NRDC onEarth

APRIL 24, 2024

NRDC and our partners at Drexel Food Lab are raising awareness about expanded liability protections and upcycling opportunities for food businesses.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Upcyclers are tackling the 133 billion pounds of food waste created in the U.S. each year.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Originally created for the Copenhagen Art Fair to showcase a new sustainable method of design, the Paper Pavilion is made out of upcycled paper collected from the city itself. The art fair, in its fifth season, had a specific focus on pavilion designs that spotlighted sustainable construction, urbanization and recycling.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JUNE 26, 2020

From the overconsumption of resources to water pollution to material waste, it's refreshing when companies take corporate responsibility and show concern for nature. The fashion industry deserves a harsh slap on the wrist for how its manufacturing impacts the environment.

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GreenBiz

MAY 24, 2024

The group wants to mine used electronics for valuable metals to reduce waste and grow jobs.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 18, 2019

It’s exploring useful second life for older gadgets collected through its e-waste programs.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Legendary sports company Nike has dominated the headlines for its dedication to a zero carbon and zero waste future. One project at a time, they have drawn attention to sustainable actions and corporate responsibility when it comes to protecting the environment.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

In a recently published paper in Nature Microbiology , the Stanford University assistant professor made a convincing argument that fungal fermentation of food waste and agricultural byproducts could be the next culinary frontier. It’s massive industries that generate food-waste-grade products every single day,” said Hill-Maini.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JANUARY 25, 2022

Adidas has introduced a new hiking and athletic shoe in its TERREX line of apparel. The Nothing Left Behind Free Hiker Gore-Tex shoe is an ankle-supporting athletic shoe in sophisticated colors for the sustainably-minded hiker. It's the latest in a growing movement for sustainable footwear.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

This unique puffer jacket makes use of textile waste.

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GreenBiz

MAY 27, 2020

There’s got to be a better design solution to address end of life, how [products] can easily be refurbished, upcycled and disassembled. Fast fashion and high-performance fabrics have compounded waste by accelerating the output of apparel that's virtually impossible to recycle. works hands-on with denim, zippers and buttons. Pull Quote.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 10, 2023

Researchers from University of California, Riverside, have detailed a method to convert plastic waste into a highly porous form of charcoal or char that has a whopping surface area of about 400 square meters per gram of mass. If so, plastic waste could be repurposed to clean up water pollution.

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Green Living Guy

MAY 20, 2022

Belfast-based brand American Madness has unveiled a collection of upcycled Patagonia fleeces. This is in celebration of the brand’s sustainability heritage. The limited-edition pieces come from deadstock, vintage, and damaged Patagonia fleeces. The collection represents a way to create something […].

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GreenBiz

MAY 24, 2024

The group wants to mine used electronics for valuable metals to reduce waste and grow jobs.

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Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Join Mosaic’s Ian Mohler, World Education Services’ Smitha Das, Apis & The post The Brief: Today’s Call: Ownership economy, previewing the GIIN forum, good jobs in South Africa, upcycling fruit waste, greening corporate cash appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Sarah Turner is an eco-friendly artist with a mission to get creative with post-consumer waste.

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Energy Transition

AUGUST 1, 2024

Paul Hockenos reports from Prague where the upcycling of waste-site rubble for new buildings cuts demand for concrete – and thus for energy. Even were only renewable energy sources employed for its production, the chemical process emits significant greenhouse gases.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Entitled Arcadia Earth, the temporary art exhibition immerses guests in a multi-sensory journey spotlighting pressing ecological issues—such as overfishing, plastic pollution, food waste, deforestation, and climate change—with vivid artworks designed with upcycled and reusable materials.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Substituting asphalt road materials with upcycled plastic waste could spell cost savings for both road construction and waste management endeavors.

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GreenBiz

MAY 12, 2020

Consider that the cosmetics industry brings in a booming $500 billion every year and imagine the waste created by default. As businesses, we can manufacture and sell products with no packaging, create closed-loop recycling systems and collaborate with suppliers to create innovative solutions for reducing waste — all while thriving.

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Impact Alpha

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The post The Brief: Global impact goes local, upcycling grocery waste, refugee impact bond, residential solar acquisition, optimizing impact (video) appeared first on ImpactAlpha. The Call: Building an inclusive green economy. Growing up in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, Donnel Baird and his sister had.

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TechCrunch: Climate

MAY 8, 2024

The startup's fungi use their mycelium to consume oil-based rubbers and plastics, creating new bio-based materials in the process. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Impact Alpha

JUNE 26, 2023

million to upcycle plastic waste into low-carbon building materials appeared first on ImpactAlpha. ImpactAlpha, June 26 — Buildings account for 40% of total global carbon emissions, because of how building materials are produced, what materials are. The post Kubik scores $3.3

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 28, 2022

Achieve zero waste with our waste management checklist. The ultimate goal of this waste management checklist is to achieve zero waste. By zero waste, we mean the conservation of all resources utilizing responsible production, consumption, reuse, and recovery of products, packaging, and materials.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Commissioned in 2014, Fraddon Biogas is Cornwalls leading AD plant, converting organic waste from local farmers, bakeries and food and drink producers. ” Johan Lourens, Commercial Manager, Material Change, was delighted to host Mr Law, who showed keen interest in their local waste-to-energy operations.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 29, 2024

Biotechnology sees plastic sails transformed into synthetic vanilla flavouring Waste textiles from sailing boats could be given a new lease of life as a result of a research project upcycling plastic fibres from sails into new chemicals such as vanillin – the compound used in cosmetics and food products for a vanilla flavour and smell.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Do you think addressing food waste in the office is too much of a bother? Doesn’t most waste happen in our households, restaurants and other food institutions? Reports show that most of America’s food waste comes from consumers – of which 60% makes up the workforce. How to Prevent Food Waste in the Workplace.

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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. In 2017, when LimeLoop, an IoT solution for sustainable e-commerce shipping logistics, started, it was in response to the amount of waste caused by e-commerce.

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U.S. Green Technology

APRIL 19, 2023

Beautifying and sprucing up your kitchen can be an endeavor that’s costly and wasteful. However, you can always upcycle and repurpose to spruce up your kitchen without generating more waste than necessary. The post Upcycling and Repurposing: How to Spruce Up Your Kitchen While Minimizing Waste appeared first on U.S.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 17, 2024

A group from the University of Nottingham say they have found a way to transform metal waste into a highly efficient catalyst to make hydrogen from water, a discovery that could make hydrogen production more sustainable. To our astonishment, we discovered that the surfaces had grooves and ridges that were only tens of nanometres wide.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2020

The two groups have combined already-established and community-led marine debris and plastic waste interception programmes from the Dominican Republic with a UK volunteer network producing sustainable eye protection.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Recycled cups are turned into upcycled reusable cups and other products including tissue and packaging, reducing waste and encouraging a circular economy. So, as we start to welcome passengers back in ever increasing numbers, we’re working harder than ever to ensure our stations are not only cleaner, but also greener. “By

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 22, 2023

Waste management company, SUEZ, and Recycle for Greater Manchester will be joining in, promoting repair skills across the city and opening the doors to their Renew Hub, where hundreds of tonnes of pre-loved items which would otherwise have gone to waste are brought for repair and resale – with all profits going back to the local community.”

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AFN Sustainable Protein

DECEMBER 1, 2022

And as millions of Brits are skipping meals days at a time, according to a survey by the UK Food Foundation earlier this year, the UK is wasting $23 billion (£19 billion) worth of food each year, enough to feed a quarter of the world’s population. “In the UK, we waste a third of all food produced. Overly linear food chains.

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Green Business Bureau

MAY 4, 2021

Countless cases of its damage to natural resources, pollutive waste and emissions, and unethical labor practices have fallen under the public eye over the years. Fashion has evolved into a throw away culture that introduces 11 million tons of textile waste per year in the U.S. The massive 2.5 Fast Fashion Skews Consumer Perceptions.

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Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

ImpactAlpha, September 27 – The one-third of grown food that goes to waste is an enormous lost opportunity. million to make dairy alternatives from upcycled produce appeared first on ImpactAlpha. It’s also an environmental liability, The post Kern Tec lands $12.8

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GreenBiz

JUNE 4, 2021

In a bid to create a more sustainable alternative, Atomo is working on a recipe for creating coffee by upcycling ingredients that otherwise would be discarded, such as the pits, seeds and stems of other plants. It’s exciting to see so many startups targeting the problem of food waste.

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