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Sustainable Fashion Guide: 8 Tips to Kick-Start Your Sustainable Fashion Brand Company

Green Business Bureau

Tip#1: Choose organic sustainable fabrics. Synthetic fabrics such as polyester – which accounted for 52% of global fiber production in 2018 – take hundreds of years to biodegrade. This also includes their social responsibility values, making sure they practice ethical labor and do not utilize slave or child labor.

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What Is A Green Procurement Policy?

Green Business Bureau

Buying locally-made, organic and sustainable food options are usually healthier and can make your employees feel better and be more productive. Innovation. Procuring sustainably means evaluating your current products and practices in an innovative way. Look for fair trade labels and other ethical certifications.

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Lamps by Biohm are made from coffee and orange peel

AGreenLiving

Their approach is to apply principles of biomimetics, or systematically applying the ecological laws of nature , to create products and manufacturing approaches that innovate across the entire manufacturing life cycle. And, therefore, to create ethically-sourced and locally-fabricated high-performance sustainable products.

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Nimble makes phone accessories from recycled plastic, CDs and more

AGreenLiving

Technological innovation is here to stay. So the three co-founders of Nimble for Good, PBC have combined their extensive experience in the tech, marketing and design development industries to launch a brand of personal tech products committed to ethical and sustainable material sourcing, manufacturing and post-consumer disposal.

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The State of Green Business report 2021

Sustainability Consulting

However, a handful of forward-looking corporations, conservation organizations and startups recently have accelerated efforts to store carbon in marine systems. The platforms will be kept afloat by buoys designed to biodegrade once they reach the deep ocean, at which point the kelp will fall to the ocean floor, taking its carbon with it.

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Sustainable Food and Eco-Friendly Food Packaging

Green Business Bureau

Source from sustainable and ethical food providers. Businesses have an obligation to source both ethically and sustainably. Buy organic. Organic food producers are prohibited from using synthetic fertilizers and pesticides that threaten water supplies, wildlife and the farm workers that apply them.

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Sustainable Food and Eco-Friendly Food Packaging

Green Business Bureau

Source from sustainable and ethical food providers. Businesses have an obligation to source both ethically and sustainably. Buy organic. Organic food producers are prohibited from using synthetic fertilizers and pesticides that threaten water supplies, wildlife and the farm workers that apply them.

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