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Cummins Employees Improve Environment One Mussel and Bee at a Time

3BL Media

Small, flexible, colored, plastic tags were applied to the shell of the mussels, which included an individual number for each mussel to be identified and measured. Some mussels were also outfitted with Passive Integrated Transponder (PIT) tags glued onto their shells.

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She tried to avoid plastic while grocery shopping for a week. Here’s how it went

Environmental News Bits

I didn’t see the thin plastic thread running between one leaf on my pineapple and its tag when I put the pineapple in my shopping cart, when I checked out or when I unpacked groceries at home. Read the full story at NPR. Here’s how it went.

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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). This allows companies to offer additional layers of context to back up high-level claims and break down complex concepts.

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Ulta Beauty is bringing refillable containers back to the cosmetics industry

GreenBiz

The beauty industry has a plastic waste problem. Ulta, like Sephora, is planning a Made Without list that will tag products free of parabens, phthalates and 25 other chemical categories. Since the 1960s, the amount of plastic packaging on everything, not just cosmetics, has increased 120 times. Jesse Klein. And it knows it.

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Cisco’s Green Team Network: How to Be More Sustainable During the Holidays

3BL Media

Unfortunately, most conventional wrapping paper sold in stores has plastic lining, coating, or harmful chemicals, which means it cannot be recycled. Similarly, Green Team co-lead Jordan Hart White based in Raleigh, United States likes to wrap presents in butcher paper and then draw on decorations and name tags. Out of the 4.6

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

Envirotec Magazine

For example, digital links accessible through a unique product identifier will need to be added to the products themselves rather than outer packaging or tags. Interested parties should be able to access information relating to raw materials, manufacturers, distributors, retailers, and recycling options.

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This tracking company wants to sell sustainability

Stacey Higginbotham

Once the item arrives, the tag can be thrown out or partially recycled. Each tracker contains less than two grams of lithium and can be recycled with plastic waste, according to Moeco’s press materials. Today Moeco’s clients are big companies tracking their own products such as Colgate and DuPont.

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