Circular Economy
The constant stream of new models, products and processes that are helping organizations extend the useful life of resources and materials while reducing, repurposing and ultimately eliminating waste in all its forms
U.S. Brands Slow To Embrace Textile Recycling Are Missing Opportunities
Textile and clothing recycling has always lagged behind the sustainable disposal of other household products such as glass, aluminum and even plastic. The numbers, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, are disturbing. ... View More
BASF Sponsors Seattle Mariners’ Second Annual Waste Reduction Program
BASF has teamed up with the Seattle Mariners for the second season of Sustainable Saturdays at Safeco Field, which aims to divert ballpark waste from the landfill. ... View More
P&G Achieves Zero Waste at 45 Manufacturing Sites Worldwide
On Tuesday, Procter & Gamble (P&G) announced that it recycles, repurposes or converts 100 percent of the waste at 45 manufacturing sites around the world and claims less than one percent of raw materials currently leave its plants as waste. ... View More
From Problem to Product: Enterprising Companies Making a Resource of Marine Plastic
Incorporating post-consumer materials into products has become common practice for numerous brands. But a growing number of companies and NGOs are going a step further, looking to upcycle harmful plastic debris from the ocean, even if it means creati... 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
Biofuel Waste Could Offer Concrete Gains for Greener Cement
This article first appeared on edie.net on March 26, 2013. ... View More
Resource Revolution White Paper Examines Risks and Rewards of Circular Economy
This article first appeared on edie.net on March 20, 2013.Environmental Data Interactive Exchange (Edie), an online sustainability resource based in the UK, has published an exclusive white paper highlighting the opportunities and challenges of circu... View More
Chevron, Shell Join Environmentalists To Regulate Fracking Standards
A group of energy companies, philanthropic foundations and environmental groups have formed a new organization providing shale gas producers with performance standards certification for shale development. ... View More
UK Researchers Make Eggshells into Bioplastic
Researchers at the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom say they have discovered a way to make a new kind of decomposable and recyclable bioplastic from the thin wrappers found in eggshells. ... 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
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
Host of Innovative Recycling Initiatives Helping Walmart Push Toward Zero-Waste Goal
How many times have you finished a meal at a restaurant and felt guilty about the amount of food left on the table? So, in order to ease your mind about the waste of food, you take your leftovers home with honest intentions of eating it later. Fast-f... View More
Dr Pepper Snapple Installs Bio-Wastewater Treatment System at Houston Bottling Plant
A BioViper™ biological pretreatment system by wastewater treatment systems provider Baswood Corporation is now operating at the Dr Pepper Snapple (DPS) Group’s Houston bottling plant, Baswood announced on Tuesday. ... View More
AB InBev’s Environmental Efforts Generate $420 Million in Revenue
Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev) announced it has met its three-year global environmental goals on water, energy, carbon emissions and recycling operations.The company reached its goal of reducing its water usage by nearly 20 percent, the equivalent o... View More
Shell’s ‘New Lens Scenarios’ Predict Near-Zero Global Carbon Emissions by 2100
Shell released new scenarios last week that explore two possible futures with dramatically different implications for society and the world’s energy system. One scenario sees cleaner-burning natural gas becoming the most important energy source glo... View More
Green Products Account for Roughly Half of Philips' 2012 Revenue
Approximately 45 percent of Philips 2012 sales came from green products, accounting for nearly $15 billion, according to the company’s latest annual report. ... View More
Ford Aims To Cut Landfill Waste to 13.4 Pounds Per Vehicle
Ford announced plans to reduce the amount of waste it sends to the landfill by 40 percent per vehicle over a five-year period from 2011 to 2016. This would reduce landfill waste to an average of 13.4 pounds per vehicle worldwide, the company said. ... View More
PlanetReuse: Redirecting Building Waste from Landfill to LEED Projects
To prepare for this year's Sustainable Brands Innovation Open (SBIO) competition, we're catching up with some of our favorite entrepreneurial ventures from competitions past ... ... View More
EcoScraps Potting Soil, Made from Grocers' Produce Waste, Now Available Nationwide Through Target
EcoScraps, a provider of organic, chemical- and manure-free lawn and garden products, today announced that its 100 percent organic potting soil is now available at more than 1,700 Target stores nationwide. This marks the first time that EcoScraps wil... View More
Reducing Material Use Through Packaging Innovation: Aveda's Journey
As a leading producer of premium personal care products committed to environmental and social responsibility — articulated as Earth & Community Care — Aveda has long been focused on reducing the environmental impacts associated with product p... View More
