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Project secures EU funding to create sugars, chemicals and plastics from household waste

Envirotec Magazine

Nick Thompson, Managing Director of Fiberight Limited: “Securing this important EU funding enables us to take our promising pilot-scale work over the last five years to the next stage and demonstrate its commercial viability as an economically and environmentally sustainable process.”.

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Demo plant produces industrial sugars from mixed household waste fractions

Envirotec Magazine

A UK-based demonstration plant that generates industrial biotechnology sugars and other recycled material streams from the paper and card in mixed household waste has come online in May 2022. The products will be used in the production of several high-performance bio-based materials.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

H&M seeks by 2030 to become fully circular, eliminating waste and adopting sustainable and recycled materials , and has partnered with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation since 2018. He serves on the National Academy of Medicine and on boards including African Parks. Patti Poppe, CEO, PG&E; San Francisco. LinkedIn | Company profile.

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Impetus Digital: Virtual Collaboration Software Shares Their Sustainability Story

Green Business Bureau

Typically, team members take a few hours during the week (in paid time) to do something nice for the environment such as planting their garden, cleaning up trash, cooking vegan and vegetarian meals, building something from recycled materials, and more.

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Green Technology Future for 2021 and Beyond

GreenTech Gazette

Robotics are growing in all areas of the world; mostly within factories and for medicine. We are also likely to see this spread further across medicine, as psychologists move to provide remote therapies, artificial intelligence can learn from the accumulated information and start providing similar services on their own.

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How to Build and Retrofit a Sustainable Home

Green Business Bureau

and the non-psychoactive relative to marijuana) is a versatile crop grown specifically for industrial and medicinal uses. Forbo offers flooring products partially made from recycled materials, with some individual products consisting of as much as 89% recycled content. Hemp (a variety of Cannabis sativa L.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

AGreenLiving

H&M seeks by 2030 to become fully circular, eliminating waste and adopting sustainable and recycled materials , and has partnered with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation since 2018. He serves on the National Academy of Medicine and on boards including African Parks.