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4 Ways to Reduce Waste In Your Own Home

The Environmental Blog

Here are 4 things that you can do to ensure that you’re reducing waste in your house. Landfill waste is not just unsightly, it also poses risks to humans from harmful chemical leaks and has negative effects on the environment. To reduce your landfill impact, try and compost food waste at home to be used in your garden.

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Waste Management Checklist: 26 Tips For Minimizing Waste

Green Business Bureau

Achieve zero waste with our waste management checklist. The ultimate goal of this waste management checklist is to achieve zero waste. By zero waste, we mean the conservation of all resources utilizing responsible production, consumption, reuse, and recovery of products, packaging, and materials.

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Outdoor gear company Arc'teryx flies toward a circular economy

GreenBiz

Today, the company launched its ReBird platform , a centralized hub on the company site that gives customers an inside look at its circular initiatives — from upcycling and resale to care and repair. The company is upcycling materials from a jacket line to create new products. Circular strategy in motion. Courtesy of.

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Turns out you can use kombucha to make eco-friendly thread

TechCrunch: Climate

But here at 4YFN in MWC we got chatting to Laura Freixas about her PhD research project that’s using a base of the fermented hipster tea to “upcycleorganic waste into filaments. It’s not everyday you come across kombucha playing a starring role in potential industrial disruption. All rights reserved.

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Does ‘upcycling’ actually exist?

Terra Infirma

Every time I hear or read a reference to ‘upcycling’, my instinctive response is “Really?” And the other day, the Guardian ran a story about the use of GM organisms to ‘upcycle’ old plastic bottles into vanilla food flavouring of all things. So why call this upcycling?

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The UK wastes £19bn of food each year. As food shortages loom, we need circular solutions, says insect startup

AFN Sustainable Protein

And as millions of Brits are skipping meals days at a time, according to a survey by the UK Food Foundation earlier this year, the UK is wasting $23 billion (£19 billion) worth of food each year, enough to feed a quarter of the world’s population. “In the UK, we waste a third of all food produced. Overly linear food chains.

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Managing Food Waste in the Office

Green Business Bureau

Do you think addressing food waste in the office is too much of a bother? Doesn’t most waste happen in our households, restaurants and other food institutions? Reports show that most of America’s food waste comes from consumers – of which 60% makes up the workforce. How to Prevent Food Waste in the Workplace.

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