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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. It’s true!

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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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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. Still, the federal government lacks strong rules for phthalates in common items like food packaging, and the chemicals remain ubiquitous.

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A tribe in Maine is using hemp to remove ‘forever chemicals’ from the soil

Grist

Later, when the Aroostook Band of Micmacs took over the site’s ownership, they found its soil was rife with per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, better known as PFAS, cancer-causing compounds that are so difficult to break down they’re commonly known as “forever chemicals.”.

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'Utmost importance': Worsening soil pollution among planet's biggest challenges, UN warns

Business Green

Global assessment of soil pollution warns of major threat to food supplies unless urgent action is taken to accelerate adoption of sustainable farming practices and tackle industrial waste. Soil protection is of the utmost importance to ensure the success of our future agri-food systems, ecosystem restoration and all lives on earth," he said.

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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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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!