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Nespresso releases 80% recycled aluminium coffee capsules

Nespresso has launched what it claims are the first coffee capsules made using 80% recycled aluminium, as the company continues its journey towards a circular…

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Olea Edge Analytics unveils real-time water utility meter management platform

Olea Edge Analytics, an intelligent edge computing platform for the water utility industry, today announced a program for cities to optimize revenues associated with water…

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Siberia experiences hottest spring on record, fueling wildfires

A few hundred miles south of the Arctic Circle, the small town of Boguchany in Siberia, Russia, had its hottest April on record. On April…

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Global CO2 emissions could fall by up to 7% this year amid pandemic: research

Global carbon dioxide emissions could fall by up to 7% this year, depending on ongoing restrictions and social distancing measures during the coronavirus pandemic, research…

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Indonesian miners eyeing EV nickel boom seek to dump waste into the sea

As Indonesia ramps up its mining sector to feed the world’s hunger for zero-emission vehicles, it is faced with a problem: what to do with…

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Smashing Eggs, Dumping Milk: Farmers Waste More Food Than Ever

Food waste is taking on a new meaning in the pandemic era. Dumped milk in Wisconsin. Smashed eggs in Nigeria. Rotting grapes in India. Buried…

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Do fuels made from plastic make eco sense?

Yoghurt pots, shampoo bottles, coffee-to-go lids, bubble wrap — plastic products are all composed of the same building blocks: long carbon chains. Heating them to…

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’Infinitely recyclable’: Viridor unveils plans for circular economy plastics hub

Waste and resource giant Viridor has today announced that it has commenced feasibility work on a new project that would allow 30,000 tonnes of previously…

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Xylem, UNICEF partner to provide COVID-19 relief and safe water families in vulnerable communities

Xylem Watermark, the corporate citizenship program of global water technology company Xylem Inc. (NYSE:XYL), recently announced support for UNICEF’s COVID-19 relief efforts. The partnership will…

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Spain readies law on clean energy, hails potential economic boost

Spain’s cabinet is set to approve a bill setting out a path to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net-zero by 2050 on Tuesday, putting it…

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Legal case launched over UK’s ’outdated’ energy policies

The government faces a legal challenge over a set of “outdated” energy policies which are being used to approve fossil fuel projects even after it…

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Welsh circular economy fund widens scope

The Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) Cymru has announced that it has ‘widened the scope’ of the £6.5-million Wales Circular Economy Fund to help…

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Pernod Ricard moves single-use plastics phase-out forward to 2021

Pernod Ricard had pledged to remove all single-use POS plastics by 2025 under a global sustainability strategy launched in April 2019. However, the beverage company,…

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Portugal suspends foreign trash imports to cope with own increased waste

Portugal, which usually attracts huge mounds of rubbish from other European states because of its low waste management fees, has suspended imports of trash until…

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Turning waste to wealth: the circular economy of data centres

Google alone has more than a dozen of these facilities across the world. With increasing and improving services of Google, the demand for data centres…

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The end of plastic? New plant-based bottles will degrade in a year

Beer and soft drinks could soon be sipped from “all-plant” bottles under new plans to turn sustainably grown crops into plastic in partnership with major…

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How water scarcity adds to women’s burden in northern Ghana

Water supply is not equitably distributed across the globe. In sub-Saharan Africa, about 40% of the population lacks safe drinking water. Another dimension of water…

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Poland prepares a new blow to Russian gas supplies to Europe

Following the failure of the Nord Stream 2 project, which came under U.S. sanctions and did not receive regulatory benefits from the German Federal Network…

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Recyclers turn to wine sector for higher recycling performance

With over 76% of glass packaging being collected for recycling across Europe it counts as the continent’s most recycled food and beverage packaging material. Now,…

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Intel aims to reach 100 percent renewable energy use, zero waste by 2030

Intel unveiled its environmental goals for 2030 today, committing to cut down its greenhouse gas emissions and waste. By the end of the decade, the…

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