We’ve previously talked about the waste that takeout generates and some of the potential solutions.
But many people have started ordering more takeout and feel guilty about the waste, said Anastasia Kiku, co-founder of Reusables .
Also, in October, the federal government announced it would ban “hard-to-recycle” single-use plastic food takeout containers, such as black plastic and polystyrene.
Jacqui Hutchings, co-founder and chief operating officer of A Friendlier Company, said the pandemic has also forced people to get used to change.
What kind of container: In most cases, the food comes in stainless steel containers.
Suppli and Ekko have per-order fees ranging from 50 cents to $2, while Reusables charges a $5 monthly fee.
Restaurants pay the companies a fee that includes the container rental, cleaning and restocking.
“Europe has such a good train network; the rise of companies like EasyJet and RyanAir that made it so cheap to fly those short hops across the continent supported a terrible trend to fly instead of taking the train.
You might not think much of wetlands, but it turns out they are one of nature’s best climate solutions.
While E-roule estimates that its efforts have already saved 102 tonnes of CO2 emissions, its larger impact will likely be in helping produce a generation of drivers who may never handle a gas-powered vehicle.
The World Steel Association says the industry is responsible for up to nine per cent of worldwide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels.
The company has talked about striving for a more circular mode of consumption, where its items are recycled or reused rather than simply discarded.
Back then, her parents grew crops and raised livestock.
“What I eat, what I put on my plate, is personal.
In an explanatory post, the magazine’s editors cited statistics from the World Resources Institute that beef requires 20 times more land and makes 20 times more greenhouse gases than common plant proteins, such as beans.
Researcher Jim Dyer set out to answer this question in a report last year for Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.
Typically, grass-fed beef — where cattle graze in a pasture — has been analyzed as higher in emissions than feedlot beef, in part because of land use.
The farm uses as little fertilizer as possible by planting specific types of grasses and using manure “very effectively,” and runs on solar energy.
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