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The Challenge of Greenwashing

3BL Media

When entities claim that their products or services are “sustainable”, “carbon neutral” or “net-zero waste,” are their claims really substantiated? The Challenge of Greenwashing: An International Regulatory Overview Download In some cases, these claims are not fully based on facts or substance.

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Hospitals have a medical waste problem. Bioplastics offer a solution.

Corporate Knights

Hospitals around the world generate millions of tonnes of plastic waste annually. Much of this waste comes from single-use items such as face masks, surgical gloves, syringes, IV tubes and sterile packaging materials. Incinerating plastic medical waste also releases harmful chemicals into the atmosphere.

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Hog waste into biogas: Green solution or greenwashing?

GreenBiz

Smithfield Foods plans to turn some hog waste into biogas, but critics say the project does nothing about the larger problem of waste being stored in lagoons and sprayed on fields. North Carolina’s industrial-scale hog farms have long been a major source of pollution.

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Is the burgeoning 'plastic credits' market a new wave of greenwashing?

Corporate Knights

With plastic production rising exponentially, from 2 million metric tons in 1950 to more than 400 million metric tons in 2020 , and expected to double by 2040, it’s clear that plastic waste is increasing exponentially too, and credits by themselves can’t possibly keep up with the surge.

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A look at the secret world where our waste ends up

Corporate Knights

Waste has always been inflicted upon the margins,” said Oliver Franklin-Wallis, author of the new book Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future. Waste, he writes, is often exported from rich countries to poor ones, a phenomenon known as “toxic colonialism.” “Too

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Can fossil fuel lobbyists be barred from global climate talks?

Corporate Knights

Or, in the words of James Marape, president of Papua New Guinea, theyre now a total waste of time. Turning COP into a venue for greenwashing Oil and gas did not show up to the COP party uninvited. They are granted pavilions, theyre given official space for their greenwashing. As former U.S.

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The Wild West of plastic credits and offsets

GreenBiz

emissions through the carbon mitigation associated with a forest planted in Rwanda or a direct air capture project in Canada, a plastic credit could go to paying waste collectors in Bangalore or expanding a plastic processing facility in Indonesia. . The potential for greenwashing is high. Given that U.S.