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Budget 2024: Key sustainability and energy initiatives that Indian government plans to implement this year
Budget 2024 aims to boost renewable energy with rooftop solar, EVs, offshore wind, green hydrogen, …
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Joey Hadden
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HUL makes a strong point about the importance of waste segregation with its latest campaign #BinBoy
The campaign tries to draw attention to the seriousness of mixed waste disposal and need for immedi…
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I'm the founder of a zero-waste toothpaste company that was featured on Shark Tank. Here's what my day is like managing a team of 9 remote employees.
Bite CEO Lindsay McCormick received two offers from Mark Cuban and Kevin O'Leary, but didn't end up…
Lindsay McCormick
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Startups are zeroing in on cleaner ways to mine the lithium needed for electric vehicles
Startups and mining giants are testing what's called direct lithium extraction, which could produce…
Catherine Boudreau
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Former sex crimes prosecutor Martha Hoover opened a restaurant in 1989 with zero industry experience. Now, she runs an empire of 12 eateries.
Martha Hoover is one of Insider's Luminaries — 25 women pushing boundaries and accomplishing feats.…
Sophie-Claire Hoeller
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COVID-19 medical waste is putting a strain on removal systems. Here are the companies trying to solve the problem.
Throwing away masks leads to risks like potentially contaminating other recyclables, damaging machi…
Erica Sweeney
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What happens to NYC's 3.2 million tons of trash
New York City doesn't process its own trash. The city exports it to waste to energy facilities and …
Abby Narishkin,Steve Cameron,…
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Uvalde officials presented Texas DPS with a document labeled 'narrative' days after the school shooting. It said because police had 'zero hesitation' and 'moved directly toward the gunfire' they saved over 500 lives.
A report says the document contained an account of events different from the one that the DPS event…
Hannah Getahun
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One Amazon warehouse destroys 130,000 items per week, including MacBooks, COVID-19 masks, and TVs, some of them new and unused, a report says
ITV filmed undercover footage showing laptops, TVs, jewelry, headphones, books, and face masks bein…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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UN Secy says 820 million people go hungry as billion tonnes of food is wasted
World Food Day marked call for zero hunger "for a world where nutritious food is available and affo…
PTI
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The simple way this Japanese town has become nearly zero-waste
Globally, the amount of trash produced is growing faster than the rate of urbanization, according t…
Leanna Garfield
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I've been using a food-waste app to snap up free food, including coffee-shop salads, cookies, and meat from grocery stores
Olio users also give away clothes, books, and homeware on the food-waste app. There's only one rule…
Grace Dean
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How waste is deal with on the world's largest cruise ship
Narrator: And the smell could get pretty bad. The waste is stored for up to seven days at a time, u…
Abby Narishkin,Steve Cameron,…
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4.6 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine were wasted in India — enough to vaccinate half of Bangalore
India has wasted 4.6 million doses so far since the drive to vaccinate the population kicked off…
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New Mexico faces extreme water scarcity on par with the United Arab Emirates. Experts warn more 'day zeros' are looming.
New Mexico also faced severe drought last year (along with much of the Southwest). The threat led f…