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Biodegradable vs Compostable: Understanding The Difference

Green Business Bureau

Biodegradable vs compostable: Addressing the confusion. Biodegradable vs compostable: Which material would you choose ? To tackle our global waste crisis, leaders in sustainable business are seeking materials that don’t reside in the environment but break down to cause no further harm to nature. Biodegradation definition.

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Eco Friendly Retail Packaging Complete Guide (Sustainable Packaging Innovations)

Green Business Bureau

Eco friendly retail packaging guide. In this Green Business Bureau eco friendly retail packaging guide, we explore sustainable packaging solutions for 6 of the most common types of packaging materials used. Retail packaging defined: The impact of packaging waste and the rise of the ethical consumer.

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Busting waste and recycling myths

Envirotec Magazine

Whether you’re a happy-go-lucky ‘wish-cycler’ – tossing waste in the hope it can be recycled – or one who routinely agonizes over different diameters of plastic wrapping, there’s no harm in picking up a clearer understanding of the whole process. The Green Dot logo shows that a company has joined the scheme.

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How RFID technology is playing a role in reducing waste and increasing recycling

Envirotec Magazine

PragmatIC says its technology could allow a low-cost inlay (tag) to be incorporated in packaging, allowing consumers to access information about product usage, food storage, cooking instructions and local recycling. But, if we focus solely on packaging waste, we ignore the fact that it’s only part of the story.

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Has a new front opened up in the war on packaging waste?

Business Green

The EU has unveiled sweeping new plans that could crack down on everything from mini shampoo bottles and disposable coffee cups to excess packaging and virgin plastics. After several years of pandemic-induced stalemate, could a major new front in the war on plastic waste be about to open up? And then, progress appeared to stall.

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25 Green Business Ideas for the Aspiring Ecopreneur

Green Business Bureau

Consumers need new options for less wasteful and less pollutive products, packaging, transportation, and energy. Vestas produces wind power turbines for the international market, but finds many of its customers right at home in Central/Northern Europe, where demand for clean energy production is high. Clean Energy.

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Starbucks brews up expanded 'returnable cup' deposit trial

Business Green

Starbucks has this week launched a major new trial that could see it offer returnable, reusable cups at over 4,000 stores across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). The hope is that by offering reusable cups with a small deposit reuse rates will increase and cups will be routinely returned, leading to lower levels of waste.