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New Updates to Understanding Packaging Scorecard Spur a Safer & More Sustainable Foodservice Industry

EDF + Business

It also underscores the urgency of tools like the Understanding Packaging (UP) Scorecard in helping foodservice companies navigate the complex landscape of sustainable food packaging to make choices that both protect human health as well as the environment. This feature promotes teamwork and knowledge sharing within organizations.

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Food waste startup backed by Oprah Winfrey snags $250 million

GreenBiz

It's applied in packaging facilities or warehouses using a water-based formula. What's more, the coating is edible and because it's made from plant matter, it can be used on organic products. The company says each item can last two to three times longer, because Apeel's coating slows water loss and oxidation.

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Fighting deforestation should be a top priority for 2021, and here’s how it can be

GreenBiz

More than 1 million acres of forests have been lost since 1990, leaving the global stock at near 10 million acres, according to a July report by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). CDP’s recent " Zeroing In on Deforestation Report " urged consumer products and food companies to devote more energy to this issue.

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Is A Lithium Cartel Inevitable?

R-Squared Energy

The first is that the vast majority of the world’s lithium resource is in South America — primarily in Chile, Argentina, and Bolivia. It isn’t out of the question that an analog to The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) could emerge. As the U.S. OLEC, if you will. foreign policy for decades. Thus, the U.S.

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Food waste startup Apeel Sciences snags $250m backing

Business Green

It's applied in packaging facilities or warehouses using a water-based formula. What's more, the coating is edible and because it's made from plant matter, it can be used on organic products. The company says each item can last two to three times longer, because Apeel's coating slows water loss and oxidation.

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Meat Industry Climate Claims – Criticisms and Concerns

DeSmogBlog

According to an analysis published by Oxford University’s Our World in Data project, the transport, processing, retail, and packaging of food, account for only a small share of emissions, while most GHG emissions caused by animal agriculture result from the production of the meat itself.

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Fighting deforestation should be a top priority for 2021, and here’s how it can be

AGreenLiving

More than 1 million acres of forests have been lost since 1990, leaving the global stock at near 10 million acres, according to a July report by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). percent. “Rely on local NGOs, scientific communities,” he says.

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