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Greenwash
What's Really "Green" Anymore?
Easy, you can only trust us and everyone else is lying to you. Just kidding, we know it’s not that simple. Really, environmentally friendly products becoming popular can be a... Read more...
circular economy
How to Support a Circular Economy
Circular economy? Perhaps you’ve heard the term thrown around on the news or in ads for sustainable products, but what does it really mean? Read more...
Circular Economy
The Cool New Trend In Checkout Bags
You've heard of paper bags, but you've probably never seen them quite like this. Learn more about our strong and sustainable bamboo paper bags. Read more...
High angle view of a lonely man, walking throght the forest
Check Out The New Kids On The Block
We've got brand new stock products! From pet waste bags to cling wrap and more, you won't want to miss these. Read more...
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Facilities: Their Strengths and Their Weaknesses
Composting facilities are the final step in responsibly disposing of our organics, so we have to make sure they're up to the job. Read more...
Jumping
How to Successfully Ban Plastic
The path to success is often a difficult one, but if someone else has already done it right, maybe it could be a whole lot easier for the next guy. Read more...
Try - Fail - Success. Purpose and movement to success despite obstacles
Lessons From Failed Plastic Bans of the Past
With Canada introducing its first comprehensive single-use plastics ban, what should we have learned by now from past failed attempts? Read more...
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The Best Bag Choice for Retailers
Offering the best possible product for businesses so they can offer the best possible product for customers. Read more...
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Reusable Bags: Are They Worth the Hype?
We all know that accumulating single-use items and tossing things as soon as we use them are both wasteful behaviours that ultimately cause harm to the environment. But when it... Read more...
With the federal government of Canada implementing a ban on single-use plastics, are we trading a mole-hill of plastic garbage for a future mountain of it? Instead, we need to ensure compostable bags will take their place.
Waste Not, Want Not
With the Canadian Government having implemented the single-use plastics ban, have they truly considered whether the approach of their legislation will have the desired impact of diverting plastic from our... Read more...
How can your bag choices help to reduce harmful emissions and protect our climate? Using certified compostable bags as the replacement for single-use plastics. 
Clean Air, Clean Earth
With the fight against climate change at the forefront of everyone's minds, how can your bag choices help to reduce harmful emissions? Read more...
When the Canadian government makes the final draft of legislation to ban single-use plastics, they should learn from the mistakes that have been made in the past, and make the most of our best ally - mother nature.
Regrets or Regrowth?
Are we doomed to see history repeat itself, or can the Canadian Government design a plastics ban that will work in harmony with Mother Nature? Read more...
2021 University vs City-01
Environmental Enlightenment
Compostable products bring us one step closer to a more environmentally harmonized world. Universities across the country have adopted them; will their municipalities follow suit? Read more...
People would rather businesses give out compostable bags that they can reuse to collect kitchen scraps and organics, rather than paper bags. ⁠
What Customers Really Want
We conducted a poll to find out what people really wanted, and it turns out that people would rather businesses give out compostable bags that they can reuse to collect... Read more...
Are paper bags the fairytale heroine or villan?
Mythbusting the Eco-friendly Fantasy of Paper Bags
Which will you decide are better? We give you the study results of sustainability and environmental impact of paper bags. The third of this series: Mythbusting the Eco-friendly Fantasy of... Read more...
Good Things Come in Trees: Let's Take Care of the Air we Breathe
Mythbusting Single-Use Paper Bags: Do Good Things Come in Trees?
Which will you decide are better? We give you the study results comparing sustainability and environmental impact of paper vs compostable bags. The second of this series: Do good things... Read more...
Paper vs Compostable Bags: transportation
Mythbusting Paper vs Compostable Bags: The Transportation Edition
Which will you decide are better? We give you the study results comparing sustainability and environmental impact of paper vs compostable bags. The first of this series: Is bigger really... Read more...
Who has made the switch to compostable plastics? Check out the successes of cities and municipalities in the battle against plastic.
Who Has Made The Switch?
Is the change from single-use plastics impossible? Take a look at some successful trailblazing communities who have made the sustainable switch towards compostable bags and packaging. Read more...
Zero waste concept. Use a compostable or paper bag. Zero waste, green and conscious lifestyle changes for Canadian single-use plastics regulations.
Pick of the Litter
Reduce, reuse, recycle, rinse, repeat. We all want the plastic garbage problem to go away, but what do we do when everywhere we go, our purchases are wrapped in layers... Read more...
Planning ahead for your business to tackle the Canadian Single-use Plastics Ban in 2021 with Refresh Packaging.
Plastics Ban 2021: How to Rise to the Challenge
To keep your business going during a global pandemic, with an impending plastics ban, you also need to know your challenges, develop a finely tuned plan, and secure the right... Read more...
Speak up and be heard! Write your government leaders about the upcoming plastics ban.
Let your Voice be the Seed of Change
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Plastic pollution buried in a mountain of garbage in trash dump or landfill.
More (Deception) Than Meets the Eye
Last week NPR broke a massive investigative piece, digging up the facts on why every single piece of plastic we’ve ever used still exists under a mountain of lies. We... Read more...
The life cycle of a compostable bag
Down & Dirty with Compost
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Plastic and reusable bags.
Plastic versus Covid?
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compostable bags
2020 Here We Grow!
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Growing the Seeds of Change
Growing the Seeds of Change
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