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Ep 66: Recycled Content with Nick Higgins (Glad)

Sustainability Defined

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How Much Does Recycling Reduce the Carbon Footprint?

Gladys does a life cycle analysis to see, where is the most greenhouse gas admitted? And overwhelmingly, 75 % is between manufacturing and raw materials. We have programmes and goals on each of those three areas that i can talk more later. When replacing a pound of virgin plastic with a pound of post consumer cyco plastic, the carbon footprint from the raw material is reduced by approximately 70%. That's pretty substantiald and more than i would have thought. So how much of impact does this really make? I mean, what do you say to people who say, well, i love the yco content work ou're doing, but doesn't the trash bag still just done up in

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