Ahmed Detta
Enviroo
Intro Ahmed Detta – Founder and CEO of Enviroo
Number 10 in The Most Disruptive Tech-Companies of the Year: Disruption50
A 100% recycling of Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) plastic waste
‘Feel good about profitability’
Enviroo explained:
- Behavioural change
- Solutions
- Partnerships
- Innovation
- Circular Economy
- Social Impact Contribution
- ‘Food-grade’ polymers
- Blueprint
- Carbon Off-Setting
- Transparency of data
Plastic straws, cotton buds and stirrers banned in England
Sir David Attenborough and Prince William team up to launch ‘Nobel Prize for environmentalism’
IEA has set out what would need to happen to reach net zero emissions globally by 2050
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We use innovative technology that segments PET plastic from other supporting components through a highly sophisticated synthesised washing process, coupled with a world class extrusion process. The end result is the creation of polymers that can be used in direct food contact packaging. Our recycled polymer blends perfectly with virgin PET polymers or can stand alone in the production process.
ARTICLES DISCUSSED
Plastic straws, cotton buds and stirrers banned in England
Illegal for businesses to supply the plastic products to customers.
Around 4.7 billion plastic straws, 1.8 billion plastic-stemmed cotton buds and 316 million plastic stirrers are used in England each year, officials estimate.
Canada will ban single-use plastics by the end of 2021
This includes checkout bags, straws, stir sticks, six-pack rings, cutlery, and food ware made from hard-to-recycle plastics. The nation’s ultimate goal is to achieve zero plastic waste by 2030.
Canadian Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson said in a news conference Wednesday, “Plastic pollution threatens our natural environment. It fills our rivers or lakes, and most particularly our oceans, choking the wildlife that lives there. Canadians see the impact that pollution has from coast to coast to coast.”
Sir David Attenborough and Prince William team up to launch ‘Nobel Prize for environmentalism’
The Earthshot Prize, which they define as the “Nobel Prize for environmentalism.”
Together with a council of 11 diverse members, they will be vetting 50 solutions to the world’s most dire environmental problems by 2030, awarding $64.6 million over the course of the decade to those who come up with the best and most innovative ideas.
Categories include protecting and restoring nature, cleaning our air, reviving the oceans, building a waste-free world, and fixing the climate.
For the first time, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has set out what would need to happen this decade to reach net zero emissions globally by 2050.
- large scale investment in renewables and electric cars,
- behaviour change
- innovation in new technologies like hydrogen
“Governments have the capacity and the responsibility to take decisive actions to accelerate clean energy transitions and put the world on a path to reaching our climate goals, including net-zero emissions.”
“The pandemic’s impact on the economy has meant that global energy-related CO2 emissions were down this year by 7%. This 2.4GT reduction is about the same as the annual CO2 emissions of India!”
