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Your Recycling Adds Up: How Recycling Every Bottle and Can Just Makes Sense

Today's guest blog comes to us from NERC Advisory Member The Recycling Partnership. The original post can be found here.

We’re all spending more time at home consuming more products in our homes. Are you also recycling everything you can in your curbside recycling?

Every community recycling program is different, so it’s important you check your community’s website for what is and isn’t recyclable in your neighborhood. The important thing to remember is that by recycling your products, you are making it possible for the next products you buy to be made from recycled content.

Did you know that your plastic bottle can be recycled into new plastic bottles 10 times before being made into another product, like clothing or carpet? Did you know that your cans are infinitely recyclable? That’s right, they can be made into new cans forever. And the best…

Reduce, reuse, recycle, register?

Today's guest blog is courtesy of GreenBiz. The original post can be read here.

Consumer interest in the use of recycled materials, so-called recyclates, is on the rise. Indeed, the perceived sustainability of a product or brand is playing an increasingly important role in purchasing decisions, as evidenced by one global marketing research firm predicting sales of sustainable products to reach up to $150 billion in the U.S. by 2021.

Using recycled materials in products is just one way companies can reduce their impact on the environment, and as GreenBiz readers are well aware, this practice has been growing across a surprising breadth of industries.

Patagonia, for example, recently declared that 68 percent of its offerings use recycled materials. Similarly, activewear brand Salomon announced that it would…

In the midst of the packaging crisis, EPN launched SolvingPackaging.org to accelerate real solutions

Today's guest blog comes courtesy of the Environmental Paper Network. The original post can be found here.

 

Two years ago now, though it seems much longer than that, I traveled from the USA to Germany for a sustainable packaging conference organized by denkhausbremen and Environmental Paper Network – International. Over 60 people joined me, mostly from across Europe and the UK and also from China and Canada. We came together in a brightly-lit room in Bremen. On the first day there were advocates, and business people, government representatives, and one intrepid interpreter. The conference had a paper focus but the presentations and discussions moved fluidly between the impacts of packaging made of paper, plastic, and all kinds of materials. By the end of a session that was exclusively for NGO advocates on the second day, there was strong agreement that we needed to rapidly address…

Ben’s Blog: A big day for climate progress; green purchasing

Today's guest blog comes courtesy of Secretary Ben Grumbles of NERC State Member Maryland Department of the Environment. The original post can be found here.

I will always remember February 19, 2021, as a day for climate hope, globally and locally. Not only was it the day the United States re-entered the historic Paris Climate Accord but also the day the Maryland Department of the Environment submitted its final 2030 Greenhouse Gas Reduction Act Plan to Governor Larry Hogan and the Maryland General Assembly.

This bold, ambitious 279-page plan is the most detailed, number-crunched, and up-to-date of its kind of any state in the nation. Our climate team led a robust and inclusive collaboration over the last three years among MDE, other Hogan Administration departments and agencies, the independent Maryland…

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