Stacey Higginbotham

JULY 22, 2022

Save the trees and use an e-ink luggage tag : Here’s a great idea from Alaska Airlines that I hope goes industry-wide. Instead of printing off a tag at home or at the airport for your checked luggage, you can just pick up an e-ink luggage tag. ( Enterprise IoT Insights ). The Verge ).

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 18, 2024

Pallets are being produced at three sites – York, Burton, and Peterborough – and fitted with RFID tags, which will enable pallet tracking. From the outset, everyone agreed change was needed and that the current linear way of working is out of kilter with the industry’s net carbon zero and zero waste objective.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 16, 2023

The post EU Debates Putting a Price Tag on Ecosystems appeared first on ESG Investor. ENVI has made several amendments to the regulation, Regulation (EU) No 691/2011, including adding ten new environmental economic account modules from which data would be collected on from member states.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 23, 2023

The EU aims for a 2026 date by which to implement the legislation across three industries: apparel, batteries, and consumer electronics – with more to follow. For example, digital links accessible through a unique product identifier will need to be added to the products themselves rather than outer packaging or tags.

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3BL Media

JULY 11, 2023

Under the theme, Future-Proofing Global Supply Chains , the event took place over two days and brought together over 200 delegates to network with industry peers and share learnings and best practices on how collective action can help accelerate industry transformation and future-proof global supply chains.

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Stacey Higginbotham

APRIL 8, 2022

I’d like to see this pass because right now, many medical device vendors aren’t as active about patching security flaws as I or the industry would like. ( The connectivity will let the cans tell the city when they are full and then the city can pick up waste based on demand as opposed to using a schedule. HR 7048 ).

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Green Technology

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Here are nine HVAC and plumbing industry-related resolutions to move us towards a greener, more ecological future as we enter the new year. Newly designed high-efficiency fixtures and systems provide the same comforts as their wasteful counterparts. Educate customers on sustainability and environmentally-friendly products.

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Stacey Higginbotham

MAY 15, 2023

Specifically, I’d hoped that we would take some of the invisible externalities associated with pollution or industrial processes and effect positive change. With the information they gather and access to cheap cloud computing for data analysis, I’d hoped we’d make the invisible visible.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 11, 2023

The tag “forever chemicals” is clearly very appropriate for a class of synthetic compounds whose unusual molecular structure, including the carbon-fluorine (C-F) bond (considered one of the strongest found in organic chemistry), appears to offer little scope for any thermal or other degradation at all, so they endure permanently.

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Cisco CSR

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

If you have had the opportunity to read my recent blog series on The Future of Work , you know that Cisco is all in on enabling organizations of all sizes and industries to prepare for a hybrid work model. These are the first campus switches in the industry to supply dual-rate 400G/200G uplinks. Private 5G for Industry 4.0.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Joint winners of the MPA Restoration Awards 2019: Aggregate Industries for Ripon City Quarry (left) and Tarmac for Broom Quarry (right). The mineral products industry is a pioneer in the field of nature conservation and is unrivalled by any other UK industry. The result is of great value to both the community and to wildlife.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 16, 2024

She pushed executives to see climate issues not just as an emissions problem, but as the source of new business opportunities through innovations in sustainable materials and processes, such as producing ethanol from plant waste and reducing the volatile organic compounds in paints. At Ikea, each country CEO also wears the CSO hat.

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B the Change

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

T&L is among the top 10 emissions sources in most industries , according to research based on CDP reporting. Because they work with multiple organizations — shippers and carriers — they have a broad viewpoint on the industry and its opportunities for decarbonization. And the U.S. Companies can’t stop moving cargo.

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3BL Media

JULY 12, 2023

So, how can consumer goods companies contribute to global goals around reducing plastic waste and pollution? Research shows the need is urgent: If we don’t reduce waste production, we will more than exceed the boundaries of our planet by 2060. Consumer industries have a major part to play. They represent $35.2

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Stacey Higginbotham

APRIL 11, 2022

After all, building batteries for the IoT is limiting: They require chemicals to manufacture, people to change them, and are ultimately a toxic form of waste inside an obsolete product. Among them is Wiliot, which this week announced a partnership program that will bring its energy-harvesting, stamp-sized Bluetooth tags to more industries.

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Sphera

MARCH 18, 2022

Work performed in industry and research settings can involve electrical, mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, chemical and thermal energy. Tagout involves placing a tag on an on-off switch or other shut-off device to tell workers not to energize the machinery or equipment. Lockout/tagout (LOTO) procedures were developed for this purpose.

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Chris Hall

JULY 14, 2022

Fast fashion appeared on the scene in the late 1980s as a new segment of the fashion industry. The apparel industry is often associated with poor factory conditions, paying workers less than a living wage and child labour. The World Bank estimates the industry is responsible for nearly 20% of all industrial pollution annually. [6].

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 6, 2023

These systems can range from packaged roof-top condensing units serving fan coil evaporators in the space to full industrial refrigeration engine rooms serving multiple types of cooling equipment. Lock-out/tag-out (LOTO) procedures are not exclusive to electrical systems; they can be applied to utility systems as well.”

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

An EU project is attempting to lead the European electronics industry towards more sustainable materials, design, manufacturing methods, and improved circularity and energy efficiency, writes Finnish research group VTT. This calls for new materials and the uptake of circular principles by the electronics industry.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 30, 2023

Plant-based alternatives presently carry a higher price tag than traditional animal products. Another start-up, Agroloop transforms organic waste into a sustainable protein source by upcycling organic materials while Better Origins uses AI to empower its insect farms aiming to eliminate food waste.

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Green Technology

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Some of that speaks to the K-12 education system recognizing what’s going on in other industries. I think K-12 systems were looking at that and recognizing that there’s a major shift happening across the board in other industries. Last week, I was running a zero-waste institute and looking at some of the data around waste.

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