Univar Solutions Adopts ‘Advancing a Circular Economy’ as a Sustainability Goal to 2021
Univar Solutions, a global chemical and ingredient distributor and provider of …
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Vegan diets are crucial to environmental sustainability. Read on to learn how meat and plant foods compare on water use, land use, and greenhouse gases.
Blow molding machine makers make strides in use of recycled materials, energy efficiency along with cycle times.
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Big hydropower plants are an important source of clean and cheap electricity for many countries in Southeast Asia. However, dams harm the environment and have dire consequences on local communities. Building more dams would therefore pose major trade-offs between electricity supply and environmental protection. A team of scientists based in Singapore showed that these two challenges can be decoupled. Their study, titled “Solar energy and regional coordination as a feasible alternative to large hydropower in Southeast Asia,” recently published in Nature Communications, showed that there are more sustainable pathways to a clean energy future (refer to figure below).
Unilever has announced its plans to introduce bottles made of 100% recycled plastic for Dove beauty products range by the end of 2019. The new 100% recycled bottles will reportedly launch in the UK and Ireland this year. Through a combination of alternative packaging materials, recycled plastic and investing in refill technology, Dove is driving a movement to create a new value for plastics and reduce the volume of plastic it produces, Unilever said.
CoverCress (formerly Arvegenix) has closed a $2 million bridge investment round co-led by Bayer Growth Ventures and BioSTL’s investment arm BioGenerator. CoverCress is a plant breeding company using CRISPR gene editing tools to develop and grow a new cover crop based on the native plant pennycress. Dubbed Covercress, this new type of pennycress can provide corn and soy farmers with an off-season cash crop with biofuel applications.