Greenability Magazine

MAY 10, 2021

Reusable bag or plastic bag? Water leaving your property carries particles of soil and organic debris with it. Rain gardens and bioswales slow the movement allowing it to soak into the soil and reduce flash flooding issues. Rain gardens are a depression in the soil, collecting runoff from rooftops and driveways.

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Soil Stormwater Construction Plastics 85

Greenability Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2022

The basic concept is to plant seeds in potting soil placed in a plastic container, add water, cover, label the container and place in a full-sun, protected area outside. The plastic does not need to be totally clear, but it does need to let light penetrate. The soil should be really wet because that’s how this system works.

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Soil Plastics Recycling Recycling 74

Greenability Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

The basic concept is to plant seeds in potting soil placed in a mini greenhouse container, add water, cover, label the container and place in a full-sun, protected area outside. The plastic does not need to be totally clear, but it does need to let light penetrate. The soil should be really wet because that’s how this system works.

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Soil Plastics Recycling Recycling 99

Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 27, 2024

The US Plastics Pact has released its Design for Circularity Playbooks , described as essential reports designed to guide the lifecycle of plastics in the US. By bringing together diverse stakeholders, the group aims to drive systemic change across the plastics value chain.

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Plastics Recycling Recycling Packaging 147

Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Emily Nichols, Technical Manager for Organics & Natural Capital at the REA, said: “The Research Hub’s data pack illuminates a range of characteristics of whole, separated liquor and separated fibre digestates, including by feedstock type.

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Microplastics Organic Soil Plastics 130

Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2021

This includes waste incinerated, incinerator outputs recycled, and organic material recycled that does not meet quality standards. Part of the reduction was largely due to less soils landfilled, which decreased by 340,000 tonnes (29.0%) from 2019. The carbon impact of Scottish household waste generated and managed in 2020 was 5.4

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Waste Waste Recycling Recycling 130

Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

“It is likely that the majority of microplastics come from the fragmentation of larger pieces of plastic litter in the environment,” says a 2019 report from the Royal Society,1 and the tendency of discarded litter to degrade or fragment is helped along by things like UV radiation, physical erosion and temperature changes.

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Microplastics Plastics Soil Waste 222

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

BusinessGreen takes a tour around Riverford Organic Farms to explore how the veg box firm is contending with worsening climate impacts. Overall, soil degradation was calculated in 2010 to cost the UK £1.2bn every year. Riverford Organic Farms founder Guy Singh-Watson | Credit: Riverford. The outlook is certainly worrying.

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Resilience Agriculture Soil Organic 68

Envirotec Magazine

JULY 11, 2023

The tag “forever chemicals” is clearly very appropriate for a class of synthetic compounds whose unusual molecular structure, including the carbon-fluorine (C-F) bond (considered one of the strongest found in organic chemistry), appears to offer little scope for any thermal or other degradation at all, so they endure permanently.

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Energy Monitor Waste Waste Building Energy Monitoring 100

Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 23, 2020

On top of that, farming insects can also produce valuable by-products such as biodiesel, bioplastics and organic fertilisers.”. Food waste is worse for the planet than plastic short-term in terms of carbon emissions. In Scotland alone nearly £1.1 billion of food is thrown away every year.

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Waste Waste Plastics Soil 165

Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 19, 2023

Researchers from Washington-based advocacy organization Environmental Working Group said they had calculated that eating one fish in a year equated to ingesting water with PFOS at 48 parts per trillion, or ppt, for one month. This contamination of water has spread PFAS to soil, crops and wildlife, including fish.“For

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Seafood Pollution Health Soil 262

Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

This year, the group implemented a reverse osmosis system in a Thai community; it cleans drinking water and eliminates locals’ need for plastic bottles. Thirteen years ago, this ahead-of-its-time cool school eliminated plastic water bottles (though it's had to temporarily suspend the policy due to COVID-19).

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Cooling Carbon-neutral Carbon-negative Sustainability 52

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. Aidan Dresang is a climate justice advocate and digital organizer from Madison, Wisconsin.

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Climate change Organic Plastics Fossil fuels 98