Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 19, 2023

With plastic production rising exponentially, from 2 million metric tons in 1950 to more than 400 million metric tons in 2020 , and expected to double by 2040, it’s clear that plastic waste is increasing exponentially too, and credits by themselves can’t possibly keep up with the surge.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In the face of such turmoil, the Caribbean has home-grown solutions that are building resilience and lowering emissions as it girds for fiercer storms: coral reef baskets to protect coastlines, sugarcane waste to create biofuel, recycled plastic to strengthen building blocks, or carbon-absorbing concrete made with saltwater.

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Net Zero Waste Climate Change Banking 346

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2024

More and more of our residual waste is incinerated, as much as 65 per cent of it goes up in smoke. Norwegians throw away and burn increasing amounts of waste that could easily be recycled, in spite of a waste policy that envisions a different result. Normannsen). Words: NTNU).

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3BL Media

JANUARY 29, 2024

Formed in 2009, the Carton Council is an industry organization committed to growing carton recycling in the U.S. By promoting both recycling technology and local collection programs, as well as growing awareness that cartons are recyclable, the organization works to limit the number of cartons that become waste.

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Waste 147

Corporate Knights

MARCH 15, 2023

Save and distribute the food that’s wasted Millions of Canadians are food insecure, yet 58% of the food produced in Canada each year is lost or wasted, according to Second Harvest, a food rescue organization. Canada’s goal is to reduce the amount of food wasted by 50% by 2030. million tonnes of food waste by 50% by 2025.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

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. Nearly a century ago, Ecolab sold dishwasher soap with a dispenser described as its first effort to reduce waste.

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Supply Chain Supply Chains Waste Net Zero 505

GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Instead of using electrolysis, though, it will use waste gasification, which heats many types of waste to high temperatures that reduce them to their molecular compounds. The state passed a Low Carbon Fuel Standard in 2009 to promote electric vehicles and hydrogen vehicles.

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Manufacturing Shipping Decarbonize Waste 527

3BL Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Between FY 2009 and FY 2023, FedEx reduced its carbon dioxide equivalent emissions intensity on a revenue basis by 48%, even as volume grew by 121%. Sustainable facilities When building or expanding facilities, FedEx includes programs and technology to manage waste, conserve water, and reduce the carbon footprint of its operations.

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3BL Media

APRIL 15, 2024

Naia™ Renew ES helps combat waste pollution, reduces reliance on virgin materials and enables a lower carbon footprint. It is made from 40% certified recycled waste material, 20% certified recycled cellulose and 40% sustainably sourced wood pulp. The company had 2022 revenue of approximately $10.6

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Sustainability Matters

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Recyclable waste management — a recap. Historically and without the intervention of subsidies, the cost of collecting and sorting recyclable waste in Australia has been significantly higher than sending it to landfill. The Queensland Government has committed to reinvesting over 70% of the levy in waste and recycling initiatives.

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3BL Media

APRIL 28, 2022

million actions since 2009. On top of this personal commitment, Alex Waislitz has also secured an additional $1.35m support for the awards from private sources. Global Citizens have taken over 30.4 Today, these actions, in combination with high-level advocacy work, have led to over $41.4 billion lives in the fight to end extreme poverty.

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ESG Today

APRIL 15, 2024

Founded in 2009, EdgeConneX provides data center solutions ranging from 40kW to 100MW. EdgeConneX’ environmental sustainability goals include becoming a carbon-, waste-, and water-neutral data center provider, and developing and operating a data center platform powered by 100% renewable energy by 2030.

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ESG Today

MAY 22, 2024

Founded in 2009, UK-based Circtec utilizes pyrolysis technology to recycle waste into renewable fuels and circular chemicals.

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Waste Manufacturing 110

Sustainability Matters

MAY 6, 2024

We’re delighted to be involved in this fantastic recycling initiative and to be reducing waste from our hospitals,” Nelson said. It’s a large-volume waste product across the whole healthcare industry. The IV bag recycling is just one of Southern Cross Healthcare’s recycling initiatives.

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Waste 52

Corporate Knights

JUNE 1, 2023

A world without unnecessary disposable plastic, where cities harvest heat from the earth, and where waste from food, farms and landfills is up-cycled into clean-burning biogas. s CheckSammy Technologies, which offers business customers proprietary systems for mastering their junk removal, recycling and waste-management challenges.

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Waste Development Manufacturing Decarbonize 293

Impact Alpha

DECEMBER 12, 2019

12 – Greentech, founded in 2009, has helped Macquarie Group, Goldman Sachs and others buy and sell wind and solar farms and other green infrastructure projects. “We ImpactAlpha, Dec.

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Banking Waste 72

ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Biomethane is produced from organic waste, such as agricultural, industrial, and household wastes, and is chemically identical to fossil-based natural gas, enabling it to support the decarbonization of hard-to-abate sectors such as road transport and heavy industry, without needing to replace existing transmission and distribution infrastructure.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Storage forms one of the major building blocks for the rapidly expanding clean energy transition, given the intermittent generating nature of many sources of renewable energy, such as wind and solar, and the need to satisfy round-the-clock energy demand, while ensuring that energy is not wasted. billion by 2030.

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Climate Positive Decarbonize Waste 123

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Growing interest in environmental issues is putting pressure on the construction sector to move towards a circular economy with greater emphasis on the sustainable recovery of waste materials. Carla Eslava, Manager of the Recofloor commercial waste vinyl flooring collection scheme, discusses the issues and offers some solutions.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 12, 2023

4 Practices include hand hygiene, personal protective equipment (PPE), environmental cleaning, and appropriate waste disposal. link] 5 WHO (2009) WHO guidelines on hand hygiene in health care [link] 6 CDC (2020). More than 70% of bacteria causing HAIs are resistant to at least one of the drugs most commonly used to treat them.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

South can be traced back to 2009, when wood pellets were touted as a “transition fuel” that could be used to advance the EU's climate goals — a 20 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 levels, and a 20 percent increase in renewable energy by 2020. “As The rise of the wood pellet industry in the U.S.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Reducing 20,488 pounds of CO2 emissions from e-waste and recycling initiatives. In recognition of its responsibly designed products, Oportun has been certified as a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) since 2009. Reducing our carbon footprint by purchasing 7,240 tonnes of carbon offsets.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Using a zero-waste process with a minimal carbon footprint, Kelly Green Board uses every part of the carton, including caps and straws, and is made without water, formaldehyde glues or hazardous chemicals. Using a zero-waste and zero-water-process with a miniature carbon footprint.

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Manufacturing Waste Development 147

ESG Today

MAY 23, 2024

The concept of planetary boundaries, delineating delineates the safe operating space for humanity within Earth’s ecological limits, was developed by the Stockholm Resilience Centre in 2009.

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Regenerative Climate Change Waste Development 104

Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Carpet waste is a huge issue in UK, as an area the size of Birmingham is thrown away every year. Carpet Recycling UK, a trade association set up to encourage carpet recycling, oversees 73% of diverted carpet waste being sent to incineration at an approximate climate cost of £16.5 Less than 2% of carpet waste is actually recycled.

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Waste Greenwashing 98

Envirotec Magazine

MAY 2, 2024

“People were willing to compost garden waste if they were given the bins to do so.” Most organic household waste ends up in landfills where it generates methane. Composting food and garden waste can significantly reduce these emissions. “As People were willing to compost garden waste if they were given the bins to do so.

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Waste 59

Corporate Knights

JULY 25, 2023

In background briefings, officials said the announcement makes Canada the first of the world’s wealthiest countries to publish a detailed implementation plan for a pledge that was first announced at the G20 leaders’ summit in Pittsburgh in 2009.

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Paris Agreement Bend the Curve Carbon Offsets Stranded Assets 246

3BL Media

AUGUST 25, 2022

If you already recycle, you’re playing a critical role in reducing waste in your area. In fact, access to residential recycling programs has increased by 240% since 2009, when the Carton Council was formed. DESCRIPTION: You make recycling possible. Without consumer participation, recycling programs can’t function. Today, most U.S.

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ESG Today

JUNE 28, 2022

Founded in 2009 by Christoph Gebald and Jan Wurzbacher, Climeworks has emerged as the leading DAC provider, with Mammoth representing its 18 th project to date. Climeworks’ direct air capture machines are powered solely by renewable energy or energy-from-waste.

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Net Zero Climate Change Waste 109

ESG Today

JUNE 1, 2023

Founded in 2009, Utah-based CleanJoule has developed a proprietary process to manufacture SAF as well as renewable bio-polymer for consumer and commercial products from biomass such as agricultural residues. Three airlines participated in the funding round, including Frontier Airlines, Wizz Air, and Volaris.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 17, 2024

From 2009 to 2020, Sofidel reduced direct CO₂ emissions ( carbon intensity ) into the atmosphere by 24%. The Group’s aim by 2030 is a further 40% reduction in scope 1 and scope 2 CO 2 emissions compared to the 2018 base year, and a 24% reduction in scope 3 emissions.

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Net Zero Supply Chain Supply Chains Manufacturing 147

Corporate Knights

JUNE 27, 2023

When she walked out that day in 2009, she wasn’t sure she still wanted to be an accountant. Chauvin framed the most urgent issues facing the planet – climate change, waste, pollution, slave and child labour – as accounting failures. The professor – one Louis Chauvin – was a standout in McGill’s Desautels Faculty of Management.

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Net Zero Triple Bottom Line Corporate Social Responsibility Sustainable Investment 261

3BL Media

MARCH 8, 2024

Cabot farmers produce the high-quality milk used in the company’s products; and the inedible processing waste is then sent back to the farms as feedstock for Farm Powered® anaerobic digesters. This is a wonderful example of our farms and our manufacturing facilities cooperating to create award-winning, closed-loop solutions.”

Climate Change 147

Climate Change Regenerative Waste Development 147

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

It takes waste grease and oils from local businesses and its partner Neste converts them to renewable diesel, which then powers many of Oakland's trucks. Its goals are to reduce its fleet's energy consumption by 35 percent below 2009 levels by 2025 and 60 percent by 2040. . VTA closely tracks its energy use for its fleet.

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Smart Grid Net Zero Supply Chain Supply Chains 545

3BL Media

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Lenovo has been measuring its emissions since forming its first emissions reduction goals in 2009/10, which it met and exceeded in 2020. More than 50 million tons of electronic waste is produced every year, according to the United Nations , enough to cover Manhattan in discarded circuitry. Raising standards.

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Net Zero Manufacturing Climate Change Development 130

3BL Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Since 2009, SAP has been on a sustainability journey with the objective to create positive economic, environmental, and social impact within planetary boundaries. As a global technology company supporting the vast majority of the world’s business, SAP needs to lead from the front with our ambitions and actions.

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Net Zero Greenhouse Gas Protocol CDP Global Economy 147

3BL Media

MAY 23, 2022

SaLisa Berrien is the founder and CEO of COI Energy , which offers an integrated artificial intelligence platform for businesses to eliminate energy waste, save on energy costs and protect the environment. Supporting Sustainability Firm-Wide. Supporting and investing in companies like Rheaply is nothing new for Morgan Stanley.

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