The Environmental Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

In this article, we’re taking a closer look at how even small businesses can open up a sustainable venture. Implement proper waste management. One of the biggest issues for corporations, and even smaller businesses, when it comes to environmental awareness is waste management. What Makes A Business Sustainable.

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GreenBiz

MAY 3, 2021

This system was used during Earth Month to help manage the company’s "30 Acts for 30 Days" campaign, which challenged employees to complete individual actions aimed at building environmental awareness such as upcycling personal items, measuring their tire pressure or setting up a composting system. Sponsored Article. Courtesy of.

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R-Squared Energy

OCTOBER 15, 2021

In the previous article , I outlined the growing global problem of plastic pollution. Researchers have tried several different reuse approaches for addressing the growing global plastic waste stream. Researchers have tried several different reuse approaches for addressing the growing global plastic waste stream.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 16, 2022

In this article, we highlight 5 main ways the sports industry can implement a more sustainable design. The 5 tips given in this article look to mitigate these costs by offering effective, actionable, and sustainable solutions. Optimize food and waste management by practicing good inventory management.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 15, 2022

With this in mind, this Green Business Bureau article has been created to act as your quick guide to address some of the main sustainability issues the manufacturing industry faces. It’s easy for a large warehouse and factory to become disorganized, and when that happens, pallets and boxes can be placed haphazardly, wasting space.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 28, 2022

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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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Digital technologies are opening up new ways for us to consume fashion without the waste or carbon footprint… . It has set three Action Goals to be achieved by 2021: recirculate 100,000 fashion item; tokenize 10,000 fashion items on the blockchain; and upcycle 1,000 pairs of sneakers. Sponsored Article. 4 summit takeaways.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Designers are streamlining collections, focusing on evergreen best sellers and incorporating upcycling, regenerative materials and use of dead stock (French) in collections. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere). Sponsored Article. Showrooms and fashion weeks have gone digital.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Upcyclers are tackling the 133 billion pounds of food waste created in the U.S. View original here: The battle for leftovers.

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Green Business Bureau

MAY 12, 2021

All 10 steps below were summarized in the first article, The Executive Guide for Becoming a Sustainable Business : Step 1: Define your vision, mission and values. Today’s article will cover Step 6, a blueprint for a sustainability plan. Waste team – What waste do we produce and where does it come from?

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Green Business Bureau

MAY 12, 2022

In this article, we answer those questions. This article and checklist focuses on overall green business certifications. It includes your building, operations, vehicles, supplies, products, procurement, recycling, reuse, waste, policies and procedures. Waste and Recycling – What waste do we produce and where does it come from?

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2021

The worms were brought onsite along with a composter to help reduce food waste, another area that the sustainable champions are passionate about. Once done with lunch, staff dispose of their waste in the new waste stations that were implemented last year to make waste segregation easier for staff, and to increase recycling.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 6, 2021

But all of this stuff is made from resources of some kind, uses up energy and eventually winds up as waste. This article includes several eco-friendly office products and supplies that will lower your carbon footprint. Bathrooms also use their fair share of energy and generate waste.

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Business Green

MAY 21, 2021

Today, the company launched its ReBird platform , a centralised hub on the company site that gives customers an inside look at its circular initiatives - from upcycling and resale to care and repair. With all these upcycled products, we want to make sure we are solving a problem. Circular strategy in motion.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

In fact, creating products from recycled steel utilizes 40% less water and reduces mining wastes by 97%. Recycled plastic used in construction offers a building material that has a lower carbon footprint and is stronger than brick, all while tackling our plastic waste problem ( 367 million metric tons produced globally in 2020).

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

To bridge this function gap, businesses need a clearly defined sustainability program, and this article will be your guide to create and launch one. Refer to Green Business Bureau’s article, How to Create a Sustainability Plan: Executive Guide to Becoming a Sustainable Business – Step 5 , for more guidance. How much do we waste?

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AGreenLiving

MAY 19, 2021

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.

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GreenBiz

MAY 27, 2020

There’s got to be a better design solution to address end of life, how [products] can easily be refurbished, upcycled and disassembled. Fast fashion and high-performance fabrics have compounded waste by accelerating the output of apparel that's virtually impossible to recycle. works hands-on with denim, zippers and buttons. Pull Quote.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The Greener Stores construction, design and operation plan for Starbucks centers around circular principles, waste diversion and the healthfulness of interior spaces. The Wednesday announcement marks the company's latest effort toward meeting its "Planet Positive" goals to cut waste, water and carbon in half by 2030.

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GreenBiz

MAY 12, 2020

This article is part of our Paradigm Shift series, produced by nonprofit PYXERA Global, on the diverse solutions driving the transition to a circular economy. Consider that the cosmetics industry brings in a booming $500 billion every year and imagine the waste created by default. Katrina Shum. Tue, 05/12/2020 - 01:30.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

This article provides a useful overview of the SDGs and is the first in a series of articles on how companies can align their own values and practices with the SDGs. You can learn more about the Western Container Sales in our GBB member story: Western Container Sales: Creating Value Through Upcycling and Waste Reduction.

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Low Impact

MAY 5, 2021

You could also choose a coffin made from 100% reclaimed and upcycled solid wood. Do what you can to eliminate waste in all its forms, avoid plastic packaging where possible, and donate food waste to prevent it from being thrown away. Find the original article by Elizabeth Waddington here on the Ethical.net blog.

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2020

Leather is already a by-product of the slaughter process, making use of what otherwise would go to waste. Then, in 2018, Gucci launched two major programs to ramp up sustainability for leather: circular initiative Gucci-Up and waste reduction initiative Scrap-Less. This article first appeared at GreenBiz.com.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 4, 2021

In a bid to create a more sustainable alternative, Atomo is working on a recipe for creating coffee by upcycling ingredients that otherwise would be discarded, such as the pits, seeds and stems of other plants. It’s exciting to see so many startups targeting the problem of food waste.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 4, 2021

In a bid to create a more sustainable alternative, Atomo is working on a recipe for creating coffee by upcycling ingredients that otherwise would be discarded, such as the pits, seeds and stems of other plants. It’s exciting to see so many startups targeting the problem of food waste.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 3, 2022

And in England's automotive heartlands in the West Midlands electric vehicle (EV) recycling facilities are being plotted by waste management giant Veolia and UK battery recycler Technology Minerals. The key sources now for lithium-ion batteries will be a combination of consumer waste and scrap from battery manufacture," he said. "As

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The issues are many, from the resources needed to grow cotton or produce synthetic fabrics, usually from petroleum feedstocks, to the waste that ends up in landfills, especially for inexpensive and trendy clothing items that often have a short useful life. Sponsored Article. Increased concern for farmers is also on the menu.

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Business Green

APRIL 23, 2020

Perhaps it is the rapid adaptation to our locked down world that the organisers have had to facilitate, delivering a series of virtual events and broadcasts that have effectively highlighted how even as we are living through the current health crisis there is no time to waste in tackling a still worse global threat.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Happening worldwide on September 17th, World Cleanup Day is one of the largest civic movements in which nations unite to reduce trash and mismanaged waste. By 2050 , global municipal solid waste is expected to rise by ~70% and reach a massive 3.4 Conduct a Waste Audit. Educate Staff on Sustainable Waste Management Practices.

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Business Green

APRIL 30, 2021

Fast food chain reveals how 'in the weeds detail' helped deliver on ambitious waste goals. Chipotle's head of sustainability, Caitlin Leibert, celebrated her 10-year anniversary at Chipotle announcing a historic achievement for the brand: most of the company's waste no longer ends up in landfills.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 3, 2021

This system was used during Earth Month to help manage the company’s “30 Acts for 30 Days” campaign, which challenged employees to complete individual actions aimed at building environmental awareness such as upcycling personal items, measuring their tire pressure or setting up a composting system. Credit: Google Maps.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

In the past few years, as consumers looked to cut down on plastic waste at the grocery store, more mainstream supermarkets turned to bulk shopping bins as a solution. In 2017, when LimeLoop, an IoT solution for sustainable e-commerce shipping logistics, started, it was in response to the amount of waste caused by e-commerce.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 20, 2021

All 10 steps below were summarized in the first article, The Executive Guide for Becoming a Sustainable Business : Step 1: Define your vision, mission and values. Today’s article will cover Step 5, a blueprint for a sustainability plan. How much do we waste? Are we composting food waste? motion sensor faucets)?

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2023

The startup works with farmers to permanently remove CO2 from the atmosphere and enhance crop yields by spreading basalt dust - waste created when quarries crush basalt rock for other uses - onto farmlands. The waste dust is what we're upcycling. This article first appeared at GreenBiz.com. It's good to look at the stars.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Digital technologies are opening up new ways for us to consume fashion without the waste or carbon footprint… During the “Technology: The New Product Storytelling” panel, it was astoundingly clear that emerging digital technologies can make a big difference for fashion brands and their customers. Attendee avatars can be seen.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Designers are streamlining collections, focusing on evergreen best sellers and incorporating upcycling, regenerative materials and use of dead stock (French) in collections. Meanwhile, digitization is accelerating efficiency and agility. Design teams are working together online and using virtual sampling.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Designers are streamlining collections, focusing on evergreen best sellers and incorporating upcycling, regenerative materials and use of dead stock (French) in collections. Meanwhile, digitization is accelerating efficiency and agility. Design teams are working together online and using virtual sampling.

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