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How farmers and seaweed can help tackle ocean pollution

Business Green

Just ask Luis Lombana, CEO of Ficosterra , a Spanish marine biotechnology company that makes fertilisers from an unexpected source: seaweed. Researchers have even found that certain types of seaweed used as feed supplement for cattle can reduce methane emissions from cow farts. Farmers as a group don't typically embrace change.

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Eco Friendly Retail Packaging Complete Guide (Sustainable Packaging Innovations)

Green Business Bureau

Polluting packaging agents build up to foul habitats and ecological systems, creating unstable environments which threaten human well-being and security. Pollution : Uncontrolled disposal. In oxygen-poor environments, the material will break down into the potent greenhouse gas, methane. Waste contamination : Controlled storage.