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Nike, NASA, State Department & USAID Seek Innovations To Revolutionize Sustainable Materials
Nike last week partnered with NASA, USAID and the U.S. Department of State to bring together some 150 materials specialists, designers, academics, manufacturers, entrepreneurs and NGOs to catalyze action around one of the world’s biggest challenges... View More
The Co-Operative's Lighter Wine Bottles Save Hundreds of Tons of Glass and CO2
UK grocery chain The Co-operative has just announced significant reductions in the weight of its private label wine bottles. With the help of its supplier, Kingsland Wines and Spirits, the Co-operative achieved reductions that amounted to a savings o... View More
Les Bêtises et Les Vaches: Two French Brands Use Humor To Engage Consumers in Sustainability
French consumers want to know more about where their products come from to make more sustainable choices. Besides, trust in business is higher when brands take action for sustainability, demonstrate their achievements and communicate well. ... View More
Closing the Loop: Turning Waste Into Primary Packaging
Over 125 billion rigid plastic containers are produced and consumed in the US every year, but according to the EPA only 28% are recycled, with the rest piling up in landfills and oceans. There is an undeniable packaging waste problem in today’s soc... View More
Kellogg Is Latest Company To Adopt GreenBlue's How2Recycle Label
This week, GreenBlue announced the successful completion of the soft launch phase of its How2Recycle labeling system, and the addition of The Kellogg Company to the 11 other brands already using the label. ... View More
Veteran Recycling Executive Joins Earth911, Inc. Advisory Board
SCOTTSDALE, AZ — March 21, 2013 — Earth911, Inc., an Infinity Resources Holdings company (OTCQB: IRHC) (OTCBB: IRHC), welcomed another key industry advisor to its strategic consulting team with the addition of Ed Skernolis, a 40-year veteran of t... View More
Ecover Developing New Type of Recycled Plastic from Recovered Marine Waste
Last week marked the official launch of an innovative initiative supported by Ecover, maker of non-toxic cleaning products, and Closed Loop Recycling (CLR), a UK operation that takes discarded soda and water bottles made from polyethylene terephthala... View More
Co-op, Nestlé, Sainsbury’s Using New Research to Inform Reduction in Supply Chain Footprints
The Co-operative Group, Nestlé and Sainsbury’s say they will improve the sustainability performance of some of their products in response to research from the Product Sustainability Forum.The study, published by the Waste and Resources Action Prog... View More
Philips' Sustainovation Process Reveals Insights on Closing Loops
In 2008 Philips Consumer Lifestyle started a program for sustainable innovation with a series of workshops to investigate possibilities around closing the loop of its products. People from different functions and departments brainstormed around busin... View More
The Circular Economy: Reinventing Business Models for Broad Economic Change
Let’s start with where we are today. The state of the "economy," like the bible or the U.S. constitution, is granted semi-magical powers by most businesses, as if it were carved out of granite, solid and unmoving, never in flux. Yet we al... View More
NYC Center for Materials Reuse Quantifying Benefits of Product Reuse in Urban Environments
Product Reuse is the exchange of secondhand or surplus products between individuals and/or organizations. This exchange is often performed by social service agencies looking to distribute goods to their clients or to raise funds for their operations.... View More
Assembling for Disassembly: Alcoa, Honda Back Automotive Manufacturing Research at OSU
Aluminum company Alcoa is lending its support to a longstanding research partnership between Honda and Ohio State University that could innovate auto manufacturing. ... View More
Sonoco Lightens Materials Load with Cradle-to-Cradle Approach to Packaging
Sonoco, one of the largest diversified global packaging companies, has always prided itself on ‘closing the loop.’ Our company began recycling in the 1920s, before recycling was even a buzzword. Today, we successfully offer a full range of servic... View More
Herman Miller Ups the Sustainable Ante with Design for Environment 2.0
When Herman Miller engineers began using Cradle to Cradle thinking as part of their Design for Environment (DfE) process in 2001, the world of green design was less complicated than today. ... View More
Google, Verizon, 3M Join DOE’s Workplace EV Charging Initiative
Outgoing U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced 13 major U.S. employers and eight stakeholder groups have joined the Department of Energy’s Workplace Charging Challenge, which aims to increase workplace charging by tenfold over the next five ye... View More
Extended Producer Responsibility: A Win-Win for Business and Governments
As both a natural resources and packaged goods company, Nestlé Waters North America (NWNA) is always looking for ways to reduce our footprint while producing superior products that meet consumer demand. When it comes to our packaging, we are constan... View More
Waste Not: Innovative Solutions from Cradle to Cradle and Beyond
The overarching principle for this month’s Issue in Focus is the insight that in nature there is no waste.For centuries, human industry has ignored this simple lesson. But today, a convergence of environmental and resource concerns is driving the r... View More
Goodwill: Saving the Waste in Men and Things
At Goodwill, we were excited to be invited to co-edit this issue dedicated to highlighting innovative solutions for eliminating and reutilizing waste streams in operations. As individuals continue to consume products and companies continue to expand,... View More
Daimler, Ford, Renault-Nissan To Co-Develop Fuel Cell Vehicles
Three global automakers have signed an agreement to jointly develop a fuel cell system to power zero-emissions vehicles. ... View More
Dominant Logic Shifting from Customer Service to Sustainability, Paper Says
Environmental concerns are compelling businesses to shift their primary focus from serving customers to addressing sustainability, according to a new paper published last month as part of the Thirty Third International Conference on Information Syste... View More
