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The more plastic companies make, the more they pollute

Grist

The more plastic a company makes, the more pollution it creates. Researchers from a dozen universities around the world found that, for every 1 percent increase in the amount of plastic a company uses, there is an associated 1 percent increase in its contribution to global plastic litter.

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Hotel Sustainability & Waste Management: Reducing Food, Water and Plastic Waste

Green Business Bureau

This article exposes the flawed system of waste management within hotels and provides practical solutions for reducing three prominent hotel wastes: food, water and plastic waste. Create a food waste log to keep track of where your food waste comes from, how much and at what frequency. Implement the 4-R’s for Plastic Waste Reduction.

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Food companies should know what’s in the packaging. Here’s why.

EDF + Business

Perhaps surprisingly, one action you haven’t seen us recommend – until now – is one of the key tenets of EDF’s Five Pillars of Safer Food Leadership : supply chain transparency, in this case into chemical additives to both raw material and final paper and plastic packaging. And we’re not alone.

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Motorcycle parts from GPR Italia are recyclable

AGreenLiving

GPR’s Impact Zero Project focuses on creating high-quality products that are efficient, recyclable and manufactured to bring their carbon footprint down to zero. Their motorcycle parts are built from 51% to 71% recycled material, and up to 88% of the product weight is recyclable, according to a video GPR produced on its Impact Zero Project.

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Fifty Shades of Greta

Green Market Oracle

Aditya Mukarji , is from New Delhi India, In March 2018 he began waging war on plastic straws. Within just five months, he had already helped replace more than 500,000 plastic straws at restaurants and hotels in New Delhi. She works with her sister to reduce plastic use on their home island. It gives you air, water and shelter.