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Rum and beach bag collaboration is ending plastic pollution

AGreenLiving

Mount Gay Rum, the oldest running rum distillery in the world, paired up with Sea Bags, a Portland, Maine-based company who has been making totes and bags from recycled sail cloth since 2006. The two companies are raising money to benefit 4ocean’s Pound + Program, whose mission is to end the plastic pollution in our oceans.

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What Is ISO 14000? Certification Checklist and Challenges

Green Business Bureau

ISO 14040:2006 – Environmental Management – Life Cycle Assessment – Principles and Framework : Describes the principles and framework for conducting a life cycle assessment (LCA), which includes defining the goal and scope of the LCA, LCA inventory analysis, reporting, and critical review.

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The Sierra Club's Top 20 Cool Schools

Green Market Oracle

Sierra has been ranking the environmental performance of colleges since 2006. Schools give us a glimpse into what carbon neutrality looks like. This year, the group implemented a reverse osmosis system in a Thai community; it cleans drinking water and eliminates locals’ need for plastic bottles.

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Inside Eastman’s moonshot goal for endlessly circular plastics

GreenBiz

Inside Eastman’s moonshot goal for endlessly circular plastics. But something extraordinary is going on at this Eastman chemical plant: two breakthrough processes to turn waste plastics of all kinds back into new plastics, continuously, with no loss of quality. Joel Makower. Mon, 05/11/2020 - 00:44.

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On the Future of our Food

Mr. Sustainability

According to Livestock’s Long Shadow , a United Nations report, world meat consumption has the highest negative impact on the climate. From a historical perspective however, warning about the negative effects of our food consumption are commonplace. These printers are similar to regular 3D printers, print food instead of plastic.

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

DeSmogBlog

Benzene is a colorless, sweet-smelling chemical found in crude oil and products including gasoline, solvents, plastics, paints, adhesives and detergents. Tim Doty is the scientist who led the TCEQ mobile monitoring team that recorded Channelview’s high benzene levels back in 2005 and 2006.

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Inside Eastman's moonshot goal for endlessly circular plastics

Business Green

From plastics to fashion, the US chemicals giant is innovating in pursuit of a new approach for managing the world's most ubiquitous materials. But something extraordinary is going on at this Eastman chemical plant: two breakthrough processes to turn waste plastics of all kinds back into new plastics, continuously, with no loss of quality.