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Eco-friendly holiday gifts your partner will love

AGreenLiving

Kimaï Jewelry offers the perfect solution to unethically sourced minerals with its lab-grown diamonds and 18K recycled gold. You can also check out 100% biodegradable sunglasses from Pela Vision. Kimaï Jewelry Celebrating a special anniversary or ready to pop the question this holiday season?

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Plastic Pollution’s Impact on Marine Life and Our Role in Conservation

The Environmental Blog

Under EPR schemes, producers are incentivized to design eco-friendly products and assume responsibility for proper disposal and recycling. These measures not only promote resource conservation but also stimulate the development of a circular economy, where materials are reused and recycled to minimize waste.

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Waste Management Checklist: 26 Tips For Minimizing Waste

Green Business Bureau

Can you find ways to recycle or upcycle waste materials? Where do you install recycling bins and for what materials and waste? In other words, how can the use of everyday materials in the office be substituted with more sustainable, recycled, and reused materials? You need to identify instances where this is happening.

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How to make zero-waste decorations for the holidays

AGreenLiving

According to the National Environmental Education Foundation (NEEF), Americans throw out about 25 percent more trash between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day compared to the rest of the year. We asked a few family and friends to hang onto theirs for us instead of tossing them in the recycling bin. Not to mention, they look great, too!

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Petite Lucette: Supporting Sustainable Fashion Through Circular Approach, Local Partnerships and Organic Certified Fabrics

Green Business Bureau

Petite Lucette further combats the plastic crisis by shipping orders in recyclable boxes with recycled tissue paper. They even upcycle fabric scraps into accessories to reduce the millions of tons of textile waste that enter landfills each year. But every improvement and small adjustment counts! Circular Fashion Is The Future.

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10 Ways to Engage Employees for World Cleanup Day

Green Business Bureau

You can complete an audit on your own ( Recycle Coach has created a guided 7 step checklist for self administered waste audits) or hire a certified third-party. Identifying areas of improvement as well as potential new revenue streams through waste recycling/upcycling opportunities. Incorporate Native Landscaping.

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Treat your partner with these eco-friendly holiday gifts

AGreenLiving

Several styles feature Better Cotton Initiative-certified or recycled cotton. Other styles incorporate recycled rubber. This is an extraordinarily unique gift for the camera lover in your life that offers the basics of photography along with sustainable and recycled materials. Nena and Co. Rugs are handcrafted in India.