Business Green

JANUARY 7, 2021

Brits can now recycle their empty medicine blister packets by dropping them off at pharmacies participating in the latest initiative from recycling specialist Terracycle. The UK's network of pharmacies has been keeping the nation on its feet during these challenging times.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 28, 2021

Bioplastics As An Alternative to Petroleum-Based Plastics. The development of bioplastics – plastics that are biodegradable and made of natural materials – provides businesses with eco-friendly alternatives for packaging and products, especially single-use items that contribute a lot of waste.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The leader in water, hygiene and energy services sells to a diverse collection of institutions such as hospitals, food and beverage providers, as well as heavy industry including power plants and plastic manufacturers. He serves on the National Academy of Medicine and on boards including African Parks. LinkedIn | Company profile.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2024

We are all aware of microbeads in cosmetics, but how many of us think about microplastics in glitter, the infill materials used in sports surfaces, or veterinary and medicinal products? trillion pieces of plastic, with a further 33 billion pounds of plastic entering every year. [i] It is estimated our oceans contain around 5.25

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Green Living Guy

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Most people get so used to treating their health conditions with pharmaceutical pills that the thought of using herbs as medicine seems outdated to them. The post 6 Reasons Why You Should Switch To Herbal Medicines appeared first on Green Living Guy. It’s important.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Now, it captures industrial waste gasses, such as CO2 and CO, and recycles them into the chemicals used to make everything from plastics to medical supplies to fabric for Lululemon. It was founded in 2005 as a biofuels company. It has even spun out an entire company focused on jet fuel.

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Grist

MAY 23, 2024

The most dominant polymer found in the samples was polyethylene, which is the most commonly produced plastic globally. Microplastics are particles less than 5 millimeters in diameter — about the width of a paperclip — and they tend to slough off of larger plastic items as they break down. In a testicle that weighs 20 grams (0.7

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2023

A new study looks at the use of gold extracted from electronic waste as catalysts for reactions that could be applied to making medicines. For example, in the process, copper and nickel are also separated out, as is the plastic itself, with all these components potentially being used in new products.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Environmental scientists at The James Hutton Institute have launched the first nation-wide drug and microplastics test on Scotland’s rivers to help shed light on the increasing mix of pharmaceuticals, chemicals and plastics entering our waters.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Now, it captures industrial waste gasses, such as CO2 and CO, and recycles them into the chemicals used to make everything from plastics to medical supplies to fabric for Lululemon. It was founded in 2005 as a biofuels company. It has even spun out an entire company focused on jet fuel.

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2023

Industry Voice: Dow's sustainability director Jihane Ball argues the case for a flexible and ambitious UN treaty to tackle plastic pollution worldwide I've worked across many roles over the last 17 years with the materials science company Dow. What is the global plastic pollution treaty and why is it important?

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2022

This means that the resultant fibre optic cables could be used to develop equipment that could become a safe substitute for magnetic resonance imaging and x-rays – in medicine or in the process of pre-boarding scanning of passengers and their luggage.

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Greenability Magazine

JUNE 7, 2021

Reusable dental, shaving and medicine bottles will be donated to local animal shelters. Items can also be dropped off inside the front of St. Thomas More Parish on Saturday, June 12 and Sunday, June 13 at 11822 Holmes Road, Kansas City, MO. The Resilient Activist will send recyclables to TerraCycle for recycling.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2025

Partner Insight: Jihane Ball, lead sustainability director at Dow, discusses the importance of achieving a global treaty to end plastic pollution, and the role of meaningful stakeholder collaboration in enabling it I've worked across many roles at Dow, the materials science company, over the last 18 years.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

RECYCLED PLASTIC. Recycled plastic used in construction offers a building material that has a lower carbon footprint and is stronger than brick, all while tackling our plastic waste problem ( 367 million metric tons produced globally in 2020). Recycled plastic. Recycled-plastic roofing shingles. Recycled steel.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 18, 2021

Full of fantastic nutritional and medicinal properties – now’s the time to harvest them. Don’t use a plastic bag as this may cause mould to form. I recently found out about the ‘super food’ that is nettle seeds, and have been making the most of the nettle patch at the end of the garden ever since.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

From biotech to nanotech, cleantech, computer science and medicine, technology is not only improving our lives but finding solutions to these pressing problems that only entrepreneurs, with the right source of financing, can dare to solve.".

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

According to the report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, “ Oil in the Sea ,” these sources are by far the largest and fastest-growing contributor to ocean oil pollution. Plastics, which are made from fossil fuels, were not considered in the report although they are a major contributor to ocean pollution.)

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 30, 2023

And yet all of the companies that were identified via Material Focus’s analysis had become a member of a vape industry trade association such as the UKVIA or IBVTA and also registered their products with the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). The environmental responsibilities of vape producers are very clear.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 30, 2023

The medicines that Synterex writes about come from a wide variety of therapeutic areas such as allergy, cancer, vaccines, nervous system disorders, and rare diseases. Every day, Synterex employees work with the hope of helping to get medicines to patients who need them to improve their quality of life.

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Business Green

MARCH 7, 2023

However, each of the companies analysed was a member of a vape industry trade association, such as the UK Vaping Industry Association or Independent British Vape Trade Association, and also registered their products with the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency.

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Recycling Recycling Retail Waste 99

Green Living Guy

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The use of CBD is rapidly increasing across various dimensions – be it medicinal or skincare. However, the hype of CBD is significant in its therapeutic use, where the CBD infused products are used for healing insomnia, depression, acne, and various other health issues.

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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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Grist

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The Two Medicine River, sacred to the Amskapi Pikuni, the Blackfeet, rushes nearby. The mammals leave their scat, infused with whatever toxins were originally in the insects, on the sides of the Two Medicine and other water bodies on the reservation. She knows this landscape by heart. Frost dives after it, ecstatic.

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 23, 2020

In 2019, BASF partnered with us to run the Circularity Challenge , a startup-corporate partnership accelerator program focused on breakthroughs in the plastics, energy storage, and recycling value chains to advance a circular economy. WS: As one example, we were a founding member of the Alliance to End Plastic Waste.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Often called polyester in the clothing industry, it is also used in making plastic bottles. Previously, studies have indicated that plastic formula bottles shed off microplastics that children may swallow. For instance, babies drink directly from plastic bottles. PET is one of the most common polymers.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

One signatory, Associate Professor Tony Fletcher, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said: “We have found effects on human health in the few specific PFAS which have been studied in detail, and exposure up to now is so widespread.” “As 3] Press release.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Goods such as food, timber and medicinal ingredients. In the food sector, which accounts for more than half of this pressure, deforestation, overfishing and plastic waste are among the biggest issues, while energy impacts come from pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. Cultural, spiritual, education and recreation needs.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

P&G and GSK are among companies to commit to reducing their plastics impact and CO2 emissions as part of a new charter on sustainable self-care. The Charter provides an ambitious platform for all our members globally to drive innovation in sustainability.".

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Business Green

JULY 2, 2021

The second pillar, 'healthier', includes themes relating to physical wellbeing through breakthrough medicines, better diets and fitness. From a broad perspective, music's move to digital streaming, doing away with the millions of tonnes of plastic used in CDs and vinyl and the devices used to play these, is an obvious positive.

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

One company hoping to capitalize is Ways2H , which has a thermal process to convert municipal solid waste, medical waste, plastics and sewage sludge into renewable hydrogen. It will start by making transportation fuel from wastewater sludge, then add plastics, according to the company.

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Green Living Guy

MARCH 1, 2022

Many natural products have overtaken their synthetic counterparts for a larger share of the consumer market. Others are just becoming popular now. Here is a look at 10 natural products that have been widely embraced over the past 10 years. Green Cleaning Products Gone are the days when the cheapest or strongest-smelling cleaner won […].

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Medicine Plastics Organic Climate change 137

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

In the 1970s, Dr. Bernard Goldstein, a young professor at the New York University School of Medicine, researched the health impacts of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) produced by gas stoves. In a series of studies, Goldstein and his colleagues identified a higher incidence of respiratory problems among schoolchildren from homes with gas stoves.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 9, 2024

In the time it takes you to read this sentence — say, four seconds — the world produces nearly 60 metric tons of plastic, almost entirely out of fossil fuels. Those numbers are fueling widespread and growing contamination of Earth’s oceans, rivers, and the terrestrial environment with plastic trash.

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Grist

JULY 24, 2019

Lycorma delicatula , named for the lantern-shaped body of the adult that appears to glow under its dull wings, is used in traditional medicine in China, its native land. We don’t have to use wooden pallets, said Ayres, there are many cheap alternatives like particle wood or plastic. In the U.S.,

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Green Tech Challenge

MARCH 14, 2019

The camp is a group of old scrambled tents adjacent to the “kitchen”; four large plastic sheets spread out over a small area with a fire pit as the center. No sane person used to the comforts of modern civilization will ever consent to live without running water, electricity or basic sanitary needs like sewage networks or medicine.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Through targeted or accidental by-catch around the world, fisheries pose the largest threat to these graceful creatures, with the international trade of gill plates (used in Chinese medicine as pseudo-remedies) being the primary driver of mobulid fisheries.

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