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. Re-using gold from electronic waste prevents it from being lost to landfill, and using this reclaimed gold for drug manufacture reduces the need to mine new materials.

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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.

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Medicine Recycling Recycling Plastics 60

Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 27, 2023

Microorganisms began producing antibiotic molecules long before we started to use them as medicines. This is of course important, but our study show that we also need to pay attention to our waste streams, as this seems to be a place where new variants of antibiotic resistance could emerge”, concludes Fanny Berglund.

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Medicine Pollution Waste Waste 245

GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2020

How can we ensure more resilient supply chains for essential goods, such as food and medicine? How might a long-term period of "social distancing" influence the adoption of artificial intelligence and robotics, and how will that affect workers whose jobs can’t be done remotely — such as manufacturing, waste management and deliveries?

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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so used to treating their health conditions with pharmaceutical pills that the thought of using herbs as medicine seems outdated to them.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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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

In Beck’s mind, too , forwarding-thinking companies should look at natural resources not just as consumables but as recyclable goods, and then design systems and products in a way that eliminates waste. Nearly a century ago, Ecolab sold dishwasher soap with a dispenser described as its first effort to reduce waste.

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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. Lanzatech is a great test case for that thesis, as well as a great story to tell about the history of this sector. It was founded in 2005 as a biofuels company.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 15, 2024

Their patented technology converts low-value by-products, residues and waste from a range of industries, such as food and drinks production, into high-value green chemicals. Simmers adds: “The other great news is that the raw material that we use to make our biochemicals – the residues, by-products or waste – is almost unlimited.

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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. Personal care product waste will be collected by Compost Collective KC for current customers during regular pickup or at Kansas City’s Brookside Farmers’ Market from 8 a.m. –

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 25, 2022

Activists and scientists have found alarming levels of radioactivity in samples collected along the road and soils outside Austin Master Services, an oilfield waste processing facility with a history of sloppy practices in eastern Ohio. Over the years, conditions at Austin Master have raised concerns from inspectors and advocacy groups alike.

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Waste Waste Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 98

Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Sustainable Medicines Partnership to launch four year programme next year aimed at developing greener solutions in healthcare sector. Deloitte and AstraZeneca have both joined a new not-for-profit body announced yesterday which is aiming to improve the environmental sustainability of the global healthcare sector and drive down medical waste.

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Waste Waste Medicine Packaging 48

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. Lanzatech is a great test case for that thesis, as well as a great story to tell about the history of this sector. It was founded in 2005 as a biofuels company.

Recycling 142

Recycling Recycling Carbon Carbon-negative 142

Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 30, 2023

The analysis, which examined the company records of over 150 of the most significant vape and vape juice producers in the UK, identified that only 16 had registered to comply with environmental regulations for producer responsibility for waste electricals, portable batteries, and packaging.

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Recycling Recycling Lithium Waste 147

Energy Central

AUGUST 30, 2024

If we can capture much of the carbon waste we produce from mining and industrial processes, would that make sense for both business and the environment?

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Medicine Waste Waste Carbon 59

Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2021

The idea of only using sustainable packaging – eliminating waste, low carbon footprint, recyclable or compostable - seems easy enough, yet the reality for many businesses is more complex and dependent on the industry they work in. Reducing waste. A lot of plastic is produced from fossil fuels.

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Packaging Plastics Medicine Recycling 87

Green Business Bureau

JULY 28, 2021

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. We’ve heard it all before: Plastic waste is unquestionably a huge threat against the planet.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 27, 2023

Microorganisms began producing antibiotic molecules long before we started to use them as medicines. This is of course important, but our study show that we also need to pay attention to our waste streams, as this seems to be a place where new variants of antibiotic resistance could emerge”, concludes Fanny Berglund.

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Medicine Pollution Waste Waste 130

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Crucially, the research shows that antibiotic pollution from human waste poses a risk in the environment in higher income countries like the UK, despite having longstanding sanitation infrastructures. Ciprofloxacin is commonly used to treat respiratory, skin, and urinary tract infections, amongst other conditions.

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Medicine Pollution Health Waste 130

Business Green

MARCH 7, 2023

Single-use vapes have become the UK's fastest growing waste stream, with 1.3 Single-use vapes have become the UK's fastest growing waste stream, with 1.3 As sales and profits have boomed the environmental impacts and costs of collecting and recycling waste vapes have been disregarded."

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Recycling Recycling Retail Waste 99

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. The threat of oil extraction still looms today.

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Health Medicine Waste Waste 145

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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Waste Waste Pollution Medicine 147

Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 22, 2021

Industries will use 2021 to prepare for the new Environment Bill which will come into force in 2022 introducing legally binding targets for nature, water, air and waste. It has been widely reported that a no deal Brexit will not impact fuel supply, but it could impact the routine delivery of food and medicines.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 16, 2019

Response options identified in the report include improvements to sustainable food production, forest management, soil organic carbon management, ecosystem conservation, and reductions in food waste. Food waste was another area which the report identified as an urgent priority for improvement. Improving crop resilience.

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Business Green

APRIL 29, 2020

Employees in the energy, transport, food and drink, waste, and water industries to join list of workers eligible for priority testing. Other eligible sectors with an environmental remit include key workers in the energy industry, public transport, and public health and environmental services.

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GreenTech Gazette

APRIL 14, 2021

This cuts down the waste of paper, and other resources that must be protected for the sake of the environment. Implementing green technologies at home will prove beneficial; such as optimum solar power, where possible, and secure waste removal. Robotics are growing in all areas of the world; mostly within factories and for medicine.

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Technology Medicine Recycled materials Waste 52

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 Energy Monitoring Medicine Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring 78

Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

In fact, creating products from recycled steel utilizes 40% less water and reduces mining wastes by 97%. 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).

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Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Sustainability Recycling 148

Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

Early pioneers of these hydrogen-from-waste technologies such as Ways2H, SGH2 Energy (SGH2), and Standard Hydrogen say not only are they making carbon-free, energy-rich fuel, their approaches also will divert mountains of trash from landfills and waterways, cutting greenhouse gas emissions. locations in 2021. "As

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Demand Hydrogen Technology Energy 69

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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Business Green

AUGUST 4, 2020

More than 30 million people use our medicines and now they can do so knowing that they're produced using renewable electricity," said Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen, president and CEO at Novo Nordisk.

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Medicine Carbon-neutral Recycling Recycling 66

Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

Instead, you decline this offer and state that they should provide you with whatever medicine they have available. You are feeling unwell and visit the doctor, where they advise you to have a blood test in order to carry out a more in-depth analysis of your symptoms and subsequently identify the appropriate course of medical treatment.

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Carbon-neutral Medicine Organic Waste 130

Business Green

MAY 16, 2023

Specialty plastics and packaging is a significant part of Dow's business, from packaging for food and medicine, wire and cable materials, to specialised films and adhesives for industrial applications, we serve much of the world with the materials it needs. No matter what the role, sustainability has been at the core.

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Plastics Pollution Waste Waste 69

Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

WRAP hails significant sustainability milestones achieved by food and drinks sector this year through Courtauld 2025 initiative, but warns much more progress is required to meet industry-wide waste, water, and carbon goals. We need to pick up the pace if we are to achieve the Courtauld 2025 targets," he said. "We

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Waste Waste Medicine Sustainability 53

Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

There are three different types of projects that come under the energy efficiency category: Cogeneration power plants : Most electricity generators waste heat. Energy-efficiency buildings : The amount of energy wasted from buildings is reduced by using efficient heating, insulating, cooling, or lighting systems.

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Carbon Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral Methane 148

Business Green

APRIL 19, 2021

Ministers have repeatedly promised that its "world leading" environmental legislation will provide greater accountability than the current EU system, ensuring the government does uphold vital laws on air, water, and waste.

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Law Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 94

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.

Biodiversity 74

Biodiversity Ocean acidification Soil Education 74

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. The story of Indonesia could be seen in other parts of the world.”

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Packaging Recycling Recycling Plastics 77