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Micro-pollutant removal product picks up Aquatech Innovation Award

Envirotec Magazine

As the organizers explain: “The Aquatech Innovation Award recognises world-class innovations and technologies that have the potential to disrupt the global water market. Chemical and medicinal residues remaining in wastewater and returned to nature can have a significant negative impact on biodiversity.

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Wastewater analysis at Bolivian lithium deposit explores how to avoid past environmental mistakes

Envirotec Magazine

The concentrated lithium is eventually moved from the evaporation ponds to a nearby facility for processing into lithium carbonate the material that goes into rechargeable batteries. As the authors noted, leaking or intentional discharge of brine from the evaporation ponds to the surrounding salt pan could negatively affect wildlife.

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Bill McDonough at 70: A look back … and ahead

GreenBiz

What we were looking at was how do we look at carbon in this circular economy? How do we look at carbon itself as an element, which is both an energy source and a material? In other words, a building that is organized instead of chaotic. And I just thought a building as an organism operated by children would be so much fun.

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Here's why companies should assess double materiality

GreenBiz

The new definitions of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), and the two papers published by the five reporting standard organizations helpfully clarify reporting standards’ different perspectives on the question "material to whom," enabling greater interoperability between them: .

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Where are they now? Catch up with 30 Under 30 alumni

GreenBiz

After doing some research in Prague on carbon negative building materials, I have relocated to Portland and am currently working as a project manager/sustainability lead on the PDX Airport Terminal Core Redevelopment (TCORE) Project. Sara Bogdan (formerly Lindenfeld) (2016). Manager Sustainability and ESG, JetBlue; New York .

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Fast Fashion: the second biggest polluter on Earth

Envirotec Magazine

As reference, it can take up to 200 tons of fresh water to produce a ton of dyed fabric. The technology can help textile manufacturers meet the many strict discharge consent limits with respect to organics in the form of COD, colour and specific hazardous chemicals such as Nonylphenols. Multiply that by 20 garments a year for 7.7

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Study: The public is pretty confused by your climate change jargon

Grist

Some of the most difficult-to-understand words were mitigation , referring to efforts to reduce emissions to slow down climate change, and carbon-neutral , when there’s no net increase in the amount of carbon dioxide in the air. Some people found the shorthand use of carbon confusing. “I