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Top 8 Sustainable Fishing Practices: Small Business Sustainability Guide

Green Business Bureau

Reduce fossil fuel use. Fishing nets and lines are traditionally made from non-biodegradable, non-recyclable plastics, and all too often they are discarded, generating an accumulation of plastic waste. Reduce Fossil Fuel Use. of total global fuel consumption. Adhere to the “Good Fish Guide”.

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How To Avoid Greenwashing: A Businesses Guide for Sustainable Marketing

Green Business Bureau

If the emission reductions made were required by law anyway, it’s deceptive to market such reductions for an improved green image. It’s deceptive to disguise the degree of degradability of a product by using poorly understood technical terms such as; oxo-degradable, oxo-biodegradable, or photodegradable. Degradable Claims.

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Sustainable Event Planning: Getting Started Guide for Small Businesses

Green Business Bureau

Tip #7: Switch to non-toxic biodegradable detergents and cleaning supplies. Many commercial chemical cleaning products pollute our environment with harmful, fossil-fuel-derived chemicals that can wash into water courses. These products avoid fossil-fuel-derived ingredients and instead use enzymes and plant-based ingredients.

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How To Avoid Greenwashing: A Businesses Guide for Sustainable Marketing

Green Business Bureau

If the emission reductions made were required by law anyway, it’s deceptive to market such reductions for an improved green image. It’s deceptive to disguise the degree of degradability of a product by using poorly understood technical terms such as; oxo-degradable, oxo-biodegradable, or photodegradable. Degradable Claims.

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Wash, rinse and repeat? How policy clarity can help tackle the tide of greenwash

Business Green

Everything, from the law, customer sentiment and finance sustainability requirements put vital pressure on business to demonstrate their leadership on climate. The rules effectively place no value on capturing carbon from biodegradable waste until all the emissions from fossil waste have first been captured.

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2nd Annual WCS Talks Exceeds Expectations

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Ani Rouskova of EOS Capital Advisors believes that solar has the greatest potential to take us off fossil fuels, which many think we must do by 2050. It was a law school lottery number for picking electives — 499 out of 500 — that led her to environmental law.

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Is the end nigh for questionable climate claims in UK adverts?

Business Green

Andrew Terry, a partner at media law firm Harbottle & Lewis, said it would be a challenge for any government to establish fixed definitions for climate-related terms that all sectors could agree on. In France, fossil fuel advertising is banned, as are the terms "biodegradable" and "environmentally friendly" on product packaging.