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Sustainable Packaging: Biodegradable and Eco-Friendly Options For Your Business

Green Business Bureau

There is a wave of new innovative eco-friendly alternatives to traditional packaging materials. From post-consumer recycled paper products to unique biodegradable materials, here’s a great overview of the latest options for your business shipping needs. Sustainable Packaging Materials.

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‘We can’t recycle our way out’

Grist

Other concerns center on the greenhouse gas emissions of the chemical recycling process and, in the case of turning plastics into fuels, burning the end products, and whether those climate costs are less than those caused by creating virgin plastic. Englund asks. You know, hey, it’s just milk.”.

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Today’s wind turbine blades could become tomorrow’s bridges

Grist

They are very difficult to move around, and they are not biodegradable,” Bank said. However, because co-processing still produces emissions and essentially destroys high-quality construction materials, Nagle and Bank both stressed that repurposing is an even better choice when possible. “Co-processing

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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'. Made with renewable materials. Do the materials grow themselves? Recycled content. What does that even mean?