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Sustainability Guide for Retail: Plastic Bag Alternatives

Green Business Bureau

Most plastic bags are made of polyethylene, which is a substance that is made from crude oil refining and natural gas processing. Oil and natural gas are non-renewable, fossil fuel-based resources, meaning that when they are extracted and produced, they emit greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change.

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Dry Cleaning Sustainability: Getting Started Guide for Small Businesses

Green Business Bureau

Contaminate water supplies and soils, making them toxic for the animals and plants that live there. Cause severe environmental accidents when it seeps down into the soil and reach drinking water aquifers. Meanwhile, different cleaning techniques have different utility usage for electricity, natural gas, and water.

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Sustainable Dry Cleaners: Getting Started Guide

Green Business Bureau

Contaminate water supplies and soils, making them toxic for the animals and plants that live there. Cause severe environmental accidents when it seeps down into the soil and reach drinking water aquifers. Meanwhile, different cleaning techniques have different utility usage for electricity, natural gas, and water.

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Global Briefing: EU carbon allowances top €100 a tonne for first time

Business Green

Under the pact the government has signed up to a set of targets, pledging to eliminate problematic and unnecessary plastics and transform all plastic packaging to reusable, recyclable or compostable formats. The government warned some habitats could take decades to recover from the pollution unleashed by Russia.

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Mapped: The Network of Powerful Agribusiness Groups Lobbying to Water Down the EU’s Sustainable Farming Targets

DeSmogBlog

Due to the environmental harms associated with the use of these agrochemicals, the EU has made limiting their use a key plank among the measures included in its “Green Deal” — a historic package by the bloc to reduce its emissions in line with global climate targets.

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AeroFarms is trying to cultivate the future of vertical farming

Business Green

According to Kurnik, hydroponics and aeroponic farming use less water and don't degrade soil like traditional farming, but for vertical farming to become environmentally sustainable on a carbon emissions level, these systems need to source electricity from renewables such as solar, wind or hydro. There's the soil degradation side.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

Microsoft’s cloud architecture eventually will house Land O’Lakes’ data tools including Truterra , which tracks impacts on soil , air and water from no-till, cover crops and fertilizer management practices, as well as WinField United r7 software that uses satellite imagery and geolocated data.