is, 17.6

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? Green linings & lessons from breakthroughs #159

Climate Tech VC

A medley of milestones for climate tech startups Conversations on Twitter and in climate chatrooms continue to have a doomerism-meets-pessimism tone, but over the last two weeks some cold, hard progress from climate tech startups working on geothermal energy, SAFs, and decarbonized cement is cutting through the gloom.