🍃The Sustainability Top 10

Hi 🖐,

Can we use waste analytics to make waste valuable? How can AI help companies achieve net-zero? Can businesses use the metaverse to reduce waste and emissions? Are forever chemicals in our toilet paper? See answers to this and more on The Green Tea's Top 10 actionable, innovation, and hot sustainability stories this week! 👇

1. (The Hill) US military seeks to brew jet fuel from the air, awards contract to Air Company

2. (GreenBiz) Ability to model processes in the metaverse such as training, product development and consumer trials could have real implications for sustainability strategies

3. (Bloomberg) The world’s plastic waste problem needs policing and finally there may be a sheriff (EU) ready to bring order

4. (Instagram) Not even your behind assets are safe: toilet paper a source of ‘forever chemicals’ in wastewater, ground water, and natural ecosystems

5. (The Hill) Whole Foods lags in reducing plastic pollution

6. (GreenBiz) Waste analytics company Topolytics is making the world's waste visible, verifiable and valuable

7. (GreenBiz) AI sustainability tech company QiO Technologies is optimizing industrial assets for net zero emissions

8. (GreenBiz) Can wood really be better than steel for wind turbine towers? Modvion, a startup based in Sweden, seems to think so

9. (Bloomberg) Banks that signed up for the Net-Zero Banking Alliance only at 0.9/1 ratio (clean/fossil) versus 2030 goal of 4/1

10. (Just Capital) Politicians la-la-land: most Americans don’t really care about, or know about, this battle of “woke capitalism” or ESG and support stakeholder capitalism….

+. (NYTimes) Happening in the US? Lawmakers clamor for action on child migrant labor as outrage grows

Enjoy and reflect 💭. Warm regards / saludos, Julio