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The best packaging options for sustainable companies

The Environmental Blog

In terms of industrial impacts on the environment, one of the biggest culprits is the packaging material and accessories that tag along with products. The term refers to the sourcing and development of packaging solutions that have a minimal carbon footprint and a sustainable product life cycle. Corrugated bubble wrap .

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Efficient Tactics for Minimizing Your Carbon Footprint During a Move

The Environmental Blog

Indeed, minimizing your carbon footprint during a move is one such action, often overlooked but significant. So, let’s explore eight tips for minimizing your carbon footprint during a move. Caption: By reducing, reusing, and recycling, you’re not only decluttering but also minimizing your carbon footprint during a move.

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Mercurial matter: Puzzling out PFAS removal in landfill

Envirotec Magazine

The tag “forever chemicals” is clearly very appropriate for a class of synthetic compounds whose unusual molecular structure, including the carbon-fluorine (C-F) bond (considered one of the strongest found in organic chemistry), appears to offer little scope for any thermal or other degradation at all, so they endure permanently.

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How traceability can tackle cattle-driven deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

Business Green

With a mixture of trepidation and elation she left the safety of her family bubble to purchase one of the first packs of verified 100 per cent deforestation-free Brazilian Beef from a Carrefour store in Sao Paulo. A couple of weeks ago my Brazilian colleague Daniella Mariuzzo ventured out to a supermarket for the first time in 18 months.

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'More UK gas won't bring down bills': The green economy reacts to the government's energy crisis plan

Business Green

The huge price-tag for this unprecedented intervention lays bare the cost of our reliance on volatile and expensive gas. We welcome the resolve to take immediate action to reduce costs and increase energy security for both the short and long term, whilst remaining committed to net zero carbon emissions by 2050.

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Can a tiger change its stripes? Meet the pulp and paper giant bankrolling a huge Sumatran rainforest reserve

Business Green

Some rough estimates put the entire Kampala Peninsula's peatland carbon storage at upwards of 6.5 million tonnes, making it an area of growing interest to the burgeoning global carbon credit market, as well as the Indonesian government, which has its sights set on a 2060 net zero target.

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These urchin slayers are trying to save California’s underwater ‘rainforest’

Grist

But the red urchins, which dwell in underwater kelp forests, had gotten harder to find in recent years; each additional foot of depth forced more nitrogen into his bloodstream and upped his risk for dangerous bubbles lodging in his body or brain. Kelp are key to much of the West Coast’s marine biodiversity.

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