Award Category: Energy & Sustainability

Using lightweight materials and modular design, Infinitum’s Aircore EC
motor generates power in half the weight and size, at a fraction of the
carbon footprint and noise of traditional motors. With no iron and 66%
less copper, Aircore EC can sustainably power commercial HVAC fans and
pumps, as well as a variety of industrial equipment applications.

Ascend Elements is commercializing an innovative battery recycling
technology that transforms used lithium-ion batteries and manufacturing
scrap into new, sustainable precursor (pCAM) and cathode-active material
(CAM) for electric vehicle batteries.

Natural gas wellpads with no electricity access regulate pressure via
pneumatic valves that cumulatively release >11 million tonnes of
methane/year into the environment. Qnergy supplies utility grade
electricity via a novel Stirling engine generator that runs on raw,
unprocessed gas to create compressed air that totally eliminates methane
venting.

SABIC’s newest innovative offering, ocean bound plastic, is made from
post-consumer plastic waste recovered from areas and rivers up to 50km
inland. Together with Polivouga and the Nueva Pescanova Group we have
developed the world’s first frozen food packaging solution using SABIC’s
certified circular polyethylene from ocean bound plastic.

The Wuning project treats 20,000 m3/d of wastewater and serves 150,000
people, eliminating water pollution in a developing area. JDL adopts the
concept of “Park above ground, facilities underground” to transform the
wastewater treatment plant into a garden for the community.

ecoĀINA is a mobile, modular ex-situ remediation system that extracts
and eliminates persistent toxins – forever. ecoĀINA gives contaminated
soil and sediments a second chance, so they can be returned or
beneficially reused. ecoĀINA is an EPA-approved, sustainable, and
cost-effective system, using less water, energy, and 95%+ less
emissions.

“Cargill RegenConnect™ rewards farmers for adopting regenerative
agriculture practices. Outcomes include building soil health and
resiliency, improving water use, reducing emissions and sequestering
carbon.Cargill RegenConnect offers farmers new, simple, flexible and
transparent ways to be rewarded for their positive environmental
outcomes.”

Water consumption in the manufacturing of denim varies from region to
region and supplier to supplier, but one thing is common: a lot of water
is needed. The Indigood® program measures, validates, and improves the
freshwater consumption by denim mills, conserving millions of liters and
driving change across the industry.

TimberRock’s carbon accounting reporting combined with GridPoint’s
automated building controls helps businesses manage carbon emissions for
a sustainable future. Businesses can automate building performance to
energy cost savings, utility signals and now carbon emissions to reduce
electricity demand when energy production is most carbon-intensive.

This one-of-a-kind packaging solution using Dow’s innovative
technologies, with up to 40% Post-Consumer Recycled (PCR) content, is
designed so that packages can be recycled multiple times enabling brand
owners to produce packaging films with reduced thickness, using less
energy and less plastic, and delivering up to 50% carbon reduction.