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Practical Solutions For Eco-Friendly Office Design

The Environmental Blog

Everyone from political leaders to everyday citizens is reevaluating their wasteful behaviors and making intentional changes to save the planet. Volatile Organic Compounds ( VOCs ), for instance, leaves behind non-biodegradable chemical waste. As a result, they’re demanding more from the brands they work for and do business with.

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

Envirotec Magazine

Waste and sustainability, although a hot topic of discussion and concern, has moved even further up the political, economic and public agenda recently. For example, McDonald’s paper straws that are not recyclable , and biodegradable cups that require segregated collection and specific environments to be composted.

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Outlook on 2022: The last throes of resistance to the energy transition

Business Green

We have seen our campaigning on behalf of members answered in several key sectors, with commitments to end new fossil fuel vehicle sales; end new gas boiler sales; an end to biodegradable waste going to landfill within five years; and a government target for a net zero electricity grid. There is certainly a lot of hope for the future.

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Top 8 Sustainable Fishing Practices: Small Business Sustainability Guide

Green Business Bureau

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. Nate is currently pursuing a degree in Finance and Political Science at the University of Connecticut. Prevent Ocean Waste From Plastic Netting.

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Artist draws attention to the single-use plastic crisis

AGreenLiving

” Matos trained at the Professional Academy of Plastic Arts and lives in Bogotá, Colombia.

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The State of Green Business report 2021

Sustainability Consulting

The platforms will be kept afloat by buoys designed to biodegrade once they reach the deep ocean, at which point the kelp will fall to the ocean floor, taking its carbon with it. For example, Shopify invested in Running Tide, a company that will build kelp-growing platforms in ocean current systems. And now, with a new U.S.

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5 companies that are using nature to redefine good design

AGreenLiving

The London-based startup also manufactures a biodegradable alternative to wood-based sheet materials using byproducts from food production. Through a carbon-sequestering manufacturing process, Biohm uses landfill-bound commercial and agricultural byproducts to grow mycelium for its products.

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