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The pandemic forced retailers to cap the amount of SodaStream CO2 canisters shoppers could buy.
Experts blamed high demand for sparkling water, a CO2 shortage, and a circular business model.
The supply-chain clot was mostly resolved by March, when normal consumer behavior returned.
In January, SodaStream owners who wandered into a Target in New York City s Tribeca neighborhood came face-to-face with the following sign: No more than two new canisters per customer.
In an effort to combat shortages, the store was limiting the amount of CO2 canisters shoppers could buy for their at-home sparkling-water machines.
Online, prospects were no better: Bed Bath & Beyond, a major national supplier of SodaStream, throttled sales in much the same way, constraining the number of canisters any single customer could buy.
GC3 Releases Blueprint for Using Green Chemistry to Advance a Circular Economy
Report builds on the circular economy work of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation
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LOWELL, Mass., Feb. 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The Green Chemistry & Commerce Council (GC3) released a report designed to help companies throughout the industrial value chain harness the power of green chemistry to meet the growing need for a more sustainable economy. The report is titled The GC3 Blueprint of Green Chemistry Opportunities for a Circular Economy.
The concept of a circular economy, advanced in particular by the pioneering work of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, is based on the principles of designing out waste and pollution, keeping products and materials in use, and regenerating natural systems. Because the inputs that go into such a system can remain useful for much longer, a circular economy would consume far fewer resources and produce far less was