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5 sustainable packaging developments to watch in 2021

GreenBiz

5 sustainable packaging developments to watch in 2021. For companies with sustainable packaging goals, 2025 is fast approaching. That’s the year when many have pledged to become zero waste, or to use 100 percent reusable, recyclable or compostable packaging. Loop isn’t the only reusable packaging platform seeing strong growth.

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How the utilities industry is building a sustainable future

Smart Energy International

As more wind turbines, solar arrays, and other renewable energy installations are built, they generate a larger proportion of energy on the grid. We’ve begun shifting 100% of new products to circular design principles, reducing the use of virgin plastic by 20%, and reducing packaging foam use by 75%.

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Vodka made from captured carbon dioxide? That’s the spirit.

Grist

Crystal-clear liquid flows from the array into big plastic drums, which chemists wheel toward a tall metal still. The team hopes that selling a consumer product will allow it to scale up its pilot system for making alcohol, so that the company can expand into alternative fuels, plastic-making chemicals, or other markets.

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Hawaii Legislature: Clean Economy Progress Hangs in the Balance

Elemental Excelerator

SB3158 is designed to accelerate the transition to low-carbon micro-mobility transportation (along the lines of our portfolio company Bikeshare Hawaii ), but to also ensure that any financial support goes to the low- and moderate-income community members that need it most.

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Could the EU's Fit for 55 programme unleash a new wave of climate litigation?

Business Green

The authors anticipate the upcoming Fit for 55 package in particular is set to trigger several new cases. The authors predicted the package could enable litigation multiple fronts. According to the report, more than 318 cases in Europe have been identified as climate cases since 1993.

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From stations and supermarkets to fast fashion and takeaway boxes, the plastics crackdown continues

Business Green

The initial headline-grabbing pledges to phase out single use plastic may have become old news, but the new normal is seeing hundreds of companies quietly advance their plastic reduction strategies. The flurry of plastic-related announcements this week is case in point. Delivering on those initial pledges can take decades.

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BusinessGreen Leaders Awards 2021: And the winner is.

Business Green

In a hugely competitive category, Greenhouse PR narrowly won out thanks to a year of rapid growth, packed with high impact campaigns promoting the best of green business and an impressive array of pro-bono work. Green Packaging Project of the Year. Riverford Organic Farmers - Box Zero and Packaging Pledge. Thrive Renewables.