Envirotec Magazine

MAY 22, 2024

In an effort to make coffee pod recycling easier and accessible for the UK, Morrisons has announced a nationwide roll-out of dedicated coffee pod collection points in more than 350 stores nationwide in partnership with Podback, the pod recycling service. Roll out of the new recycling points will start in June.

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Terra Infirma

MARCH 14, 2025

Imagine dealing with high-GWP anaesthetic gases one day, soil carbon the next, and reusing student fancy dress outfits the day after.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 25, 2024

London-based recycling tech business, Sorted, has raised £1.65 Using computer vision, spectroscopy and coloured lasers driven by AI, their solution identifies, differentiates and pinpoints valuable items on recycling lines. billion tonnes of waste is dumped globally, with devastating effects on our air, oceans and soil.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Statistics published on 27 September by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) reveal some of the impact of COVID-19 polcies on recycling. Overall household recycling rate was (42.7%) up slightly on 2020. Recycling of household wood and construction wastes increased after lockdowns. tonnes recycled, 0.12

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GreenBiz

MARCH 5, 2021

percent gets recycled and used again. The circular economy concept is all about making better use of natural resources such as forests, soil, water, air, metals and minerals. And finally, it means ensuring that clothes at the end of their life are collected and recycled or repurposed into new clothes, further reducing resource use.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 8, 2024

Greywater recycling systems are being used in homes and businesses all over the UK in an effort to reduce water usage. Steps to Implement Greywater Recycling in Your Business While you can attempt to gather your greywater on your own, it is far more effective to invest in a proper greywater system. Sprinklers shouldn’t be used.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

But the industries need to push beyond recycling. A new technology of this sort, chemical garment-to-garment recycling, was one of your favorite stories of the year. . Why H&M, other big brands are investing in garment recycling. Clean beauty and fashion are trendy. Media Source. Courtesy of. Media Authorship. Close Authorship.

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GreenBiz

JULY 17, 2020

The effluent is actually perfect organic fertilizer, and we take it back to the farms to build soil fertility and further sequester carbon — just like the sheep does. Pamani: How do the textiles produced by Agraloop stack up against recycled fabrics? The lack of strength causes issues like pilling. But that can all be fixed.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2023

percentage point increase in recycling levels on the previous year. tonnes recycled, 0.11 was recycled, a 0.3 The recycling figure includes recycling and reuse (657,000 tonnes) and composting (355,000 tonnes).  Waste recycled and diverted from landfill The 2022 recycling rate was 43.3%, up 0.3

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2021

percentage point reduction in household recycling rates from 2019 to 42%. Household waste recycled and landfilled decreases. Scotland’s overall household waste recycling rate reduced from 44.9% The total amount of Scottish household waste recycled was 1.02 The total amount of Scottish household waste recycled was 1.02

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 19, 2023

It was used at three locations in Germany with different conditions: One hot-spot is near the town of Rastatt in the region of Baden, where PFAS-contaminated paper sludge was probably spread on fields as recycled compost until the 2000s. It also burrows a lot in the soil and directly takes up PFAS through this.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

A leading UK and European recycling company was fined £20,000 at Airdrie Sheriff Court on 16 November after Scotland’s environmental regulator, SEPA, uncovered what it described as the largest single illegal export of household waste from Scotland. It was loaded inside 51 forty-foot shipping containers destined for recycling in China.

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Energy Central

JULY 27, 2023

Electric cars have been hailed as the future of personal transportation, but one glaring issue stands in the way — a lack of EV battery recycling capabilities. Otherwise, the complex batteries powering today’s commutes will fill tomorrow’s landfills, leaching toxins into the soil and requiring automakers to.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Developed by Pulsar Fusion, the rocket is powered by high density polyethylene (HDPE) – from recycled plastic – and nitrous oxide. To have a British rocket test on UK soil is novel. A UK company based in Bletchley has developed and tested a high-power chemical rocket engine partly fuelled by plastic waste.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Reuse can reduce the amount of waste that will need to be recycled or sent to landfills and incinerators. . LimeLoop partners directly with retail companies and provides them with a set of reusable packages made from upcycled billboard vinyl and lined with recycled cotton. million tons (29.9 Reuse] is needed. It is possible.

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Impact Alpha

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

The post The Brief: Soil-carbon markets, edtech startups, reduce and recycle, expanding EV charging, Goldman’s sustainability bond, pay for success appeared first on Impact Alpha. Agents of Impact Call No. 27: Opportunities at the intersection of gender and climate. GenderSmart’s Suzanne Biegel joins ImpactAlpha’s.

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Greenability Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Mulched leaves and grass clippings return nutrients to the soil and reduces the need for fertilizing. 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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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Almost one-third of the money that Nestlé intends to invest will be dedicated to cultivating regenerative agricultural practices that improve soil health and reduce dependence on synthetic fertilizer across 500,000-plus farms from which Nestlé sources ingredients. Media Authorship. Close Authorship. billion to support those intentions.) .

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Business Green

APRIL 30, 2020

Confederation of Paper Industries issues plea for public to ensure PPE is disposed of safely, amidst fears waste material could contaminate recycling. The Confederation of Paper Industries (CPI) yesterday warned that its members were seeing evidence that some people were disposing of PPE in their household recycling.

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

World Soil Day – December 5th. Plants nurture a diversity of soil microbes that in turn give nutrients and protect plants from disease. Soil fertility vitally depends on this symbiotic relationship. Choose holiday cards made from post- consumer recycled content, make your own or send an E-card.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 14, 2020

A partnership with Plastic Bank is also underway, in which the summit team is launching a recycled sunglasses collection. The idea that we only have 60 years of top soil left if we continue to degrade our soil is scary. We will need to regenerate our soil if we want to be a lasting business," she said. .

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 3, 2023

‘Biosorption’ of rare earth elements by biomass of novel strains of cyanobacteria is fast and efficient, allowing recycling, says group Rare earth elements (REEs) are a group of 17 chemically similar metals, which got their name because they typically occur at low concentrations (between 0.5 So could we recycle REEs more efficiently, too?

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Inhabitat - Innovation

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Gardening should be good for the environment, adding oxygen to the air, nutrients to the soil, and filtering water for consumption. That’s where Sead Pod comes in, a vertical garden made using sustainable practices and recycled materials.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 27, 2024

“The newly unveiled Design for Recyclability Playbook, Design for Reuse Playbook, and Design for Compostability Playbook provide detailed guidelines to ensure that plastic packaging is continuously reused, recycled, or composted, thereby reducing plastic waste and its environmental impact”, says the group.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 16, 2020

If we want to have a healthy planet long into the future, we must also look after nature: forests, soil biodiversity and water ecosystems," he said. "In Last year, the company pledged to halve its use of virgin plastic and ensure it collects and recycles more plastic packaging than it sells.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

After use the product has potential bio energy applications where it can be used to provide renewable heat for poultry farms which lowers the carbon footprint, and the resultant ash can be used as a soil conditioner. Easy to spread and clean out after use, it meets the high standards required for this application.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Well over half of all household material sent for recycling over the three months to June this year was composted, according to the quarterly Northern Ireland Local Authority Collected Municipal Waste Management statistics produced by the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA). Of all household waste, 29.3%

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Charged

MAY 17, 2022

The fact that there is no lithium-ion battery material production on US soil is a concern for both national security and for the industries that are relying on these critical materials,” said CEO Aaron Bent. “6K The UniMelt systems are already deployed in 24/7 high-volume production at 6K Additive’s 45-acre, ISO9001-certified facility.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Using real world data from 2019, the paper sets out the opportunity for massively improving the climate benefits of recycling food waste to produce renewable energy and green fertiliser for farmers. Using Malaby Biogas’s operational data, Bath’s paper was able to show that in 2019 Malaby Biogas saved around 2,000 tonnes of CO2.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 28, 2024

The product is said to be pathogen – free, rich in phosphorus and nitrogen , and has for many years been used in agriculture to enrich soil and improve its moisture retention. million to seek to alleviate significant challenges for the UK water industry and offer an alternative to recycling sludge to land.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2022

At the same time, leaves and other garden waste are a boon for backyard biodiversity and soil. Come autumn, the sound of a leaf blower blasting leaves into piles, or the sight of a queue of garden waste-packed trailers at the recycling center is all too common, as trees shed their golden brown and yellow robes.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

A seemingly ground-breaking solution allows hard-to-recycle automotive shredder residue (ASR) to be used to deliver renewable energy and reduce waste-to-landfill. Char can be used to create green hydrogen, while residual char may be applied as a soil modifier, and ash as construction sector aggregate.

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TechCrunch: Climate

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Most electronic waste isn’t recycled; instead, our dumped devices (and the toxic metals within) pile up in landfills, polluting the air and contaminating nearby soil and groundwater. The startup says its mission […]

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2023

With applications ranging from drone surveys to in-situ soil and water analysis, photonics is enabling more sustainable practices and transforming the way we monitor and protect our environment. These devices empower scientists and researchers to perform rapid, accurate soil analysis directly in the field.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Global Recycling Day – March 18th. Even if you’re a complete novice when it comes to sustainability, you probably have a good understanding of how recycling works and why it’s important. Global Recycling Day aims to raise awareness about the benefits of recycling along with how to do it properly.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 29, 2021

About 13% of United States golf courses use recycled water through piping allowing for excess water to be collected and reused in the future. Apply fertilizer in a safe way that protects air, water and soil quality and eliminate the risk of over fertilization, which often results in the killing of plants and grass. .

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 29, 2021

About 13% of United States golf courses use recycled water through piping allowing for excess water to be collected and reused in the future. Apply fertilizer in a safe way that protects air, water and soil quality and eliminate the risk of over fertilization, which often results in the killing of plants and grass. .

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