Greentown Labs

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

develops interactive bio-embellishments that create new possibilities for designers while eliminating microplastics and replacing fossil-fuel-based material at scale. Carbon Negative Solutions (Rock Hill, N.Y.) is creating smart-city-ready, carbon-negative concrete products. Its founder is Keith Crossland. Cellsense (New York, N.Y.)

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 9, 2020

We will produce a wide array of seafood products directly from fish cells, that are trusted, safe, and free of mercury and environmental contaminants,” Cooperhouse said. To distinguish itself, the company aims to inform potential consumers about the benefits of the product, including that it will be free of microplastics and mercury.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 7, 2022

From disposable utensils to dental and hair care, EcoLuxe has an array of eco-friendly alternatives to help you reduce your plastic footprint. EcoLuxe Products Inc. is aiding the world in the fight against single-use plastic waste by offering a variety of biodegradable organic bamboo products for personal use, homes and businesses.

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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 19, 2019

While a North Star defines the way toward your destination, you need an array of instruments and maps to ever arrive there. On some of the beaches in Hawaii’s Big Island, as much as 15% of the “sand” is actually grains of microplastic. Not gradually and one at a time — urgently and all at once.

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Building Energy Monitoring Agriculture Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 72

Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 15, 2019

Small fish and organisms can mistake any sort of microplastics as food and ingest them causing illness or death. They offer an array of different shapes and sizes of eco-friendly take out boxes, as well as almost any other item you could think of. Paper Mart is affordable and offers an array of different color takeout boxes.

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Biodegradable Packaging Microplastics Plastics 104

Green Business Bureau

APRIL 27, 2021

In their quest to develop a fully organic line, it was initially difficult to find organic fabrics that were both affordable and available in an array of unique colors and textures. Not to mention over one-third of microplastics found in oceans come from synthetic fabrics such as nylon and polyester, along with laundry detergents.

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Fashion Organic Sustainability Recycling 148

Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Of the plastic waste we generate, at least eight million tons up in our ocean every year, and it is estimated that the seas now contain about 51 trillion microplastic particles - 500 times more than stars in our galaxy. This is too little, too late. Coral is 20 times more likely to become diseased upon coming into contact with plastics.

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