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Conventionally produced meat would cost about 2.5 times more than it does now if its impacts on the environment and climate were taken into account, German researchers say.
Dairy - another of New Zealand s most important exports - would cost about twice as much, and organic meat more than two-thirds more.
But Kiwi producers say the research isn t relevant to New Zealand, saying our farming practices are far more efficient than those overseas.
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Scientists at the Technical University of Munich looked at how much carbon different food production methods put into the atmosphere.
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Renewables are vaunted for their ability to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as part of the push to address climate change in the United States and elsewhere, but that doesn’t mean they have zero environmental impact.
Projections from the Energy Information Administration (EIA) show the share of renewable generation increasing from 18% in 2018 to to 31% in the U.S. by 2050. As their capacity grows, so does the scale of their effects along with industry and public awareness of the challenges.
Some of the environmental issues getting the most scrutiny have been toxic substances and wastewater generated in the production of some solar photovoltaic (PV) cells; changed land use and disrupted wildlife habitat from both solar and wind projects; and significant recycling and disposal challenges for both solar panels and wind turbine rotor blades.
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Is the move to paper packaging sustainable for beverage bottles? Major brand owners like Absolut, Diageo, Carlsberg, and PepsiCo are developing paper bottles, but what does a market analyst say about this paper chase?
Until the last couple years the concept of a paper bottle would seem at best an oxymoron, but innovations continue to break barriers in the pursuit of packaging that offers sustainability benefits, ideally aligned with recycling.
Thus, there’s renewed interest by major brands in paper bottles, which though not new, are experiencing increased activity, undoubtedly sparked by the anti-plastic sentiment sweeping the globe.
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