Environment-friendly ways to grow your food business

If you’re a sandwich lover, you must have used a lot of sandwich bags over the years. You must realize what environment-friendly ways to enhance your food business are.

As a business owner, you need to have a corporate social responsibility to boost the services. There are several ways through which you can enhance your food business in an eco-friendly way.

The green industry trend is making its way into almost all sectors. Therefore, it is necessary to find solutions for enhancing your food business.

What companies are eco-friendly?

The food industry is adapting to different eco-friendly measures. Outdoor apparel brands have grown to become one of the leading eco-friendly companies. The food industry is adapting to different measures in terms of sustainable packaging, resumable plastic waste to promote environmental consciousness. Continue reading

Practices and Regulations for Used Oil Recycling

recycleRecycling used oil is beneficial both to environment and people. In addition, used oil recycling is a good business that brings in extra income for both commercial and home kitchens. It’s also a requirement in some states across the USA. However, common mistakes and lack of knowledge still make it impossible for everyone to recycle their used oil correctly.

Before recycling used oil, ensure you know which type of oil can be recycled. Some oils such as waste oil from fuel storage tanks, fuel oil spills and other oil wastes are not eligible for recycling.

You can find many uses for used cooking oil at home, but if you’re running a commercial kitchen, it’s wiser to use a recycling company due to the amount of oil to be repurposed. Continue reading

Tips To Make Your Business More Environmentally Friendly

environmentally friendlyThe Earth’s environment has become more and more important to people as the damage humans have caused continues to become more clear.  No one person set out to hurt the planet, and no one person can save it.

Restoring the environment will take a joint effort from us all, and your business is an important piece of the puzzle.  Take a moment to read through a few ways in which your business can be more environmentally friendly, and go forth knowing that your operation is more sustainable.

Reusable office supplies will help

The items you use to get your work done in the office can be more environmentally friendly than you might think.  Reusable pens will save some plastic from ending up in landfills.

Installing erasable marker boards will save on paper use.  Set recyclable paper cups out for coffee and other office refreshments.  Take the time to find the little ways you can make your office more environmentally friendly.

Purchase green whenever possible

Sourcing your materials and supplies for maintaining your business from an environmentally friendly producer will help clean up your operation as a whole.

Just a little research will reveal whether a provider takes steps to produce a sustainable product.  Of course, you may not be able to do this with everything your business purchases, but it does make a difference to make changes when you can.

Make recycling a priority

Running a busy office for your business means that you will have to use some paper products during the day.  However, the damage to the environment can be easily rectified by a strong recycling standard.

Make it a rule in the office that everything recyclable is placed in a special bin, and follow through on the recycling process.  Running a sustainable office is a quality consumers love to discover.

Upgrade for energy efficiency

Upgrading your business operation for energy efficiency is easier than you might think.  Replace all the light bulbs you use in the office with energy efficient bulbs, and you’re off to a good start.

When you purchase new computers, tablets, or laptops, purchase with energy efficiency in mind. When you choose your web-hosting services, you should research the company.  Choosing a green web-hosting service will boost your company’s sustainability.

Embrace a remote work environment

If it’s possible for your business structure to shift to a more remote approach, you’ll find the most opportunity for boosting sustainability.

When you work on a strictly remote setup, you don’t have to pay for all the overhead created by the burden of maintaining an office space.  You could save money and save the world, both at the same time.

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Reducing Waste And Simplifying Your Home

More and more people are beginning to appreciate the importance of sustainable living, the practice of reducing their impact on Earth’s resources. You might be wondering what this looks like for you and your family. Well, the good news is that there are many different ways that you can implement sustainable living. A great way to begin is to reduce waste in your home and simplify your life. Once you get started, you may be surprised what you can live without.

Here are some tips for reducing waste and simplifying:

Reuse – Many of the items around your home can be reused for other purposes. Try reusable shopping bags the grocery store. Fill up reusable metal or glass water bottles with tap water instead of buying plastic ones. Save mailing boxes and packaging to use again when the occasion arises. Consider swapping out disposable paper towels, wax paper, and aluminum for alternatives that you can use again. Get printer ink cartridges refilled. Invest in a safety razor instead of repeatedly buying disposables. Consider composting food so that it doesn’t go to waste. Find create uses for old furniture, clothes, and appliances. Get a travel mug and bring it with you to your favorite coffee shop. Continue reading

Your Stomach And Digestive Tract Can Collect Significant Amounts Of Wax And Chemicals

StyrofoamCupAs a society, we just can’t seem to shake our excessive use for disposable cups in exchange for our convenience. If you use your own glass cup or mug, you’re as safe as the water you drink. Take that same drink from a foam cup or plastic cup and it is a very different story. Different variations of polyethylene and paraffin line almost every disposable cup on the market. These linings, especially among low quality cups can indeed melt and get into your digestive tract leading to gastrointestinal disorders and other health issues. Exposure to BPA has only been one issue relating to disposable cups. They have been shown to interfere with reproductive development in animals and has been linked with cardiovascular disease and diabetes in humans.

However paraffin wax and polystyrene products are also an issue even without BPA linings.

Paraffin wax is well known but it’s actually derived from crude oil and dates back to Carl Reichenbach in 1830. Paraffin is classified as an alkane hydrocarbon. Paraffin is made from that same crude oil which makes everything possible including plastics, household chemicals, furniture, gasoline and house paint to name only a few. And you can easily consume paraffin without even knowing it.

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