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  • What will it take to get companies to embrace reusable packaging?

    Joseph Winters

    May 01, 2024 |

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    Response Location: United States

    The nonprofit PR3 is working to standardize reusable packaging systems for businesses like coffee shops and grocery stores to make them easier to scale and adopt as a replacement to single-use materials.

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  • Plastic bag bans have already prevented billions of bags from being used, report finds

    Joseph Winters

    January 23, 2024 |

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    Response Location: United States, New Jersey

    A plastic bag ban in New Jersey helped eliminate more than 5.5 billion plastic bags annually, keeping the single-use plastic out of the environment where it can harm wildlife and contribute to pollution. However, some researchers question whether plastic bags are truly worse for the environment than single-use paper bags or reusable cotton bags, and some states have passed laws preventing local governments from adopting their own bans on plastic bags.

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  • How to build a zero-waste economy

    Joseph Winters

    June 21, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States

    Entrepreneurs are encouraging reuse models like return-from-home systems to transition towards a circular economy without single-use plastics. In this model, consumers pay a deposit to use takeout boxes, cups, and other containers. They get their deposit back when the containers are picked up from their home by a courier.

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