GreenBiz

DECEMBER 9, 2020

I'm excited to share that GreenBiz Group is teaming up with the newly formed WSLA Alumnae Group, which acquired the Women in Sustainability Leadership Awards (WSLA) from gb&d magazine in August. We'll be acting as the organization's media partner to build awareness for the next edition of its awards program.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 13, 2024

Landfill emitters An estimated 40 to 70 per cent of global organic waste finds its way to landfills. The landfilling of organic waste creates about five per cent of annual global greenhouse gas emissions and we need to get this to zero per cent,” Dr Tepper says.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 9, 2025

It is developing up to 12 AD plants over the next five years, on urban industrial sites, which together could process over 700,000 tonnes of organic waste per year and power up to 80,000 homes with green gas. Our solution is a leading example of the circular economy.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 31, 2025

Treated sewage sludge products (or biosolids) are the byproducts of wastewater treatment and are commonly used in agriculture as a cost-effective source of nutrients and organic matter. Around 87% of the 3.6 million tonnes of sewage sludge produced in the UK is recycled to agricultural land.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

By Gauthier Eppe Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are toxic chemicals that pose a significant threat to human health and the environment. References [1] Lallas, Peter L., “The Stockholm Convention on persistent organic pollutants.” link] [5] Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and pesticides. 4] Phillis, M., “EPA

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 13, 2024

We work with a specific type of hygroscopic material called a metal organic framework.” Rao likened metal organic frameworks to Lego blocks, which can be rearranged to build all sorts of structures. One of the best examples is the stuff inside diapers,” said Rao, who happens to be the father of an infant son. “We

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GreenBiz

MARCH 30, 2021

To better support the health of these communities, Berckes’ organization employs local teenagers to plant and care for trees. He applied after hearing about a friend’s positive experience working with the organization. "It This partnership brings together 14 organizations — from the Morton Arboretum to the U.S.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 14, 2025

However, many organizations are failing to appropriately track this growing footprint, says the Capgemini Research Institute, which is jeopardizing their ESG objectives. To mitigate this, organizations are increasingly turning to renewable energy sources and optimizing their AI infrastructure. over the next two years.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 4, 2024

A provider of AI-powered sortation at scale for the waste and recycling industry, AMP Robotics is using its technology to extract mixed recyclables and organic material from municipal solid waste (MSW) for further processing at a facility owned by Recycling and Disposal Solutions (RDS) of Virginia (in the US).

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POWER Magazine

MAY 23, 2024

Our organizations support nuclear energy as a tool of economic opportunity and emissions reduction, […] The post Congress Wants to Solve Nuclear Waste. appeared first on POWER Magazine. House of Representatives in April revived policy discussions over nuclear waste. The Solutions Are Known.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

And if you really want a sleepless night or two, read this story about “The Biblical Flood That Will Drown California,” published recently in Mother Jones magazine. Finally, there is collaboration among the leading nongovernmental organizations focusing on sustainability reporting and accountability. Pull Quote. Finance & Investing.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

It’s not uncommon to see blazing headlines in newspapers and magazines, not to mention on the local evening news, reporting yet another electric vehicle fire. With so many reports, one might think that EVs self-immolate on a regular basis at a far higher rate than automobiles powered by internal combustion engines (ICEs).

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POWER Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Westinghouse’s first customer for its eVinci microreactor—a flagship 5-MWe/13-MWth “nuclear battery”—is poised to be the Saskatchewan Research Council (SRC), Canada’s second-largest research and technology organization.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

A new study shows that metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) can be adapted to capture benzene from the air, offering a potential solution to tackling a major health and environment risk. MOFs are advanced materials that combine metal centres and organic molecules to create porous structures.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

It found that although concentrations of ammonia and organic matter strongly associated with sewage effluent were important to influencing invertebrate diversity, the correlation with zinc and copper was strongest. The Environment Agency does not measure every single contaminant of concern.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2024

ABB’s Lee Todd explains how forward-looking approaches to equipment maintenance can reward organizations with optimized business continuity and greater sustainability as well as reduced costs. Unplanned loss of production is a contingency that’s seldom welcomed by organizations, their customers and shareholders.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

International research team say they have identified more than 120 organic micropollutants and investigated their role in damaging aquatic organisms Tonnes of dead fish, mussels and snails were seen floating on the River Oder (Germany) in early August 2022.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Green gas is made from rotting organic matter food waste collected from homes and supermarkets, farm manures and slurries, industrial waste like whisky mash, rotational energy crops, and wastewater sewage sludge.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 2, 2024

Microparticles from car tyres, pesticides from farmers’ fields, and toxins from harmful algal blooms are just some of the organic chemicals that can be detected using the new approach, which also indicates the impact these chemicals are likely to have in a particular river or lake.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The series of workshops will highlight projects and solutions from around the world to representatives from government, business, multilaterals and other civil society organizations. Harriet Lamb, ‘Food, textiles and manufactured products account for nearly 50% of global greenhouse gas emissions.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

A new report attempts to identify the hurdles organisations across industries face in the adoption of AI, and to unveil the often overlooked energy requirements of the technology.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 12, 2025

As the organizers explain: “The Aquatech Innovation Award recognises world-class innovations and technologies that have the potential to disrupt the global water market. Acknowledging these innovations and the latest technological developments, this years awards received a high level of entries.”

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Commissioned in 2014, Fraddon Biogas is Cornwalls leading AD plant, converting organic waste from local farmers, bakeries and food and drink producers. For Cornwall to process organic waste locally, industry support is crucial, Mr Lourens said. The plant provides renewable gas and electricity for around 2,500 Cornish homes.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 20, 2024

While they have long captured interest of the scientific world, the genomic and evolutionary history of these organisms have remained largely unexplored. Lead author Professor Hwan Su Yoon explains, “Approximately 450 million years ago, brown algae transitioned from unicellular organisms to simple multicellular forms.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 9, 2023

Previous research has shown that the toxins in the filters also have adverse effects on many other aquatic organisms. The study appears to show that these toxins lead to a 20% higher mortality rate among mosquito larvae. She doesn’t think there are any good arguments at all for filters to remain a component of cigarettes.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

As world governments moved to implement soil conservation practices, a new debate began: does agricultural soil erosion create a net organic carbon (OC) sink or source? The organic carbon cascade Early studies assumed that a substantial fraction of soil organic carbon that is mobilized on agricultural land is lost to the atmosphere.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2020

This means that – regardless of whether a free trade agreement is reached between the UK and EU ahead of the end of the transition period, there will be two different sets of REACH regulations that UK organizations wanting to trade across Europe will need to consider.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The announcement is made on behalf of a consortium of organizations involved in the project, including leading partner space agencies, CNES and NASA. A total of nine organizations brought their expertise to the project, collaborating to deliver the following five capabilities: Flood detection and warning (USGS, VigiCrues, vorteX.io, JPL).

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 16, 2023

Hence wastewater treatment plants are facing the challenge of removing emerging organic contaminants (EOCs) such as active pharmaceutical ingredients, and therefore new materials and technologies are required. Metal-organic frameworks, so called MOFs, are a type of nanoporous material that are made of metal ions and organic molecules.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 13, 2022

An international team from KAUST, led by Iain McCulloch and postdoc Jan Kosco, were able to develop organic semiconductor-based photocatalysts by tuning the semiconductor bandgaps — which define the absorption wavelength range — to absorb visible light. This is analogous to the bulk heterojunction used in organic solar cells,” Kosco says. “We,

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2024

It can also produce about 20 litres of fresh water per square meter, the same amount that the World Health Organization recommends each person needs every day for basic drinking and hygiene. The device is also solar-powered and can convert about 93 per cent of the sun into energy, five times better than current desalination systems.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

As companies that drill for oil and natural gas using hydraulic fracturing consider recycling and reusing wastewater that surfaces from wells during the fracking process, chemists at The University of Toledo discovered that the new and unexplored waste contains many environmental contaminants including organic chemicals and metallic elements.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 30, 2021

The researchers report that a silica surface such as sand has little effect on slowing down the movement of the plastics, but that natural organic matter resulting from decomposition of plant and animal remains can either temporarily or permanently trap the nanoscale plastic particles, depending on the type of plastics.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

As the Northeast Organizer for Clean Water for North Carolina , she’d met with residents of a small, majority Black town called Ahoskie, 40 miles from her home. However, like Ahoskie, Joyner’s community wasn’t quick to organize against the plant. . “I Enviva had built its first North Carolina plant there two years before. .

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2025

Dr Robert Bornhofen is director of innovation at DC Water, organizer of WaterPitch! To register, visit WaterPitch.Org The event is organized by WaterCitizen.Org and includes pitches from up to 60 water startups and reverse pitches by up to 50 potential investors, funders, clients and accelerators.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Surprisingly, they also found that the bulk of the small particulate matter observed was mostly made-up of organic material – particles that are potentially more toxic than non-organic material when inhaled – in addition to black carbon. Organic matter is likely to be more toxic than non-organic matter when breathed in.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A new partnership will increase the sustainability potential of organic and food waste recycling, say the firms behind it. The idea of finding a new use for the waste oils, fats, and grease fraction in AD organic waste inspired Bisviridi’s name – bis viridi means ‘twice green’ in Latin.

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