Envirotec Magazine

JULY 15, 2021

Disposable PPE also creates a major environmental challenge, with each item containing significant amounts of single-use non-recyclable plastic materials. Through the Mackwell Health Whitebox, 4 log (99.99%) disinfection for reusable PPE can be achieved using cycles of between 30 seconds and 1 minute – depending on the item.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2020

At present DAC is very expensive, although a number of groups appear to be logging price decreases and significant improvements in their methods. The system employed by Carbon Enginering uses fans to propel air through plastic sheets drenched in potassium hydroxide. Direct capture: How does it work?

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 2, 2022

The EcoPlanner , featuring a list of continually-expanding initiatives, will enable members to get credit for the sustainability actions they have already taken for their businesses, including recycling, efficient lighting, solar (and green energy), plastic elimination, waste management, and carbon offsetting.

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Real Estate Sustainability Logging Waste 174

Green Business Bureau

APRIL 9, 2020

If you are a member, you can log in to your account to see the template that we created for you to be able to use directly in your own organization. They provide solutions for aerosols, batteries, electronics, hazardous waste and even cover K-cup composting and plastic film recycling. Green Business Bureau Recycling Policy Template.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Range of targets on deforestation, habitats, oceans, plastic pollution adopted a decade ago have all been missed or are heading in wrong direction, UN report warns. Goals around plastic pollution and excess nutrients are also far off track.

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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. Most paper used in Europe is currently sourced from within the EU.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 15, 2021

An official company-wide hazardous waste recycling policy that stretches beyond simply paper and plastics will create a sense of accountability and ensure the greatest amount of waste is diverted from landfills. The most common recycling items in the workplace are paper, plastic and metal cans.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The harvesting of trees to make fabrics has more than doubled over the past 30 years and is expected to grow by another 50-60 per cent within the next decade alone, according to Canopy, with more than 200 million trees currently being logged every year to produce materials such as viscose and rayon.

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EDF + Business

JULY 25, 2019

Perhaps surprisingly, one action you haven’t seen us recommend – until now – is one of the key tenets of EDF’s Five Pillars of Safer Food Leadership : supply chain transparency, in this case into chemical additives to both raw material and final paper and plastic packaging. And we’re not alone.

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Green Tech Challenge

DECEMBER 17, 2018

UK to Reduce Plastic Waste Plastic waste is a burning issue in the UK, as its recycling industry is largely affected by China’s new ban on foreign waste. Having relied on China to recycle most of its plastic waste, the UK now has to adapt and look for countries willing to take on the load.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Despite being forced to resign last year after obstructing a police investigation into illegal logging , Salles was re-elected in September’s legislative elections. Suzano, the only one of these companies to respond to a request for comment, said it “does not maintain any relationship with Instituto Millenium”.

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Charged

MARCH 1, 2021

In the most recent salvo , a Ford exec told Autoblog, “The [Mach-E’s] doors fit properly, the plastics and other materials color-match, the bumpers don’t fall off, the roof doesn’t come off when you wash it, the door handles don’t get stuck in cold weather.”.

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Logging Automotive Electricity Education 134

Green Roof Technology

MAY 27, 2021

Trays, pre-planted containers or AKA modular systems try to mimic the same layers within a small defined area like a plastic box, metal container or soil filled bags. Some Retention and Detention/Drainage Boards (mainly made from plastic) have no time-release overflow or no overflow that allows air between the water reservoirs.

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Stormwater Soil North America Logging 52

Grist

JULY 21, 2022

Unlike several other Earth Day weekend cleanups going on farther down the beach, this group has been given special instructions that will help them categorize and log everything they find, from food scraps and toys to tiny pieces of foil and, of course, many types of plastic. Is the trash from camping? Is it from fishing gear?

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Microplastics are created in one of two main ways: the breakdown of larger plastic debris, or from industries that make small plastic particles such as microfibers in clothing and microbeads. The prototype sensor has been tested in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands and the technology is expected to be available via open-sourcing.

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Microplastics Building Energy Monitoring Plastics Energy Monitor 28

Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The material of the meter body, such as brass, or different types of plastic. In Africa, the theft of brass material is inevitable, so a plastic body may be more suitable for water companies. Additionally, the Meter Casing material must be UV-resistant, resistant to high temperature up to 65°C and fire-resistant.

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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring IoT Batteries 52

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

DeSmog analysed director CVs on company profiles, LinkedIn pages, official filings, and news clippings from July 2021, logging the past and present work experience of 371 insurance directors who currently sit on the boards of 30 of the world’s largest property and casualty insurers. Links to Lobbying.

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Pollution Fossil fuels Climate change Aviation 98

R-Squared Energy

MAY 5, 2020

It will be nearly impossible to extricate ourselves from the modern conveniences the oil industry has heralded us into, such as single use plastics and propane gas for our summer cookouts, but we must move away from them as a primary source of our collective energy needs.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Visitor benches are made from recycled plastic lumber. The habitat also features heated caves and logs, pools and misters to replicate the hot and steamy environment of their native Indonesia. The hummingbirds can bathe in their choice of three water ponds, each using recycled water, or nest in green walls.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Fortuna Cools recently announced the launch of the Nutshell Cooler, a collapsible cooler made using upcycled coconut fiber sourced from the Philippines and designed to outperform plastic. Since the liners use recycled PET, there are no virgin plastic components to the coolers either.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 8, 2023

For example, when a forest—which naturally absorbs and stores carbon dioxide as trees grow—is logged and converted to grazing or agricultural land, GHGs are released as trees decompose. For instance, use of plastic packaging has increased sharply in recent decades, from 2 million tons in 1950 to 381 million tons in 2015. Wollenberg, E.,

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Waste Waste Packaging Transportation 59

Grist

APRIL 20, 2022

Lenniger lives in a log cabin in Goldstream Valley, a spruce-lined swale with a rolling view of the Northern Lights near Fairbanks. Combined with a $40,000 laser he dragged behind him on a plastic sled he’d nicknamed “The Coffin,” Hasson is able to link surface methane emissions to the ice disappearing underground.

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Soil Methane Climate change Government 145

AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The natural ingredients protect as an alternative to fungicides, wax and single-use plastic. Bakeys This Indian company has developed a system to convert food scraps, mostly grains, into biobased cutlery that provides an alternative to single-use plastic. Yet, it has the same preservative effect as Mori and Apeel.

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Waste Waste Innovation Upcycling 28

AGreenLiving

APRIL 17, 2020

Log your running and walking miles every day and connect with others for a common goal; participation is free. Users measure air quality and plastic pollution where they are and add each reading to a global database.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

The unfortunate decline is due to the combination of three paramount factors: problematic invasive species , unsustainable deforestation from logging and wood harvesting and urban development. Europe’s endemic trees are threatened by extinction, states a recent International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) assessment on biodiversity.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The beloved and ecologically important species was harvested by Indigenous peoples for millennia and once numbered in the billions, providing food and habitat to countless birds, insects, and mammals of eastern forests, before being wiped out by rampant logging and a deadly fungal blight brought on by European colonization. government.

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Biotechnology Agriculture Government Technology 145

AGreenLiving

JANUARY 5, 2022

Not only new parts have been developed, but also new packaging without plastic and polystyrene and totally made with recycled and recyclable cardboard or with the aid of cotton bags,” Orlandi said. The wooded area sitting on 10,000 square meters in the province of Milan was about to be logged before GPR saved it.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2021

An important parameter is the Log Removal Value (LRV) , she said – a measure of the ability of a treatment processes to remove pathogenic microorganisms. And it only costs $30, “which is excellent because it is costing us a lot more, all the disposable plastics and equipment that you use.”.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Benzene is a colorless, sweet-smelling chemical found in crude oil and products including gasoline, solvents, plastics, paints, adhesives and detergents. As the global demand for plastics has grown, Texas also has become a hub for the petrochemical industry, which uses benzene in its production processes.

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 30, 2020

Aditya Mukarji , is from New Delhi India, In March 2018 he began waging war on plastic straws. Within just five months, he had already helped replace more than 500,000 plastic straws at restaurants and hotels in New Delhi. She works with her sister to reduce plastic use on their home island.

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Climate change Organic Plastics Fossil fuels 98

AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 29, 2021

While there were previously protections in place, former president Trump had exempted the area in his last few months of office, which opened the door for building roads, logging and other damaging activities. This area is home to 800-year-old trees, Indigenous people and 400 species of wildlife and fish.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Industry panelists from the forest sector noted that wildfires in 2023 destroyed 14 times more timber than was commercially logged last year. A doubling in the plastics recycling rate and material efficiency gains in chemicals between 2023 and 2035 arrest some of the growth in petrochemical demand.”

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

A host of smaller green policy efforts could also be fast-tracked by Biden's team, including measures to restrict single-use plastics in federal buildings and land, the US ratification of the Kigali Amendment to the global Montreal Protocol to restrict HFC pollutants, and the resumption of US payments to the global UN Climate Fund.

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