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Practice Sustainability in Grocery Stores
If you have already started practicing sustainability by using wholesale reusable bags, you will probably save the use of twenty-one thousand plastic bags and covers in your …
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Cook County Recently Passed a Construction and Demolition Recycling Ordinance
Targeting the recycling of demolition and construction debris in Cook County, Illinois, the Board of Commissioners passed an ordinance recently. The ordinance called the Demo…
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Eco-Friendly School Tips for the New Academic Year
As the winter season approaches, the school term begins and its time for the children to go back to school. Being the end of summer it can prove to be quite difficult to shop…
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New Jersey Legislators Continue to Push Ban on Plastic Bags
Usually, while entering a supermarket, shoppers are given a choice between plastic or paper bags in order to carry their groceries back home. If you are carrying your own reu…
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First It Was Policy-Makers; Now it’s Students
As the community meeting went ahead regarding the proposal about banning plastic bags in retail markets and stores, students waited in line to voice out their opinion on the …
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West Hollywood Bans Plastic Bags
The City Council in West Hollywood(Weho) finally approved the ban on single-use plastic covers and totes. Larger stores in Weho have to follow the ban from the next six month…
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No More Disposable Brown Bags as Lunch Box Technology Advances
Parents these days tend to put a lot of thought into what exactly they pack in their children’s lunch. It takes quite some thought and a little hard work to prepare a really …
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Passion for Gardening Makes Seeded Card Business Prosper
Consumers have the opportunity to plant anniversary, birthday, sympathy or holiday cards. You can buy plant-able favors, tags, coasters, postcards, doorknob signs and craft p…
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Farmers Markets Growing in the United States
The United States Department of Agriculture made an announcement on Friday that there has been an increase in farmers markets that engage in direct sales by 9.6% in the previ…
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Hampton recycling Issue: Easiest Solution Is to Use Prepaid Bags
Exeter is a model neighboring town for Hamptonto show the city ways to increase recycling its waste and reduce the money spent on disposal of garbage. To stop the excess of g…
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Go Green Even While Packing Your Lunch
While everybody and everything around you is going green, why shouldn’t your lunches as well. Pack lunches for your children or to your office in eco-friendly lunch boxes and…
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New Jersey Legislature Gets Ready To Tackle Paper vs. Plastic Issue
Even with almost seven bills waiting to be passed, advocates in New Jersey are pressing for the ban of plastic bags or to put a fee on these grocery totes. Supermarkets have …
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