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Sustainable Food and Eco-Friendly Food Packaging

Green Business Bureau

Under natural conditions, plastics break apart into tiny pieces, known as microplastics , which pollute water supplies and are ingested by both wildlife and humans. Use 100% biodegradable, compostable and recyclable materials. To recap, all compostable materials are biodegradable but not all biodegradables are compostable.

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Sustainable Food and Eco-Friendly Food Packaging

Green Business Bureau

Under natural conditions, plastics break apart into tiny pieces, known as microplastics , which pollute water supplies and are ingested by both wildlife and humans. Use 100% biodegradable, compostable and recyclable materials. To recap, all compostable materials are biodegradable but not all biodegradables are compostable.

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Fifty Shades of Greta

Green Market Oracle

Through his passion for the outdoors, he witnessed the effects of microplastic pollution on the environment. When Fionn was in high school, he invented a new method of extracting microplastics from the water using his own version of ferrofluid, a liquid developed by NASA. So here I am." Loukina Tille is from Switzerland. "We