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Earthshot Prize brings the glam to planet-saving solutions

Corporate Knights

That’s the magic formula behind this month’s Earthshot Prize awards ceremony in Cape Town, South Africa, a glitzy event that shamelessly combined Hollywood pizzazz and British royalty with innovative waste-heat systems, wildlife conservation and circular-economy waste solutions.

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Secrets for circular supply chain partnerships from Interface and Aquafil

GreenBiz

They've innovated on raw materials, resulting in Aquafil's Econyl yarn that it recycles from ghost fishing nets, carpet fluff and other would-be waste. How can other companies find success in winning over their suppliers toward eliminating the very concept of waste in their products? Instead of oil, we use waste," he said.

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Can fossil fuel lobbyists be barred from global climate talks?

Corporate Knights

Or, in the words of James Marape, president of Papua New Guinea, theyre now a total waste of time. Adopted in 2003, the convention was severely challenged by the aggressive lobbying tactics of the tobacco industry. For the last 30 years, COP has been the planets main vehicle of hope for averting climate catastrophe. In 2008, Article 5.3

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These circular cities want to send landfills to the trash bin of history

Corporate Knights

Except for one thing: nothing in that house was wasted. Cities are incredibly wasteful places. And then there’s the waste that results from poor policy and planning: roads clogged with single-driver SUVs, suburbanites commuting hours to work, the unhoused having to pitch tents in parks for lack of affordable housing.

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Plastic waste has some economic benefit for developing countries

Envirotec Magazine

Collecting waste in Lubango, Angola (image credit: Carsten ten Brink , CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 They claim to have found that the import of plastic waste is associated with growth in gross domestic product per capita in the lower-income countries. graduate and lead author on the study.

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Quest Diagnostics Grows Interest in Sustainability With Healthy NewsWorks Students

3BL Media

A Quest for Health Equity (Q4HE) grantee, Healthy NewsWorks has been empowering elementary and middle school students since 2003 to become researchers, writers, and confident communicators who advance health understanding and literacy through their factual publications and digital media.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

It mass-produced the first electric car in the 1990s, then literally crushed most of them in 2003. 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. LinkedIn | Personal website.