Category: Packaging
Re:newal’s Fully Compostable Water Bottle
In the US alone, more than 50 billion bottles of water are consumed each day. As most of these bottles are made of plastic, they end up in landfills and pollute the environment. While the trend for the green consumer is to go in for reusable water bottles which can be refilled and last a [...]
MorePaper PP Alloy Is Eco-Friendly
Pega Design and Engineering which has already won many awards for making sustainable design products, has now received another award for its futuristic material which can be used for many computer electronics. Called paper pp alloy, this material will replace plastic shelling.
MoreGreen Garmento’s Multipurpose Garment Bag
When you take your dry cleaning to the laundry or get it back, it is likely that you use plastic bags. However, plastic bags are not environmentally friendly – plastic does not biodegrade and pollutes landfills. Or you may be using some kind of more eco-friendly bag, perhaps made of cloth of canvas. How about [...]
MoreCars Using Compostable Materials?
When we talk of green cars, we usually refer to their use of alternative power, whether it is electric or hybrid. If there is some solar power used in the car, it is to power some small gadgets. But the car itself is not eco-friendly. Ecovative Design which has been making sustainable packaging materials for [...]
MoreFirst Biodegradable PET Bottle By PepsiCo
If you think of the number of beverage bottles which people buy and then throw (or sometimes give for recycling) the quantities are huge. PET is not at all eco-friendly because it is a form of plastic and polyester. Though it can be recycled it is still not biodegradable. For the first time a biodegradable [...]
MoreEco Can – Biodegradable and Resuable
How often do you buy canned drinks and then get rid of the cans either by separating the garbage or putting them in a recycling machine or bin (if you are concerned about the environment). If you can use the eco can instead, it would help reduce your carbon footprint.
MoreUPACKS – Environmentally Friendly Packing
Have you ever thought how much material goes into packaging? While you may be sending or receiving only limited items, on the whole packaging is a big industry. A lot of cardboard, pellets or Styrofoam or thermocol and sometimes bubble wrap goes into packaging and much of it is waste.
MoreEco-Friendly Dry Toner
If you think of all products, which are labeled, and almost all of them, you can imagine the vast quantities of ink, paper and toner, not to mention the whole process that surely has an environmental impact. That is why increasing numbers of manufacturers are using recycled paper and packing products and even soy inks [...]
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