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The key to combatting greenwashing? An empowered marketing team

Corporate Knights

In practice, this could look like a QR code on a product tag that links to a more detailed product description (citing information about the vendor as well as the product’s materials). Turning them into polyester not only comes with a greater carbon footprint; it limits their circular lifespan.

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Comment: Pay-as-you-throw can drive the circular economy

Envirotec Magazine

A circular economy involves everyone from raw material firms to individual consumers. At the moment, renewable, cleaner or circular products and services typically have a price premium associated with them. Extracting raw materials has an impact on climate, as do the manufacturing processes that we use to make products.

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Ulta Beauty is bringing refillable containers back to the cosmetics industry

GreenBiz

million , having fully circular packaging by investing $100 million in developing regenerative solutions, and decreasing its greenhouse gas emissions. Ulta, like Sephora, is planning a Made Without list that will tag products free of parabens, phthalates and 25 other chemical categories. Circular Economy. Circular Packaging.

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Meat rendering company employs Gorman-Rupp pumps

Sustainability Matters

Rendering contributes to the circular economy by diverting this material from landfills into an organic recycling process. The pumps are also capable of pumping solid materials such as rags, ear tags, gloves and other debris. From this material, the company manufactures nutrient-rich protein meal and tallows/oils.

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Circular pallets scheme gears up for May rollout

Envirotec Magazine

Recyclable pallets initiative The Pallet LOOP says it is manufacturing tens of thousands of its distinctive bright green, circular economy pallets in readiness for them entering the building materials supply chain from May.

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First nationwide DDRS trial: 20,000 cash rewards redeemed by Ocado Retail customers

Envirotec Magazine

Invisible UV tags are also applied to the labels enabling tracking and tracing back to dedicated recycling centres and offering brands and retailers unprecedented insights into the whereabouts of their products and packaging.

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EU Digital Product Passports aim to track items through the product life-cycle

Envirotec Magazine

European legislative bodies have mobilized themselves en masse since March 2022, which is when several proposals aimed at product sustainability saw the light of day, most notably a circular economy business model. Traceability systems are to be in place to enable tracking all procedures leading from raw materials to the finished product.