Corporate Knights

JUNE 26, 2024

That hard work is often hard to see, the product of millions of Canadians and thousands of businesses quietly, persistently adopting new approaches to life and work, eschewing waste, prioritizing collaboration and generally learning to do more with less. this year, up 9% over last year’s 49.7% – that’s compared to just 8.4%

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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

New documents show that industry executives pushed plastics recycling despite knowing since the 1980s that it “cannot be considered a permanent solid waste solution,” and that recycled plastics would never be able to compete economically with virgin material. Today, the U.S. recycling rate for plastics sits at about 5 or 6 percent.

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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Founded in Burnaby in 2002, GF just announced it has raised US$130 million, bringing its total capital to $300 million. Summit uses advanced materials to directly extract lithium from natural brines, a process that doubles the yield, requires no fresh water, and reduces chemical use and waste by 90%. in partnership with the U.K.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

And soon to be home to Washington State’s first-of-its-kind Integrated Diversion and Energy Facility, where 100,000 tons of wasted food will annually be converted by digesters into carbon-negative renewable natural gas (RNG). million tons of wasted food were generated in 2021, with nearly 30% going to landfill. In Oregon, 1.11

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 28, 2023

Since 2002, Corporate Knights’ ranking of Canada’s Best 50 Corporate Citizens has been tracing public and private companies as well as Crown corporations with more than $1 billion in revenues. Companies have also discovered that happy, healthy employees, customers and communities create healthier markets – and happier shareholders.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The company produces renewable basic materials such as pulp for diapers, tissue and other personal care products, and delivers circular solutions that enable recycling, reduce waste and build a better future for our planet. International Paper opened in Beaverton in 1956, first as Western Kraft and became part of International Paper in 2002.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 13, 2024

Since the partnership began in 2002, the city’s environmental performance has improved significantly. With nearly 218,000 employees on five continents, the Group designs and deploys useful, practical solutions for managing water, waste and energy that help to radically change the world. Headquartered in Boston, Mass., billion in 2023.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The project provides a sustainable solution to enhance the value of glass, the perfect material to support a low-waste circular economy in an area with a historic wine production that is profitable for the region’s GDP itself – as one billion of Sicily’s GDP comes from the production of Sicilian wines. million bottles.

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Environmental News Bits

MAY 29, 2024

“Tracing sources of diffuse PFAS pollution: PFAS contamination in soil near a Municipal Waste-to-Energy plant.” Dijkstra, J., Brunschwiler, N., and Griffioen, J.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 13, 2022

And, despite their valuable gold, copper, silver, palladium and other recyclable components, experts expect a majority will disappear into drawers, closets, cupboards or garages, or be tossed into waste bins bound for landfills or incineration 1, 2. Small equipment for food preparation (e.g. Presence of sensitive data (2%).

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 22, 2021

The bank was established along with the Border Environment Cooperation Commission in 1994 under the original North American Free Trade Agreement and tasked with implementing drinking water, wastewater, and solid waste infrastructure projects. The bank’s $2.7 billion in paid-in and callable capital was to be used to finance these projects.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 27, 2023

Chauvin framed the most urgent issues facing the planet – climate change, waste, pollution, slave and child labour – as accounting failures. Slater helped to formulate the second version of the GRI’s sustainability reporting guidelines, published in 2002. Nowhere did these by-products of economic growth appear on balance sheets.

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3BL Media

APRIL 19, 2022

million pounds of plastic waste. 3M’s absolute Scope 1 and Scope 2 greenhouse gas emissions are down 72% since 2002 and the company is approaching 50% renewable electricity at all global sites well ahead of its 2025 goal. To date, 3M has reduced global water usage 10.7% and eliminated 19.7

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3BL Media

MAY 10, 2022

2018 baseline), implement waste reduction technologies across all sites, and invest a minimum of $5 million in our communities by 2030. We’re committed to responsible manufacturing and continually searching for ways to increase uptime, capacity, and community support, while reducing our environmental impact. With Our Customers.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

So, I just see the obvious, like when I first said "waste equals food." McDonough: The great thing about being a human is that we get to communicate with each other. And we use words. So if we can embed meaning and spirit and accuracy into our language, we can start to get clarity. That is the clearest way I could say it. And so on.

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3BL Media

JUNE 2, 2022

Many harmful substances are covered by the COSHH 2002 regulations, Workplace Exposure Limits (WELs) , requiring employers to control substances in workplaces that are hazardous to health. The effects of poor air quality on the human body, both physically and mentally cannot be ignored.

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Edouard Stenger

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

“ First published in 2002, a second 10-year anniversary version was published in 2012. This is the one I read. If the case for sustainability was compelling then, imagine how much more it is now that renewable energy sources such as solar and wind are at grid parity. The book is divided in seven parts.,

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 15, 2021

That effort led to the creation of another national nonprofit in 2002, the Clean Energy States Alliance (CESA). After his veterans’ work, Milford served as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of New York working on the Love Canal hazardous waste case.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Replacing aluminium foil with a fibre-based layer Marking a breakthrough in our journey towards a fully renewable aseptic carton package, in 2002 we tested a fibre-based barrier to substitute the aluminium foil layer in aseptic carton packages, a first within food carton packages distributed under ambient conditions.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 11, 2021

Once used, water is almost always returned to the environment in the form of effluent discharges and waste, either to the foul sewer system managed by the local water utility company or to controlled sources such as rivers and streams. What is effluent and where can it be found on the railway?

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 3, 2021

Transitioning to a circular economy would not only allow to reduce resource consumption and carbon footprint, but also address the waste problem. While a Directive on the energy performance of buildings has been in place since 2002, recast in 2010 and revised in 2018, the results so far have been underwhelming”, says Gillett.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Purification processes for water treatment include removal of undesirable chemicals, bacteria, solid waste and gases and can be very costly. However, as contaminants can come from many different sources, finding a general solution for contaminant identification and removal can be difficult. Utility companies in England and Wales invested £2.1

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Sustainability Matters

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Late January saw the country’s population hit 27 million, more than 30 years earlier than was predicted in the federal Treasury’s 2002 Intergenerational Report. Creating powerful, connected industrial eco-systems is the first step towards optimising operations, reducing waste and enabling innovation to occur on the fly.

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Green Technology

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Designed by Raptor Technical, a pioneer in computer power management since 2002, WakeSMART leverages cutting-edge technology to optimize energy usage, reduce carbon footprints, and improve device accessibility. What is WakeSMART?

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Sustainability Matters

JANUARY 15, 2023

ABB has developed a cost-efficient, cloud computing-based energy monitoring and management system to help cut waste and improve the energy efficiency of buildings and small industrial sites. Since 2002 the SF 6 concentration in the atmosphere has doubled!

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Green Technology

JANUARY 30, 2023

Our goal is to bring cutting edge technologies and integrated solutions together to create sustainable systems for our clients in energy, agriculture, water, waste, and education. As an award-winning sustainability integrator, Constructive Systems, Inc. specializes in custom sustainable development projects.

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Sense and Sustainability

MAY 5, 2021

Major bleaching events occurred in the Great Barrier Reef in 1998, 2002 and 2006, causing significant coral death in some places. They proposed a comprehensive set of policies that included effective fishing quotas and collaborative water management, promoting sustainable agricultural practices, consumption and waste reduction.

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Gail Tverberg

MARCH 17, 2024

One interpretation might be that Advanced Economies are using energy products in a wasteful way, compared to Other than Advanced Economies. It is possible to see the effect of this ramp up in energy consumption by Other than Advanced Economies in both Figures 3 and 4, starting about 2002.

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Sustainable Development Network

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The Commission found that the Western Pacific region, including East Asia and Oceania, primed by previous experience with the SARS epidemic of 2002, adopted relatively successful suppression strategies resulting in cumulative deaths per million around 300, much lower than in other parts of the world.

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Green Technology

MAY 1, 2023

Our goal is to bring cutting edge technologies and integrated solutions together to create sustainable systems for our clients in energy, agriculture, water, waste, and education. As an award-winning sustainability integrator, Constructive Systems, Inc. specializes in custom sustainable development projects.

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Eco-Business

APRIL 19, 2020

The Sustainable City 2019 conference follows a series of very successful meetings that started in Rio (2000), followed by Segovia (2002), Siena (2004), Tallinn (2006), Skiathos (2008), A Coruña (2010), Ancona (2012), Kuala Lumpur (2013), Siena (2014), Medellin (2015), Alicante (2016), Seville (2017), Valencia (2019) and Rome (2020).Urban

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 6, 2022

This includes reducing nutrients lost to the environment by at least half, and pesticides by at least two thirds, and eliminating the discharge of plastic waste. In 2002, the Parties to the CBD committed themselves “to achieve by 2010 a significant reduction of the current rate of biodiversity loss”, which failed to materialise.

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Eco-Business

APRIL 19, 2020

The Sustainable City 2020 conference follows a series of very successful meetings that started in Rio (2000), followed by Segovia (2002), Siena (2004), Tallinn (2006), Skiathos (2008), A Coruña (2010), Ancona (2012), Kuala Lumpur (2013), Siena (2014), Medellin (2015), Alicante (2016), Seville (2017) and Valencia (2019).The

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Chris Hall

MARCH 23, 2022

Investors are also deploying venture capital into earlier stage higher risk/return opportunities such as nature-based waste/resource recovery, and materials technology. These trends, the researchers say, are almost entirely due to Australia’s increasingly severe weather and are consistent with “predicted human-induced climate change”.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 30, 2021

Michael Castellarin, with Clairvest since 2002, handles industry research and investment origination, structuring and execution with a focus on waste management, environmental services, facility services and industrial services. Michael is currently on the Board of three solid waste management investments: Winters Bros.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

1979 Bean vs. Southwestern Waste Management Corp: In this case, the city of Houston, Texas wanted to build a new landfill directly adjacent to a primarily black neighborhood. 2002 EPA Developing first EJ Action Plan: While this was just a rudimentary plan, it set the stage for where we are now and the recent 2022 EJ Action Plan.

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3BL Media

JUNE 26, 2024

For the past eight and a half months, Action Against Hunger’s humanitarian response has included nutrition support, solid waste management, water trucking, and the distribution of fresh and dry food, hot meals, and hygiene and shelter kits. Since Oct. Since Oct.

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