Websites
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Good product, bad package: top sustainable packaging mistakesEnvironmental sustainability and business don’t always go hand in hand, especially when it comes to product packaging
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No Plastic BagsPlastic Bag Phase-Out Has Started
It's governments' intention to phase-out the lightweight plastic carry bags used by many retailers by the end of 2008. Many retailers have already started to make the change away from these types of bags. -
Plastic Free JulyPlastic Free July aims to raise awareness of the problems and amount of single-use disposable plastic in our lives and challenges people to do something about it. You can sign up for a day, a week or the whole month and try to refuse ALL single-use plastic or try the TOP 4: plastic bags, water bottles, takeaway coffee cups and straws.
Packaging Problems
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Bubble WrapAs we all know, bubble wrap is made of plastic, which is derived from oil pumped out of the ground.
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Packing PeanutsFoam peanuts are mostly made of expanded polystyrene, or EPS. Expanded foam – like all plastics – are made from oils derived from non-renewable fossil fuels.
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Void FillVoid fill is often derived from plastic-based materials, which are from non-renewable fossil fuels.
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Green PackagingSure, these alternatives are better than not, but think about it for a moment: you are buying another product which has consumed some other resource – whether that be a grown product such as cornstarch or some other synthesised substance which has claims to be able to break down.
BioCup
Books in the Library
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Green Technology by Call Number: Planet Earth - Sustainability 333.794 HOBISBN: 9781445139289Publication Date: 2013
Sustainable Packaging Brands
Bee’s Wrap started with a question facing many families and home cooks: How could we eliminate plastics in our kitchen in favor of a healthier, more sustainable way to store our food?
Through the widespread sales of KeepCup through our four channels, cafes can lift reuse rates to 30% reusables in the “takeaway” environment.
- Each time you use your glass straw it means one less plastic straw ending up in landfill. Your glass straw has the potential to replace thousands of plastic straws!