Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 14, 2025

Without adopting circular practices, this surge in retrofitting activity could lead to unsustainable levels of raw material consumption and waste. To download the report: Circularity in the Built Environment: Unlocking Opportunities in Retrofits, visit [link]

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Episode 235: The value of informal waste collectors, reusable packaging prevails. It's time to value waste collectors for their pivotal role in the plastic supply chain. Download it here. Heather Clancy. Fri, 09/04/2020 - 02:00. Week in Review. Stories discussed this week (4:08). What does "climate risk" actually mean ?

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GreenBiz

MARCH 29, 2021

You can download the entire report here. While the Basel Convention criminalized transboundary movement of hazardous waste (of which most electronics are classified) to limit some human health implications of electronics waste streams, plastic waste is another story, only recently having been included in the convention.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

By integrating CT scanning into both R&D and production processes, battery manufacturers can enhance quality control, reduce waste, and bring innovative products to market more efficiently. Download this whitepaper to learn more.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 14, 2023

The introduction of a mandatory digital waste tracking system in the UK is imminent. Announced as a notion by the Environment Act 2012 to replace the existing paper-based system, the new tracking system will mark a new era for land and waste recovery, says the group. To download the report, visit [link] .

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 16, 2023

Plastics resource efficiency and recycling charity, RECOUP, has released its 2023 Plastics Management and Recycling at Household Waste Recycling Centres (HWRCs) in the UK report, finding a significant quantity of plastics going unrecycled.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 24, 2023

The process for borrowing a cup runs as follows: Download the Vytal app. This forms part of our long-term goal to reduce waste and become a resource positive company.” Lots of people already carry a reusable cup with them, but hundreds of millions of single-use cups are still being wasted every single year.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 6, 2020

million tonnes (Mt) of e-waste was produced globally in 2019, the weight of 350 cruise ships the size of the Queen Mary 2; $57 billion in gold and other components discarded – mostly dumped or burned. per cent of 2019’s e-waste was collected and recycled. A record 53.6 A record 53.6 A record 53.6 Mt and 0.7 Mt respectively.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 5, 2021

Use of resources has tripled (automatic PDF download) since 1970 and could double again by 2050 if business continues as usual. The world produces around 300 million tons of plastic waste every year, nearly equivalent to the weight of the entire human population. percent gets recycled and used again. We would need 1.5 Boost economies.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 24, 2023

Available to download from the Alupro website, the report aims to inspire sustained collaboration between government and the wider supply chain. Our simple goal is to see aerosols become a central part of recycling behaviour in the waste management landscape of tomorrow.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2020

As an official partner, Too Good To Go will be presented to all food businesses in Yorkshire as a key solution to reducing food waste and associated waste costs. Attended by almost 100 people, the webinar’s apparent success seemed to show that fighting food waste is of real interest in the post COVID world.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 28, 2020

Dame Ellen MacArthur, founder of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, which has been instrumental in catalyzing collective corporate action to address key circular economy issues such as plastics and food waste, kicked off the conference. Download it here. Reflections on circular economy progress (34:00). State of the Profession.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Environmental charity Hubbub launced – on 5 October – an in-depth guide for local authorities on how to roll out a successful recycling on-the-go campaign and thereby increase recycling rates and reduce the amount of waste sent to landfill or incineration. Place recycling bins next to general waste bins or use dual bins.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 3, 2023

Bristol City Council, with Bristol Waste Company , who will create a highly visible trail of on-the-go recycling bins that lead from Castle Park, along the water’s edge, through the heart of the city and around the Harbourside. We believe that, by working together, we can make a real difference in tackling waste.”

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Produced by the EU co-funded project BONUS RETURN (and available to download at www.bonusreturn.eu), the 18-minute film is shot in the project’s three case study river basins – Vantaanjoki, Finland, Fyrisån, Sweden and S?upia, The three were winners of a competition run by BONUS RETURN to identify promising technologies in the EU.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The RECOUP UK Household Plastic Packaging Collection Survey 2022 is available for RECOUP members to download from its website. . As the UK looks to navigate its way through the many changing environmental policies, RECOUP continues to provide expertise and guidance for its members across the plastics recycling value chain and policy makers.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The first Technology Showcase, hosted on 11 November, investigated a high quality shortlist of technologies that meet one of the high priority opportunity areas – How might we explore new markets, recover value from waste and understand the potential impacts of new products for our customers, our environment and our business.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 23, 2020

A ‘how-to’ guide on the benefits of becoming an insect farmer was published by Zero Waste Scotland on 14 January. And you can feed your flies or crickets on Scotland’s vast mountain of food waste from supermarkets and other businesses – all of which means you’ll be helping to combat the climate crisis too.”

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 26, 2020

For instance, last summer the one environmental issue 27 percent of us felt we actually could do something about was plastic waste. If we don’t feel like we actually can affect the plastic waste issue and some of us have gone to sleep in terms of our habits and actions, what does this mean for recycling? . Join me at 1:20 p.m.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

You can download the entire report here. Aquaculture becomes a net-positive. Heather Clancy. Mon, 02/22/2021 - 00:15. This article originally appeared in the State of Green Business 2021.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 13, 2023

57% of local authorities conduct ongoing waste and recycling communication campaigns, and a further 23% in the last 12 months. The RECOUP UK Household Plastic Packaging Collection Survey 2023 is available for RECOUP members to download from its website.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Why every C-suite officer should care about plastic waste. Download it here. Plastic Waste. Episode 236: Banking for the planet and behind the scenes of Generation Green New Deal. Deonna Anderson. Fri, 09/11/2020 - 09:21. Week in Review. Stories discussed this week (9:30). Why "regeneration" is generating business buzz.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 19, 2020

How Perdue, Smithfield and Silver Fern Farms are reducing packaging waste. Emma Chow, project lead on the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s Food initiative, chats about the role menus play in counteracting food waste and sharing practical steps for addressing the "brittleness" of the existing food system. Download it here.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

DECEMBER 1, 2022

And as millions of Brits are skipping meals days at a time, according to a survey by the UK Food Foundation earlier this year, the UK is wasting $23 billion (£19 billion) worth of food each year, enough to feed a quarter of the world’s population. “In the UK, we waste a third of all food produced. Overly linear food chains.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2020

IRRC Waste-to-Energy, a long-standing international event that offers perspective on recycling and recovery, has decided to go online this year. That is why we did not make it easy for ourselves, when we determined what to do with this year’s IRRC Waste-to-Energy. The IRRC Waste to Energy event takes place on 15-16 October 2020.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 22, 2020

China’s ban on waste imports aims to encourage domestic recycling, but it has also stimulated the development of circular economy strategies in Australia and other countries which previously exported their waste there. You can download a copy of the report here. 1] Materialflows.net. [2]

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 27, 2021

The United Kingdom Without Incineration Network (UKWIN) launched a good practice guide in July, intended to help with assessing the greenhouse gas (GHG) impacts of waste incineration. And the guidance is informed by original analysis of the real world performance of waste incinerators, says UKWIN. Image credit: Arran Bee , CC BY 2.0

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 13, 2024

The full report and survey findings can be downloaded here. Overall, perhaps unsurprisingly, climate change and global warming (32%) were cited as the biggest issues within the environment and sustainability today, followed by environmental policy and governance (15%) and waste management and the circular economy (13%).

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

You can download the entire report here. The Planetary Hydrogen team adds a mineral salt to the process, leading to the creation of a waste product — a mineral hydroxide — that binds with atmospheric carbon dioxide. Ocean-based sequestration heats ups. Mon, 02/01/2021 - 00:30.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

You can download the entire report here. The Planetary Hydrogen team adds a mineral salt to the process, leading to the creation of a waste product — a mineral hydroxide — that binds with atmospheric carbon dioxide. Ocean-based sequestration heats up. Mon, 02/01/2021 - 00:30.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The principal results and data are now available in an open-source report for public download: guidelines.ceflex.eu “NIR is an established key technology for sorting plastics across Europe, so rigorous, independent data of exactly what it can – and cannot – achieve is essential,” said project coordinator Graham Houlder.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 1, 2022

.” Earlier this year, BCAS launched its 10% Taskforce campaign, designed to encourage compressed air users to take simple steps to cut their compressed air energy figure by 10 per cent, by reducing wasteful and inefficient practices. Free, downloadable guides are available ( taskforce10.bcas.org.uk/simple-steps

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Charged

AUGUST 24, 2021

To meet consumer expectations and growing demand, EV manufacturers must focus on reliable and stable production processes to minimize waste and increase quality. Download the Electric Vehicle Solutions Guide to learn how to improve inspections during every step of production. Sponsored by Cognex. Sponsored by Cognex.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2024

Domestic recycling of aluminium packaging has remained static over the 2015-2022 period, while waste exports grew rapidly. And in 2021, more plastic waste was recycled domestically than exported, for the first time. In 2021, it exceeded the amount of plastic waste exported for the first time.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2024

A key element of this is reducing plastic waste; the OECD estimated that over 350 million metric tonnes of plastic waste was generated globally in 2019. Addressing plastic waste generation requires solutions from every sector, especially the plastics packaging sector, which utilizes about one-third of annual plastics production.

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Business Green

MARCH 20, 2020

New funding from Defra's Resource Action Fund to help organisations tackle the UK's textile waste mountain. Waste advisory body WRAP has this week launched a new £1.5m Interested applicants can find more information and download an application form through WRAP's website.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 22, 2021

You can download the entire report here. The heavier lift comes from sustainable aviation fuel — SAF, for short — which can be made from a variety of substances, including used fats and oil as well as agricultural waste. Japan Airlines said it will start using biofuel made from household waste beginning in 2022. Joel Makower.

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