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PaperTale app shows the ethics and sustainability of clothing with a simple scan

AGreenLiving

Sure we can observe and avoid excess packaging , but it’s challenging to get a deeper dive into the origin of materials or how employees at a plant halfway around the globe are treated. All of the information gathered from all sources is stored using blockchain technology to enhance transparency and prevent users from manipulating the data.

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This unisex T-shirt is naturally dyed with Japanese cherry blossoms

AGreenLiving

The shirt is currently available for $85 and will be sent in biodegradable packaging. To ensure transparency throughout the manufacturing process, each garment tag includes blockchain technology that shows the full history of the garment. The Sakura T-shirt is made with a relaxed unisex design. PANGAIA Images via PANGAIA.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

It helped define fast fashion, yet is in the vanguard of circular innovations in apparel. It uses blockchain to trace sourcing in India for guar, used in shampoos. Mattel seeks for all products and packaging to comprise recycled or recyclable materials by 2030, and in June it brought sugarcane-plastic toddler stacking rings to market.

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These recycled plastic tracksuits are naturally dyed with plants

AGreenLiving

Environmentally conscious clothing companies are few and far between, with the fashion industry as a whole being one of the top polluters on Earth. Additional consideration is taken for the product packaging, which is part bio-based and able to break down at a compost facility in 24 weeks. The new tracksuits are made in Portugal.

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SDG15: The fight for life on land

Business Green

As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) notes in characteristically understated fashion, land "provides the principal basis for human livelihoods and well-being, including the supply of food, freshwater and multiple other ecosystem services, as well as biodiversity".

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

AGreenLiving

It helped define fast fashion, yet is in the vanguard of circular innovations in apparel. It uses blockchain to trace sourcing in India for guar, used in shampoos. Mattel seeks for all products and packaging to comprise recycled or recyclable materials by 2030, and in June it brought sugarcane-plastic toddler stacking rings to market.

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Online Event - VERGE Energy Conference

Green Market Oracle

The Fundamentals of Circular Packaging (Workshop): An increase in consumer awareness, corporate engagement and regulatory action has led more companies to set ambitious goals to reduce and reimagine their use of plastics and packaging. Meat and produce is aggregated and passed between multiple intermediaries.