Tag: waste
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Circular economics and the $57B e-waste opportunity
Circular economics and the $57B e-waste opportunity Heather Clancy Mon, 07/12/2021 – 02:00 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 gigatons of the stuff cluttering landfills, waterways and oceans, or being incinerated by 2040. Just as stunning: Plastic…
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Circular economics and the $57B e-waste opportunity
Circular economics and the $57B e-waste opportunity Heather Clancy Mon, 07/12/2021 – 02:00 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 gigatons of the stuff cluttering landfills, waterways and oceans, or being incinerated by 2040. Just as stunning: Plastic…
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McDonald’s is teaming up with Ford to recycle coffee residue into car parts
Getty Images / vlad_karavaev / / Justin Sullivan / Ruqayyah Moynihan Ford is looking to associate with McDonald’s to recycle the husk of coffee beans that peels away during ingestion, coffee chaff. “By heating the chaff to high temperatures under low oxygen, mixing it with plastic and other additives and turning it into pellets, the…
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Yes, Reversing the Climate Crisis Will Be Profitable
Ibrahim AlHusseini, the creator and CEO of the investment company FullCycle Energy Fund, which aims to scout and back those companies most likely to address the climate crisis, never thought his career will take an ecological turn. The Palestinian-American businessman–an early investor in Tesla and also Uber–grew up as a refugee from Saudi Arabia. But after…