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PA Environment Daily
JANUARY 18, 2024
On January 18, the PennEnvironment Research & Policy Center and Frontier Group estimated, on average, bans on single-use plastic bags can eliminate almost 300 plastic bags per person, per year, according to a new analysis. That means less waste and less litter.
PA Environment Daily
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
Topics include-- -- Featuring an entire track on Organic Circularity -- Third Party Certification -- Producer Responsibility -- Climate Change through Materials Management -- Finding Zero -- EPA National Recycling Strategy For updates on the Conference agenda and logistics, visit the PA ReMaDE Conference webpage.
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Enviromental Defense
APRIL 18, 2023
The report, entitled Left Holding the Bag: A Survey of Plastic Packaging in Canada’s Grocery Stores , found that nearly two-thirds of products in four key departments (produce, baby food, pet food and soups) were packaged in plastic. Flexible plastics like pouches, sachets and bags are even worse—only 1 per cent of those are recycled.
Ocean Conservancy
MARCH 14, 2023
Our new city offered curbside composting, and ever since then we’ve been separating eggshells, coffee grounds and other food items from the rest of our household waste. But the change has underscored just how much of our waste stream was previously going into landfills. Unfortunately, a lot of organic waste ends up in landfills.
Legal Planet
APRIL 22, 2024
The hope isn’t so much that this intervention method has a lot of promise, Marine Cloud Brightening is a mixed bag. They’re doing careful testing and assessment, at tiny scale and zero risk, on an intervention method that might help; they even got some prominent press coverage; and all the discussion is measured, rational, and civil.
Enviromental Defense
JANUARY 26, 2023
In order to avoid false solutions like chemical recycling and incineration, groups are also calling for truly zero waste, reuse-centred systems to support the phase out of the aforementioned categories. A shift to a truly zero waste, circular economy is possible, but not with a ban only covering 3% of Canada’s plastic waste.
PA Environment Daily
MARCH 2, 2023
This year, $300,000 will be awarded to projects that address food waste prevention, reduction, and recovery across The GIANT Company’s operating area in the states of Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, and Virginia. As a grocer, we are tackling the issue of food waste in our operations every day. Applications are due April 13.
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