My Zero Waste Store | Refilling Plastic-Free Lifestyles
This summer, we launched our Sustainable Earth Small Business Awards (SESBA) and selected 15 winners who showcased outstanding sustainability commitments. Our new podcast, The Green Scene, dives into conversations with SESBA winners about their journey as sustainable business owners. In our fifth episode of The Green Scene, My Zero Waste Store | Refilling Plastic-Free Lifestyles, […]
Creating a Community Through Compost: R. City
This summer, we launched our Sustainable Earth Small Business Awards (SESBA) and chose 15 winners who showcased outstanding sustainability commitments. In our new podcast, The Green Scene, we have conversations with the trailblazing SESBA winners about walking the sustainable walk. In our second episode, R. City | Transforming Food Waste into FarmLand, we sat down […]
Can We Solve the Single-Use Plastic Problem?
Americans use 3 million plastic bottles per hour. The average American consumes 217 bottles of water per year. This equates to over 50 billion water bottles used in the US alone every year! The majority of these bottles will be used for less than an hour, and will spend hundreds of years sitting in a landfill. We can change this plastic pollution problem by changing our consumption habits and patterns to reduce the plastic use!
Can we fix the problem of plastic packaging?”
Single use plastic packaging for food and drinks creates a huge waste problem. Millions of tons of plastic packaging is discarded each year and only a small proportion gets recycled. The rest goes in the landfill, or worse. Many companies are now looking at ways to make their product packaging easier to recycle and in […]