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The secret to fixing fast fashion’s waste problem

Corporate Knights

Earlier this year, fast fashion retailer Zara released its first womenswear collection made of recycled poly-cotton textile waste. The collection is available for sale in 11 countries, helping clothing made of blended textile waste reach the mass market. This is often referred to as waste colonialism.

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Demo plant produces industrial sugars from mixed household waste fractions

Envirotec Magazine

A UK-based demonstration plant that generates industrial biotechnology sugars and other recycled material streams from the paper and card in mixed household waste has come online in May 2022. The products will be used in the production of several high-performance bio-based materials. Watch this space!”.

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CSIRO gathers innovators to tackle plastic waste

Sustainability Matters

The rate of plastic production has grown faster than any other material since the 1970s, making plastic waste an urgent global concern. Currently, about 400 million tonnes of plastic waste are produced every year. Plastic waste flows into riverways and oceans, with an estimated 11 million tonnes of plastic on the ocean floor.

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Intersight Workload Optimizer: How to get smarter with AppDynamics

Cisco CSR

Figure 9 shows an example of how IWO detects a situation with an “underutilized heap” within a JVM and recommends a downsize action to reclaim memory resources that would otherwise be wasted. Check out a demo of any number of FSO use cases today and reach out to your Cisco sales professional to learn more. Cisco Thousand Eyes.

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Modernizing Dairy Farming in India

3BL Media

The project, which began in May 2023, has already yielded promising results. In a recent field visit to Antargaon, progress was shared with local dairy farmers through an interactive session.

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Automated waste/carbon reporting — for all applications

Sustainability Matters

In a world first, Australian tech company, Matter is bringing app-based waste management to our homes and offices providing real-time data and waste/carbon monitoring. There are many waste streams but food waste is one of our biggest challenges. tonnes of food was wasted across the farm-to-fork supply chain; and.

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Passing the Torch to Future Tech Leaders

3BL Media

Students started the day with a campus tour and product experience demo, followed by a panel discussion at LIFT Labs, our hub for entrepreneurship and innovation inside the Comcast Technology Center.