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Trending: UK Retailers Fighting Food Waste Through Investment, Redistribution
The United Kingdom wastes more food than any other European country; a 2014 House of Lords report estimated 15 million tonnes of food per year are wasted in the UK, at a cost of £5 billion, and the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) has est... View More
Documentary Causing a STINK! Over Chemicals in Products
A new documentary is racking up awards across the United States, exposing the dangers hidden in the products found on store shelves. Director Jon Whelan stumbled across the issue of undisclosed chemicals when he noticed a foul smell from a pair of pa... View More
Walmart Workers Launch #FastFor15 Movement for $15/Hr, Full-Time Pay
Walmart employees’ low wages make it difficult for them to meet ends meet, and many go hungry or require assistance from local programs and food banks, according to OUR Walmart - a worker-led organization focused on pressuring the world’s largest... View More
Whole Foods Customers Cut Carbon With EV Fast Charging
A detailed analysis of 10 electric vehicle (EV) fast charging NRG EVgo Freedom Station sites at Whole Foods Market locations in the San Francisco Bay Area shows a 191 percent increase in EV charging over the last year.EV drivers also show a significa... View More
Restaurants, Manufacturers, Retailers Offer Best Practices in New Guide to Cutting Food Industry Waste
Food waste has proved to be a persistent global challenge despite numerous efforts to reduce it from stakeholders throughout the value chain, from corporates, to non-profits, to startups. At the same time, it may not be obvious to business owners and... View More
IKEA Says 100% of Its Cotton Now Comes from More Sustainable Sources
IKEA announced last week that as of September 2015, all cotton used for its products — from furniture to towels, bedding and other home textiles — comes from more sustainable sources; specifically from farmers that use less water, less chemical f... View More
UK Brands Turning to Co-Creation to Help Unlock Packaging Innovations
Flicking through various CSR reports, it’s interesting to note how often packaging is highlighted as an area in need of more attention. It’s hardly surprising given the complexity of applying lifecycle thinking to a material that needs to protect... View More
Attention, Shoppers: REI Is Paying Its Employees to Take Black Friday, Thanksgiving Off
To celebrate Thanksgiving this year, outdoor gear and apparel retailer REI is taking a bold stand against the chaotic caricature of capitalism that is Black Friday by closing its doors and paying its employees to live the company ethos — by spendin... View More
Target Now Accepting Youth Wellness Partner Proposals
You may have heard that Target is evolving its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strategy ... View More
€3.6M WRAP Project Targets European Clothing Waste
UK waste-reduction charity Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) has announced a three-year commitment to reducing clothing waste through a new €3.6 million pilot project. Funded by EU LIFE, the European Clothing Action Plan (ECAP) aims to di... View More
World's Leading Apparel Brands, Industry Groups Join Forces to Transform Global Labor Conditions
Today, a group of some of the world’s biggest brands, retailers, NGOs and industry groups launch a Social and Labor Convergence Project, with the aim of improving working conditions in apparel manufacturing across the world.The group says the proje... View More
SB 657 in Review: Why Businesses Have a Stake in Supply Chain Transparency
It’s been five years since California signed a groundbreaking piece of legislation that set a legal precedent around the world. the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act, better known as SB 657, requires manufacturers and retailers with more... View More
Trending: UK Grocers Turning Waste into Packaging
British grocery chains Tesco and Waitrose have added a new facet to their waste-mitigation efforts by launching upcycled packaging.Beginning this month, Tesco shoppers could get their groceries in recycled plastic bags made from back-of-store waste p... View More
New App Aims to Disrupt Retail by Cutting Out Big Box Middlemen
Flipping the business-to-consumer (B2C) model on its head, San Francisco-based startup WUSIC wants to disrupt the retail industry through a “consumer-to-business” (C2B) model where consumers go straight to manufacturers for the largest savings po... View More
Target Expands Sustainable Product Index to Include 1,000+ Toxic Chemicals
Target has improved its sustainable product standard by beginning to test category-specific criteria and consider more toxic chemicals. The retailer’s Sustainable Product Index evaluates products based on a points system and the highest-scoring opt... View More
#BusinessCase: Furniture Take-Back Programs from IKEA, John Lewis Save Money, Emissions
Furniture waste is the focus of two reports released this month. UK think tank RSA and recycling and waste company SUEZ published Rearranging the Furniture, which takes a design-focused approach to bulky waste reduction, increased reuse of furniture,... View More
2015 RILA Reports Benchmark Retail Industry's Progress on Sustainability, Energy Management
This week, the Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA) released both its second Retail Energy Management Report — a resource for companies to compare energy management programs across the industry and identify opportunities for progress — and ... View More
CVS' No-Smokes Decision Decreased Tobacco Sales in Chains Across the US
One year after drugstore chain CVS Health stopped selling cigarettes, the company released new data that shows the decision has influenced tobacco sales across many types of retailers and announced a new school-based tobacco-prevention program. ... View More
New Denim Collection Helping H&M 'Close the Loop'
Next month, H&M will introduce 16 new denim styles made using recycled cotton from textiles collected in the Garment Collecting initiative in H&M stores. The pieces for men, women and kids are the latest steps toward H&M’s goal of creat... View More
How Target Is Taking Sustainable Products Mainstream (and Working with Walmart)
For years, the answer to the question “Do people really want to buy more sustainable products?” was a profound “sort of.” Surveys consistently show that we aspire to buy responsibly, and we even say we’ll pay more for environmental or socia... View More
