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Sustainable Catering: Small Business Guide

Green Business Bureau

Providing recyclable to-go boxes and encouraging customers to take home leftovers is another effective way to reduce waste. Depending on what materials your local collection facility accepts, plastic tableware can be rinsed and recycled. Plant-based meat replacements that look and taste like meat are also becoming more available.

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Sustainable consumption: Get ready for the next frontier in the race to zero

Business Green

By breaking down the complexity of the sustainable development agenda into consumer behaviours like reducing packaging, recycling or switching to renewable energy, or making a plant-based lifestyle aspirational, brands and corporates can create compelling campaigns that drive revenue and trigger sustainable behaviour change.

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Reducing Food System Emissions, One Bite At A Time

Energy Innovation

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. A full list of AGCI’s updates covering recent climate change and clean energy pathways research is available online at [link].

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SDG14: How to develop a cleaner ocean strategy

Business Green

This can then be used simply as a deposit, or as a raw material for marking different types of food stuff or energy.". Industry has fought intensively against any semblance of responsibility to design products and packaging to be truly recyclable," Eriksen says. This really needs to change.".

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Investors are betting billions on carbontech. Will it pay off?

Grist

While governments and deep-pocketed energy companies still contribute the most, the funding pool also includes philanthropies and wealthy people looking to accelerate the low-carbon economy. energy secretary, said during the U.N. Analysts say the market for plant-based protein and meat alternatives could balloon to $85 billion by 2030.

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Why technology could make animals obsolete

AFN Sustainable Protein

The key insight driving our investment thesis is that for thousands of years animals have been employed as a technology to provide valuable products and services including transportation, communications, energy, labor, clothing, medicine, and of course food. The market demands them, but it shows little allegiance to their mode of production.