Greenability Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2020

‘Tis the season to celebrate, but how can we do it without sending an extra five-million tons of trash to the landfills? Just try to keep them out of the landfill. If the packaging material is Kraft paper, you can use it to wrap gifts or make gift tags. Go natural, or reuse holiday decor. Wrap it up.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2021

In terms of industrial impacts on the environment, one of the biggest culprits is the packaging material and accessories that tag along with products. This helps to lessen the burden on landfills and reduces the carbon footprint of the packaging industry. We all know how important and urgent it is to reduce our environmental impact.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The gift set includes a full-sized bottle of Seedlip Spice 94 (an aromatic non-alcoholic spirit), a highball glass made from 100% recycled material and a thyme seeded neck tag. The tag includes instructions to plant and grow your own herbs using the biodegradable mushroom box as a planter. Seedlip Images via Seedlip.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 5, 2021

These companies often will weigh your recycling before taking it to facilities, making it easy to track and report to stakeholders the amount of waste you’re diverting from landfills. Use No-VOC Interior Paints. Buy Remanufactured Ink and Toner Cartridges . Choosing remanufactured cartridges can result in a cost-saving of 15-50% per order.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 20, 2021

It is also full of laminating materials and other non-paper additives, which means it goes directly to landfills. The Wrappily storefront even has gift tags. Most wrapping paper is non-recyclable due to the amount of dye used on the paper. And, yes, they’ve got bows made with cotton and in all the vivid colors you expect.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

However, the many modern conveniences and economic benefits of software come with a hefty environmental price tag – primarily in the form of energy consumption. The landfill waste bin should be kept in a central location where it is accessible, but not necessarily as convenient for everyone as the recycling bins.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Proudly transparent about the conditions under which its clothing is made, Goat recently launched a T-shirt where they placed the apparel tags on the outside of the garment. This means providing fair wages, no slave labor, safe working conditions, reasonable work hours and no discrimination. In addition, production is free of toxic chemicals.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 8, 2021

The innovative material not only keeps bubble wrap out of the landfill, but it is 100% vegan and is available in a range of colors. The company also relies on low-impact packaging like shoeboxes and brochures made from recycled paper as well as wooden hang tags made out of wood from certified sustainable forests.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

However, the many modern conveniences and economic benefits of software come with a hefty environmental price tag – primarily in the form of energy consumption. The landfill waste bin should be kept in a central location where it is accessible, but not necessarily as convenient for everyone as the recycling bins.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 3, 2020

With the Zero Waste Fur Baby Kit , you won’t have to worry about plastic bags sitting in the landfill for the next few centuries. Wood pet tags Rover can proudly wear this attractive pet tag , and if/when he roves, it will be easy for somebody to direct him home using the tag’s info.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 12, 2019

When Tuo Lei came across an image of thousands of discarded tents strewn across festival grounds and destined for landfill, the designer saw potential. To make the pieces more collectible, the garment tags include information about the festival name, material features and the design story behind the brand. So what’s next for P+365?

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 18, 2020

Polluting waterways, consuming materials and creating trendy fast fashion pieces that lead to massive landfill waste are all part of the process. To make the inventory easy to navigate, each item is tagged, either physically or virtually, with a variety of labels aimed at providing answers to these questions. Who made this?

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Business Green

MARCH 13, 2023

It is minimising any of the emissions that come out of waste going into landfill, and it's an economically viable way to get some valuable nutrients into the animals." As such, farmers are starting to address sustainability issues "almost as a tag-along", according to Dierenfeld. It's a win-win for each industry," she added. "It

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Business Green

MARCH 13, 2023

It is minimising any of the emissions that come out of waste going into landfill, and it's an economically viable way to get some valuable nutrients into the animals." As such, farmers are starting to address sustainability issues "almost as a tag-along", according to Dierenfield. It's a win-win for each industry," she added. "It

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

According to the US Environmental Protection Agency , composting isn't much better than sending food to the landfill. Because source reduction has such strong economic benefits, the sustainability aspect gets to tag along. According to Dang, many parts of an industrial kitchen are siloed. This article first appeared at GreenBiz.

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Green Technology

OCTOBER 13, 2022

It reduces pollution in landfills and also reduces the demand for raw materials to protect our investment resources. If they have to use disposable items, look for things that can be made into compost after use or used multiple times. Recycling is one of the most straightforward steps HVAC and plumbing contractors can take.

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Business Green

JUNE 6, 2022

But how will this drive change the look, feel, and price tag of items on sale on high streets and fashion sites? In addition, the sector is the cause of mountains of waste, with the EU estimating that roughly 87 per cent of clothing material is currently incinerated, landfilled, or dumped in nature.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 7, 2022

In contrast to bags made with petroleum-based materials, when Terra Thread bags hit the landfill at the end of life, they won’t leach chemicals into the soil or stick around for generations. Product tags are also sourced from natural materials and the bags are colored with GOTS-certified dyes. Just the way I like it.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Look for eco-friendly materials Especially when it comes to textiles , the materials used in production can make a huge difference in the amount of pollutants that end up in waterways and landfills. Select natural fibers for sheets, towels, blankets and clothing. Images via Shutterstock. Here is the original:Â .

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AGreenLiving

MAY 15, 2020

However, most plastic single-use coffee pods such as K-Cups and Nespresso Pods end up in landfills or oceans rather than being recycled. Make sure you purchase bags with the tare weight on the tag so your grocer can easily find it for weighted items. In contrast, refillable coffee pods can be cleaned and reused daily.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Environmental Protection Agency , composting isn’t much better than sending food to the landfill. Because source reduction has such strong economic benefits, the sustainability aspect gets to tag along. According to the U.S. According to Dang, many parts of an industrial kitchen are siloed. Is it overproduction?

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The Environmental Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Founder of the business, Kei Nishida, shares that his desire to give back to the world inspired him to pursue the business advocacy: “We decided to use the tag line ‘Harvested with love in Japan’. IndoSole is a business that gets disposed rubber tyres from landfills and gutters around Indonesia and repurposes them into durable footwear.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Laws and landfills. They may end up just storing the panels and shipping them to a more qualified recycler, but Orben said it creates more opportunities to divert panels from landfills. One common misconception, Orben said, is that solar owners will compare the cost of solar recycling to the cost of landfill disposal - a false choice.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 14, 2020

The environmentally friendly manufacturing process starts with discarded plastic bottles otherwise destined for the landfill and transforms them into a high-quality and lightweight recycled PET polyester yarn. The first run of the company’s Re:cycled Collection recycled over 90,000 bottles, and this is just the beginning. The lightweight, 0.57-pound

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

On a quest to tame these inaccuracies, in late 2011, he proposed a simple technical fix that he claims will “result in more accurate billing, extended meter lives, reduced landfill waste, and a more efficient utilization of [utility] personnel.”. Dye had other suggestions for how the company should operate.

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Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2022

Often blended with other fabrics, such as cotton, and typically accompanied with fixtures such as buttons, zippers and tags, polyester can be found in all types of apparel, sportswear and footwear. This design complexity makes our clothes and shoes notoriously difficult to recycle using conventional technologies.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 3, 2020

Related: PANGAIA presents FLWRDWN, a down alternative made from biodegradable wildflowers According to the company, 100 billion articles of clothing and 500 billion plastic bottles are produced annually, with half ending up in landfills.

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Rinexii

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Second hand stores such as goodwill are packed with high end clothing for a fraction of the cost, and it has an added benefit—second hand clothing doesn’t have the same carbon footprint new clothing does, and keeps that piece out of landfills. If anyone asks why you’re doing this, just point out the price tag.

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GreenBiz

MAY 11, 2021

The company’s machine learning technology can be integrated into point-of-sale, inventory systems and electronic price tags — used commonly in Europe — of grocery stores to offer two prices to consumers, a cheaper one for a product with a nearing expiration date and a more expensive one for the slightly fresher product.

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Green Technology

OCTOBER 13, 2022

We are only diverting waste to recycling and compost a rate of 15 percent, and sending 85 percent of the waste in a school waste stream to the landfill, even though we could recycle and compost 92 percent of what is in a school’s waste stream. I looked at the current statistics for schools, and it was exactly the same.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Fill it Forward created a tag and app that connects to the reusable bag consumers already own, allowing them to track environmental impact, earn rewards and give back to charitable projects. Eon is a leader in internet of things (IoT) technologies. This article first appeared at GreenBiz.com.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 17, 2022

Look for Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs), also known as Green Tags. This may mean capturing landfill gas, human or agricultural waste in smaller communities. #11: Switching to a renewable energy supplier will lower your carbon footprint by reducing the total scope 2 emissions associated with your business. .

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 17, 2022

Look for Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs), also known as Green Tags. This may mean capturing landfill gas, human or agricultural waste in smaller communities. #11: Switching to a renewable energy supplier will lower your carbon footprint by reducing the total scope 2 emissions associated with your business. .

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AGreenLiving

MAY 11, 2021

The company’s machine learning technology can be integrated into point-of-sale, inventory systems and electronic price tags — used commonly in Europe — of grocery stores to offer two prices to consumers, a cheaper one for a product with a nearing expiration date and a more expensive one for the slightly fresher product.

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Grist

JANUARY 13, 2020

” A local salon was also tagged with a message accusing Georgia Power of “telling a lie” to residents about the plant’s health risks. The Altamaha Riverkeeper believes Georgia Power’s disposal strategy is flawed — specifically because it doesn’t involve adding a lining as the pond transitions to what would essentially be a landfill.

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