Green Business Bureau

JULY 28, 2022

Achieve zero waste with our waste management checklist. The ultimate goal of this waste management checklist is to achieve zero waste. By zero waste, we mean the conservation of all resources utilizing responsible production, consumption, reuse, and recovery of products, packaging, and materials.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Nearly half of all businesses (46%) across the UK have ‘recycling food waste’ at the top of their priorities to reduce their organisation’s carbon footprint, according to new research. switching to electric vehicles, (16%) or decreasing use paper and print materials, (10%) when it comes to its green agenda.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2023

A standout even in the calendar of those with an interest in fuels – present and future – is the 2nd FERIA Conference , the European Conference on Fuel and Energy Research and Its Applications, taking place at the University of Sheffield from 4th to 6th September 2023. Instrumentation firm Signal Group is one of the sponsors.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

An EU project is attempting to lead the European electronics industry towards more sustainable materials, design, manufacturing methods, and improved circularity and energy efficiency, writes Finnish research group VTT. According to the World Economic Forum , 53 million tonnes of electronic waste was discarded in 2019.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

A leading UK and European recycling company was fined £20,000 at Airdrie Sheriff Court on 16 November after Scotland’s environmental regulator, SEPA, uncovered what it described as the largest single illegal export of household waste from Scotland. Sentencing was deferred until 16 November. Details of the case.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2020

A glass waste worker in a recycling facility in Sofia, Bulgaria in May 2016. Switzerland, Sweden and Denmark have succeeded in recovering over 98% of their municipal waste on average over the last five years. Germany is now recycling half of its waste (50%), having improved year-on-year for the last five years. Sweden (99%).

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2021

360 million metric tonnes of new plastic was produced in 2018. A group from the University of Pittsburgh explains, and offers a view on why the world must transform plastic use from linear to circular. In 1950, 2 million metric tonnes of new plastic was produced globally. Where did it all go?

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Communities around the world impacted by the plastics giant Formosa are launching a global hunger strike on October 31. Formosa denied it had discharged the toxic waste for months, but later acknowledged it had caused the spill. In 2019, nearly 8,000 victims of the spill filed a lawsuit in Taiwan against Formosa Plastics Group.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 27, 2020

New research combining Planet’s high cadence satellite imagery and other innovative technologies has successfully found the sources and pathways of plastic pollution in the Caribbean Sea. A boom is filled with plastic, and yet was only able to collect small amounts of it due to much of the debris passing it by. km2 to 0.77km2.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The energy and utilities industries play a significant role in carbon emissions. In the US, 25% of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions come from electricity generation. This is not surprising, with coal and natural gas representing about 60% of electrical supply. Energy Transition for Sustainability. Have you read?

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

More than half of the winners cited energy saving as key to their plans for success and a third were named winners for their innovation in becoming more efficient. A new Energy Transition Scotland Award was also added to the categories this year. It has also reused waste materials to landscape and create community spaces.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 20, 2024

An AI-driven robotic arm – said to be as accurate as the human eye – is being used at Veolia Southwark IWMF to pick out paper, card, mixed plastics and beverage cartons, which often contain some aluminium layers, from the aluminium line leaving just pure aluminium items for effective recycling.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Dominic Rowles, Lead ESG Analyst, Hargreaves Lansdown said the decision to retain the 5p cut implemented by the Conservatives in 2022 was “good news for the nation’s motorists in the short term, but could hinder take up of climate-friendly electric cars.” On infrastructure, the statement included £3.9

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Business Green

MARCH 27, 2023

Outstanding reports cover legislation in areas such as wildlife protection, waste and recycling, fishing, hazardous chemicals, plastic carrier bags, batteries, and energy products. Government should monitor and evaluate how environmental and other relevant laws are working," she said. "It

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 8, 2024

Circularity for critical metals and minerals Recommended to Axios’ Climate Deals by Clean Energy Ventures Carbon To Stone is developing a carbon mineralization technology coupled with high-value minerals and metals recovery. TerraFixing develops a direct-air-capture technology for cold climates using zeolite-based adsorbent materials.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 4, 2023

The fire risk presented by vapes entering the waste stream has prompted local councils to call for a ban of the sale of the devices in England and Wales by 2024. Disposable vapes are a hazard for waste and litter collection and cause fires in bin lorries.” DRS schemes and other solutions are also being proposed.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 31, 2021

Those processes use a lot of energy and largely come from fossil fuels; one-third of U.S. A key route to industrial emissions reductions is electrification (replacing industrial fossil fuels with electric alternatives). For example, continuous cooling of plastics during injection molding can be precisely controlled using heat pumps.

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Greentown Labs

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Seventeen startups joined our community in the final months of 2022, working on innovations as diverse as a smart nanocoating to keep products fresh, an autonomous waste-sorting system, and drinking water drawn from air’s humidity. Electricity. We’re thrilled to support these groundbreaking climatetech startups—let us introduce you!

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Twenty-two climatetech startups joined our community in Q3 2024, working on technologies ranging from a ring anchor for offshore wind turbines, to electric personal watercraft, to industrial power-to-heat solutions. We’re thrilled to support these groundbreaking climatetech startups—let us introduce you!

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Recycling our waste has become an expected practice across multiple industries with those not participating in the practice severely damaging their company image and reputation. Processed residuals from those materials and left-overs are often treated as valueless waste and disposed of. Going Zero Waste.

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Greentown Labs

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Dandelion Energy raised a $70M Series B-1 round to install geothermal heating and cooling solutions. investment in its vegetation intelligence platform that helps utilities reduce the risk of power outages and wildfires. Department of Energy to extract nickel and magnesium from mining waste. Overstory announced a $5.2M

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

Surface cracks and biofilms on plastic particles might help spread pollution Concerns about microplastic pollution arise not only because of the particles themselves, but also from whatever cargo they might be carrying. Sukhbaatar Square in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (image credit: takepicsforfun / Shutterstock.com).

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 14, 2023

Entrants in the final furlong include an on-demand clothing manufacturing technology that eliminates 20 billion unsold garments each year, 100% compostable protective packaging that replaces single use plastic, and an Oxford University spin-out that changes the way valuable metallic resources are mined, refined, recycled, and processed.

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Grist

MARCH 28, 2024

Tackling these hotspots could be a huge stride toward lowering emission rates, but blindspots in current monitoring protocols mean they often evade detection. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas created by, among other things, decaying trash , and it often seeps through the soil and plastic covers meant to contain it.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 15, 2021

Going green starts at home, and while separating paper from plastic in your recycling bin is a great first start, there are more steps you can take to be less wasteful and reduce your carbon footprint. 1) Reduce plastic waste in your kitchen. 3) Get a home energy score. – Oregon Department of Energy.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 11, 2023

In order to achieve the net-zero balance, businesses and countries must look at ways of reducing their carbon footprint through increased energy efficiency measures, renewable energy use and other forms of carbon capture such as planting trees or creating wetlands that absorb carbon dioxide from the air.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MARCH 22, 2021

Join our discussion around transforming the waste industry with technology, passion, and people. All are invited: municipalities, waste haulers, waste industry leaders, companies seeking to improve their waste solutions, and citizens interested in being more informed on what happens to their waste.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 17, 2020

Coal power is on borrowed time. records for consecutive days without any coal power at all have been tumbling. A new report by the think tank Ember, found the global fleet of coal power plants is now running at a utilization rate of 47 percent. Phase-out dates for coal power are fast approaching across Europe.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2020

Metal recycling has created vital secondary raw materials for the smelting of new materials since metal usage began. While the core function of the metals recycling process has remained constant over thousands of years, the industry has undergone significant changes as the volume of waste metals we treat has grown.

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2020

The volume of waste produced in England has remained largely the same for the past five years, presenting fresh questions as to how government, businesses, and households can successfully curb waste levels. However, the picture is more encouraging once the findings are measured in the context of the growth of the economy.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

These gyms find unique ways to reduce energy and water usage and focus on using products safe for human and planet health. Steer away from conventional gym gear that uses non-recyclable plastics like PVC and foam. Instead of grid-run, there are now human-powered exercise machines. What is an Eco-Friendly Gym?

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S. As electric vehicles drive toward the mainstream, General Motors has come full circle as well. It mass-produced the first electric car in the 1990s, then literally crushed most of them in 2003. and globally by 2040. LinkedIn | Personal website.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 27, 2022

According to the paper, “this sustainable approach for upcycling electronic waste provides an advantageous research-based waste stream that does not require cutting-edge microfabrication facilities, expensive materials or high-caliber engineering skills.”. The sensors can communicate with a smartphone via Bluetooth. per device.

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Business Green

APRIL 11, 2021

With funding from the plastic bag charge Waitrose launched a £1m grant fund for innovative plastic-waste busting ideas - Hubbub's Trewin Restorick sets out the key achievements. It is estimated that lost fishing gear makes up as much as 46per cent of marine plastic pollution. Tackling hidden plastics.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 19, 2021

But if designed without sustainability in mind, greenhouses can be quite energy and water intensive. Optimizing energy usage. Choosing your location for your greenhouse is not only your first step in the design process but arguably the most important because it can be an expensive and wasteful mistake.

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Greentown Labs

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Here are some of our entrepreneurs’ most impressive moments: Form Energy secured its first grid-scale battery installation pilot project and raised a $70M Series C. Form Energy’s CEO Mateo Jaramillo was selected as one of Business Insider’s 100 People Transforming Business in North America. population. Circularise raised €1.5

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 6, 2022

With a range of more than 1,000 kilometers on a single charge, they drove out to lead the electric vehicle market. The designers focused on building a lightweight, sustainable and powerful electric vehicle that combines innovation, intelligence and luxury. This truly is the way forward.”

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