GreenBiz

AUGUST 29, 2022

Sponsored: Pentair’s sustainable gas technology is helping partners across industry minimize waste and emissions to help achieve a carbon neutral future.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 17, 2023

In Minnesota alone, the value of metals and materials that could be mined from electronic waste has an estimated value of over $2.8 billion annually.

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Waste 399

3BL Media

MARCH 4, 2025

March 4, 2025 /3BL/ - SCS Global Services (SCS), a pioneer and international leader in third-party sustainability and environmental certifications, announces the first events certified under the SCS Zero Waste Standard two Dell Technologies Forum Events in India. These events met the requirements of the SCS Zero Waste Standard.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 14, 2025

Our Litter manufacturing facility in Martinsburg, West Virginia, recently achieved zero-waste-to-landfill, or ZWtL, status. How did you engage and motivate your team to adapt to waste-reducing practices? Were there any unique challenges this team faced during the transition to zero waste to landfill?

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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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Science Daily / Earth & Environment

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

A new study determines that just four policies can reduce mismanaged plastic waste -- plastic that isn't recycled or properly disposed of and ends up as pollution -- by 91% and plastic-related greenhouse gasses by one-third.

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Waste 121

GreenBiz

JUNE 9, 2023

Nearly all companies and organizations have contributed to the ever-expanding mess of extraction, waste, soil degradation, environmental racism and social injustice all in the name of growth at any cost.

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Waste 400

3BL Media

JANUARY 21, 2025

Originally published in Lenovo's 2023/24 ESG Report Lenovos day-to-day operation around the globe generates non-hazardous waste and minimal quantities of hazardous waste. In this system, environmental focal points at its sites collect and upload monthly waste data from measured data when feasible or calculations based on measured data.

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Renew Economy

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Handling and storing nuclear waste could add significant costs to Australia's future energy bills, an inquiry has heard. The post Nuclear waste management could add billions to electricity supply costs appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Waste 323

Green Project Management

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Environmental Racism: The Toxic Legacy We Can’t Ignore It’s time to call it like it is: the intersection of hazardous waste disposal and environmental racism is a crisis that has been allowed to fester in the shadows for far too long. I’m not sugarcoating this.

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Waste 26

Renew Economy

AUGUST 8, 2024

Experts say it could be more than 100 years before Germany finds a final repository for its highly radioactive waste from nuclear power, and then builds it and transports it to the site. The post Germany may take another 50 years to find final repository for waste from shuttered nuclear power appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 17, 2024

In addition, we have implemented programs to reduce the waste we generate. REDUCING AND ELIMINATING WASTE We have a multi-pronged approach to reduce waste generated and minimize waste to landfill. Quest implemented new programs to reduce waste generation, reuse materials where possible, and maximize recycling efforts.

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Renew Economy

MARCH 25, 2024

Australia's solar waste problem is arriving quicker than thought, with volumes of discarded panels expected to be equivalent to 1.2GW a year by 2030. The post Australia’s rooftop solar waste problem is hurtling towards 1.2 gigawatts a year appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Waste 333

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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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The UK’s annual Recycle Week launches today (15 October) with a warning that households are wasting over one billion items every year that could be recycled. In 2022, UK households produced 25,691,000 tonnes of waste of which 11,330,000 (44.1%) was recycled. Recycling is key to how the UK will move to a zero-waste circular economy.

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Science Daily / Earth & Environment

JANUARY 7, 2025

A new way to identify salts in nuclear waste melters could help improve clean-up technology, including at the Hanford Site, one of the largest, most complex nuclear waste clean-up sites in the world. The formation of salts can be problematic for waste processing and storage.

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Waste 110

Renew Economy

APRIL 5, 2023

The post Australia’s hydrogen “superpower” dream could be massive waste of money, says Griffith appeared first on RenewEconomy. Rewiring Australia's Saul Griffith tells government putting hydrogen at the centre of Australia's energy future makes no economic or thermodynamic sense.

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3BL Media

MARCH 19, 2025

Amys experience proved part of a pattern that Ive since observed across the financial industry : Many women seem to behave as though they dont have time to waste, and this leads to better relationships, greater excellence at work, and ultimately, greater positive impact on real humans.

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Waste 147

Renew Economy

DECEMBER 29, 2024

The post This talk of nuclear is a waste of time: Wind, solar and firming can clearly do the job appeared first on RenewEconomy. Australias economic future would be at risk if we stop wind and solar to build nuclear: Big industries would have to close and the risk of blackouts would be significant.

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Waste 363

Renew Economy

JULY 23, 2024

The post Too slow and too risky, and waste won’t fit in a coke can – engineers debunk Coalition nuclear plan appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Waste 363

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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Renew Economy

JANUARY 7, 2024

The post How to stop wasting cheap renewables – and drive a faster transition appeared first on RenewEconomy. The path to 100% renewables is charted. How quickly we get there depends on how we price surplus wind and solar and who controls demand management.

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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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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

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Coach’s SVP of Global Marketing and Sustainability, Joon Silverstein, was invited by TED Conferences to speak on the innovative work Coachtopia is doing to reimagine waste and its role in shaping human progress. The TED Talk explored how changing our understanding of waste can lead to a more circular future in fashion.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Originally published on The National Park Foundation The National Park Foundation (NPF) and Subaru of America are celebrating 11 years of partnership and nearly a decade of collaboration to address waste reduction and support public awareness efforts in national parks through the Don’t Feed the Landfills initiative.

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Waste Manufacturing 130

Sustainability Matters

MARCH 2, 2025

Single-use waste reduction targets have been exceeded at this year's Australian Open, with Tennis Australia's projection of 100,000reusable items washed increased by almost 37,000. The reusable bettercups will also be repurposed for other events across Victoria, providing a long-term solution to waste reduction." Image: Supplied.

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Waste 84

3BL Media

MARCH 5, 2024

Whirlpool Corporation is helping extend appliance lifespans and minimize waste. 13 Refurbishment Centers, Countless Transformations! Discover the refurbishment journey where appliances and parts find new purpose.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The world is off track to tackle plastic pollution. Here's what business must do now, according to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.

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Waste 435

Renew Economy

JUNE 26, 2024

The post Solar giants produce more useful energy than Big Oil, and fossil fuel spending is going to waste appeared first on RenewEconomy. The world's biggest solar panel makers now produce vastly more useful energy than Big Oil.

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Waste 279

3BL Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Painting operations also contribute to water and chemical waste and increased electricity and gas usage. By eliminating paint from these engines, the site was also able to reduce the energy, waste and water associated with the painting process. What is Cummins doing about VOC emissions? Over 70% of Cummins Inc.

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Renew Economy

JUNE 4, 2024

At face value, energy "spilling" seems like a terrible waste of solar and wind, especially in light of the pressing need to reduce emissions. The post Should we worry about wasting renewables? But the story is more complex. Here’s why “spilling” excess power is expected – and efficient appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Waste 235

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

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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3BL Media

APRIL 23, 2024

“We only have One Planet, and right now that planet is overwhelmed with plastic and packaging waste. This year’s Earth Day theme of ‘Planet vs. Plastics’ was a perfect opportunity to highlight how we are working with our suppliers and customers to reduce plastics and packaging waste,” said Neil Russell, Sysco’s Chief Administrative Officer.

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Waste Supply Chains Supply Chain 282

GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Vaulted Deep, backed with $8 million led by Lowercarbon Capital, is one of about a dozen startups to receive carbon removal contracts through the Frontier buying group.

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Waste 387

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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