by Sam Lane | Jul 24, 2023 | All, All About Composting, Compostable Products for Retailers, Composting News, Refresh Packaging News, Sustainability and Health
Facilities: Their Strengths & Their Weaknesses Can we handle our organic waste? The infrastructure exists to process certified compostable bags, so what might be causing the confusion among decision-makers? Perhaps the most common argument against allowing...
by Sam Lane | Dec 16, 2022 | All, All About Composting, Compostable Products for Retailers, Composting News, Refresh Packaging News, Sustainability and Health
HOW TO SUCCESSFULLY BAN PLASTIC Time to jump in to the good news. Tales of victory Last month, we talked about failed plastic bans of the past and what we can learn from them. It’s also important to recognize and learn from the successes that other areas and...
by Sam Lane | Nov 16, 2022 | All, All About Composting, Compostable Products for Retailers, Composting News, Refresh Packaging News, Research and Studies, Sustainability and Health
LESSONS FROM FAILED PLASTIC BANS OF THE PAST Are we doomed to repeat old mistakes? If at First You Don’t Succeed, Try, Try Again The definition of insanity is said to be trying the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Now we’re...
by Sam Lane | Sep 16, 2022 | All, All About Composting, Compostable Products for Retailers, Composting News, Refresh Packaging News, Research and Studies, Sustainability and Health
REUSABLE BAGS: ARE THEY WORTH THE HYPE? A culture of re-use is vital to environmental responsibility, but in some cases, it may not result in all the benefits we’re trying for. Reduce, Re-use… and Re-use, and Re-use, and Re-use, and… We all know that...
by Sam Lane | Aug 16, 2022 | All, All About Composting, Compostable Products for Retailers, Composting News, Refresh Packaging News, Sustainability and Health
WASTE NOT, WANT NOT With the federal government of Canada having recently implemented a ban on single-use plastics, we did a little research into what the results of the regulations would be and we are very concerned we will end up making a plastic mountain out of our...
