Sustainable Future: How The Green Trend Has Affected Product Design By LX Group on 12 September 2011 Sustainable Future: How The Green Trend Has Affected Product Design It’s difficult to determine when the green trend started – whether it was back in the 90s when we all decided to save the whales and ban [...]
The newest fad: The Reusable bag . Reusable bags are being greatly pushed against the single use plastic bag and people seem to be latching on to the concept. It sounds like a good enough idea, and with all the design options you can really expressive yourself, but is the reusable bag really risk free? [...]
In light of recent news that SunChips is pulling their compostable bag off supermarket shelves, and the release of the new green marketing standards, now’s a good time to get down to the nitty-gritty of labeling. Are labels like “eco-friendly”, “biodegradable”, “compostable”, and “recyclable” a good idea, or do they just muddy the waters? Is [...]
In 2007, due to the Ethanol mandate there was a 400% price increase on corn food products in the world. As a results countries began growing crops by clearing out rainforests. Clear cutting and burning rain forests to make land available for new crops created more greenhouse gases than the total exhaust from EVERY vehicle [...]
Reusing sounds like the answer to reducing pollution and the amount of trash we put into our landfills but it isn’t working. Manufacturers have built in product obsolescence for more than fifty years with the idea of the more we use the more jobs we’ll have. Recycling plays an important role in reducing waste; however, [...]
I often hear “everyone wants to go green, but no one wants to pay more for it.” Personally, I don’t mind paying a bit more for a better product. Don’t get me wrong here – I don’t want to pay $3 to buy a product that would normally cost $1, but I would be willing [...]
By Max There is a lot of concern about the growing plastic pollution problem, and rightly so. Did you know? * Plastic bottles take hundred or thousands of years to begin biodegrading * 150 billion plastic beverage bottles are produced each year * 70-80% of plastic bottles are not recycled * 100 billion plastic bottles [...]
NAPCOR Reassures on PET Safety with Answers to Common Concerns Sonoma, CA, September 25, 2007 – PET (polyethylene terephthalate) bottles have garnered a great deal of media attention recently, some of it raising questions about PET safety. According to the National Association for PET Container Resources (NAPCOR), the trade group for PET packaging, it’s time [...]
By Del Andrus With the domestic and world markets looking into alternative energy, it is not surprising that the use of biogas created by our landfills are emerging as an easy answer to clean energy (see bioreactor landfill). What is surprising is that this seemingly untapped resource has been available for decades, and is only [...]
Nestlé expecting sustainability-savvy suppliers By Mike Verespej CHICAGO (Nov. 21, 4:15 p.m. ET) — There are a lot of things companies can do that create an appearance of being green and sustainable. But Kim Jeffery wants to do things that actually enhance sustainability and the environment. “Are you trying to look good, or are you [...]
