How to harness step-change in your sustainability piece

Agricultural biologicals are a distinctive group of natural products such as topical or seed treatment products that are derived from naturally occurring micro-organisms, plant extracts, beneficial insects, and other organic matters. It is the fastest-growing segment in the agricultural input market. Biological farming is an environmentally sustainable and economical agricultural production system that encourages the adoption of safe products for the treatment of the crop. This is accomplished by minimizing the environmentally harmful consequences and by using non-renewable natural resources.

Whether delivery or takeout, as a weekday reprieve from cooking or festive food for a weekend celebration, people love their pizza. Over the course of a year in the U.S., people consume an estimated 3 billion pizzas. And during February’s Super Bowl game, Domino’s pizza in the U.S. typically sells around 2 million pizzas. The love for pizza has longevity, too. According to a Reader’s Digest poll, the single food that most Americans would want to eat for the rest of their lives is pizza. While we can debate Hawaiian versus pepperoni and turn our noses up at anchovies, there’s no agreeing to disagree on this: Pizza boxes can be recycled. There’s proof. The Cheese and Grease Study – Mired in myth, and confused by cheese and grease, people have been burying the pizza box in their trash bins, assuming it cannot be recycled. Allow me to set the record straight – it can! In 2020, my company, WestRock, conducted a Grease and Cheese study that concluded normal amounts of grease and residual cheese do not negatively affect the manufacturing of new products from this recycled fiber. These findings were endorsed by industry partners including the American Forest and Paper Association (AF&PA). Why does this matter? Pizza boxes are made of high-quality corrugated paper, which can be recycled at least seven times, according to the AF&PA. That means we could potentially recover and reuse upwards of 600,000 tons of corrugated board a year! In 2019, to help dispel the myth that…

Every day we do things and make various choices that in one way or another impact our environment, as well as other living beings and climate. Maybe some people are not aware of it, but that’s the reality.