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3 Tips to Make Your Office Cafeteria More Sustainable

3 Tips to Make Your Office Cafeteria More Sustainable

Taking care of the planet is a responsibility that all people share.  For those that are looking to make a difference, finding ways to improve sustainability and be greener can be very beneficial.

How You Can Help Reduce Plastic Pollution

How You Can Help Reduce Plastic Pollution

Plastic pollution in the oceans and landfills across the world is continuing to be a very significant concern. While there are global efforts in place to start cleaning up this pollution and slow the growth, there are many different things that you can do at home or in your place of business that can help with the effort to help with the effort.

Cutting back on food waste by making tofu wine

Cutting back on food waste by making tofu wine

Tofu is a food product made from bean curd that is much beloved by lovers of Asian cuisine as well as vegetarians. Tofu is packed with protein and, albeit bland by itself, goes with just about everything, both savory and sweet.

How To Make Your Office More Sustainable

How To Make Your Office More Sustainable

Those with a desire to make the world a better place will often look for ways to be greener while they are at home. While these efforts are important, you should also look for ways to make your workplace greener as well.

6 Tips for a World-Class Recycling Competition

6 Tips for a World-Class Recycling Competition

Competitions that encourage work-teams to accomplish great things together, while establishing deeper community ties, is a wonderful way for businesses to engage with their workforce and the community, and to promote business values related to environmental stewardship and social responsibility. Recycling competitions offer a wide variety of possibilities.

How You Can Go Green While Improving Team Building at Work

How You Can Go Green While Improving Team Building at Work

Due to continued environmental challenges facing the entire world, all people have a responsibility to try and be as green as possible. For those that work in an office, encouraging co-workers and employees to focus on the environment is also a good idea.

Five Items You Didn’t Know You Could Recycle

Five Items You Didn’t Know You Could Recycle

There is nothing more annoying than arriving at your favorite place in nature to find a piece of rubbish discarded on the ground. "What kind of ignorant person could do that?", you think to yourself.

How To Prevent Plastics From Polluting The Planet

How To Prevent Plastics From Polluting The Planet

The plastics industry is booming. 322 million metric tons of plastic products were produced in 2012, and it is estimated that 8 million metric tons end up in our oceans.

What Cities Can Learn From Recycling In Cremona, Italy

What Cities Can Learn From Recycling In Cremona, Italy

Every Saturday morning, the residents of Cremona, Italy, flock to a large marketplace to either donate or retrieve second-hand items. This weekly event is just one part of the city's plan to reduce waste and make improvements in reuse and recycling.

Cutting “Ugly” Food Waste With Spoiler Alert

Cutting “Ugly” Food Waste With Spoiler Alert

The problem of food waste, in which edible food that might otherwise be used to feed people is thrown into the trash, turns out to have become an opportunity for a Boston-based company called Spoiler Alert, according to Tech Crunch. The company has created a software platform that connects food producers to both charities and other businesses who might use excess food products that might otherwise wind up rotting in a landfill.