Unilever
Unilever's biggest impacts do not come from its own operations. Our 264 factories account for only a small proportion of our emissions. These are issues which we cannot tackle alone. Together with NGOs, customers and other partner organizations we have programs and commitments in place to address them at each stage of the value chain. Our ambition is to purchase all our key crops from sustainable sources. We have already taken the lead in many areas.
Trending: Collaborations Continue to Fuel Solutions to Plastic Pollution
1 week ago - These days, we can’t go a week without the launch of another initiative, innovation or collaboration aimed at eradicating plastic waste around the world – which means we may actually have a fighting chance at doing it.
CDP: Top FMCGs in Race to Keep Up with 'Fast-Moving Consumers'
3 weeks ago - FMCGs need to accelerate innovation to keep up with changing consumer preferences for plant-based products and less packaging.
Knorr, WWF Suggest 50 Future Foods to Fix Our Food System
1 month ago - From naturally pest-resistant grains to vitamin-rich flowers and drought-defying roots, they outline 50 nutritious foods that are better for our health and environment.
3 Big Questions Shaping the Future of Sustainable Business in 2019
1 month ago - This year, we are dissecting big, open questions that could either speed up or slow down our quest toward Delivering the Good Life.
EPR in Action: TerraCycle, CPG Giants Close ‘Loop’ on Single-Use Packaging
1 month ago - First-of-its-kind, global shopping platform aims to offer zero-waste packaging options for the world’s most popular consumer products.
Unilever delivers enhanced ingredients transparency for its home and beauty & personal care products
1 month ago - Unilever has delivered on its industry leading commitment to voluntarily disclose fragrance ingredients across its home care and beauty & personal care products in Europe and the US by the end of 2018.
Top 5 Companies That Effectively Amplified Their Impact in 2018
2 months ago - As we wrap up work for the year and prepare for 2019, we reflected back on all that occurred this year within our niche realm of sustainability communications — and when looking back, it was apparent that 2018 was the year of brands taking stands.
Trending: BASF, Coca-Cola, EC Break New Ground on Plastics Recycling
3 months ago - Continuing this year’s wave of near-constant innovations aimed at responsible management of post-consumer plastics are new advancements from both the private and public sector. BASF making products with chemically recycled plastics BASF announced it has broken new ground in plastic waste recycling with its ChemCycling project. Chemical recycling provides an innovative way to reutilize currently unrecyclable plastic waste, such as mixed or uncleaned plastics. Depending on the region, such waste is usually sent to landfill or burned with energy recovery.
Lack of US Climate Policy Putting Companies at Risk; Investors Demand Action
3 months ago - As a record number of global investors calls on governments to accelerate action on climate change, a new CDP analysis shows that some of the largest U.S.-based corporations view climate change as an increasing risk to their bottom line and reputation among consumers and investors.
World's Largest Palm Oil Trader Gives Forest Destroyers Nowhere to Hide
3 months ago - After an intensive global campaign by Greenpeace, Wilmar International has published a detailed action plan to map and monitor its palm oil suppliers. This week, the world’s largest palm oil trader, Wilmar International, published a detailed action plan to map and monitor all of its suppliers. If implemented, this would put the palm oil giant — which supplies 40 percent of the world’s palm oil — one step closer to finally eliminating deforestation from its supply chain, and would have major implications for the rest of the industry.
Plastic, Be Gone! Unilever, Stora Enso Developing Better Sachets, Straws
3 months ago - This week, more momentum on the anti-plastic front: Unilever will develop a crowdsourced, plastic-free laundry solution to combat single-use sachets; while Stora Enso and Sulapac are developing renewable drinking straws. Unilever to invest €100K in crowdsourced alternative to plastic packaging CPG giant Unilever has announced that it will invest €100,000 in a new, plastic-free laundry tablet — a crowdsourced innovation that has the potential to replace single-use sachets of laundry powder, a popular format for laundry detergents in the developing world that is problematic in terms of plastic waste.
#NewMetrics18: The ROI of Sustainability Strategy — and 6 Ways to Get There
4 months ago - Last week at Sustainable Brands’ New Metrics ’18 conference in Philadelphia, PA, over 300 delegates from brands, NGOs, strategists and practitioners across sectors gathered to share their latest tools and findings regarding measuring the risks and impacts of previously unmeasured forms of value, the newest credible tools and solutions for assessing the ROI of Sustainable Business.
Global, Multisector Commitments Aim to Eliminate Plastic Pollution at the Source; Is It Enough?
4 months ago - NOTE: This article was updated on October 30, 2018 at 11:45am ET. A Global Commitment to eradicate plastic waste and pollution at the source has been signed by 250 organisations including many of the world’s largest packaging producers, brands, retailers and recyclers, as well as governments and NGOs. For some signatories, the Global Commitment is just one facet of their plan to overhaul their approach to plastic. The New Plastics Economy Global Commitment is led by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation (EMF), in collaboration with UN Environment, and was officially unveiled at the Our Ocean Conference in Bali today.
Unilever, EU Build on Plans for Plastics Recycling, But Problems Plague UK
4 months ago - This week, building on news that HP, Inc and IKEA joined a global consortium working to develop the first global network of ocean-bound plastics supply chains, the public and private sector made further strides on creating a circular economy for packaging around the world.
Small Dose, Big Clean: Seventh Generation Reinvents the Liquid Laundry Bottle Using 60% Less Plastic, 50% Less Water and a Super Convenient Dosing Technology
5 months ago - Seventh Generation, a leading household and personal care products company and pioneer in the eco-friendly products space, has announced the launch of a new laundry detergent in an effort to modernize the liquid laundry category and drive unnecessary plastic and water waste out of the industry.
EVRYTHNG, CPG Brands Partner to Take Consumer Guesswork Out of Recycling
5 months ago - EVRYTHNG — the IoT platform that makes every consumer product intelligent, interactive and trackable — is now powering a first-of-its-kind recycling scheme providing CPG brands and retailers with vital insights to consumer recycling habits and behaviors.
Global Practitioners Gather to Compare Notes on Redesigning the #GoodLife
5 months ago - Last year, the Sustainable Brands community gathered around the world throughout the year to share insights on how they – and their customers – were “redefining the good life.” This year, the conversation has progressed from the ‘what’ to the ‘how’ of designing the sustainable future in which we all want to live.
African Union, Champions 12.3 Unveil 3 Latest Weapons in Food Waste Fight
5 months ago - At the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in 2015, countries committed to Sustainable Development Goal Target 12.3, calling for the world to cut food loss and waste in half by 2030. Now three years on, Champions 12.3 — a global coalition of sustainable food champions — is tracking progress toward this fast-approaching target and finding that the private sector has seized the opportunity to tackle food loss and waste.
Stakeholders Collaborating for a More Sustainable Bioeconomy
6 months ago - Over the last few years, the bioeconomy — a global economy that uses biological resources and waste from the land and sea as inputs to food, industrial and energy production — has been a major point of discussion for scientists and policymakers alike. According to the World Economic Forum, our bioeconomy is far from sustainable as it presently exists, as companies across many industries continue to rely on environmentally damaging practices.
Unilever and Walmart Announce Forest Sustainability Initiatives at the Global Climate Action Summit
6 months ago - Note: This article originally appeared in the 3BL Media Walmart newsroom on September 13, 2018.