GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Going plastic neutral: Footprints, credits and offsets. What does it mean for companies to go "plastic neutral" and what will it take to scale, track and standardize effective plastic-offsetting infrastructure? But what about going “plastic neutral”? But what about going “plastic neutral”?

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

A new report – “Improving the loops of plastics in electronics” – shares the conclusions from a recent workshop on Waste of Electrical and Electronic equipment (WEEE) plastics, organized by BSEF, the International Bromine Council, during the International Electronics recycling conference (IERC 2022).

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2021

Geoscience technology firm CGG has conducted a microplastics pollution survey as part of a scoping study into whether it would be possible to create a “Plastic Free zone” on Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon). This workflow can be used to calculate the volume, size and shape of plastic particles within a sample.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Power Knot LLC, a specialist in onsite organic waste management solutions, announced on 28 January that it has released Powerchips Green, a new medium made of 100% plant-based organic material, that has been designed to speed up the digestion rate of food waste in LFC biodigesters.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Supercritical water can be a solvent for all organic materials including plastics. Its gas-like penetration power makes it a superior medium to decompose mixtures of complex waste plastics into value-added materials, which are feedstock for manufacturing new plastics. Above the critical point of 374.5

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GreenBiz

MARCH 27, 2024

Date/Time: April 30, 2024 (11AM-12PM ET / 8-9AM PT) As the global UN Plastics Treaty enters the final stages of negotiations, organizations must rethink single-use plastics, evaluate how to operationalize circularity, and irrevocably shift business models.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JANUARY 13, 2022

City, Vietnam as one of 15 river locations around the world to tackle plastic pollution. The global partnership between the two organizations will implement advanced technology to intercept and clean up waste in some of the world’s major rivers. Coca-Cola and The Ocean Cleanup selected the C?n River in C?n

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Inhabitat - Innovation

DECEMBER 25, 2020

When they say it’s All Good, this ethical body care company means it’s good for you and the planet.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Plastic pollution is a major climate threat and now there's a unique solution. The World Design Organization named Trashpresso, designed by Miniwiz, a World Design Impact Prize Winner for 2021. It is the world’s first mobile industrial-grade plastic trash upcycling platform.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The VAMOS (Value Added Materials from Organic Waste Sugars) project has received €6,984,813 funding from the Bio Based Industries Joint Undertaking (BBI JU) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. Reduce environmental plastic pollution levels.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The world scoffs at global recycling rates and panics at plastic pollution, but we're not talking enough what we do with organic waste.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 20, 2024

Joe’s Organic Cleaners had a clear green mission, to protect the health of their people, their town and the local environment. Core to that mission was replacing their cleaning system with a new state-of-the-art organic dry cleaning solution. They knew becoming an eco-friendly business was key to their future and the right thing to do.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Profits from the sunglasses go toward the organization's cleanup efforts in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Finding both nylon and polyester negatively affected the growth and repair of airway tissue, researchers – from Groningen University, The Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research, and Plymouth Marine Laboratory – said the microfibres could make it more difficult for those with COVID-19 to mend their lungs.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 4, 2021

But COVID-19 has thrown a wrench in those plans, with single-use packaging skyrocketing, low fossil fuel prices and disrupted recycling systems, already weakened by China’s 2018 plastics waste ban. . A year for reckoning — and opportunity.

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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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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

GreenBiz readers got excited about climate change solutions that ranged from the new, from the emerging potential of hydrogen as an energy source to changes in plastics manufacturing, to the ancient, such as planting trees. Some of the biggest contributors to the plastic crisis are the cosmetics and fashion industries. . Courtesy of.

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Energy Central

JANUARY 15, 2025

A nice result, which may or may not have big effects, has been discovered with organic ionic plastic crystals, and their possible use in air-conditioning. The primary research on these materials has been connected with battery storage. To see what they are, an article that discusses them is Nanditha Sirigiri, Fangfang Chen, Craig M.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 29, 2021

While the Basel Convention criminalized transboundary movement of hazardous waste (of which most electronics are classified) to limit some human health implications of electronics waste streams, plastic waste is another story, only recently having been included in the convention.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 30, 2021

The fundamental mechanisms that allow tiny pieces of plastic bags and foam packaging at the nanoscale to move through the environment seem to have been described in more detail by researchers at Washington State University. ” Around since the 1950s, plastics have properties that make them useful for modern society.

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GreenBiz

JULY 12, 2021

The plastic waste problem gets plenty of attention, and for good reason: If we continue mismanaging this material as usual, there could be 7.7 Just as stunning: Plastic isn't the fastest growing waste stream the world needs to deal with. . Circular economics and the $57B e-waste opportunity. Heather Clancy. Mon, 07/12/2021 - 02:00.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

In the past few years, as consumers looked to cut down on plastic waste at the grocery store, more mainstream supermarkets turned to bulk shopping bins as a solution. Back in 2005, MOM’s banned single-use plastic bags in its stores to encourage shoppers to bring their own reusable bags. Fri, 11/06/2020 - 01:15. That wasn’t ideal. "I

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GreenBiz

MARCH 5, 2021

More than 100 billion tons of resources enter the economy every year — everything from metals, minerals and fossil fuels to organic materials from plants and animals. The world produces around 300 million tons of plastic waste every year, nearly equivalent to the weight of the entire human population. David McGinty.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 7, 2020

There are no 'silver bullet' solutions to plastics. Bacardi is calling its initiative "a silver bullet in the fight against plastic pollution.". It’s also worth noting that plastic makes up less than 1 percent of Bacardi’s packaging.) Plastic Waste. Lauren Phipps. Mon, 12/07/2020 - 01:30. Circular Economy. Biomaterials.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

AUGUST 19, 2020

While the news often mentions the terrible things in the sea, such as gyres of plastic and other trash, the oceans also hold an extremely valuable resource: seaweed. This renewable and easily harvestable organism is used for everything from food to spa treatments to a possible COVID-19 medicine.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 28, 2020

A view inside a ChemFORWARD display of dimethyl phthalate, used in plastics. These include ortho-phthalate plasticizers found in flexible toys, UV-blocking oxybenzone in sunscreens and halogenated flame retardants in electronics. That could bring more of the plastic industry onboard, he added. "If

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 13, 2020

If not, you were probably born during the plastics-era, which began about 50 years ago. Today, plastic has taken over. In 2018, 40 percent of the 360 million tonnes of plastics produced globally were converted to packaging. Remember the time when milk was delivered to your door in reusable glass bottles?

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

A Q&A with the bioeconomy expert stepping in to lead the organization that's advocating for alternatives to plastics.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The advanced recycling market for plastics predominantly focuses on technologies like pyrolysis and depolymerization (thermal, chemical, and enzymatic). Once dissolved, the solution is purified, and the solvent is removed, leaving behind a nearly pure plastic that can be processed back into granules for reuse in manufacturing.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

A new study shows that metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) can be adapted to capture benzene from the air, offering a potential solution to tackling a major health and environment risk. MOFs are advanced materials that combine metal centres and organic molecules to create porous structures.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 4, 2020

In that moment, Thomas founded Intersectional Environmentalist (IE), a mission-driven organization committed to dismantling systems of oppression by amplifying historically silenced voices in the environmental movement, along with co-founders Diandra Marizet, Philip Aiken and Sabs Katz. . Katz: Absolutely. They focus on nature.

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NRDC onEarth

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

These organizations are urging President Biden to take strong and immediate action, globally and domestically, to address the plastic crisis.

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GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2021

One key area where this can have an impact is plastic recycling. Around 90 percent of plastic used is not recycled — and reducing this number is crucial to achieving SDG 12: Responsible consumption and production. . SweetSense can provide these services because it works in partnership with private, public and nonprofit organizations.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 27, 2021

In their quest to develop a fully organic line, it was initially difficult to find organic fabrics that were both affordable and available in an array of unique colors and textures. Organic Is The New Black. Organic cotton is less water intensive than conventional cotton. But every improvement and small adjustment counts!

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2025

This subset of artificial intelligence (AI) achieved significant milestones in sorting last year, such as separating food-grade and non-food-grade plastics. Deep learning Deep learning will continue to shape the recycling industry in 2025. Positive developments in this regard may emerge as early as this year.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

In the plastics sector, more than 1,000 organizations have united behind, and are working towards, a common vision of a circular economy for plastics. Our aim is to act as an impartial organization on these different levels of measuring the circular economy, and to bring consistency across them.".

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