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How to Reduce Packaging Waste

The Environmental Blog

All those mountains of packaging waste? It’s time to rethink how we use packaging and start protecting our environment. Why Reducing Packaging Waste Matters We’ve got a serious packaging waste problem, thanks to things like online shopping, lots of throwaway stuff, and not enough recycling.

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Group attempts to turn plastic waste into a useful soil additive

Envirotec Magazine

Such charcoal captures carbon and could potentially be added to soil to improve soil water retention and aeration of farmlands. It could also fertilize the soil as it naturally breaks down. packaging, and polyethylene terephthalate, or PET, the material commonly used to make water and soda bottles, among many other products.

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Can Clothes Really Be Recycled?

The Environmental Blog

Packaging and food waste are some of the most common things in your daily life that you recycle. Paper, plastic, and glass are processed for repurposing, while food scraps make for composting that enriches soil while helping reduce landfill emissions. Why Recycle Your Clothes? The Recycling Process.

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Chemicals used in plastic food packaging linked to 10% of preterm births in 2018

Grist

The chemicals, called phthalates, are typically added to plastics like food packaging, shopping bags, and shower curtains to make them more flexible. Less than 10 percent of plastics are recycled worldwide, and some evidence suggests that recycling may actually increase their toxicity.

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Struggling to find the most sustainable food packaging for your company? You can customize and optimize with the UP Scorecard

EDF + Business

Toxic chemicals are used in food packaging and many are linked to health effects , like cancer or infertility. They can also pollute our soil, air and waterways, hurting more than just the person eating from the packaging. . This is where the Understanding Packaging Scorecard ( UP Scorecard for short) comes in.

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WEEE Fund unveils £5.6m Covid-19 support package for electrical waste recyling sector

Business Green

Covid-19 support package to help the electrical waste recycling sector manage disruption caused by the coroinavirus crisis. We've designed the application process to ensure speedy allocation of funding, and included a range of support for re-use and recycling organisations.".

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Construction contractor goes circular with temporary structures and roads

Envirotec Magazine

Recent works completed in South Croydon used the proprietary soil enhancement system developed by Soil Science. But new technologies and new ways of conceptualising the problems are starting to appear, as specialist contractor Soil Science explains. And all that’s before you consider packaging or the use of plastic!