Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 16, 2024

Perthshire waste management specialist Binn Group has successfully secured PAS 402 certification, and as the firm’s announcement adds, this makes it the only Scottish company to currently hold the quality standard for resource management sector operators. Binn Group is uniquely established as the pathfinder for the scheme in Scotland.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Throughout the eight-week project, the students created extraordinary and futuristic designs ranging from e-waste jewellery to acoustic panelling made from mycelium. Algae is a renewable resource and doesn’t rely on us producing more waste. To find out more visit  [link] ,and read about the latest news via our  StoryHub.

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Cisco CSR

AUGUST 24, 2022

From the technology we create to help reduce waste, to reducing the waste that our technology creates, it dramatically impacts how the environment responds and adapts. percent of e-waste is known to be collected and properly recycled. Technology plays a vital role in creating a more sustainable future.

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3BL Media

JULY 6, 2023

The GHG Protocol , introduced in 2001, is a widely used standard for sustainability reporting. Every year, approximately one-third of the edible food created is lost or wasted. Once food reaches the landfill, all the processes involved in its production, transportation, storage and more are also wasted.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 14, 2020

SAF can be made from a variety of materials and byproducts, from agricultural waste and specially grown crops to used oils, inedible fats and everyday household trash. The fuel will be produced by World Energy and made from agricultural waste fats and oils, such as used cooking oil and inedible fats from beef processing. “As

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3BL Media

JANUARY 23, 2024

Between 2001 and 2022, Leidos provided more than $1.5 tons of workplace furniture, fixtures, and equipment from landfills and diverted 283,104 pounds of electronics waste from landfills. In 2022, we managed $1.48 billion of support to clients across our environmental and energy markets, including nine federal agencies and all five U.S.

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 11, 2022

In the years leading up to its decommissioning, Enel signed contracts with local cement companies, agreeing to supply them with the plant’s gypsum and ash by-products, reducing both plant waste and the emissions generated in the procurement of those materials.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 27, 2023

Chauvin framed the most urgent issues facing the planet – climate change, waste, pollution, slave and child labour – as accounting failures. In 2001, armed with a master’s degree in environmental studies from the University of British Columbia, she began working for the newly formed Boston-based Global Reporting Initiative (GRI).

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3BL Media

JUNE 5, 2024

Even before the term “ESG” came into the limelight, we were actively investing in water conservation projects since 2001, measuring our GHG emissions since 2006, and reporting on our environmental efforts since 2004. The crux of my work involves optimizing our processes and integrating sustainability in our operations.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2022

While this is a lot of carbon, it is much lower than it was in 2001 – when we started monitoring our emissions. By developing and deploying a range of measures – including greater energy efficiency, avoiding waste and electrifying processes that currently use gas – it can be done. SKF’s global emissions are around 1.8 Factory output.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

on 11 September 2001. Part of the carbon emissions from the Olympic Winter Games Salt Lake City 2002 were offset, 85 per cent of Games-time waste was recycled or composted, and 100,000 trees were planted in the state of Utah. Salt Lake City 2002 helped to heal a nation reeling from the terrorist attack in the U.S.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2019

The same properties that make PFAS so effective in industrial processes and fire-fighting also make them extremely difficult to eliminate from the environment or waste material,” said Dr. Rachael Casson, AECOM’s director of the International PFAS Program. “To

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 15, 2021

Outside of specific legal requirements, such as the Control of Pollution (Oil Storage) Regulations 2001, there is not a single piece of overarching legislation dictating the various measures required to prevent and contain pollution across a site.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

To combat this issue, international agreements, such as the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, finalized in 2001, have been established to control and phase out the production and use of these hazardous chemicals. These chemicals have had unforeseen adverse effects, largely because of their non-biodegradability.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

8 Legislative landmarks In terms of international legislation, an important landmark is the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), adopted in 2001, and the first international attempt to regulate PFAS, beginning with PFOS in 2009 (later joined by PFOA in 2019 and PFHxS in 2022). 3] Press release.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Back in 2001, it cost a little over $1 million to sequence one genome. This would help deliver technologies like precision fertilizer applications, which could help reduce the amount of waste that’s being generated by using excessive fertilizer and prevent the amount of nutrient pollution in fresh waterways.

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Gail Tverberg

DECEMBER 3, 2021

It also has waste outputs. The waste outputs cannot become too significant, or they can lead the economy to fail. China had been able to boost the world’s per capita supply of inexpensive-to-produce energy by ramping up its coal production after it joined the World Trade Organization in 2001. Chart by Gail Tverberg.

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Sense and Sustainability

JULY 7, 2021

UNICEF said the 200 million hours women and girls spend each day collecting water is an enormous waste of their precious time. billion if a standard of US$2 a day is used (OECD 2001). In developing countries, women tend to work much longer hours than men. This figure rises to 2.8

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Gail Tverberg

MAY 21, 2024

Before China joined the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001, coal prices tended to be below $50 per ton (figure 3). Mining tends to produce a lot of toxic waste. Coal prices per ton, at a few sample locations, based on data shown in the 2023 Statistical Review of World Energy prepared by the Energy Institute.

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3BL Media

JUNE 26, 2024

Our top three companies in terms of numbers of certified programs are WM with 164 certified programs with Bucks County Land Fill, its longest continually certified program since 2001 and currently certified Gold, Constellation has 68 certified programs and Cemex coming close behind with 66 certified programs.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 3, 2022

And the good times extend to Mississauga, Ontario–based Li-Cycle, which recycles metals from electronic waste – including nickel, copper and cobalt, but especially the lithium ion in consumer and EV batteries. Its GlassLock process removes arsenic linked to metal mining and smelting, stabilizing it in a non-hazardous glass waste product.

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Gail Tverberg

MARCH 17, 2024

One interpretation might be that Advanced Economies are using energy products in a wasteful way, compared to Other than Advanced Economies. China was added to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in December 2001, allowing it to ramp up its manufacturing using coal. Such generation could be changed to natural gas, coal or nuclear.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

In Beck’s mind, too , forwarding-thinking companies should look at natural resources not just as consumables but as recyclable goods, and then design systems and products in a way that eliminates waste. Nearly a century ago, Ecolab sold dishwasher soap with a dispenser described as its first effort to reduce waste.

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Sense and Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

In its 35 years of operation from 1966-2001, a succession of owners illegally and legally dumped hundreds of millions of gallons of wastewater into Bishop Harbor, an estuary flowing into Tampa Bay, causing massive fish kills, toxic plumes of air, evacuations, and groundwater pollution. Here, regenerative agriculture comes into play.

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