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Carbon offsetting is an internationally recognised way undertaken by many businesses to take responsibility for their carbon footprint and portray themselves as environmentally responsible corporations to their investors and customers. A carbon offset is a reduction in emissions of carbon dioxide or greenhouse...

A report in the guardian: The plastics problem: are natural alternatives doing more harm than good?  sounds like a sequel to last week's  blog on ‘The Impossible Compostable’ Yes the race is on to develop more sustainable types of plastics...

Businesses are increasingly using environmental claims  such as 'being compostable' in order to differentiate themselves and their products from their competitors.  But are such claims substantiated and appropriately qualified. Most of the time they are not as it is quite...

If we want to make a significant difference to climate change and global warming, then we need to get serious about investing in nature. Planting trees can help us reach our 2015 Paris Agreement goal of limiting a rise in...

  The Situation: Are people growing numb to the term “eco-friendly”? What does the term really mean in the eyes of those who truly take care of our earth in comparison with those who just assume they take care of...

Does recycling help the environment or are we just going around in circles?
One of the original goals of the recycling movement was to avert a supposed crisis as the nation’s landfills were running out of space and to reduce carbon emissions and the greenhouse gases as we reduce the need to manufacture new products, hence less mining, drilling and logging.  But because more and more materials types have been added to the recyclable list, the process has become more complex and expensive than expected. In addition, recycling, especially of  plastic waste  mitigates carbon impacts only to a limited extent.

External Benefits Positive Public Relations When a business uses energy efficient lighting, heating and cooling, reduces its water use, recycles office materials, organizes employee community cleanup activities, uses recycled materials and creates less waste. You then generate positive public relations...

Reduce your use of plastics! Most of us find our weekly trash compose more of recyclable pink bags than the black garbage bags. We tend to put all kinds of ‘recyclable’ waste into these pink bags. Does this mean we...