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Don't Let Holiday Leftovers Go To Waste!
Reducing Food WasteThis Holiday season, we hope to spread the word to be mindful of food waste now and in the coming year. Many of us host guests in our homes and wouldn’t dream of letting them leave without taking at least some leftovers - ensuring that the food that was lovingly prepared for the [...]
Real Christmas Tree? Plant, Mulch, or Compost it after the holidays!
Between Thanksgiving and New Year’s, household waste increases by more than 25%. Food waste, wrapping paper, Christmas cards, ribbons, boxes, decorations, and more add an additional 1 million tons of trash per week to our landfills.25-30 million real Christmas Trees are sold in the U.S. every year. After the holiday is over, these trees are [...]
You Make Our Mission a Reality
Thanksgiving is my absolute favorite holiday. It embodies gratitude, reflection and thankfulness for your family, friends, and community. It reminds us of the beauty and abundance in our world. This year I feel a special gratitude to you, our brands, for making our bold mission a reality: To clean our planet and make our lives and those [...]
Small Sustainable Changes Have a Big Impact
When it comes to running a sustainable business not only do you have to make important decisions on your product, but also on sourcing, packaging, and many other areas. If you’re currently looking at starting a business, or are considering switching your existing business to a more eco-friendly model, it can be difficult to know [...]
Compostable Flexible Packaging - A Better Choice for the Environment
The popularity of flexible packaging has been rising rapidly in recent years - and for good reason! Stand-up pouches and other types of flexible packaging have many advantages over traditional rigid packaging. You can reuse compostable stand-up pouches to store kitchen scraps and food waste. When full, simply place the entire bag in the compost!Advantages of flexible [...]
Compostable Cello Bags: Eco-Friendly and Versatile!
Conventional plastic bags remain in landfills for centuries. For a more eco-friendly option try our compostable cello bags! Elevate Packaging are one of only a few suppliers of compostable cello bags in the U.S. Made from compostable biofilm, our cello bags reduce the impact on our planet. The compostable biofilm is derived from FSC-certified wood-cellulose . Not [...]
Study Shows Value in Compostable Packaging
Not only is compostable foodservice packaging beneficial for the environment, but it is beneficial for the composting process itself. Compostable products are most commonly used as a tool to divert organic waste to composting. Products such as food service containers and scrap collection bags aid in the collection of food scraps. Because of this, it is [...]
Can Biodegradable Packaging Actually Harm the Environment?
When researching sustainable packaging, you may have come across a number of different terms that all sound great on the surface. One such option, biodegradable packaging, is not as beneficial as it first appears. When choosing eco-friendly packaging, it is crucial to choose only certified compostable products instead of biodegradable. Products labeled biodegradable can actually be worse [...]
Top Five Coffee Packaging Trends
Coffees offer us a way to look at our relationship to the larger world, build connections with others that define our mission, vision and values. According to the International Coffee Organization (ICO), there are three characteristics that affect consumer attitudes towards coffee: health effect, drinking pleasure, and sustainability of production. Consumers demand a high-quality product, thus [...]
Composting at the University of Michigan
The University of Michigan has made a serious commitment to the environment with its sustainability program known as Planet Blue. The University, located in Ann Arbor, leads the way in reducing food waste from their dining facilities and campus with projects such as the Zero Waste Picnic, The Maize and Blue Cupboard, and EarthFest. [...]
