The holiday season often generates significant waste. Between excessive packaging, wrapping paper scraps, and more bundles of generic personal care and beauty items lining shelves than you can count, ...
The European Union's new packaging waste directive could give a boost to recycled-content plastic, and in the minds of some plastics leaders, that's good for business. Reuters and other media are ...
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But whether refilling actually makes a difference depends on how these systems are used and what they replace. Scores of ...
Simplified Environmental Solutions LLC (SES), a nationwide leader in landfill diversion, announced the opening of its new corporate headquarters in ...
Garbage is inevitable in most stores. Even bulk-food and produce aisles are lined with rolls of thin, clingy plastic bags. At The Realm Refillery in Northeast Portland, however, shopping for food and ...
BOZEMAN, Mont. — Zero-waste stores are becoming more popular across the country. EcoMontana founder Heidi Noyes opened the first shop of its kind in Bozeman, Eco by Design. For Noyes, reducing plastic ...
In 2023, the Virginia Beach City Council signed a resolution, on the recommendation of the Virginia Beach Clean Community Commission (VBCCC), that recognizes the first full week of September as Zero ...