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The Maintenance Needs Of Biodiesel

The Environmental Blog

Instead, it is often blended with diesel and tagged based on the amount of diesel it’s mixed with. Though using biodiesel increases the engine’s efficiency, it can also significantly damage the rubber houses of some engines. Though it had a slow start, Edmunds found that its production has risen from 25 million gallons in 2005 to 1.7

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nat-2’s newest sneakers are made of recycled bubble wrap

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Real cork , taken from the outside of the tree without damaging it, makes up the insoles, and real rubber is used for the outsoles. The company also relies on low-impact packaging like shoeboxes and brochures made from recycled paper as well as wooden hang tags made out of wood from certified sustainable forests.

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'Testbed': Behind the scenes at Asos' latest 'circular' fashion collection

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But how will this drive change the look, feel, and price tag of items on sale on high streets and fashion sites? Footwear is generally made of lots of different components: plastic, metals, rubbers, woven [materials], glue. Maybe the biggest challenge is footwear," he said. There isn't any footwear in [the circular] collection.

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Ethically minded brands are on the rise: Here’s what you should know

The Environmental Blog

Founder of the business, Kei Nishida, shares that his desire to give back to the world inspired him to pursue the business advocacy: “We decided to use the tag line ‘Harvested with love in Japan’. IndoSole is a business that gets disposed rubber tyres from landfills and gutters around Indonesia and repurposes them into durable footwear.

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Is Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade destroying the environment?

AGreenLiving

Having said that, even at an extraordinary price tag, the amount of helium used equates to a small percentage of usage for a single day in the country. As for the material of the balloons themselves, they’ve received an environmental upgrade from the original rubber to a polyurethane fabric that can be upcycled in a variety of ways.

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Wisdom is replacing plastic with zero-waste school supplies

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The company also provides a recyclable aluminum pencil tin set lined with wool that includes a pencil, metal sharpener, highlighter and natural rubber eraser. Five years later, she was tagged for study and released back into the wild. The primary inspiration actually came from the animal world, appropriately. According the the U.S.