Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 12, 2021

Researchers from Coventry University are collaborating with Severn Trent and the Organics Group to turn sewage waste into a clean fuel for tankers and other vehicles. The project will look to capture waste ammonia from the utility’s sewage treatment facility and turn it into hydrogen.

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Greenability Magazine

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Did you know you can recycle razors, deodorant containers, toothpaste tubes and brushes, and waste from other personal care products? The Resilient Activist and Compost Collective KC are sponsoring a recycling drop-off site and pickup services. The Resilient Activist will send recyclables to TerraCycle for recycling.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Water security is a key part of our national resilience to long-term challenges, including climate change, which can only be fixed with joined-up policymaking and consistent, sustained investment over decades. It would take a reversal of decades of private operation to bring water and sewage utilities back under public ownership.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2020

An updated renewable energy from waste manifesto has been released by Privilege Finance, following a series of monumental changes which have impacted the industry in 2020. As with most sectors, the pandemic has impacted energy from waste businesses. However, the sector has overwhelmingly proved its resilience.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 15, 2023

CSA enhances soil health and builds climate resilience, while aiming to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. We hope to quantify related water and nutrient footprints and the potential to promote climate resilience.” Biochar can be made from any organic (carbon-containing) material, such as wood waste or crop residues.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 29, 2020

Resource management firm Veolia is highlighting how significant emissions reductions can be achieved by using energy recovery facilities, ERF, to dispose of the more than 61,000 tonnes of orange bagged clinical and infectious waste that arises each year in the UK. This process provides enough electricity for over 430,000 homes.

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Greenability Magazine

JUNE 30, 2020

to achieve the highest zero waste certification? Green Building Council’s TRUE® Platinum Zero Waste certification and become the first printing facility in the U.S. and first company in Missouri to achieve the platinum level for waste reduction initiatives. Composted all food and yard waste. CST) on Thursday, July 9.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 21, 2021

Their solution to food waste, they say, increases food security and improves animal welfare and sustainability. It promotes a more circular food system, providing greater resilience and flexibility in times of need. This solution tackles waste and improves productivity, yield, and animal welfare, all while delivering a 130% ROI.

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Greenability Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2020

When Olathe, KS residents drop off hazardous waste products for recycling, the ReUse Center works to keep them out of the landfill by making reusable items available to Johnson County residents. To learn more about dropping off household hazardous waste for reuse, visit Household Hazardous Waste. Photo: Ann Dabney / CC.

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Greenability Magazine

JUNE 7, 2021

This weekend you can recycle razors, toothpaste tubes and brushes, deodorant containers and waste from other personal care products at two locations. The Resilient Activist and Compost Collective KC are sponsoring recycling drop-off sites and pickup services. The Resilient Activist will send recyclables to TerraCycle for recycling.

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Greenability Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

An excess of leaves and yard waste can be composted with food waste in a backyard compost pile. The Johnson County K-State Research and Extension recommends composting yard waste to reduce the amount of waste entering landfills and for a finished compost that improves garden and landscape soils. Start a backyard compost.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 8, 2023

He says: ’To quote [environmentalist] Ellen MacArthur, “waste is a design flaw; In nature it doesn’t exist”’. Hosted by lighting product designer, Simon Fisher of F Mark, the CPD-accredited events also look at the approaches and techniques to creating lights with long use, repair and upgradeability built in.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

The programme of work “will help to deliver net zero emissions water and waste water services by 2040”, says the firm, “and build capacity in the network to cope with changing weather patterns, deliver excellent quality water, protect the environment and support service excellence for our customers.”

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Greenability Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

Participants are asked to bring a bag of chopped up leaves or yard waste that is chemical free, and they are encouraged to dress to get dirty. Photo: Center for Regenerative Agriculture and Resilient Systems. The post Learn how to build your own composter appeared first on Greenability Magazine.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 1, 2021

Global IT firm HP discusses an ongoing project to collect and process waste plastic in Haiti, for reuse in products such as ink cartridges. Waste plastic. The post Upgrading a waste plastic processing facility in Haiti during a pandemic: A case study from HP first appeared on Envirotec. We’ve barely begun to realise it.”

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Battery storage is needed to support site-wide energy resilience, providing the power required at night when solar generation is not possible. Included in the 25-year concession agreement is the provision of renewable power, potable water, sustainable solid waste management, wastewater treatment and district cooling infrastructure.

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Greenability Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

As face masks become even more critical in fighting the spread of COVID-19, they are also taking a toll on our waste stream and the environment. The post How can we stay safe & not create PPE waste? appeared first on Greenability Magazine. According to the U.S. Story: Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss, EarthTalk.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 2, 2024

Finalists included Greyparrot Insights, which tracks waste in recycling plants to build a digital map of the packaging value chain. It aims to create a complete digital map of the world’s waste flows to track what happens when waste is discarded and support the value chain to improve packaging design, policymaking and recycling rates.

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Greenability Magazine

AUGUST 31, 2021

If you’ve been stockpiling old paint cans, motor oil, batteries or chemicals, load them up for a safe disposal at one of these free, household hazardous waste events. Because of these hazardous qualities, household hazardous waste should never be thrown out with regular trash. Richmond Hazardous Waste Collection Event.

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Greenability Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2021

If holiday catalogues are clogging your mailbox, reduce paper waste by having your name removed from mailing lists. Gather together with zero waste. Share your meal & reduce food waste. Not only will you spread some holiday cheer, but you can also reduce holiday food waste. Minimize unwanted mail. Have more ideas?

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Greenability Magazine

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Get a behind-the-scenes look at urban and indigenous food systems and how farmers are working to grow local food that is resilient to climate change, taps the wisdom of elders and looks at regenerative agricultural design for the future. Breakout sessions include: Farm Resilience and Climate Change Mitigation Strategies.

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Greenability Magazine

MARCH 16, 2021

Americans waste almost as much food as they eat. That translates to $165 billion in wasted food per year in the United States. production of uneaten food wastes 25 percent of fresh water and results in 23 percent of methane emissions. Some of that food waste happens on a large commercial scale. Additionally, U.S.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 16, 2024

Chris Williams of software firm ISB Global makes the case for digitalisation as the means for a less wasteful, more resource-efficient global economic model. A circular economy involves building a ‘zero waste’ approach into everything we do. The road to building a sustainable circular economy is now a digital issue.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 28, 2025

But what must also be acknowledged is that in the not-too-distant future, other challenges including those concerning our ageing highways infrastructure, climate change adaptation, housing delivery, planning and waste management will, in their turn, also become immediate, non-negotiable issues requiring urgent spending and action.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 27, 2024

The platform is designed to help businesses identify the availability of different feedstocks – from agriculture and forestry waste to food and drink co-products, industrial carbon dioxide and seaweed – that could form the basis of a range of new, greener, bio-based products and processes.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 13, 2022

More efficient use of phosphorus in agriculture and increased recycling, for example from wastewater, can increase resilience in the food system while reducing pollution of lakes and rivers that are biodiversity hotspots and important for drinking water supply.”.

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Greenability Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2020

If holiday catalogues are clogging your mail box, help reduce paper waste by having your name removed from mailing lists. Gather with zero waste. Share your meal & reduce food waste. Not only will you spread some holiday cheer, but you can reduce holiday food waste. If every family in the U.S. Minimize unwanted mail.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 20, 2023

She aims to build community resilience, while producing their own energy from food and animal residuals. I dedicated myself to meet women where they were (whether in the kitchen, garden, workshop, or bathroom) to reclaim their food, waste, and energy as a form of self-care and Earth-care for themselves, their families, and communities.”

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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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Greenability Magazine

APRIL 13, 2021

Composting Food Waste & Trying To Stop It , Missouri Organic Recycling. Starting Small: Simple Steps to a More Sustainable Lifestyle – The Resilient Activist. Interwoven: An Earth Month Retreat – The Resilient Activist. Power of Respect for Climate Resilience & Recovery – The Resilient Activist.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 16, 2023

The changes will ensure regulators have the right tools to drive compliance across a range of sectors, strengthening enforcement and holding all who hold environmental permits to greater account – from energy and water companies to waste operators and incinerators.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 8, 2024

A project to extract rare minerals and elements from the plumes of a volcano, and another to extract them from mining waste are among nine innovation partnerships that have been awarded £3.5 Altilium Metals: A project form the University of Exeter extracting Rare Earth Elements from waste materials from mining operations.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2024

Year-on-year, despite increases in material being recycled in the UK, quantities of plastic waste exported for recycling from England have increased by more than 10% to just over 600,000 tonnes. Malaysia and Vietnam, two non-OECD countries that had received decreasing volumes of UK waste in recent years, took around 8% each.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Lead Author of the report Professor Dan Laffoley said “there simply isn’t time to waste. Ocean action must be adequately financed as investment in global resilience, human well-being and sustainability. Deliver the science we need for a healthy, productive, and resilient ocean that benefits people and inspires humankind as a whole.

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Greenability Magazine

JANUARY 3, 2022

Greenability offers a free, online calendar listing to promote events that are environmentally sustainable, resilient and restorative. Calendar listings can be related to organic food, energy-efficiency, recycling, renewable energy, zero-waste, native plant gardening, nature, resilient living and many other environmental topics.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 18, 2020

Pile cloth media filtration can be used as a resilient pre-filtration solution to address the problems associated with algal blooms occurring in water extracted from surface water sources.

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Greenability Magazine

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The city of Kansas City, MO wants to know how climate change is and will impact you and what actions the city should take now to become carbon neutral, equity focused and resilient by 2040. more resilient? To participate and share your story, visit the KC Climate Protection & Resiliency Plan Playbook. In 2020, the K.C.

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