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Top Marketing Strategies for Sustainable Businesses

The Environmental Blog

Here are some examples: Distributing eco-friendly handouts using biodegradable alternatives without using plastics. Emissions like ozone depletion problems and greenhouse gases. There are environmentally-friendly forms of advertisements available nowadays to help sustainable businesses achieve marketing goals.

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Greenwashing terms to avoid at any cost

Business Green

Degradable / Biodegradable. If not, or if the item will ultimately pile up in a landfill, burn in an incinerator or be recycled, then avoid the term and its siblings, such as 'oxo-biodegradable'. Are you telling the customer they're getting something recycled or biodegradable? Ozone-safe or ozone-friendly.

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Tires are saving us — and killing us, too

The Verge: Energy

A 2020 study from the University of Washington’s Center for Urban Waters found that a dramatic decline in coho salmon populations was the result of the toxin. When 6PPD reacts with ozone, it becomes 6PPD-quinone. One such toxin is 6PPD-quinone. The salmon have now been placed on some West Coast endangered lists.

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

DeSmogBlog

Aramco, the company sitting on the world’s second-largest pool of oil reserves, took majority control of SABIC, one of the world’s top five petrochemical companies, in June 2020. In Mount Vernon, in southern Indiana, the SABIC Innovative Plastics facility released an average of 22,690 pounds of ethylbenzene each year between 2016 and 2020.