3BL Media

JANUARY 21, 2025

Packaging is a ubiquitous aspect of healthcare treatments and while hospitals and their staff often share a strong purpose to address packaging waste, the challenge is significant. Realizing the economic value of this waste will help drive change and enhance recycling efforts.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 17, 2024

In addition, we have implemented programs to reduce the waste we generate. We also continued to conserve and optimize energy usage at our facilities using enterprise-wide operational best practices we developed in 2022. We continue to assess and explore innovations in waste management to reduce our environmental impact. "We

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 6, 2021

Waste: an environmental justice issue we should be talking about. For nearly two decades, Flowers, a recent awardee of the MacArthur Foundation "genius grant ," has been bringing attention to failing water and waste sanitation infrastructure in rural areas. We could develop a vaccine for the coronavirus in less than a year.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 11, 2024

A technology that converts low-temperature waste heat into electricity has earned the Institute of Physics (IOP) Business Innovation Award for FeTu, the Elland-based green energy business behind the approach. Businesses can use FeTus online calculator to evaluate their own waste-heat-to-electricity case at h2p.co.uk

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Environmental NGO WRAP is using COP29 to highlight the need for countries to include food loss and waste in their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). A new report shows that, of the 195 countries attending COP29, only 12 have committed to reducing food waste and just 17 to tackling food loss.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The Ellen MacArthur Foundation highlights how applying circular economy principles to the way we make and use products can not only create value, but also significantly reduce global emissions: 4 • By eliminating waste and pollution, we reduce greenhouse gas emissions across the value chain • By circulating products and materials, we retain their embodied (..)

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Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Waste has always been inflicted upon the margins,” said Oliver Franklin-Wallis, author of the new book Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future. Waste, he writes, is often exported from rich countries to poor ones, a phenomenon known as “toxic colonialism.” “Too

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Renew Economy

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Australia has a long history of attempts to develop technical standards for smart distributed energy resources. The post We have wasted years trying to set standards for distributed energy appeared first on RenewEconomy. We have no more time to lose.

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3BL Media

APRIL 30, 2024

Vision is to recover polyethylene from hard-to-recycle waste for reuse in consumer packaging. and CINCINNATI, April 30, 2024 /3BL/ - Dow (NYSE: DOW) and the Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE: PG) announced a joint development agreement (JDA) to create a new recycling technology. MIDLAND, Mich.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Painting operations also contribute to water and chemical waste and increased electricity and gas usage. Additionally, roadmaps are being developed for facilities with high VOC emissions which will lay out a path to reach our target. What is Cummins doing about VOC emissions? Over 70% of Cummins Inc.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

8, 2022, that should help further the growth and development of its connected device platform. Apkudo announced a $14.4 million growth funding round on Feb.

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James Militzer

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

This is especially relevant for the waste management sector , which is further burdened by negative connotations associated with being a garbage collector or working for a garbage collection company. Located in Nairobi, Junky Bins aims to mitigate environmental pollution and disease while fostering employment.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

As Workforce Development Manager, Hamilton will reinforce Veolias commitment to grow the local water workforce, increase the pool of diverse talent, and address workforce challenges in the water sector. Veolia has demonstrated a commitment to investing in Milwaukee and building innovative workforce development strategies.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 22, 2021

I also have observed firsthand how technology-driven innovation is disrupting the traditional grocery supply chain, opening new doors to reducing food waste and helping the world to think differently about how we source food. For meal kits, packaging waste was one of those unintended consequences. Why not the grocery model?

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

million in a seed financing round, with proceeds aimed at commercializing its low-energy and low-cost solution to upcycle plastic waste for re-use. Key barriers to increasing plastic recycling include waste contamination and intense energy usage. Plastic production and disposal constitute more than 5% of global CO2 emissions.

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GreenBiz

JULY 15, 2020

Early pioneers of these hydrogen-from-waste technologies such as Ways2H, SGH2 Energy (SGH2) and Standard Hydrogen say not only are they making carbon-free, energy-rich fuel, their approaches also will divert mountains of trash from landfills and waterways, cutting greenhouse gas emissions. . Arlene Karidis. Wed, 07/15/2020 - 01:00.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Self-healing asphalt roads, made from biomass waste and designed with the help of artificial intelligence (AI), could offer a promising solution to the UK’s pothole problem, which is estimated to cost 143.5 We are proud to be advancing the development of self-healing asphalt using biomass waste and artificial intelligence.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 9, 2025

Renewables developer Dark Green Group has said it plans to be the first company in the UK to build a fleet of anaerobic digestion (AD) plants in urban locations. All the developments will include heat, power and hydrogen production. Our solution is a leading example of the circular economy. Charlie Clay, CEO of Dark Green Group.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Notably, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development released the Circular Transition Indicators and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation launched the Circulytics tool; GRI established a new standard on waste ; and the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute released the fourth version of its product standard.

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GreenBiz

MAY 24, 2021

Energy and materials elegantly flow through ecosystems, efficiently cycling back into new forms without waste or stagnation. A circular economy is so much more than recycling or reusing waste streams, which is a reductionist understanding of what nature does. The competition and accelerator is organized by the Biomimicry Institute. (I

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GreenBiz

MAY 12, 2020

Consider that the cosmetics industry brings in a booming $500 billion every year and imagine the waste created by default. As businesses, we can manufacture and sell products with no packaging, create closed-loop recycling systems and collaborate with suppliers to create innovative solutions for reducing waste — all while thriving.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 31, 2020

The early-stage company, based in New York, focuses on the $16 billion children’s clothing market, which, like the entire apparel space, suffers from a significant amount of waste. The startup Infinity Goods has created a zero-waste grocery delivery service in Denver, Colorado, with plans to expand soon. Infinity Goods.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 3, 2021

Textiles and the fashion industry account for about 20 percent of global wastewater pollution, 10 percent of global carbon emissions and 17 million tons of municipal solid waste. The largest source of textiles in municipal solid waste is discarded clothing. Close Authorship. Lizee customer environmental performance dashboard.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

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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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Biomass carbon removal and storage (BiCRS) startup Vaulted Deep announced that it has raised $32 million in a Series A funding round, with proceeds aimed at expanding its capacity to deliver durable carbon dioxide removal (CDR) through the geologic sequestration of carbon-filled organic waste. facility, Monarch Fields.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 29, 2021

While the Basel Convention criminalized transboundary movement of hazardous waste (of which most electronics are classified) to limit some human health implications of electronics waste streams, plastic waste is another story, only recently having been included in the convention.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

recycling system had been a mess for far longer — seeing as the country never fully developed the infrastructure to recycle anywhere near the amount of plastic waste it produces. In the first six months to one year, developing a roadmap will be the top priority for the project. "So Of course, the U.S. Indeed, only 8.4

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Renew Economy

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Victoria’s Labor government launches call for innovators to develop news ways of recycling solar panels with $10 million Solar Waste Challenge. The post Victoria launches push for new solar panel recycling options appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Theyre taking measures such as cutting back on greenhouse gas emissions, keeping their waste streams out of landfills or adopting water recycling technologies. As a global leader in sustainable energy, waste and water operations with decades of experience, we work directly with our customers to achieve these triple net zero goals.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Back in 2017, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation tapped on large brands such as Burberry, Gap and H&M to make fashion circular — ensuring that clothes are made from safe and renewable materials, establishing new business models to increase their use and developing systems that would enable more old clothes to be turned into new garments.

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Science Daily / Earth & Environment

JANUARY 2, 2025

A research team has developed a method for extracting gold from electronics waste, then using the recovered precious metal as a catalyst for converting carbon dioxide (CO2), a greenhouse gas, to organic materials.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 29, 2024

For example, plastics are the building blocks for packaging that prevents food waste and its associated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions ― already estimated at 6% of global GHG emissions.* For context, our German asset will have the potential to convert the hard-to-recycle plastic waste of 1.2

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GreenBiz

APRIL 9, 2021

Currently, five golf organizations have joined: the United States Golf Association (USGA); Waste Management Phoenix Open; The International Golf Federation; World Minigolf Federation; and Sentosa Golf Club in Singapore. Golf is making strides both on social and environmental impact. Particularly, Laguna L?ng In the U.S.,

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Renew Economy

MARCH 21, 2024

A vast source NT gas up for development could waste billions of taxpayer and investor dollars by being unable to compete with a "glut" of foreign LNG. The post Beetaloo gas a “massive sinkhole” for taxpayers, investors appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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GreenBiz

MAY 9, 2022

Landfills across the country are rapidly reaching capacity, and it is therefore more important than ever that we remain mindful of how we dispose of our waste. The journey to zero waste will be defined by steady progress, not instant perfection. Businesses and governments cannot achieve zero waste overnight.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 16, 2025

According to Ingka Group, the new initiative is aimed at supporting the transition to a circular economy, with the company noting that the global economy consumes 75% more natural resources than the Earth can regenerate, while less than 20% of waste is recycled.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 24, 2022

Much of the eight million tonnes of COVID-related trash churned out globally in the first two years of the pandemic was medical waste, but in the sweatpants-clad blur of back-to-back lockdowns, there was also a sharp rise in the single-use plastics involved in getting burrito bowls, groceries and all-things-Amazon delivered to our front doors. .

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