Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Consumers need new options for less wasteful and less pollutive products, packaging, transportation, and energy. Biodegradable, Reusable, and Eco-friendly Consumer Products. Eco Friendly Cards provides exactly what their name would suggest – biodegradable replacements for otherwise highly wasteful cards. Clean Energy.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2021

If the average smoker discards just half of their unwanted cigarettes, that’s 3,600 butts a year, butts made of non-biodegradable cellulose acetate — a type of plastic. But cigarette butts do not degrade – and throwing them down the storm drain doesn’t solve the problem; it just moves it on for someone else to clean and sort out.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Plastics “don’t biodegrade,” promised the head of the Society of the Plastics Industry (SPI), an industry group, in the 1970s. If landfills didn’t placate the public, there was always incineration: “Recycle plastic packaging? One of the industry’s early “solutions” to plastic waste was simply to collect it in landfills. Problem solved.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 26, 2020

CLOs have to keep up with a rapidly evolving patchwork of state laws governing plastic use and disposal, driven by activists, regulators and consumers. And companies have benefited from shifting public sentiment on plastics when they've issued corporate debt with proceeds tied to plastic waste reduction. Chief legal officers .

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 9, 2023

For example, choosing rideshare, selecting green certified accommodations, or using biodegradable travel products, is contributing in some small way to the bigger environmental cause. With these laws left at the state and municipal level, there is inconsistency across the country and a lack of consolidated effort to reduce plastic pollution.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 12, 2020

Many reports claim anything but safe working conditions for those harvesting the gems, with lax labor laws and many poverty-stricken areas being ruled by brutal military groups. Most sheet mask packaging contains a combination of aluminum and plastic, making it unrecyclable, so it ends up in the trash.

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Business Green

AUGUST 28, 2020

CLOs have to keep up with a rapidly evolving patchwork of state laws governing plastic use and disposal, driven by activists, regulators and consumers. And companies have benefited from shifting public sentiment on plastics when they've issued corporate debt with proceeds tied to plastic waste reduction. Chief legal officers.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 25, 2021

Now, federal government regulations and 17 states have enacted or are enacting laws aimed at eliminating HFCs. Weekly trips to the grocery store put plastic packaging and single-use bags at the forefront of public consciousness, highlighting the role that food retailers play in addressing waste each time they visit.

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Unsustainable

JUNE 11, 2020

Consequently, local or state jurisdictions are seeking to pass laws banning public protests of fossil fuel projects. They are certainly not biodegradable. Food and meal delivery services come along with lots of plastic packaging. So much for constitutional rights like free speech and public assembly in the age of fossil fuels.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

Badalian received an environmental law degree from Lewis & Clark Law School, which helped shape his policy work, he says. Most recently, Barudin led a tribal task force with the nonprofit group Vote Solar to support New Mexico's new law enabling tribes and pueblos to access community solar programs.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2021

we should think 'does this need to be packaged at all?'. In 2008 Rwanda instituted a national ban on non-biodegradable plastic bags and in October 2019, it became the first country in Africa to issue a complete ban on all single-use plastics. Rather than thinking 'can I recycle this?'

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AGreenLiving

MAY 17, 2021

Badalian received an environmental law degree from Lewis & Clark Law School, which helped shape his policy work, he says. Most recently, Barudin led a tribal task force with the nonprofit group Vote Solar to support New Mexico’s new law enabling tribes and pueblos to access community solar programs.

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