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Make the 2012 Olympics Plastic Bag Free

5:02 am in Business & Politics, Food & Health, green packaging, recycled consumer good, reusability by TreeHugger

ban bag photo Photo: banthebag The goal of London's 2012 Olympics is to be the most sustainable Games ever. But the organizers are a bit conflicted. For example, the world's largest MacDonald's will be opening just next to the site. It will be the size of 3 football fields and is expected to serve 1.75M meals. That's 50,000 Big Macs and 180,000 portions of fries and 30,000 milkshakes.over the 29 days of the Games. But Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Replacing Boxes With Bags, Office Depot Tries to Save 20,000 Trees

11:44 am in Business & Politics, eco-friendly office, green packaging, recycled consumer goods, shopping by TreeHugger

Office Depot GreenerOffice photo Image: Screenshot via Office Depot Office Depot says it expects to save 3.5 million pounds of wood-based resources by offering to deliver orders in paper bags instead of boxes—which will also eliminate the use of those plastic 'air-pillows' that you can almost never repurpose once you've opened your package. The program, GreenerOffice Delivery Service, uses bags made with 40% post-consumer recycled content. Those come wrapped in what Office Depot calls a reusable plastic tote, mad...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Redesigning How We Clean: Ami Shah of iQ on Their Award Winning Refill Packaging (Interview)

10:12 am in bathroom, canada, chemicals, Design & Architecture, detergents, green packaging, whole foods by TreeHugger

IQ eco cleaning family photo All images via iQ Over one billion plastic cleaning containers go into landfill each year, according to the Canadian eco-cleaning company Planet People. And did you know that the majority of household cleaners are 95 per cent water and only five per cent cleaning solution? The combination of these two facts has prompted Planet People to redesign the way we use cleaning products with their new brand iQ, which stands f...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Why Eco-Innovation is the Best Response to Greenwashing

12:38 pm in advertising, Business & Politics, green packaging by TreeHugger

Stop Greenwashing Photo Photo credit: wstryder/Creative Commons This guest post was written by Jacquelyn Ottman, author of The New Rules of Green Marketing: Strategies, Tools, and Inspiration for Sustainable Branding As the kickoff speaker to the Sustainable Brands '11 conference in Mon...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Major Brands Say Goodbye to Excess Packaging

12:05 pm in Business & Politics, environmental footprint, green packaging, waste by TreeHugger

clamshell packaging photo Image: Tara Hunt via flickr Good news, according to the New York Times: excess packaging, plastic in particular, is on the decline. Apparently more because of high oil prices than any environmental concern, but we'll take it. The Times has examples of a few major stores making significant changes:...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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