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. This showcases the importance of anaerobic digestion (AD) as a vital player in addressing the Climate Emergency.

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Sustainability Matters

MARCH 23, 2025

The Politecnico di Milano, coordinator of the Waste Oils RecycLe and Development (WORLD) project, proposes a circular and sustainable process to turn used vegetable oil into a valuable resource. Vegetable oil is used widely around the world, and cooking and food preservation is said to generate ahuge amount of waste oil.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 29, 2022

In 2007, Benedek left his academic job and founded Anaergia, which converts organic food waste into biofuels, such as renewable natural gas. Benedek hopes that things won’t get to that point and that his current company, Anaergia, can be part of the solution in weaning the world off fossil fuels.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Theres no time to waste. Cascale unites over 300 retailers, brands, manufacturers, governments, academics, and NGO/nonprofit affiliates around the globe through one singular vision: To catalyze impact at scale and give back more than we take to the planet and its people.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Her passion transitioned into an academic pursuit during her college years at the University of California, Santa Cruz. "I This academic curiosity led her to earn a Bachelor of Science degree in Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences. I loved being out in nature."

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Waste concrete from demolished buildings is to be reinvented and made into new custom-made outdoor memorials and public garden furniture with the help of 3D printing, in a new £6m project. The post Waste concrete to be repurposed into public furniture using additive manufacturing first appeared on Envirotec. Concrete 3D printing.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

With the United States moving toward an ambitious goal of halving food waste by 2030, a new $15 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) will be used to establish the first national academic research network on wasted food in the United States. Read the full story from the Rochester Institute of Technology.

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Environmental News Bits

JULY 22, 2022

Academics from the Universities of Oxford and Cardiff are working alongside CarbonMeta Technologies to turn plastic waste into clean hydrogen fuel and high-value carbon nanomaterials. Read the full story at Resource.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 11, 2021

Yet, there has been little consistency in corporate disclosures as adoption rates varied and as the focus deepened on easier quantified risks that have felt more urgent and actionable: greenhouse gas emissions; waste to landfill; diverse hiring/retention; etc.

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

Last week, a group of activists, scientists, academics and others issued a report calling for policies and other initiatives to generate prosperity while addressing inequity and the climate crisis. How a Blue New Deal charts a course for a sustainable sea change. Joel Makower. Mon, 07/20/2020 - 02:11. They called it the Blue New Deal.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Enhanced and expanded sustainability solutions with a focus on energy, water, and waste to help Rockwell customers achieve their sustainability goals. Use of Rockwell technologies and expertise to drive sustainable innovations in vital industries including solar, steel, and packaging.

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3BL Media

JUNE 13, 2024

Many people understand it’s irresponsible to waste products and see the value in repurposing materials when they have reached end of use. Circularity is simply renewing or regenerating products rather than wasting and discarding them. This is why the concept of recycling is attractive to most consumers.

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Corporate Knights

AUGUST 23, 2024

As outlined by academic Ian Urquhart earlier this year, the government’s seven-month moratorium banned all new projects under the rationale they threatened the province’s best agricultural lands and “Alberta’s pristine landscapes.” Abandonment is not an option Abandoning exhausted energy sites is wasteful, unnecessary and costly.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Until recently, ocean sequestration, also known as blue carbon, attracted little attention outside academic and think-tank circles. The Planetary Hydrogen team adds a mineral salt to the process, leading to the creation of a waste product — a mineral hydroxide — that binds with atmospheric carbon dioxide.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 9, 2023

To echo Winston Churchill’s words from the Second World War : we cannot “let a good crisis go to waste.” We will waste the COVID-19 crisis if we don’t address the inequalities — specifically the gender inequalities — the pandemic both exacerbated and revealed. It also made women’s unpaid work more visible than it had ever been before.

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 20, 2021

University of Michigan leads a collaboration of academic, municipal and private institutions to advance a renewable methane system. Read the full story from the University of Michigan. Read more →

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Until recently, ocean sequestration, also known as blue carbon, attracted little attention outside academic and think-tank circles. The Planetary Hydrogen team adds a mineral salt to the process, leading to the creation of a waste product — a mineral hydroxide — that binds with atmospheric carbon dioxide.

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Corporate Knights

AUGUST 23, 2022

Beginning in the mid-2010s, citizens groups, entrepreneurs and academic institutions pushed Dutch policy-makers and companies to swap out the top-down approach in favour of a more grass-roots philosophy that features extensive public engagement, citizen-science projects and applied research. . used toilet paper).

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

It has also enhanced sustainability – the fused deposition technology (FDM) used in the 3D printer reduces waste, thereby reducing costs. The Training and Innovation Center located at the Cordoba site opened in 2019, and to date, more than 11,000 technicians have passed through its doors.

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3BL Media

APRIL 22, 2024

Circular transformation Circular transformation means designing waste out of our business, and transitioning from an economy that extracts resources and eventually wastes them, to a circular one which finds new uses for products and their materials. Gaucalillo is a coastal community located in one of the poorest areas of the country.

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3BL Media

APRIL 27, 2022

Collaborating up and down the supply chain, with customers, suppliers, communities, academics, policy makers, government entities, and other organizations. Take-back models encourage manufacturers to accept responsibility for downstream waste from customers using their products.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

End-of-Life Management: A significant concern in the plastics industry is the growing amount of plastic waste. Plastic waste accumulation has been growing rapidly over the last several decades, and consequently, so has the need to address and manage this waste. So, what can be done to combat this problem?

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The materials ecosystem around plastic and renewable waste harnesses recycling technologies and circular solutions to recapture this value, thereby reducing landfill, incineration, and environmental leakage. The MRF aims to manage waste, used plastic packaging, and discarded materials in Ban Chang, Rayong.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

A tweak to Ele.me’s interface cut single-use cutlery by 648% between 2019-2020: study Academics urge widespread adoption of such green nudges to reduce plastic waste Small lifestyle changes can make a big impact when adopted at scale. In 2021, more than 400 million metric tons of plastic waste were produced worldwide.

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3BL Media

JUNE 2, 2022

Located in Boston, BIDMC is one of the nation’s preeminent academic medical centers, committed to providing excellence in clinical care, research and community outreach. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is recognized for their achievements in sustainability and will make an excellent addition to our advisory board.”. About HPRC.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 12, 2021

Researchers from Coventry University are collaborating with Severn Trent and the Organics Group to turn sewage waste into a clean fuel for tankers and other vehicles. The project will look to capture waste ammonia from the utility’s sewage treatment facility and turn it into hydrogen.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

A new study attempts to shine a light on the enormous scale of uncollected rubbish and open burning of plastic waste in what’s described as the first ever global plastics pollution inventory. University of Leeds researchers used AI to model waste management in more than 50,000 municipalities around the world. Click to enlarge.

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3BL Media

MARCH 12, 2025

Specialized 3M adhesives are also enabling vehicle manufacturers to disassemble EV battery packs more efficiently, allowing them to reduce waste, enable repairs, and repurpose or recycle batteries. For example, 3M Glass Bubbles make composite materials lighter, which means cars built using them can be more efficient.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

A recent project blends leftover cooking oil, lamb fat and agricultural waste to develop a cleaner fuel for ships. The researchers – from Aston University – have blended mixed waste pellets with either used oil or animal fat to develop a form of energy which meets international marine fuel standards.

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Waste Academics Shipping Development 59

3BL Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

LCAs also provide the basis for estimating the positive impact of innovative products, materials, activities and processes that function with greater efficiency, provide increased benefits, and reduce wastes and adverse effects. The idea of Net Positive is conceptually simple,” said Gregory Norris, research scientist and MIT SHINE director.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 4, 2021

Research project to create new materials from recycling’s waste products. Heriot-Watt University has joined forces with Brewster Bros, a recycling business based in Livingston, to create new materials from the residual waste left over during the recycling process. Family-owned recycling business, Brewster Bros.

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

academics wasted… Read more → Yet throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, articles published in Chinese journals focusing on critical aspects of the disease were often never cited by English journals. As a result, U.S.

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3BL Media

MAY 23, 2022

Participants include the chief executives and chairs of WEF partner and member companies, political leaders and heads of international organizations, civil society representatives, academic experts, youth leaders and key figures from the worlds of art, culture, science and technology.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Through their volunteer efforts in Thailand, Team Dow is helping support the Company’s sustainability targets to protect the climate, transform plastic waste and close the recycling loop. For more than a decade, Dow Thailand volunteers have worked to protect the defenders of the coastline – mangrove trees.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 22, 2024

Veolia has also established teaming agreements with Delgado Community College and the Southern University System, one of the largest historically Black college and university systems in the nation, to create mutually beneficial partnerships that drive innovation, develop talent and maintain a network within the academic community.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 19, 2021

A coalition of industry and academic leaders has developed a new technology to enable circularity for thermoset composites, the material used to make wind turbine blades. CETEC is aiming to close this recycling gap and enable a significant step forward in the elimination of waste across the wind energy industry. “As

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Access to digital devices can be a real barrier to academic success for students locally, and as the area’s largest technology company, we want to help” says Angela Baker, Chief Sustainability Officer at Qualcomm. Additionally, it reduced hazardous waste by the weight of 3,613.50

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