Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Not only does reclaimed lumber give that rustic, farmhouse look and possess some unique history within its grain, but it also helps preserve our carbon-sequestering forests and rejects monoculture tree farms that do not support biodiversity or ecological health. RECYCLED PLASTIC. Arqlite , a member of the U.S. INTERIOR PAINT.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

P&G and GSK are among companies to commit to reducing their plastics impact and CO2 emissions as part of a new charter on sustainable self-care. The GSCF represents associations and manufacturers in the self-care industry, including many of the world's biggest pharmaceutical and consumer goods brands.

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Grist

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The Two Medicine River, sacred to the Amskapi Pikuni, the Blackfeet, rushes nearby. But so far, there’s been limited empirical research linking the tribe’s public health woes to its environment. She knows this landscape by heart. A couple of minutes later, a gray Toyota slowly pulls in behind the GMC and rolls to a stop.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2025

Partner Insight: Jihane Ball, lead sustainability director at Dow, discusses the importance of achieving a global treaty to end plastic pollution, and the role of meaningful stakeholder collaboration in enabling it I've worked across many roles at Dow, the materials science company, over the last 18 years.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

According to the report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, “ Oil in the Sea ,” these sources are by far the largest and fastest-growing contributor to ocean oil pollution. Plastics, which are made from fossil fuels, were not considered in the report although they are a major contributor to ocean pollution.)

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Bernard Goldstein, a young professor at the New York University School of Medicine, researched the health impacts of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) produced by gas stoves. The industry used these studies to influence public opinion, undermine public health efforts, and block regulation. DEMELLE That’s incredible.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The government said impact investment had risen 127 per cent in the UK since 2018, demonstrating how technology has become ever more important for tackling the world's biggests problems, such as climate change, escalating health risks, and food insecurity, and that investors are increasingly taking note.

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Green Living Guy

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The use of CBD is rapidly increasing across various dimensions – be it medicinal or skincare. However, the hype of CBD is significant in its therapeutic use, where the CBD infused products are used for healing insomnia, depression, acne, and various other health issues.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The Royal Society of Chemistry welcomed the move as “a significant new safeguard for public health”, noting that it goes beyond existing limits in the EU, and Scotland, where a similar 100ng/L limit applies to only 20 PFAS. But it still presents a chance that the total amount of PFAS could accumulate far beyond the high-risk threshold.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Often called polyester in the clothing industry, it is also used in making plastic bottles. Previously, studies have indicated that plastic formula bottles shed off microplastics that children may swallow. For instance, babies drink directly from plastic bottles. PET is one of the most common polymers.

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Business Green

JULY 2, 2021

The second pillar, 'healthier', includes themes relating to physical wellbeing through breakthrough medicines, better diets and fitness. From a broad perspective, music's move to digital streaming, doing away with the millions of tonnes of plastic used in CDs and vinyl and the devices used to play these, is an obvious positive.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2023

Household names such as McDonald’s, KFC and Dunkin’ Donuts are trying to delay new regulations that would prioritise reusable packaging – to curb plastic use, packaging waste and packaging-related emissions –, arguing instead for single-use paper options. We’ve lost our health.” The smoke haze from forest fires blows into the city.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Habitats for plants, animals and micro-organisms vital to soil health and food production. Goods such as food, timber and medicinal ingredients. And it provides vital services to society and the economy including: Regulating environmental stability, e.g. climate, water, air, disease. Cultural, spiritual, education and recreation needs.

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

One company hoping to capitalize is Ways2H , which has a thermal process to convert municipal solid waste, medical waste, plastics and sewage sludge into renewable hydrogen. It will start by making transportation fuel from wastewater sludge, then add plastics, according to the company.

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GreenBiz

MAY 24, 2021

Integration of EJ as a major component of social justice that substantially reduces income inequality, health care, housing and other quality of life disparities. EPA also should prepare an integrated health risk assessment to provide a scientific basis for agency decision making. What business practices should change?

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 9, 2024

In the time it takes you to read this sentence — say, four seconds — the world produces nearly 60 metric tons of plastic, almost entirely out of fossil fuels. Those numbers are fueling widespread and growing contamination of Earth’s oceans, rivers, and the terrestrial environment with plastic trash.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 10, 2020

Together, these fungi species are unlocking solutions for cleaning up the environment, developing greener construction and product materials and contributing significant medicinal benefits. Yes, apparently some mushrooms can eat plastic. What are fungi? Fungi are basically the digestive tract of the planet.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 19, 2020

While the news often mentions the terrible things in the sea, such as gyres of plastic and other trash, the oceans also hold an extremely valuable resource: seaweed. This renewable and easily harvestable organism is used for everything from food to spa treatments to a possible COVID-19 medicine.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

We often take the land for granted, even though - or perhaps because - it is literally the foundation of everything we do, from the materials that make up our homes, workplaces, and transport systems to the source of our food, water, and medicines. And those are the only the most obvious essential services provided by the land.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

And despite its many shortcomings, plastic continues to take market share from leather. We anticipate that many consumers will shift to animal-free food products if those products begin to meet or exceed their animal-based alternatives on key areas like cost, taste, functionality, convenience, and health. Food may be next.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In New York’s state lands, he added, there are almost no provisions for gathering medicines, collecting food, or growing food in traditional territories. “Aside from the whole issue of being transgenic, this is just about access and care of place,” he told me. According to Patterson, things quickly became adversarial.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Because axolotls breathe through their highly permeable skin, they are incredibly susceptible to pollution, which adversely affects axolotl health, growth and development. Could these account for axolotl plasticity in developmental, regenerative and evolutionary assets, such as why it retains its tadpole-like qualities into adulthood?

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AGreenLiving

JULY 15, 2020

One company hoping to capitalize is Ways2H , which has a thermal process to convert municipal solid waste, medical waste, plastics and sewage sludge into renewable hydrogen. It will start by making transportation fuel from wastewater sludge, then add plastics, according to the company. The image above describes SGH2’s process.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

The leader in water, hygiene and energy services sells to a diverse collection of institutions such as hospitals, food and beverage providers, as well as heavy industry including power plants and plastic manufacturers. Ecolab says it helped its customers save enough water in 2018 equivalent to the needs of 600 million people.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2021

From a well-defined community like a dorm, epidemiological monitoring becomes more challenging as you scale it up, and attempt to monitor neighbourhoods or cities, as another talk explained, this time by Ted Smith, an associate professor of environmental medicine at the University of Louisville school of medicine, in Kentucky. .

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AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

EPA also should prepare an integrated health risk assessment to provide a scientific basis for agency decision making. A prominent example of these characteristics is the Formosa Plastics Group proposal to build a $9.4 Such a risk assessment should be available for public comment and independent scientific review.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

EPA also should prepare an integrated health risk assessment to provide a scientific basis for agency decision making. A prominent example of these characteristics is the Formosa Plastics Group proposal to build a $9.4 Such a risk assessment should be available for public comment and independent scientific review.

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EDF + Business

MARCH 1, 2021

Prior to his current role he worked as scientist in a public health lab, and as post-doctoral fellow at the University of Southern California. Areas of interest: Personalized medicine, Bioinformatics, Public health policy, Environmental sustainability, Sanitation, Water, Ecology, Biodiversity, and Science education and communication.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Boma Brown-West, Director of Consumer Health, EDF+Business. We want to call attention to how the biggest environmental impacts and the biggest health impact of products is really due to the products themselves and the creation and the use of a product," Brown-West noted at the time. million pounds of plastic, or 60 million bottles.

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Grist

JANUARY 18, 2024

The crux of the agency’s argument that local homes are safe to inhabit is that derailment-related chemicals in those samples have measured below levels considered dangerous to human health since April. Scientists and public health officials are largely making statements based on an analysis of risk of one chemical at a time,” he said. “We

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Grist

AUGUST 3, 2019

Specifically, it covered dietitians and nutrition scientists, clinicians and biomedical researchers, and (here we go) environmental health specialists and environmental scientists. The people in the Pew study, by and large, accept the conclusions of medicine, of basic physics, of organic chemistry. Which: Uh oh.

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CleanTechnica

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The results of a new study published in Nature Medicine point out that tiny fragments of plastic are passing the blood-brain barrier and entering into human brains. What’s this? Microplastics entering human brains? Moreover, the amount of microplastics in the brain appears to be increasing over time.

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