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How to Reduce Packaging Waste

The Environmental Blog

It’s no secret that pollution and waste are big problems in today’s world. But we can change that! It’s time to rethink how we use packaging and start protecting our environment. It limits how much tobacco can be in a package, which means more packaging waste. They’re awesome!

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How Shell Is Selling the Petrochemical Buildout as ‘Sustainable’

DeSmogBlog

This reporting was made possible in part due to a media briefing sponsored by Beyond Plastics, Inclusive Louisiana, Louisiana Bucket Brigade, and The Descendants Project, which included local meals in Louisiana. When I enter Norco and I’m in the car with people not from here, they’re like, ‘what is that smell?’”

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10 Eco-Friendly Packaging Alternatives for Your Business’s Shipping Needs

Green Business Bureau

We all know how important it is to reduce our impact on the environment. Many businesses are now improvising new ways of designing and producing their products, attempting to lessen their carbon and environmental footprint, while simultaneously saving money. They are also less expensive. BIODEGRADABLE PACKAGING PEANUTS.

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Global Briefing: Greenpeace's Jennifer Morgan appointed as Germany's climate envoy

Business Green

Germany's climate diplomacy coup, Duke Energy's ambitious new coal phase out plans, and all the big green business news from around the world this week. She is expected to start in her new role at the start of March and, once she obtains German citizenship, she will officially become a state secretary.

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Budget 2020: All the green plans at a glance

Business Green

But while it may not have received a warm reception right across the green economy , thanks in part to another freeze on fuel duty and a multi-billion pound bonanza for road building, the Budget did in fact include a wide range of new commitments to bolster the government's net zero ambitions.

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As Alarm Over Plastic Grows, Saudis Ramp Up Production in the US

DeSmogBlog

The complex contains a circuit board of pipes and steel tanks that cough out steam, flames and toxic substances as it creates the building blocks for plastic from natural gas liquids. or SABIC, a chemical manufacturing giant tied to one of the world’s richest royal families, and Exxon Mobil, America’s biggest energy company.

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A Texas Community Is Being Bombarded by Cancer-Causing Benzene. State Officials Have Known for Nearly Two Decades

DeSmogBlog

Public Health Watch also analyzed more recent TCEQ pollution data and found that Channelview’s benzene problem has only worsened over the years. Benzene is a colorless, sweet-smelling chemical found in crude oil and products including gasoline, solvents, plastics, paints, adhesives and detergents.