Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2023

Is that shampoo bottle as easily 'recyclable' as the label claims? What is the correct way to dispose of 'biodegradable' plastic bags? The CMA said it would analyse the environmental claims made on the labels of such products, both online and in store, to consider whether companies behind these items are complying with UK consumer law.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

An explosive new report finds that the plastics industry has misled the public for decades about the viability of recycling plastic, promoting reuse despite the fact that mechanical recycling was not feasible – perpetuating the plastic waste crisis the world faces today. But let’s recycle it into energy” by incinerating it.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 10, 2022

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. Recyclable Claims.

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Green Tech Challenge

MAY 3, 2019

This calls for consumer behaviour change, impact innovation in the business sector, policy change and law enforcement by governments. Recycling, when practised as an end to end solution, has proven effective. Waste Reduction The reduction of non-biodegradable waste is another plausible solution to ocean conservation.

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Business Green

JANUARY 23, 2023

Everything, from the law, customer sentiment and finance sustainability requirements put vital pressure on business to demonstrate their leadership on climate. For example, every time a recycler reprocesses one tonne of plastic the carbon emission is six times lower than the emission from new plastic material.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 27, 2021

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. It should be a standard reference for all fisheries working to become more sustainable. Prevent Ocean Waste From Plastic Netting.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 26, 2020

PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, Unilever and even Tupperware have signed on with governments and NGOs to do away with "unnecessary" plastics and innovate so that other plastics will be reused, recycled or composted; and kept out of natural systems. Plastics Pact by EMF, The Recycling Partnership and WWF. Chief legal officers .

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 16, 2021

Environmental consultants are experts in sustainability and offer their knowledge and insight on the latest environmental standards, regulations and laws. Environmental engineers may be involved with projects or plans to improve public health, waste disposal and recycling, as well as plans to control or minimize air and water pollution.

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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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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Compost and Food Waste Recycling. The benefits of recycling food waste to enrich the soil have been known for thousands of years. Biodegradable, Reusable, and Eco-friendly Consumer Products. Eco Friendly Cards provides exactly what their name would suggest – biodegradable replacements for otherwise highly wasteful cards.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2021

The CMA's draft guidance states that to be compliant with UK law, firms must ensure all their environmental statements are truthful and accurate; clear and ambiguous; include all relevant information and do not omit key details; consider the full lifecycle of a product; and be substantiated by robust, credible, and up-to-date evidence. "It

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 16, 2021

Environmental consultants are experts in sustainability and offer their knowledge and insight on the latest environmental standards, regulations and laws. Environmental engineers may be involved with projects or plans to improve public health, waste disposal and recycling, as well as plans to control or minimize air and water pollution.

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 9, 2023

We are in new, unfamiliar environments that may not support recycling, composting or sorting waste like we do at home. For example, choosing rideshare, selecting green certified accommodations, or using biodegradable travel products, is contributing in some small way to the bigger environmental cause.

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Business Green

AUGUST 28, 2020

PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, Unilever and even Tupperware have signed on with governments and NGOs to do away with "unnecessary" plastics and innovate so that other plastics will be reused, recycled or composted; and kept out of natural systems. Only five years ago, few corporate leaders had plastic pollution on their official radar.

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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. Additionally, many municipalities don’t allow recycling of the glass bottles because essential oils are classified as a flammable substance.

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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. These types of plastic are routinely not recycl ed or recycl able. They are certainly not biodegradable. Making virgin plexiglass is so much cheaper than recycling it, anyway. Don’t you agree?

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2021

We must address plastic production and consumption as well as disposal and recycling. Rather than thinking 'can I recycle this?' 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.

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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. LinkedIn | Twitter.

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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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