Is advanced recycling the answer to plastic waste?
GreenBiz
AUGUST 1, 2022
Waste into materials not just once but continuously: It’s the brass ring of the circular economy. Can it work?
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Circular economics and the $57B e-waste opportunity
GreenBiz
JULY 12, 2021
Circular economics and the $57B e-waste opportunity. The plastic waste problem gets plenty of attention, and for good reason: If we continue mismanaging this material as usual, there could be 7.7 Just as stunning: Plastic isn't the fastest growing waste stream the world needs to deal with. . Heather Clancy.
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Cisco's Sustainability 101: What Is E-Waste?
3BL Media
DECEMBER 6, 2024
Instead of helping you listen to music, they have now become what is sometimes referred to as e-waste. The European Commission explains that E-waste contains a complex mixture of materials, some of which are hazardous. These can be recycled and re-used if the waste is effectively managed. How much e-waste is there?
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HPRC Publishes Final White Paper on Advanced Recycling for Plastic Hospital Waste
3BL Media
APRIL 9, 2025
April 9, 2025 /3BL/ - The Healthcare Plastics Recycling Council (HPRC) announces the completion of its groundbreaking multi-year project on the advanced recycling of hospital waste. Advanced recycling technologies can successfully convert hospital waste into valuable products, supporting a circular economy in healthcare.
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How to Drive Cost Savings, Efficiency Gains, and Sustainability Wins with MES
Speaker: Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions
A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) could be the game-changer, helping you reduce waste, cut costs, and lower your carbon footprint. Is your manufacturing operation reaching its efficiency potential?
Anaerobic digestion: Turning America’s food waste into RNG
GreenBiz
APRIL 4, 2022
Sponsored: Anaerobic digestion is an eco-friendly waste management solution, producing renewable energy and healthy soils. How can this technology grow in the United States?
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Hospitals have a medical waste problem. Bioplastics offer a solution.
Corporate Knights
MARCH 14, 2025
Hospitals around the world generate millions of tonnes of plastic waste annually. Much of this waste comes from single-use items such as face masks, surgical gloves, syringes, IV tubes and sterile packaging materials. Incinerating plastic medical waste also releases harmful chemicals into the atmosphere.
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Nuclear waste management could add billions to electricity supply costs
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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Clorox’s Martinsburg Plant Achieves Zero Waste to Landfill
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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Can Healthcare Plastic Packaging Waste Be Effectively Collected and Sorted?
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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Four global policies could eliminate more than 90% of plastic waste and 30% of linked carbon emissions by 2050
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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The circular economy is about avoiding waste and fixing broken value systems
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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Driving Zero Waste: Lenovo Targets 90% Recovery of Non-Hazardous Waste and Ensures Safe Disposal of Hazardous Materials
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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Hazardous Waste and Environmental Racism: A Toxic Legacy of Inequality
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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Germany may take another 50 years to find final repository for waste from shuttered nuclear power
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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Quest Diagnostics Advances Environmental Stewardship With Renewable Energy Initiatives, Waste Reduction, and ISO 14001 Certifications in 2023
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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Two Dell Technologies Forum Events 2024 Achieve Zero Waste Event Certification From SCS Global Services
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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Food waste contributes 10% to global emissions but 9 out of 10 countries’ NDCs fail to focus on food waste and loss
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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Method can detect harmful salts forming in nuclear waste melters
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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Households waste over one billion items every year that could be recycled
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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How to stop wasting cheap renewables – and drive a faster transition
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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Nearly 75% of Americans Can Recycle Pizza Boxes—Let’s Spread the Word and Reduce Waste Together!
3BL Media
APRIL 10, 2025
However, a large part of the population isn't aware of this very simple opportunity to reduce waste. Pizza Hut Did you know that nearly 75% of people in the U.S. have access to recycling used pizza boxes in their local community? Want to be part of the solution?
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Australia’s rooftop solar waste problem is hurtling towards 1.2 gigawatts a year
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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EU project aims to separate and recycle nuclear waste
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 14, 2025
Is permanent storage the only strategy for dealing with nuclear waste? With the aid of new EU funding, a new project aims to investigate the options for recycling some elements of nuclear waste using novel separation techniques. In order to recycle waste, it has to be separated. It appears not. For the next three years, 2.3
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This talk of nuclear is a waste of time: Wind, solar and firming can clearly do the job
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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Too slow and too risky, and waste won’t fit in a coke can – engineers debunk Coalition nuclear plan
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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Packaging Waste and the Need for Sustainable Improvement
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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Institute of Physics awards ‘revolutionary’ waste heat-to-electricity technology
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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No Time To Waste for Women To Shape a Better World
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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Should we worry about wasting renewables? Here’s why “spilling” excess power is expected – and efficient
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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A cleaner future for tires: Scientists pioneer chemical process to repurpose rubber waste
Science Daily / Earth & Environment
MARCH 26, 2025
A study has now pioneered a technique for breaking down this rubber waste and transforming it into valuable precursors for epoxy resins. This technique offers an innovative and sustainable alternative to traditional recycling methods while significantly reducing rubber waste in landfills.
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What To Do With the Waste?
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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Progress With Plastics for Boston’s Biotech Labs
3BL Media
APRIL 4, 2025
Traditionally, much of this material has ended up in landfills, contributing to broader waste management issues. But a recent partnership in Massachusetts aims to address the challenge of plastic waste management in laboratories. According to research from the University of Exeter, UK, approximately 5.5
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The National Park Foundation and Subaru of America Celebrate Waste Reduction Efforts in National Parks
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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Disrupting Waste Management in Emerging Markets: Four Lessons for Strengthening Businesses While Empowering Women and Communities
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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Most companies are fumbling their 2025 plastic waste targets
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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Snowy Hydro-worth of solar and wind wasted in 2024, as curtailment continues to bite
Renew Economy
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
The post Snowy Hydro-worth of solar and wind wasted in 2024, as curtailment continues to bite appeared first on RenewEconomy. New data reveals that the total amount of large-scale solar and wind curtailment in 2024 was equivalent to the annual output of the original Snowy Hydro scheme.
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Solar giants produce more useful energy than Big Oil, and fossil fuel spending is going to waste
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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Veolia and Tampa Bay Water Bring Major Expansion to Regional Water Supply
3BL Media
APRIL 15, 2025
The expansion project exemplifies the goals of Veolias global GreenUp strategy, which strives to lead the ecological transformation of the planet by accelerating water quality improvement, hazardous waste treatment and disposal, decarbonization and technological innovation. billion euros in 2024. billion euros in 2024.
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Cleantech Startup MacroCycle Raises $6.5 Million to “Upcycle” Plastic Waste into New Products
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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Understanding VOC Emissions: Importance of Reduction and Cummins’ Progress
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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Australian Open exceeds single-use waste reduction targets
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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HelloFresh would like to clear the air on meal kits
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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Green chemistry turns waste CO2 into amino acids
Sustainability Matters
APRIL 9, 2025
Researchers have devised a sustainable way of turning waste carbon dioxide into amino acids for humans, in a breakthrough that seeks to reduce carbon emissions and pave the way for green chemistry technologies across various industries.
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