Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Integrated IT systems and whole business reporting are essential for reducing waste and emissions and ensuring compliance with UK Environment Act, says waste management software provider ISB Global. It’s now been over a year since the UK Environment Act became law.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 22, 2021

I also have observed firsthand how technology-driven innovation is disrupting the traditional grocery supply chain, opening new doors to reducing food waste and helping the world to think differently about how we source food. For meal kits, packaging waste was one of those unintended consequences. Why not the grocery model?

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 27, 2021

More specifically, Amazon's air shipping business, which along with its entire global logistics supply chain juggernaut is booming. . Still, Amazon's support is the latest indicator that the logistics giant is eyeing ways to clean up aviation. Enter air cargo. Economic production at scale is the key metric for biofuel makers. .

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

RTD Logistics has joined the Green Business Bureau (GBB) to underscore its commitment to operating sustainably, to enact the GBB sustainability framework and to garner further tools and knowledge in its green efforts. RTD Logistics is a nationwide provider of supply chain management and logistics services. Background.

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GreenBiz

MAY 12, 2020

Consider that the cosmetics industry brings in a booming $500 billion every year and imagine the waste created by default. As businesses, we can manufacture and sell products with no packaging, create closed-loop recycling systems and collaborate with suppliers to create innovative solutions for reducing waste — all while thriving.

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Charged

JANUARY 31, 2025

It will also support the states efforts to manage the growing battery waste accumulating in auto wrecking yards. Deploying modular units near feedstock suppliers reduces logistics challenges and builds closer ties with automotive OEMs and battery manufacturers, enhancing efficiency, the companies pointed out.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

In the past few years, as consumers looked to cut down on plastic waste at the grocery store, more mainstream supermarkets turned to bulk shopping bins as a solution. In 2017, when LimeLoop, an IoT solution for sustainable e-commerce shipping logistics, started, it was in response to the amount of waste caused by e-commerce.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 9, 2024

Energy-from-waste operator enfinium has received its first waste delivery by train at its Ferrybridge site in West Yorkshire this week (9 July). The group says this milestone expands the area that enfinium’s Ferrybridge 1 and 2 facilities can receive unrecyclable waste from, reduces road traffic and lowers transport emissions.

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CleanTech Group

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Figure 1 Food Waste innovation landscape The scale of the problem The scale of the global food waste problem is astonishing. We waste.

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GreenBiz

JULY 8, 2020

On Wednesday morning, the logistics and retail giant announced that it plans to buy 6 million gallons of bio jet fuel via a division of Shell and produced by World Energy, a big biodiesel producer. Amazon's plans to decarbonize its shipping supply chain isn't just focused on electrifying its delivery vans. A drop in the fuel tank.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Britain’s hard-working refuse collection crews do a fantastic job of collecting our household waste – but logistics issues are leading to more than 745,000 bin collections being missed, say the authors of a recent study. But domestic waste performances are not equal across the country.

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 4, 2021

partners with businesses to help develop waste stream management programs that achieve zero waste to landfill, improve supply chain efficiency, yield cost savings and elevate brand reputation. In 2020, Link International helped divert an average of 600 tons of waste from landfill per client site. – finds its proper place.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

A textile waste collection company in Slovakia has published the results of a waste monitoring project using Sensoneo waste monitoring sensors, part of a system that supports dynamic and automated waste collection. 3000 tonnes of textile waste. Implementation of waste monitoring sensors.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

This system is designed to provide zero-emission solutions for industries such as freight transportation and waste management, which traditionally rely on diesel power. This vehicle completed successful operations, signaling the potential value of hydrogen fuel cell trucks in the waste management industry.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Some European countries still have few restrictions on what can be landfilled, which means a lot of waste feedstock that is suited to material recycling or energy recovery is currently being landfilled. This also means that the volumes of both household waste and industrial waste are on the way back to pre-pandemic levels.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 20, 2021

cities, Replate is a tech-driven nonprofit that combats food waste by connecting food donors and food rescuers together. Food waste is both a social and environmental issue and by finding a way to fully utilize perfectly good food, insecure communities find relief and the environmental repercussions of food waste are avoided.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 13, 2020

In contrast, research and on-the ground experiences with reusable packaging by Searious Business, a solution provider for zero plastic waste practices, show yearly financial savings of up to 30 percent compared to throw-away versions. They require close collaboration with waste management players, cleaning facilities and logistics companies.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Replate is a food rescue organization that leverages technology and logistics to match surplus food from businesses with communities in need. Through these efforts, companies reduce waste, mitigate climate change, and counter food insecurity. Meanwhile, 1 in 9 people remain undernourished. SPECIAL JOINT OFFER.

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Impact Alpha

JANUARY 18, 2024

ImpactAlpha, January 18 – Pune-based KisanKonnect started its farm-to-consumer logistics service to cut food waste in India’s inefficient and fragmented food supply chain. million to combat food waste and boost farmers in India appeared first on ImpactAlpha. The post KisanKonnect’s raises $3.7

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Beyond diverting substantial landfill waste, resale represents a rapidly growing revenue opportunity with a market valued at $20 billion in the apparel industry alone. From reverse logistics, quality control, customer expectations and revenue cannibalization concerns, companies must overcome a multitude of considerations and complexities.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Most of the component materials retain their value, however, and can be reused to participate in the circular economy, the economic system that aims to keep resources in use and eliminate waste. By 2030, with that much PV, there's a potential of something like 8 million tons of potential PV waste,” Butler said.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 9, 2025

AMR particularly impacts low-to-middle-income countries where water quality is often poor and the environmental spread of AMR via wastes can be high. However, inadequate logistical capacity, funding, and poor access to essential information can hinder informed NAP policymaking, especially in low-to-middle-income countries.

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FuelCellsWorks

MAY 13, 2024

KG join forces in sustainable transportation and waste collection logistics to pioneer advanced clean solutions for alternatively fuelled waste collection vehicles The partnership. Quantron AG and R&B AbfallTechnik GmbH Co.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 21, 2021

Vehicles such as the big rigs that carry goods across state lines, vans that drop off packages at your front door, garbage trucks that pick up our waste or the forklifts that move pallets across the floor in warehouses. The company just delivered one of its e-tractors to musician Jack Johnson to be used on a farm on the north shore of Oahu.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 25, 2023

The team, PETRONAS and logistics partners say they are working together to deliver the aspiration of a fully biofueled European season following a successful trial in 2022 which saw a reported 89% reduction in CO2 freight emissions. Hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO 100) biofuel is derived from vegetable oils, waste oils and fats.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

By repurposing hydrogen that might otherwise go to waste, Plug Power is reducing reliance on new raw material sources while supporting a circular economy. Both retailers are prioritizing sustainability in their supply chains and logistics. Plug Power’s Louisiana plant is more than a milestone; its a blueprint for action.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 3, 2020

We don't have inventory, which decreases waste and emissions. We don't have inventory, which decreases waste and emissions. . We don't have inventory, which decreases waste and emissions. Shipping & Logistics. We produce clothing after someone's purchased it — build it on-demand versus waiting for someone to show up. .

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CleanTech Group

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Robotic waste management, sustainable chocolate derived from precision fermentation, and a cloud-computing platform to curtail methane flares: Recent Deals worth looking at Agriculture. The post Recent Deals – 17 December 2024 appeared first on Cleantech Group.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 28, 2022

The research was funded by Bunzl plc and involved in-depth interviews with 40 organisations and individuals in the sphere of reusable food and drink packaging, from start-ups and small-scale trials to big brands and events, as well as people in the fields of policy, academia and logistics, including Tesco, DEFRA, Just Eat and Abel & Cole.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 18, 2021

Determining the appropriate logistics partners also will be crucial at every step of a cup’s existence. It’s certainly not going to solve the whole plastic waste challenge, but as more of these models come to market, we are excited to see new solutions that collectively build reuse back into our cultural and behavioral norms.".

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2024

Effective recycling of these used solvents, waste paint thinners and solvent-based paint, will create new products as an alternative to virgin solvents, says the firm, so that they can be used again in industries including pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, paint, agrochemicals and cement manufacture.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 16, 2025

This configuration not only adds to durability but also offers a significant cost advantage by reducing complexity and material waste. Yet, logistical challenges, high costs, and inefficiencies in current hydrogen infrastructure have hindered adoption at scale. The self-sustained system requires only sunlight and water to function.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

FuelCell Energys SOEC taps into waste heat generated by nuclear power plants , significantly reducing the electricity needed for the process. Demonstrates the benefits of using waste heat from nuclear power plants to achieve maximum efficiency.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

These cities have committed to science-based targets to cut emissions in sectors that are some of the biggest urban emitters: buildings ; transportation ; and waste. Shipping & Logistics. degrees Celsius through the C40 Cities initiative. That means low-carbon deliveries for businesses that want to operate in these locations. "So

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2022

This includes emissions from our own operations, plus all upstream supply chain and downstream logistics. By developing and deploying a range of measures – including greater energy efficiency, avoiding waste and electrifying processes that currently use gas – it can be done. Another important factor in logistics is regionalisation.

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GreenBiz

MAY 18, 2020

In a world where consumers are anxious and making purchases with safety, ease and comfort top of mind, could a zero waste, circular shopping platform of returnable glass, metal and plastic containers survive? Now, we can report that our sales for April nearly doubled what we did in March, half of which was spent out of an official emergency.

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GreenBiz

JULY 16, 2021

Circular economics and the $57B e-waste opportunity. The delivery and logistics company is investing more than $2 billion in vehicle electrification, sustainable energy and carbon sequestration. Episode 276: FedEx fleet electrification, vanilla virtues. GreenBiz Editors. Fri, 07/16/2021 - 02:00. Week in Review (3:45).

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