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Eco Friendly Retail Packaging Complete Guide (Sustainable Packaging Innovations)

Green Business Bureau

Eco friendly retail packaging guide. In this Green Business Bureau eco friendly retail packaging guide, we explore sustainable packaging solutions for 6 of the most common types of packaging materials used. Retail packaging defined: The impact of packaging waste and the rise of the ethical consumer.

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Ethical beef? Fresh range goes UK-wide with 'wildlife-friendly' red meat

Business Green

Online ethical grocer Fresh-range announces it is to expand its operations to cover England, Wales, and most of Scotland. There has been widespread coverage of the outsize environmental impact of eating lamb and beef in recent years, but now a new range of products is aiming to try and make red meat ethical again.

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RSPB expands Fair to Nature certification scheme

Business Green

cation scheme has this week been relaunched and expanded in a bid to accelerate the adoption of more sustainable agricultural practices that can help tackle the enormous loss of UK biodiversity. Ethical consumerism is on the rise, especially when it comes to food," Varney said.

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The road to a sustainable economy

The Environmental Blog

Techniques, such as organic farming and biodiversity can make all the difference. Encouraging sustainable business practices This can include implementing energy-efficient technologies , reducing waste and emissions, adopting circular economy principles, as well as ethical sourcing and production.

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Lidl gives green light to 'eco labels' on own-brand products in Scotland

Business Green

Items' carbon footprint, packaging, impact on biodiversity, and production methods will all factor into their final score, with products set to receive better scores when they are certified by third party schemes such as Fairtrade and Forest Alliance, Lidl said.

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Harnessing the power of tech on the path to net zero

Business Green

Alongside climate change, we are also facing a biodiversity crisis. Plus, today's ethics-conscious consumers won't accept inaction. Other facets of your business to consider may include your packaging, shipping, and energy use in facilities such as offices. The Amazon has suffered four severe droughts in less than eight years.

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John Lewis Partnership promises to achieve 'zero deforestation' across key commodities

Business Green

The John Lewis Partnership has committed to ensuring the soy, palm oil, cocoa, beef, leather, timber, and man-made cellulosic materials in its own-brand products do not cause deforestation, as part of a new package of measures announced this morning designed to help nature and reduce carbon emissions.

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