Business Green

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Carlsberg, which got into the project more than four years ago, already has shown off two prototypes for beer bottles, while Absolut is preparing a pilot of its first-generation package, for its Absolut Mixt "cooler" product line, in an undeclared market this spring. Some early versions are in the hands of consumers.). Credit: Paboco.

Recycling 70

Recycling Recycling Packaging Biodegradable 70

GreenBiz

AUGUST 26, 2020

Where there's hope for speeding up business action on plastics. Its landmark report, "The New Plastics Economy," sounded the alarm in 2016 that if "business as usual" continues, by 2025 the ocean may hold more plastic than fish by weight. Plastics Pact by EMF, The Recycling Partnership and WWF. Elsa Wenzel.

Plastics 358

Plastics Waste Waste Recycling 358

Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

To use a green certification or seal of approval on marketing or packaging, make it clear if your company is materially connected with the group behind it, such as receiving funds from it. Degradable / Biodegradable. Will the product and its package break down completely and 'return to nature' within a year? Recycled content.

Recycling 36

Recycling Recycling Ozone Building Energy Monitoring 36

Business Green

JUNE 21, 2021

Traditional pint-sized glass milk bottles set to be sold for 90p at 11 trial stores in bid to curb plastic waste, Morrisons confirms. We want to help our customers live their lives with less plastic," said Natasha Cook, packaging manager at Morrisons. The supermarket estimates the move would remove approximately 1.4

Plastics 101

Plastics Biodegradable Packaging Retail 101

Business Green

AUGUST 28, 2020

With the launch of the US branch of the Plastics Pact the case for corporates to step up their plastic waste reduction efforts are becoming clearer than ever. Its landmark report, "The New Plastics Economy," sounded the alarm in 2016 that if "business as usual" continues, by 2025 the ocean may hold more plastic than fish by weight.

Plastics 87

Plastics Waste Waste Recycling 87

Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2020

Guy Fennell, cofounder of environmentally friendly baby wipe company Pura, talks to BusinessGreen about his plans to disrupt the wasteful baby care industry with kerbside nappy recycling and plastic-free baby wipes. With 90 per cent of wet wipes in the UK made from plastic, the products boast carbon intensive production processes.

Plastics 82

Plastics Sustainability Biodegradable Recycling 82

Business Green

APRIL 14, 2022

Last year the supermarket moved to eliminate single-use plastic from its own-brand tea bags. Switching the oil-based plastic sealing on tea bags to biodegradable alternatives, would remove approximately 1.4 Switching the oil-based plastic sealing on tea bags to biodegradable alternatives, would remove approximately 1.4

Electricity 96

Electricity Plastics Carbon-neutral Biodegradable 96

Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

If the trial proves successful, Starbucks is planning to replicate the approach in all 4,000 of its EMEA stores by 2025. "As The lids, which are made by Stora Enso, are plastic-free, recyclable, and biodegradable, and are expected to reduce approximately 120 tonnes of plastic waste annually.

Plastics 97

Plastics Carbon-neutral Packaging Recycling 97

GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

As COVID came to dominate 2020, she helped donate more than 600,000 meals and 100,000 pounds of packaging to food banks. But she noticed they only served pre-packaged, mass-produced, instant coffee grown elsewhere. Coffee beans have been grown in East Timor for more than 400 years. "To

Building Energy Monitoring 531

Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring 531

AGreenLiving

MAY 17, 2021

As COVID came to dominate 2020, she helped donate more than 600,000 meals and 100,000 pounds of packaging to food banks. But she noticed they only served pre-packaged, mass-produced, instant coffee grown elsewhere. Coffee beans have been grown in East Timor for more than 400 years. “I guess they just really like me.”

Business Energy Monitoring 36

Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring 36

Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 24, 2019

Single-use plastics are being phased out more rapidly building on the 51 plastic-pollution-related legislative victories worldwide. The EU's comprehensive plastics-ban agreement will outlaw ten separate products from straws to plastic cutlery to plastic Q-tip sticks. Scientists discovered a plastic eating mushroom.

Plastics 52

Plastics Fossil fuels Biodegradable Climate change 52