After she saw how much waste she could reduce by changing her lunch packaging routine, she started an eco-friendly packaging company, Ecologic.
Last year, one in five women 25 to 34 years old who participated in a Mintel market research study reported that a body lotion's "eco-friendly packaging" mattered as much to them as the product's anti-aging properties.
Ads for the Christmas season, which carry headlines like "Today's Holidays Need Today's Mail," are also focused on specific services like automated postal centers and free "eco-friendly" packaging in which to mail gifts.
LG is also introducing eco-friendly packaging and product manuals that are made with recycled cardboard and soy inks.
You can dive deeper into this thesis, and uncover the difficulty of recycling Blue Apron's markedly (as in, it's on the box) "Eco-Friendly" packaging.
The eco-friendly packaging saves natural resources and promotes easy recycling by printing with soy inks and using recycled paper and cardboard without laminate coating.
Cobra's 2010 line of radar detectors feature eco-friendly packaging and will be available at retailers nationwide and at www.cobra.com beginning March 2010.
52969bcc-1480-4e34-af6b-ac9c77d69d35 "Welcome to the future!" exclaims the Pebble app on my phone, moments after I unsheath the monochrome plastic smartwatch itself from the eco-friendly packaging.
"When you combine the Reclaim's impressive feature set with its bio-plastic hardware and eco-friendly packaging, you're using a phone that is good for you and the environment".
It is a promising and emerging concept, as most of the biopolymer based hydrogels are supposed to be biodegradable, they can be considered as alternative eco-friendly packaging materials.
Citric acid is successfully applied to crosslink many other materials, including ultrafine protein fibers for biomedical applications [23], polyols for making biodegradable films suitable for example for for eco-friendly packaging [24], and with hydroxyapatite to make bioceramic composites for orthopedic tissue engineering [25].
