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Seeing Green

Celebrating progress in sustainable living — how we live, travel, eat, move, dress, play, clean… and more.

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Seeing Green - stories of progress, solutions and inspiration. Topics include: apparel, home, food, travel & tourism, sports & outdoors, beauty, personal care, electric vehicles and more.

Spotlight: Frugalpac
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Spotlight: Frugalpac

Frugalpac is a UK-based company that specializes in creating sustainable packaging solutions to help decarbonize the food and drinks industry. Frugalpac’s flagship product, the Frugal Bottle, is the world's first commercially available paper bottle for wine, spirits and olive oils that is both lightweight and significantly less carbon-intensive than traditional glass bottles.

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Spotlight: ecoSPIRITS
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Spotlight: ecoSPIRITS

ecoSPIRITS is on a mission to end single use glass in the spirits and wine industry by leading a transition to circular packaging technology. The company, founded in 2018, has developed the world's first low carbon, low waste packaging system for premium spirits and wine.

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Sustainable Beauty & Personal Care
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Sustainable Beauty & Personal Care

Brands in the news: Ulta Beauty, LUSH, Prevented Ocean Plastic, Babo Botanicals, Coty, L’OCCITANE Group, Berry Global, Inc., Weleda AG, Kering, CHANEL, Evolve Organic Beauty, Quadpack | Certified B Corp, Gerresheimer Glass, Inc., Guyenne Papier, Cosmopak USA LLC, TotalEnergies Corbion, Sulapac Ltd and many more.

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Video: 5 in 5 (week in review)
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Video: 5 in 5 (week in review)

Check out episode 16 of my new weekly video recap of five highlights in sustainable living news in five minutes curated from my #SustainableLife blog at greenlivingdoug.com. Today's recap includes: new plant-based foods arriving in 2024; WTTC and Biosphere partner to help standardize hotel sustainability; Sheep Inc. reports surge in revenue driven by sustainability; Arket and Bundlee parter in children's clothing rental; and a continued spotlight on sustainable alternatives to traditional wine bottles. Plus, a bonus spotlight on the edible cup from Cupffee.

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Sustainable Beauty & Personal Care
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Sustainable Beauty & Personal Care

Brands in the news: CHANEL, Prada Group, L'Oréal, Parfums Christian Dior, The Estée Lauder Companies Inc., L’OCCITANE Group, Gjosa SA, AXILONE GROUP, Eastman, Hourglass Cosmetics, Karma Wallet, Fig.1, Kao Collins, Texen, Sulapac Ltd, Joico, AMOREPACIFIC, Persistence Market Research Pvt. Ltd. and many more.

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