AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The startup has innovated coffee brewing by making it as convenient and simple as steeping a tea bag, only it’s coffee you’re tasting. And once you’ve finished your mug of coffee, you can simply compost the bag and recycle the packaging, which is already made from recycled materials as well.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Brausch for The Verge Sustainable tires are becoming a reality, but are they coming soon enough? Renewable materials are finding their way into modern tires, and there’s even greener rubber on the horizon, too. Truly sustainable tires are becoming a reality, but will it be enough? Illustration by Nico H. Chief among them?

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Building Energy Monitoring North America Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 121

AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 1, 2019

In a world where nearly all ski wax is made from petroleum, the innovative MountainFLOW eco wax is made entirely from plants. The sight of white snow-covered hills is enough for most skiers to call off of work and hit the slopes, hopefully in a sustainable retreat. MountainFLOW Images via MountainFLOW.

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North America Recycled materials Biodegradable Cooling 28

Grist

OCTOBER 1, 2022

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. We can’t recycle our way out of the plastic problem,” Steward says. Englund asks.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 13, 2020

For this year’s Bangkok Design Week, which took place in February 2020, Thai design firm Plural Designs created the Everlasting Forest Pavilion, a temporary, tunnel-like structure built of biodegradable materials that promotes sustainable ideas and products to the public. The pavilion also includes a rest zone.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 16, 2021

The key to alleviating the damage our food production system creates starts with the selection and procurement of sustainably grown and produced products. Food miles, the distance food is transported, and eco-friendly food packaging materials are also important variables of the sustainable food equation.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

The quest to design more sustainable bottles has led a quartet of companies - Danish beer maker Carlsberg, spirits company Absolut (part of France's Pernod Ricard), French personal care company L'Oreal and a European group of beverage firm Coca-Cola - to consider a seemingly unlikely material for containing liquids: paper.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 16, 2021

The key to alleviating the damage our food production system creates starts with the selection and procurement of sustainably grown and produced products. Food miles, the distance food is transported, and eco-friendly food packaging materials are also important variables of the sustainable food equation.

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Packaging Sustainability Biodegradable Plastics 133

Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2023

Having made net zero and environmental sustainability a strategic priority, the Competition and Markets Authority is now set to probe misleading green claims on everyday product labels Supermarket shelves are a minefield for the increasingly eco-conscious shopper. Is that shampoo bottle as easily 'recyclable' as the label claims?

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Grist

JANUARY 8, 2021

Meanwhile, General Electric recently announced it has begun turning decommissioned wind turbine blades into cement, while scientists at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory are cooking up new materials that could make the blades of the future far more recyclable than today’s state of the art.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The aim is to tackle environmental impacts and resource inefficiency in every corner of the packaging ecosystem by promoting reusable packaging, cracking down on over packaging, standardising recycling labels, mandating the roll out of deposit return schemes, and introducing new rules to drive demand for recycled materials.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Just as you have blue bins for recyclable materials, brown bins are meant only for organic materials. Oluwatosin (Tosin) Folorunso is a Master’s student of Global Sustainability, an entrepreneur, and content writer for Green Business Bureau. Get a brown bin.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Often when products claim to be made from recycled materials , companies are only talking about the bulk of the item. Most of the backpack, such as the outer shell, side panels and webbing, is made from recycled PET bottles, but the rest comes from recycled textiles like nylon, fleece and felt.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

The pattern will be familiar to many who work in the sustainability space. These various new products and behaviours are being accompanied by more cutting edge technology and business model innovations. Another example was provided this week, as Boots announced it is to turn 86,000 plastic bottles into a range of eco-friendly tights.

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